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For years, the Stranger House has stood in the village of Illthwaite, offering refuge to travellers.

Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number thirteen. In St Blaise House where he lives, there are thirteen steps down to the landing below his rooms.

Isabella and Amadeo run a famous Rome couture house. Their enduring love for one another is well known. When Amadeo is killed Isabella doubts that she can ever love again.

Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury-a human hand.

Decades ago, Inspector Robert DeClercq suffered a tragedy when his young daughter was kidnapped and killed after he was unable to save her.

As Picoult uses five voices to tell a complex tale of love, friendship and a Faulknerian family history, her mastery of language strongly individuates her characters.

"At the heart of Spirits in the Wires are Saskia Madding and Christiana Tree, both of whom are tied to a perennial Newford character, the writer Christy Riddell.

Ruby is determined to have a better life when she leaves her bitter childhood behind for post-World War II Washington, D.C. A job as a Navy secretary soon blossoms into love and marriage.

A high-tension thriller of explosive espionage and international intrigue. The British nuclear submarine HMS Proteus carries the most sophisticated anti-detection equipment in the world.

When a champion jockey disappears--right before a big race and the birth of his child--British investigator David Cleveland bets on foulplay

Smash, himself, was part ogre.

Leela is a mathematician who has escaped her Southern hometown to study in Boston.

Sheila Tubman is not quite sure who she is. Just when she's convinced that she really is confident, witty Sheila the Great, she is confronted with her worst fears.

Memory and Dream is the story of Isabelle Copley, a young artist who once lived in the bohemian quarter of the northern city of Newford.