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Léa is a teacher. She does not believe in silence and secrecy, and this is what she always tells her pupils.

Marie Powell is sixteen when her father marries her to the poet John Milton in payment of a debt. They move to a pretty garden-house in London, but she struggles to adjust to her new life.

Somewhere off the Southern State Parkway in Nassau County, NY is the town of "Waterfield" and in it is Waterfield High School, attended by, among others: Ro-Anne Sommers, crowned Little M

“Compelling . . . Gritty in its historical detail . . .

The Tale of the Heike is Japan's great martial epic; a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories, now in a major and groundbreaking new translation by Royall Ty

The suspenseful, emotionally resonant, and utterly compelling story of what brings an enigmatic French woman to a small Canadian town in the 1930s, a woman who has found depths of strength in dark

Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master.

On a cold bright day, fifteen-year-old Adriana Dunea wakes up to find that her world has transformed overnight.

Paris, 1942. Constantin von Meck, metteur en scène allemand qui a fait l'essentiel de sa carrière à Hollywood, tourne un film pour la U.F.A.

ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history.' Unknown Soldiers follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of mac

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace.

A New York Times–bestselling author puts a modern twist on the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic with this novel of wealthy 1950s society.

As the Hughes family celebrate bonfire night, a terrible accident leaves the garden shed in flames - and father and grandfather Thomas trapped inside.

Dr. Rosalind Werner is at the forefront of a groundbreaking new water technology—if only she can get support for her work.