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"Meet the Budd-Doyles: a suburban family in shambles, and about to unravel further as Helen Budd-Doyle in one fell swoop destroys her bed, abandons the family home, and buys a second-hand book

Betrayed by the two men in her life -- Alec D'Urberville, her seducer/rapist and father of her fated child; and Angel, her intellectual and pious husband -- Tess takes justice, and her own des

The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.

Britain is still an Empire and India still her loyal subject when Carnehan and Dravot set out for the wild northern passes "to be kings."

The announcement of a grand Treasure Hunt sets Lodes Valley ladies' hearts aflutter. The cash is only part of the appeal: a win could solve several romantic dilemmas.

A man of science must overcome public ignorance and the petty greed of associates as he seeks knowledge.

The last words of a desperate, unemployed printer point out the difference between believing in Christianity and actually living it.

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

After a brief stop in New York City (Gone Tomorrow), Jack Reacher is back in his element?Smalltown, U.S.A.?in bestseller Child's fine 14th thriller to feature the roving ex-military cop.

Presents the aged Reverend Harding as warden of the almshouse at Barchester providing charity for the town's neediest, and his life.

A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom.

Twain grew up on the river, achieved his boyhood dream of being a river pilot, and then had the good sense to write about it.

The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007.

Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada.

Share with the Robinsons--a minister, his wife, and four sons--as they survive a shipwreck and then adapt to life on an island populated by exotic birds and animals.