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The Age of Innocence (A Norton Critical Edition)

The Age of Innocence (A Norton Critical Edition)

by Edith Wharton

The text of Wharton's richly allusive Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of Old New York is accompanied by necessarily rigorous annotation. Contexts constructs the historical foundations of the novel, with documents on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings, and archery (the sport for daughters of the upper-crust), among others. Also featured in this section are contemporary reviews and some of... (more)

A Woman's Heart

by JoAnn Ross

Ireland -- a land of unbridled spirit, ancient legends, whitewashed cottages and storybook castles. A place where anything can happen and there are no strangers -- until now. Quinn Gallagher has reluctantly come to Castlelough. He's cynical, bitter and disillusioned. But the magic of the west coast is about to change him. He's never met anyone like Nora Fitzpatrick. Despite all of life's hardships, the... (more)

Born In Trilogy: Book 2

Born in Ice: The Born In Trilogy #2

by Nora Roberts

A sparkling entry in the New York Times bestselling Born In trilogy. The story of modern-day Ireland's Concannon sisters continues with the tale of Brianna--whose cool beauty hides a heart of fiery passion.

The Tales of Alvin Maker: Book 5

Heartfire

by Orson Scott Card

Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. She can follow the paths of each person's future, and know each person's most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him. Now they are married, and Peggy is a part of Alvin's heart as well as his life. But Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. Alvin... (more)

Watchers

by Dean Koontz

From a top-secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life forms. One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose...

Born In Trilogy: Book 3

Born in Shame: The Born In Trilogy #3

by Nora Roberts

The beauty of Ireland works its magic on a woman there to discover her true heritage--only to find true love--in a tale that could only come from the pen of #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.

Born In Trilogy: Book 1

Born in Fire: The Born In Trilogy #1

by Nora Roberts, Sarah Hardesty

The New York Times bestselling trilogy of three modern sisters bound by the timeless beauty of Ireland begins.

This Matter Of Marriage

by Debbie Macomber

Giving herself a year to meet Mr. Right, thirty-year-old Hallie shudders over her disastrous dates and sets her sights on handsome neighbor Steve Marris, who is trying to win back his ex-wife. Original.

Loving Evangeline

by Linda Howard

From the author of "All That Glitters", "Diamond Bay" and "White Lies" comes the story of a man obsessed with the thought that someone is trying to destroy his life's work and how he was going to make that person pay.

The Thrill of Victory

by Sandra Brown, Erin St. Claire

A classic love story by bestselling author Sandra Brown, where betrayal is only a heartbeat away from desire, and love can be found in the most unexpected places. Stevie Corbett is in jeopardy of losing everything she's sacrificed and worked so hard for -- her career, her reputation, her future. Her life . Now she has just two weeks to make a monumental decision, but her fate rides on keeping the truth a... (more)

Life Without FriendsEllen Emerson White

Life Without Friends

by Ellen Emerson White

After the drug-overdose death of a fellow student, Beverly breaks away from the fast crowd but finds herself friendless and full of guilt until she meets Derek who helps her come to terms with the past and look with some hope to the future.

An Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman (Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman)

An Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman (Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman)

by Pamela Aidan

"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me." So begins the timeless romance of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen's classic novel is beloved by millions, but little is revealed in the book about the mysterious and handsome hero, Mr. Darcy. And so the question has long remained: Who is Fitzwilliam Darcy? In An Assembly Such as This, Pamela Aidan finally... (more)

A Country With No Name: Tales from the Constitution

A Country With No Name: Tales from the Constitution

by Sebastian de Grazia

ischievously composed, this groundbreaking work intends nothing short of a revolution in how we think about the "American" Constitution and government. In colloquial language that is by turns satirical, bantering, metaphorical, and sexually charged, a mysterious young Englishwoman tutors a young American in the history of his country.

Midnight Bayou

by Nora Roberts

The phenomenal #1 New York Times -bestselling author presents a novel set deep in the bayou of Louisiana-where the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a once-grand house. Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. All he knew was that ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted-and... (more)

March

by Geraldine Brooks

From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women , Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" ( USA Today ), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in... (more)

Fear of Flying

by Erica Jong

Originally published in 1973, this uninhibited story of Isadora Wing was a national sensation: fueling fantasies, igniting debates, and even introducing a notorious new phrase to the English language. In The New York Times , Henry Miller compared it to his own classic Tropic of Cancer , predicting, "This book will make literary history, that because of it women are going to find their own voice and give us great... (more)

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's... (more)

The Tales of Alvin Maker: Book 4

Alvin Journeyman

by Orson Scott Card

Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century. Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes to learn the knack of being a Maker. For Alvin has had a vision of the Crystal City he will build, and he knows that he cannot build it alone. But he has left behind in... (more)

The Birth of Venus

by Sarah Dunant

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her... (more)

Travelers: Book 1

Raven's Shadow

by Patricia Briggs

The Raven mage Seraph must protect the world from a terror that threatens to reemerge after generations of imprisonment.

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by Edith Wharton

by JoAnn Ross

by Nora Roberts

by Orson Scott Card

by Dean Koontz

by Nora Roberts

by Nora Roberts, Sarah Hardesty

by Debbie Macomber

by Linda Howard

by Sandra Brown, Erin St. Claire

by Ellen Emerson White

by Pamela Aidan

by Sebastian de Grazia

by Nora Roberts

by Geraldine Brooks

by Erica Jong

by Audrey Niffenegger

by Orson Scott Card

by Sarah Dunant

by Patricia Briggs