Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. Only Emily Bronte, V.S. Pritchett said about the author and her contemporaries, exposes her imagination ... more »

Set in the English countryside in the early twentieth century, this novel revolves around the lovely, free-spirited Annie Hannigan who gives her heart to Terence Macbane, the elusive boy next door. Terence reciprocates her feelings but the lovers have to contend with Cathleen's jealousy and Brian's possessive ... more »

Lalita Tademy was a successful vice president at Sun Microsystems when she began what became an obsessive two-year search to uncover the story of her family's roots. It was a personal odyssey that took her back to the early l800s and a small rural community on Louisiana's Cane River. There, digging through ... more »

In the Worldwar tetralogy, set against the explosive backdrop of World War II, master of alternate history Harry Turtledove wove a saga of world powers locked in conflict against a deadly enemy from the stars. Now, with Colonization: Second Contact, Turtledove expands his magnificent epic into the volatile ... more »

The seductively beautiful, street-smart, and powerful Lucky Santangelo, star of four of Jackie Collins's previous international number-one bestsellers -- Chances, Lucky, Lady Boss, and Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge -- returns in Dangerous Kiss. In Dangerous Kiss, when a member of her family is brutally gunned ... more »

In this spectacular, thought-provoking epic of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has created an unparalleled vision of social upheaval, war, and cutthroat politics in a world very much like our own--but with dramatic differences. It is 1924--a time of rebuilding, from the slow reconstruction of Washington ... more »

Attorney James Reynolds has dealt with personal demons his entire life-raised in the shadow of Deep South racism, plagued by recurring nightmares, and nursing a few too many Jack Daniels late at night. But he has still managed to become the only black prosecutor in Jackson, Mississippi. However, the ... more »

The Ghost Hunter's Bible is a step by step guide written and illustrated with full color pictures and video clips teaching ghost hunting. The author is a retired law enforcement trained investigator with 35 years of ghost hunting experience. Now you can learn how to scientifically hunt for paranormal ... more »

'[Arnold Bennett's] superb Old Wives' Tale, wandering from person to person and from scene to scene, is by far the finest 'long novel' that has been written in English and in the English fashion, in this generation.' --H. G. Wells First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ... more »

'To me,' D. H. Lawerence once wrote to E. M. forster, 'you are the last Englishman.' Indeed, Forster's novels offer contemporary readers clear, vibrant portraits of life in Edwardian England. Published in 1908 to both critical and popular acclaim, A Room with a View is a whimsical comedy of manners that ... more »

Someone is torching Vineyard summerhouses. The elderly African-American bluesman Corrie Appleyard arrives, needing little in the way of amenities. When a fire breaks out and an unidentified body is pulled from Appleyard's abode, J.W. Jackson fears the worst. The search for the arsonist has become personal ... more »

Her life would never be the same once she ventured... INTO THE WOODS The only child of a U.S. naval officer father and a charming mother, Grace Houston is the center of her parents' universe -- until sudden tragedy tears her world apart. Now Grace and her mother, Jackie Lee, move from the naval base ... more »