After nearly six millennia of stagnation, humanity stands at the brink of its last evolutionary step.  But it is a step that has come at a tremendous cost.  One third of the world's population lays dead, the Pacific Ocean is barren, and the forests of North and South America are smoldering ... more »

Meet the Hillery Beach Garden Club, a group of middle-aged, suburban women ... When they hear that Dr. Ruth Wizenheimer, appearing on the Sally Jesse O'Donnell show, advises women that onion rings, tossed in horseshoe fashion, can make for fun sex play, the ladies are disgruntled. From there, the women ... more »

Breast cancer survivor and single mother, Jennifer Mason agrees to the treasure hunt reluctantly. A sailing trip to an isolated island can lead to all kinds of complications. Especially when her companions are two children (one hers, one his) and a charming, sexy man--a man who wants intimacy. A man ... more »

Because Chekhov's plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly ... more »

In a captivating tale that returns readers to the enchanting island nation of Akora, a remarkable young man and woman, torn between love for each other and duty to their homelands, discover that fate has not forgotten them. Honorable, loyal, and deeply devoted to his family, Gavin, the eldest son of ... more »

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne s hero traverses the far reaches of the earth ... more »

The Serbs behind them were preparing to attack, and in front of them lay open ground, flat and white as a shroud. We've run a hundred miles, Lang thought, to come up a football field short. When a fellow Marine is kidnapped, Captain Mark Lang and his recon team, the Pepperdogs, disobey orders and cross ... more »

Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture ... more »

 Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it's hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believes in him is Ginny, his 10-year old disabled neighbor. Together, they are ... more »

By chance and not by choice, Ted Mundy, eternal striver, failed writer and expatriate son of a British Army officer, used to be a spy. But that was in the good old Cold War days when a cinder-block Wall divided Berlin, and the enemy was easy to recognize. Today, Mundy is a down-at-heel tour guide in ... more »

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontė vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on something real and unromantic as Monday morning. Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and ... more »

War seethed across the planet. Machines soared through the air, churned through the seas, crawled across the surface, pushing ever forward, carrying death. Earth was engaged in a titanic struggle. Germany, Russia, France, China, Japan: the maps were changing day by day. The hostilities spread in ever ... more »