For twenty years, Anna Bouverie has been the dutiful wife of a village rector, scraping by on his pitiful salary, making cakes for the church bake sales, ironing her husband's surplices, and clothing herself and her children in hand-me-downs. But when an expected promotion to archdeacon falls through, her husband retreats into bitterness. Faced with isolation, the lost hope of a better life, and the bullying of her daughter at school, Anna finally...

The author and the characters from the Pooh books engage in dialogue elucidating the Taoist principle of Te, the Way of the Small

When her eldest son, Greg, is killed in a motorcycle accident, widowed florist Lee Reston turns to Chris Lallak, Greg's best friend and a young man many years her junior, for comfort.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "touching, funny and inspiring" true story of daily life in a New England nursing home (The New York Times). Ninety-year-old Lou quit school after the eighth grade, worked for the rest of his life, and stayed with the same woman for nearly seventy years. Seventy-two-year-old Joe was chief probation officer in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, holds a law degree, and has faced the death of a son and the raising of a mentally...

Thirty-three years and over ten million copies later...the classic story continues. Yossarian returns -- older, if not wiser -- to face a new foe. An instant classic when published in 1961, Joseph Heller's Catch-22 still ranks among the funniest -- and most serious -- novels ever written about war. Now Heller has dared to write the sequel to his 10-million copy bestseller, using many of Catch-22's characters to deftly satirize the realities and the...

Hoping that a devastating past incident has caused her to lose her clairvoyant powers, Marlie Keen is distraught when they return with terrifying strength, and she seeks help from Orlando detective Dane Hollister

Sandy Kinsolving's once-glittering life hangs by a threat; his future depends on his wife's inheritance and whether or not she's about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn't give for a solution to his money and marriage problems. If this were an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the solution would be obvious. Enter a stranger with wife problems of his own, who offers a violent -- and mutually advantageous -- proposal. Them in the time it takes to...

In 19th Century London, a wealthy young widow likes to play matchmaker, arranging evenings between widows and eligible men, then exposing the men so they have to marry. A certain bachelor decides to play a trick by seducing her, then proposing, knowing well she will say no, thus showing up her to ridicule: one rule for men, another for women. It happens too, but there's a twist