Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siècle moral corruption. Prompted by his theories of heredity and environment, Zola set out to show Nana, "the golden fly," rising out of the underworld to feed on society-a predetermined product of her origins. Nana's latent destructiveness is mirrored in the Empire's, and they...

A love triangle surrounds members of a minor league baseball team and its unofficial "handler".

As Catherine Moreland begins to mature, many of her illusions collapse under the reality of middle-class life.

"A richly moving new novel--the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us acrossa subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety--in search of meaning, and of love. In...

Emma thinks she knows what is best for everybody, including herself. This is one of many editions of this 1815 novel. Emma, when first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In it, we have her two greatest comic creations -- the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintissential bore, Miss Bates. In it, too, we have her most profound characterization: the witty, imaginative, self-deluded Emma, a heroine the author...

In a dramatic new series, a host of characters is drawn to the rugged Yukon to start life anew. Fleeing an arranged marriage, Grace escapes to Alaska. Peter, a widower, must choose between parenting his young children and following his dream, while Karen chooses to strike out on her own in search of a missing family member.

On Boston's North Shore, pastry chef Lizzie Tucker is recruited by newcomer Diesel to track down a cache of priceless ancient relics while keeping them out of the hands of Diesel's criminal mastermind cousin.

Can we truly love one person throughout our life and hope that fate makes us meet with the same person in every life of ours? This story takes us through the journey of eternal love between a couple who have vowed to love each other not only in this life but in every life to follow. Their love is so strong that even destiny wants to bring them together. The story starts in 1960 Bombay with Govind and Ruksar, then moves ahead to present times, 2012...

The apparent suicide of Vermont doctor Mara O'Neill has devastating effects on the lives of her medical partners, especially pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer, whose attempts to care for Mara's newly adopted baby are complicated by a possible romance with Noah Perrine, acting head of the private school where Paige coaches girls' athletics.

Miss Fanny Price, the poor relation of a wealthy family, possesses only natural goodness to aid her against a witty and lovely rival as they compete for the man they both love.