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Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. But when the arri...

When Jesse's family moves to Roanoke, Virginia, in the summer of 1972, she's 12 years old and already mindful of the schism between innocence and femininity, the gap between childhood and the adult world. Her father, a former pastor, cycles through spiritual disciplines as quickly as he cycles through jobs. Her mother is dissatisfied, glumly fetishizing the Kennedys and anyone else that symbolizes status and wealth. The residents of the Bent Tree housing development may not hold what Jesse is lo...

As a nurse to wealthy spoilt people, Constantia had seen the misery too much money could bring. Jeroen though, was only a poor overworked GP, so when Jeroen offered marriage, Constantia accepted. At first she was happy until she began to discover things, that took away her new-found happiness.

When housekeeper Jo Anderson meets her new boss, she barely recognises the scarred and reclusive millionaire. Six months ago, Mac MacCullum was a charismatic celebrity chef. Now, Jo could help Mac build a brighter future...but only if he'll let her.

Sandra Berlin's got it all. She's living in Manhattan and climbing the editorial ladder at ultrachic fashion magazine Jolie! and she's newly engaged to her high school sweetheart, Bucky Ross. Bucky's her knight in shining WASP armor: ad executive and descendant of Betsy Ross, with whom she'll live in suburban Tudor splendor and have beautiful children. At least that's the plan. Until Sandy meets Bucky's other fiancee. Who tells her about the third. Sandy's heartbreak, betrayal, and the excruci...

All returned POW Gage Harper wants to do is forget, even if he has to let some gym rat beat him to a pulp to do it. He certainly doesn't want to tell the tale of his heroism to the tabloids. Especially since he's no hero… But one journalist is determined to get the inside scoop–and she's the only girl Gage has never been able to resist. Hope Rawlings never took Gage's romantic advances seriously growing up. After all, she was just his buddy, and a guy like Gage could have any girl he wanted. B...

Faith has arranged a surprise party at a West London restaurant to celebrate fifteen years of marriage to her publisher husband Peter. They have a lot to be thankful for - including two teenage children and the knowledge that, at thirty-five, they've hammered out an enduring partnership that, at this age, many of their contemporaries are only just themselves embarking upon. But something is niggling at Faith. A casual, barbed comment by her bitchy magazine editor friend Lily makes her wonder wh...

CASSIE MILLER'S SYMPTOMS #1 Has no immunity to gossip, particularly regarding a certain single doctor. #2 Gets easily flustered and distracted when in presence of said doctor. #3 Heart starts racing at doctor's slightest touch. DR. BEAU'S ORDERS #1 Don't rely on appearances alone. Take the time to get to know someone-you might discover that the womanizing rich doctor is actually a down-home, one-woman kind of guy! #2 From the mouths of...

Rafiq chose to believe ugly lies about Melanie and blew her out of his life like a grain of desert sand... Unbeknown to him, she gave birth to his child and is now determined Rafiq will accept his son...even if he can never forgive her...

A moving and powerful mystery, The Forgotten Garden is the bestselling second novel from author of The House at Riverton, Kate Morton.1913On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to Australia. All she can remember of the journey is that a mysterious woman she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. But the Authoress has vanished without a trace.1975Now an old lady, Nell travels to England to discover the truth abo...

Another season of Elm Creek Quilt Camp has come to a close, and Bonnie Markham faces a bleak and lonely winter ahead, with her quilt shop out of business and her divorce looming. A welcome escape comes when Claire, a beloved college friend, unexpectedly invites her to Maui to help launch an exciting new business: a quilter's retreat set at a bed and breakfast amid the vibrant colors and balmy breezes of the Hawaiian Islands. Soon Bonnie finds herself looking out on sparkling waters and banyan tr...