Lizzie Eustace has a diamond necklace worth ten thousand pounds, and the question of whether it was hers to keep occupies the courts, the family lawyers, two suitors and all of London.
A Volga merchant's son inherits the barges, the money and the trade, and cannot make himself want any of it - he drinks, he asks people what life is for, and nobody in the merchant world has an answer.
The Great Trek from a Boer woman's side: Suzanne Botmar's daughter loves an English castaway, and the family goes north with the wagons to Natal - to Retief's embassy, Dingaan's kraal, and the massacre at Weenen.
Seven stories about art and the people it ruins: a Nebraska boy who sees a Rodin and cannot go home, a sculptor's body brought back to the prairie town that produced him, a schoolteacher taken to a matinee at Carnegie Hall and destroyed by it.
Sacha, petit garcon timide, gourmand de mots, grandit a Leningrad entre sa mere francaise, nee de pere inconnu, et son pere conservateur au Musee Russe.
A vicar of absolute faith discovers his daughter is pregnant by an officer going back to the front, and must choose between his religion and his child.
The back-story of the voice from Wieland: how a Pennsylvania farm boy discovered he could throw his own speech, and what a man with money and an interest in secret societies then made of him.
A pocket diary is found in the snow, and Joseph Muller - small, shabby, apologetic, the best man in the Vienna police - reads a life out of it and works back to a death.
An old country cure loses his patrons when the chateau is sold to Americans, and prepares to hate them - then meets the two young women who have bought it.
How Quatermain married: a girl he knew as a child, found again in the veld after her father's trek has come to grief, a Boer neighbour who wants her, and a baboon-woman on the hillside who wants something else.
An American reporter in London goes looking for a man who has vanished, and finds a house in a respectable square where somebody is being held - and cannot get anyone official to believe it.
A priest of the old religion, exiled to the Yucatan colony, is recalled to an Atlantis ruled by an empress who took the throne with her own hands - and the mountains have begun to smoke.
For readers of Nicholas Sparks and Karen Kingsbury, the life of a brilliant boy yearning to belong changes forever when he's sent to North Carolina's Outer Banks amid the mysteries, loss, and confusion of childhood in this heart-stirring coming-of-age novel by the international bestselling author of the Miramar Bay series.
Franco Sorrentino's romantic relationship with Devorah Kirschenbaum draws him inadvertently into white Leftist student political activism on the eve of the collapse of the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa.
Borrow leaves the dingle where Lavengro ended, shoes horses, buys a fine mare, drinks ale with a Hungarian, argues with a postillion, and keeps company with Romany people who are neither picturesque nor grateful.
Becky Sharp leaves school by throwing the dictionary out of the carriage window and climbs, by charm and calculation, through a society that deserves her.
A boy /man, who blames it on his parents for his having of nine meals a day, visit a nearby hospital where he is told something by the doctor that might change his whole life forever.
AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'Brilliant and intriguing' - Colm Toibin'An accomplished and atmospheric debut' - Irish Examiner'Outstanding' - Irish Times'Perhaps the strongest Irish debut novel of the year' - RTE Book of the Week'An amazing novel' - Oliver Callan"e;The lad is a bit like a stray dog.
On the ninth floor of an upscale apartment complex, a young couple will come to terms with the loss of their son and the impending release of their daughter from a psychiatric clinic on her fourth birthday.
An official day off at an art museum takes a dangerous turn when Pursuant operative Marion Kenway and Zia Kose spot a reality-warping distortion radiating from a fourth-century Egyptian sarcophagus.
Lena Hart has spent six years climbing the corporate ladder at Halden & Cross Global, earning every promotion through grit, late nights, and flawless work.
