'Ulysses' takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, also known as Bloomsday, it sets the characters and incidents of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, and contrasts them with their lofty models.
Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.
Moll, which she emphasizes is not her birth name, though she never does reveal what it was, is raised until she is teenager in America by a foster mother.
World War II serves as the backdrop for a love story: the love among family members and friends, with the beginning and ending in Niedzieliska, Poland.
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Norah Merrit, a dedicated obstetrician known for her bedside manner and service to Doctors Without Borders, walks into girls' night out with a confession to makeand what she has to say shakes the group to its core.
Broken by their unorthodox Midwestern childhood, sisters Catherine, Anne, and Jessica Mathers search for love, acceptance, and worthoften in the most unlikely places.
This compilation contains three complete novels and eight major short stories from the canon of one of the twentieth centurys most enduringly popular fiction writers.
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo's timeless novel of income inequality and financial desperation in the face of an uncaring world is as timely today as it was when he first wrote it.
The book's stirring opening happens on the eve of the coup d'etat, involving an idealistic young village couple joining up with the republican militia in the middle of the night.
Bernadette Baker lives through every mother's worst nightmare when her adopted sixteen-year-old daughter, Veronica, is brutally murdered in a shocking and random act of violence.
This "e;unforgettable Western epic"e; from the author of Lady and the Lawman is "e;a superb achievement as both a saga and a romance"e; (RT Book review, 4 Stars).
When a Wild West bandit takes an educated young woman hostage, the sparks that fly between them are more dangerous than bullets-"e;Don't miss this one!
A lady journalist finds love with a rough-riding ranger in this Western historical romance "e;so vibrantly written [it's] like seeing a good movie"e; (Affaire de Coeur).
The Civil War threatens to tear a man from his love and family in "e;a powerful love story to hold close to your heart"e; from a national bestselling author (RT Book Reviews).
From the author of The Passionate and the Proud, a saga of love and rebellion sweeping from the green hills of Scotland to the shores of colonial America.
"e;[A] powerful romance brimming over with intense emotions and dark passions"e; set in 18th-century England from the award-winning author of Lysette (RT Book Reviews).
An award-winning author "e;deftly evokes the era and the pain and lives of her three-dimensional characters"e; in a romance set during the French Revolution (RT Book Reviews).
With her hallmark "e;power, passion, tragedy, and triumph,"e; the award-winning author tells the story of love between a young missionary and a Sioux brave (RT Book Reviews).
In the second book of the award-winning author's "e;extraordinary"e; historical romance trilogy, a schoolteacher and a half-Comanche rancher fall in love (Publishers Weekly).
A Regency romance "e;that sweeps the heroine from the ballrooms of London to the grand palaces of Russia"e; by the bestselling author of Autumn Rain (Historical Romance Review with Regan Walker).
A “beautiful tale of a childhood love that grows into an adult passion” set against the romance, adventure and danger of the Old West (Romantic Times).
