Trinidad. Mr. Mohun Biswas, a tenderhearted fellow with a thirst for books, struggles for independence from his wife's domineering family.
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- Author:Naipaul, V. S.Summary:
- Author:Sawyer, Kim VogelSummary:
In 1880, Tarsie Raines is traveling from New York to Kansas with the Brubachers: Joss, Mary, and their two children. Along the way, tragedy strikes, leaving Tarsie and Joss alone to face an unthinkable crisis--and only God's love...
- Author:Sisman, RobynSummary:
Oscar-winning actress Paige Carson sashays off to London to try her hand at Shakespeare and prove she deserves more than bimbo roles. But stage acting isn't what the pampered star expected, and neither is her snooty landlord Ed....
- Author:Miller, JudithSummary:
Karlina Richter must get past her feelings of animosity toward a hired shepherd if she is ever going to find out the secrets her father is keeping, while Dovie Cates risks her budding relationship to delve into her mother's past....
- Author:Geras, AdèleSummary:
Members of the Barrington family are shocked at the arbitrary and vindictive nature of their wealthy matriarch's will. While the palatial home goes to her prodigal step-grandson, hardworking Louise receives onlt the copyright to her...
- Author:DiTerlizzi, TonySummary:
Raised underground by a robot, twelve-year-old Eva Nine finally finds all she ever wanted in the human colony of New Attica, but something very bad is going on there and unless Eva and her friends stop it, it could mean the end of life...
- Author:Crew, LindaSummary:
Both young adults and adults will find appeal in this Oregon Trail novel. Lovisa and the rest of the extended King family join a wagon train in 1845. There's plenty of hardship and even death, but the family still has time to...
- Author:Grey, LorenSummary:
The hero Lassiter is called into the town of Bluegate to help Josh Falconer save his failing business. But Lassiter arrives too late, and Josh has already made an untimely departure from the land of the living. Now Lassiter will move...
- Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:
Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912...
- Author:Vanderhaeghe, GuySummary:
Wesley Case is a former soldier and son of a Canadian lumber baron who sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana where he hopes to buy a...
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
When eighth grader Abby Lovitt looks out at those pure-gold rolling hills, she knows there's no place she'd rather be than her family's ranch--even with all the hard work of tending to nine horses. But some chores are no...
- Author:Parker, MirandaSummary:
While trying to save her twin sister from a murder charge and investigating a church cover-up, bail recovery agent and single mother Angel Crawford decides to act on her schoolgirl crush and ask out the town's new pastor, Justus...
- Author:Farmer, NancySummary:
Eleven-year-old Nhamo is running for her life. When the village witch finder decrees that she must marry a cruel stranger to propitiate an evil spirit, her only recourse is to steal a fishing boat and go looking for a father she has...
- Author:Locke, JohnSummary:
When Rachel Case goes to the doctor for a routine blood test, scientists are astonished to learn she possesses a gene no one else on earth seems to have--a gene that holds the key to protecting the world from the deadliest pandemic in...
- Author:Hernandez, TreasureSummary:
Tasha thinks she has seen it all, but when she follows a childhood friend to the city of Flint, Michigan, she realizes that sometimes the small cities breed the grimiest of individuals. When Tasha and her friends link up with Manolo,...
- Author:Carmichael, EmilySummary:
Decades ago, Robin Rowe was a successful madam in the bustling town of Jerome, Arizona. Until her death, the Robin's Nest was renowned throughout the West for its beautiful girls. Now her granddaughter, Maggie Potter, has bought...
- Author:Lee, Chang-raeSummary:
Now in his seventies and retired, Doc Hata still resides in his large home of thirty years in Bedley Run, New York. A polite and unassuming man, he harbors secrets of his past as a medic in the Japanese Army during World War II.
- Author:Laurens, StephanieSummary:
Viscount Torrington is the hottest commodity in town as London's matchmaking season begins. But the viscount only has eyes for the penniless Widow Carrington, who has recently been accused of murder.
- Author:Turner, Jamie LangstonSummary:
Elizabeth Landis never considered herself a religious person. In fact, she believed that churchgoers could be placed in a category called "Unaware." But just before she discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, Elizabeth is...
- Author:Swinson, KikiSummary:
Two stories about women and their bad men, featuring Melody, who hires Scotty to take care of her cheating husband, but winds up seeking revenge, and Blake, who turns to her kingpin father's enforcer for protection from his...