As the long dispute between the Phelan and Conway farms explodes, Martha Phelan becomes locked in a stubborn conflict with her son Peter who wants to modernize the way the farm is run, as she secretly plans different changes, in an Irish story of land, conflict, and family. 10,000 first printing.

Hwang Sun-won, perhaps the most beloved and respected Korean writer of the 20th century, based this extraordinary novel on his own experiences in his North Korean home village between the end of World War II and the eve of the Korean War when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two "liberators" - the United States and the Soviet Union. In this story the Soviet-backed communist party, using the promise of land reform, sets people at each other's throat. Portrayed here is an entire community caught in the political and social firestorm that brings out the selfishness, cruelty and ignorance of simple people, but also shows their loyalty and nobility. Compelling here, too, is a heroine who represents the "eternally feminine" for all Korean men, and the setting, the harsh political, psychic and physical landscape of rural postwar North Korea rarely glimpsed by the outside world. Hwang Sun-won is an artist of consummate delicacy and subtlety, and his writing is marked by keen psychological insight and steely asceticism. While three collections of his short stories have appeared in Hong Kong and the West, "The Descendants of Cain" is the first English translation of a Hwang Sun-won novel.

In 1934, Megan Roberts returns to her native Wales to care for Gwendolyn PUghes-Morgan, her seriously ill mentor, and works as a nurse in her industrial hometown, where she finds both painful memories and the promise of new love

Product Description: For the young women in the class of '57, it was a time of leaving behind nostalgic memories of jukeboxes and summer nights for the hopes, dreams, and uncertainties of the future.Retta McCarron's dream upon graduation from Summerwind High was to help her father preserve their family legacy from falling into the hands of strangers...read more

The humorous story of two marriages shows the striking similarities between a poor and a wealthy Irish family

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. In 1867 Trollope left his position in the British Post Office to run for Parliament as a Liberal candidate in 1868. After he lost, he concentrated entirely on his literary career. While continuing to produce novels rapidly, he also edited the St Paul's Magazine, which published several of his novels in serial form. His first major success came with The Warden (1855) - the first of six novels set in the fictional county of Barsetshire. The comic masterpiece Barchester Towers (1857) has probably become the best-known of these. Trollope's popularity and critical success diminished in his later years, but he continued to write prolifically, and some of his later novels have acquired a good reputation. In particular, critics generally acknowledge the sweeping satire The Way We Live Now (1875) as his masterpiece. In all, Trollope wrote forty-seven novels, as well as dozens of short stories and a few books on travel.

Product Description: How does "happily ever after" really work? With such different personalities, Darcy and Elizabeth surely need to work on their communication skills! Unlike Jane and Bingley, both of whom are easygoing and friendly, the Darcys are definitely a case where opposites attract...read more

Sir Joseph Mason's will and codicil are contested when it is learned that an infant son is to inherit his country residence

Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws off the government land recently set aside for an Indian reservation, Kedrick begins to notice that things are not as they seem. As his suspicions grow, he realizes that he may be fighting on the wrong side of a land swindle. Disillusioned and outraged, Kedrick must take action against the very people who hired him–or be forced to witness the bloody massacre of innocent men and women.

Mike McGann journeys from the tough Irish slums of the Boston waterfront to 1840s California, where he becomes caught up in the Gold Rush and does battle with Spanish aristocrats to carve out his own empire. Original.

Willis Young, the son of a legendary bank robber, has recently returned from World War I feeling lost and profoundly depressed, but a chance to drill for oil could either make his day, or break him for good. Reprint.

Lockheart Flawse exposes the suburban foibles of his tennants in Sandicott Close. Terrified out of their wits, one by one they beat a hasty retreat and Lockheart's dream of escaping hated East Pursley, and his 12 rent-controlled houses comes a step closer.

Falling in love in with April Burke, a beautiful, much younger Englishwoman, when he offers to help her reclaim and restore her family's Irish estate, Charles O'Brien risks not only his heart but also his life as he pursues her, in a richly textured saga set against the Irish struggle to regain land taken from them by England's colonization, from 1860 to 1922. 150,000 first printing.

The author of Down By the River and House of Splendid Isolation narrates the story of two siblings, brother and sister, and the dangerous newcomer would try to steal everything they have. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.