In nineteenth-century England, two sisters are drawn into unhappy romances despite the cool judgement of one and the emotional intensity of the other.

Recounts the harrowing voyage of Timothy Severin and his crew across the North Atlantic in a thirty-six-foot leather boat, to prove the legend that a sixth-century Irish monk, St. Brendan, could have reached North America.

In an hilarious novel set on an overland journey across Turkey, the narrator encounters sorcerers, cops, and southern evangelists as she and her companion travel from Istanbul to Trebizond on a tourist adventure that quickly runs afoul of an ancient and sometimes unbendable culture. Reprint.

Defines terms dealing with poisons, chemical substances, pharmacology, water treatment, medicine, and law

Two homeless teen-agers struggle to escape the German bombs that are creating havoc in central London

The little girl performed her long journey in safety; and at Northampton was met by Mrs. Norris, who thus regaled in the credit of being foremost to welcome her, and in the importance of leading her in to the others, and recommending her to their kindness. Fanny Price was at this time just ten years old, and though there might not be much in her first appearance to captivate, there was, at least, nothing to disgust her relations. She was small of her age, with no glow of complexion, nor any other striking beauty; exceedingly timid and shy, and shrinking from notice; but her air, though awkward, was not vulgar, her voice was sweet, and when she spoke her countenance was pretty. Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram received her very kindly; and Sir Thomas, seeing how much she needed encouragement, tried to be all that was conciliating: but he had to work against a most untoward gravity of deportment; and Lady Bertram, without taking half so much trouble, or speaking one word where he spoke ten, by the mere aid of a good-humored smile, became immediately the less awful character of the two. . . .

In a plot designed to show that an innocent person can be wrongly accused, Alma could be left hanging if her husband Donald does not come forward at the last moment

Bored with his life in the zoo, Edward decides to spend each day as a different animal, including a seal, lion, and snake, until he returns to his own cage

A sequel to Jane Austen's most beloved work picks up where Pride and Prejudice left off, following the lives of Elizabeth and Jane Bennett, Bingley, Mr. Darcy, and especially Georgiana Darcy, the sequel's central character.

Lorelei Lee, an attractive American diamond-lover of the Roaring Twenties, meets famous personalities and many rich suitors during a trip to Europe.

After her father gambles away his fortune and their beloved estate, Mannerling, Isabella Beverley sets out to court Mannerling's new owner, Mr. Judd, but her schemes are undermined by the arrival of Lord Fitzpatrick, a dashing Irish aristocrat