Collection: Fiction

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance...

Mitchell's novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose and style....

Miranda Wood thought she had seen the last of Richard Tremain, her rich and married ex-lover - until she discovered him stabbed to death in her bed. With her knife. With her world falling around her, Miranda is determined to clear her name...

Rosie's mother is a cruel woman and has Rosie's kind and loving father wrapped around her finger. Though John Tanner does his best to protect her, Rosie often bears the brunt of her mother's rage. And his protection can't last forever...

Banned in India before publication, this immense novel by Booker Prize-winner Rushdie ( Midnight's Children ) pits Good against Evil in a whimsical and fantastic tale.

A story of revolutionaries set in Swizerland and Russia. Conrad's intention was to render not so much the political but the psychological state of Russia in 1911...

Landing in the army hospital after a plane crash, Major Jack Novak tries to win the heart of army nurse Lieutenant Ruth Doherty, but Jack soon realizes that he has his work cut out for him as he tries to break down her defenses

In Aspen, Colorado, whitewater guide Dani Haller comes upon the dead body of a friend. Trey Watkin's death is ruled an accident. Finding evidence that seems to back up her suspicions that it wasn't, she takes her case to police chief, Wade Dunn...

Who is John Galt? This famous rhetorical question rings through Ayn Rand's best-selling novel as the people's anthem of despair in depressed economic times. Set in the future, the novel follows capitalist magnates as they battle looters, strikers, and the impending ruin of the United States' econ...

When the horribly mutilated body of a were-panther is found outside Merlotte's bar, even though Sookie never cared that much for the victim, no one deserves such a horrible death, so she agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer.