Author: Courttia Newland
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Keywords: story, west, scholar
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0349108765
ISBN-13: 9780349108766

Sean and Cory are cousins with very different attitudes about life. Sean is always studying while Cory, involved in drug dealing, has stabbed a man who was meant to take part in an armed robbery with a notorious crack dealer. Desperate to help his cousin, Sean soon finds himself drawn into this world of easy money and drugs.

Author: Michelle Lovric
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Keywords: city, tales, venice
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 034911899X
ISBN-13: 9780349118994

Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city’s foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both international and native—Hans Christian Andersen, Paolo Barbaro, Bernard Berenson, Mary Braddon, Casanova, Chekov, Thomas Coryate, Gabriele D’Annunzio, John Evelyn, Hans Habe, Hermann Melville, Claude Monet, Margaret Oliphant, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Francesco Sansovino, Frances Trollope, and Elio Zorzi.

Author: Harry Pearson
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Keywords: among, belgians, time, land, low, man
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0349112061
ISBN-13: 9780349112060

Author: Mary Webb
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Keywords: classics, modern, virago, bane, precious
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1987-12-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0860680630
ISBN-13: 9780860680635

Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip—her "precious bane." She is cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she lives. Prue loves two things: the remote countryside of her birth and, hopelessly, Kester Woodseaves, the weaver. The tale of how Woodseaves gradually discerns Prue’s true beauty is set against the tragic drama of Prue’s brother, Gideon, a driven man who is out of harmony with the natural world.

Author: Tom Holt
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Keywords: door, portable
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1841492086
ISBN-13: 9781841492087

Starting a new job is always stressful, but when Paul Carpenter arrives at the office of H.W. Wells he has no idea what trouble lies in store. Because he is about to discover that the apparently respectable establishment now paying his salary is in fact a front for a deeply sinister organization that has a mighty peculiar agenda. It seems that half the time his bosses are away with the fairies. But they’re not, of course. They’re away with the goblins. Tom Holt, Master of the Comic Fantasy Novel, cordially invites you to join him in his world of madness by reading his next hilariou

Author: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Keywords: dynasty, morland, regency
Number of Pages: 586
Published: 1990-07-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0751506508
ISBN-13: 9780751506501

In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1807, and as armies march and counter-march across Europe, Lucy, trying to rebuild her life after the death of Captain Weston, receives an unexpected and disturbing offer of marriage from an army officer. James and Heloise are happy at Morland Place, except for the hostility of James’s daughter and heiress Fanny towards her stepmother. Fanny is eager to inherit more than just Morland Place, and visits her maternal grandfather in Manche

Author: Louisa Waugh
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Keywords: mongolia, year, nomadic, birds, hearing
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 034911580X
ISBN-13: 9780349115801

A wonderfully accessible memoir of an inaccessible country: Outer Mongolia.