Daphne du Maurier

The inn is derelict, and no decent folks will come to it, speaking of it in fearful whispers. When Mary Yellan joins her aunt, married to the owner, she soon finds she has but two friends on the wild moors--the mysterious parson and an insolent, likeable horsethief.

A novel written in 1943 by the British author, telling the story of the multi-generational feud between the proud, semi-aristcratic Brodericks and their sly and vicious neighbors, the Donovans.

A strange, psychic bond of love and understanding unites four generations of a Cornish family of shipbuilders.

"Once his secretary, Colleen is now pregnant with Michael's baby. When he brings her to his opulent estate, Ravenwood, she is abruptly thrust into a life of luxury she's never known. But Colleen finds the immense house suffused with the memory of Michael's beautiful wife, Joanna, who left months ago and who haunts her imagination. It quickly becomes apparent that there is little room for a new mistress of this house: The staff greets her with hostility,...

"This story covers 10 days in the life of a tourist courier in modern Italy who leaves his job to return to his native city of Ruffano to learn why his old nurse, Marta, should be the beggar found murdered on the church steps. He finds his brother, Aldo, believed killed in a plane crash during the war. ... The life of fated Aldo and his connection with Marta emerge against the background of the annual student festival and its story of the unhappy...

A political/economic alliance between the United States and England leads to open hostility when Marines land in Cornwall.

When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds.