"For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

Considered one of the great classics in the genre, Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATON trilogy describes the events spanning more than a thousand years and resulting in the creation of an ideal universal ruling corporation. In this initial volume, the Galactic Empire is beginning to die and the ends of the Galaxy are reverting to barbarism. Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists create a colony - the Foundation - to incubate art, science, and technology that...

The brutal death of a young aristocrat more than thirty years ago becomes the obsession of a recently retired British cabinet minister.

Beloved author Maeve Binchy's first published novel, an engrossing coming of age tale about the incredible bond of friendship.
To escape the chaos of London during World War II, young Elizabeth White is sent to live a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It is there, in the crowded, chaotic O’Connor household, that she meet Aisling—a girl who soon becomes her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly...

When a houseguest is murdered in the guest room, Doe and Mary Adams are doubly shocked to find their son is the chief suspect since he and the guest were rivals for academic success and for the attentions of a beautiful whale watcher named Alice.

"A Time for Silence, part of the Daughters of England series, follows the life of Lucinda, daughter of Joel Greenham, Member of Parliament for Marchlands. Lucinda was born at the end of the last century and her life was deeply affected by the war years to come. She was first brought face to face with the unpleasant aspects of life when her friend Annabelinda was involved in an adventure with a mysterious young man. With the outbreak of war the two...

"The story of an infant, the son of an aristocratic couple, abandoned when his parents die in the jungles of Africa. The baby is reared by apes and learns their language and ability to travel through the treetops." --

"There is a myth in the United States -- you've heard it many times. It says that all American mothers hope that their child will grow up to be President of the United States. In my case that certainly is a myth. I never dreamed that any of ours would, there were days when I hoped they'd just grow up!...But on January 20, 2001...there we were sitting on the west side of the United States Capitol, waiting for our son George W. to be sworn in as the...

Hoagy and his neurotic basset hound trek to a ancestral Virginia home to ghost write a literary sequel and finds a freak series of deaths.

Overview: Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma.