Lord Wimsey comes to the aid of mystery writer Harriet Vane, who stands trial in the death of her fiance who was poisoned exactly as described in one of her novels.

The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...

Rafe Caradec--gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune--was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but he was as good as his word. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle, Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's Wyoming ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the...

Biography of author and inventor Benjamin Franklin.

Major James Brionne had brought Dave Allard to trial for murder, but his brothers returned to settle the score four years later. Brionne and his son headed West to start a new life knowing there would be another showdown.

The island of Sinos: strategically positioned between Greece and Turkey, this small Mediterranean isle is a relic of the past--an old Turkish stronghold fortified by the Nazis during World War II. Now it has become a prison for political offenders from the Greek mainland. A fortress of grim solitude and secrets, Sinos is the last place anyone would voluntarily enter--but deep sea diver Jack Savage has little choice. After losing his boat in a suspicious...

Dr. Peters, a young intern, attempts to juggle his patients, contemptuous surgeons, uppity nurses, and worried relatives, while keeping up the pretense that he actually knows what he is doing.

In Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. has organized a bus boycott. In Tuscaloosa, outrage surrounds the entrance of the state university's first black student. But at little Randolph University life remains dreamily the same. At Kapppa House, the sorority sisters talk of who has pinned whom. Even among this privileged group, pretty, popular Maggie Deloach is one of the elite...until she commits a single act of defiance and courage that forever...

In a wealthy suburb in Atlanta an ambitious young architect is building a dramatically contemporary house. The neighbors' easy friendship and relaxed get-togethers are marred by strange accidents and inexplicable happenings as a succession of families move into the new house.

After Ian Clarke is arrested for rape, he struggles to restore his wife's faith in him and save their marriage.