At the heart of every great story is a moment of inspiration. "I'm excited to share this gathering of special moments from the hearts of my characters and from their stories. I had great fun...
One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying was originally published in 1930, and remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly...
In twenty-second-century Kenya, polluted cities and modern technology have replaced the old sacred ways. But Koriba, a man of Kikuyu ancestry, determines to recreate the ancient lifestyle of his...
When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables send for a boy orphan to help them out at their farm, they mistakenly get Anne Shirley, a feisty, independent but warm-hearted 11 year-old girl....
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across...
Mace Perry was a cop and then a detective working narcotics...until she was kidnapped, and set up by her abductors to look like a criminal herself. She lost her job, her house, and finally her...
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist....
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the...