This autobiographical novel by the writer of Winesburg, Ohio recounts a young boy's childhood in the latenineteenth-century rural Midwest. Sherwood Anderson established his reputation as a great American writer with his sensitive portrayals of Midwestern life at the turn of the twentieth century. First published in 1926, Tar: A Midwest Childhood, is Anderson's reflection on the Ohio small town of his youth and the experiences that informed and inspired...

Big tobacco meets the boob tube in this incendiary satire from the bestselling author of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Jefferson Tatum is a self-made man. Founder of Tatum Cigarette Company, he wrote the brand's advertising jingle-"Tatums smoke mild like an innocent child"-and has been bringing home big money-and hunting huge bears-ever since. But this year his tobacco sales are down 3 percent thanks to the surgeon general's cancer warnings. To make...

Return to Kiss River in the second emotional novel in the acclaimed trilogy from bestselling author Diane Chamberlain. Separated by a continent from her child, Gina Higgins comes to Kiss River with little more than a desperate plan. Now, saving her daughter depends on whether she can uncover a message buried deep below the ocean's surface. Kiss River's historic nineteenth-century lighthouse has all but fallen into the sea, taking with it the huge...

Heiress Maggie Radcliffe owns three glamorous villas overlooking Lake Nemi-and one houseguest will stop at nothing to take it all   When American heiress Maggie Radcliffe relocates to the enchanting Lake Nemi, just south of Rome, she does so wishing to live in tune with ancient pagan rhythms of art and nature. Constantly surrounded by a cast of quirky characters, Radcliffe finds her latest guest in the form of old friend-and unrepentant grafter-Hubert...

In late eighteenth-century New South Wales, misfit Daniel Rooke hopes to find his place in life when he joins the military, constructs an observatory, and forges a relationship with an Aborigine girl.

Novel of an obsolete ocean freighter, a veteran of both World Wars, and of Gideon Patch, the ship's mate. Published serially as "The Mary Deare".

"A chronicle of Vienna's Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS's Vienna Blood series. Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite,and burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine every other city on the planet. Vienna was one such city and, at the beginning of the twentieth century, was the birthplace of the modern mind...