Adult

In the spring of 1822, Ellie Ballantyne opens a day school for young ladies. One of her students is an incorrigible young member of the Turlock family. The Turlocks are envious of the powerful Ballantynes and suspicious of their abolitionist leanings. As Ellie becomes increasingly entangled with the rival clan --- particularly the handsome Jack Turlock --- she finds herself falling in love with an impossible future. Will she betray her family and side with the enemy?

Sarah Cummings has one goal in life --- to break into Chicago's high society. When opportunity knocks at a chance meeting, she presents herself as Serena Cuthbert, weaving a fictitious past to go with her fictitious name. But as she gets closer to her goal --- and closer to Simon Tewell, director of St. Andrew's Orphanage --- Sarah finds that she must choose between the life she has and the life she dreams of.

Sadie Sillsby is torn when she is offered the position of matron at the orphanage where she works. She loves her job, but she also loves her beau, Blaine --- and tradition dictates that she cannot have both. Should she give up her plans for a life with Blaine in order to continue serving these children who have no one else?

Dare Riker is a doctor who saves lives. Lately, though, someone appears determined to end his. Whoever the culprit is, he or she seems really fired up, and Dare can't let his guard down for a moment. He wants to leave the violence of his war days behind and move on --- preferably with Glynna Greer at his side. But will he survive long enough to have his chance at love?

After her Olympic dreams are dashed, Sabrina Rice distances herself from everything to do with running --- until the day she sees Brandy Philip racing security across campus. When she meets this troubled teen, Sabrina realizes she’s Brandy’s best hope to salvage a life that’s spiraling out of control.

When Washington Irving first published this collection of essays, sketches and tales --- originally entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. --- readers greeted it with enthusiasm, and Irving emerged as America's first successful professional author. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," two of America's most recognizable and loved works of fiction, display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture so vividly that readers feel themselves a part of them.

Entertaining, revealing, and beautifully told, MASTERS OF SEX sheds light on the eternal mysteries of desire, intimacy, and the American psyche.

BAGGAGE CLAIM gives you a first-class peek into the wacky world of Montana Moore, a 35-year-old flight attendant with enough baggage from her past relationships to fill an entire Samsonite showroom. Having convinced herself that there's no way in heaven or hell she's showing up at her sister's Christmas Eve engagement party without a prospect of her own, Montana concocts her wildest and most romantically ridiculous plan yet: a 30-day, 3,000-mile trek in search of a husband. 

PARKLAND (originally titled FOUR DAYS IN NOVEMBER) is the exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Releasing this fall, the movie --- starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver and Billy Bob Thornton --- follows a group of individuals making split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event.

Lilly Corbett Still has grown to love her life as the small-town doctor of Skip Rock, a tiny coal community in the Kentucky mountains. Though her husband, Tern, is away for a few months at a mining job, Lilly has her hands full with her patients and her younger sister visiting for the summer. Lilly turns to her good friend and neighbor, Armina, to help keep things in order --- until a mysterious chain of events leaves Armina bedridden and an abandoned baby on her doorstep.