Search

An abridged version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of four sisters growing up in 1800s New England; and contains over 400 vocabulary words and definitions, synonyms and pronunciation for each word, and discussion questions.

Presents an adaptation of the classic novel in which Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and falls in love with her melancholy employer, Mr.

A poor, unwanted orphan, Jane Eyre seems destined to live a sad and ordinary life.

Presents the complete text of Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker, and includes a comprehensive study guide with explanations and discussions of the plot, question and answer sections, a list of characters, and a short biography of Jane Austen.

"Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life.

Young Rebecca Bloomwood, a financial magazine writer who has dug herself into a huge debt hole with her perpetual shopping, tries to turn her life around when she meets the desirable Luke Brandon.

Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-eight, Hannah Gavener learns about love, the lies one tells oneself, growing up, and taking risks as she struggles through two relationships and an unrequited love for her friend Henry for which she moves halfway across the country.

Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades?the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs.

The lives of three people in a nineteenth-century provincial community become entwined as crusader Dorothea Brooke is prevented from being with the man she loves, the idealistic Dr.

Twenty-three-year-old Carrie Bell, engaged to her high school sweetheart, is ready to make a break from a life that has become suffocating in its sameness, but her decision is complicated when her fiancee is paralyzed in a diving accident and everyone expects her to stay and care for him.

Jenna Starborn, a young woman who was harvested from the gen-tanks on the planet Baldus, has managed to find a way to stay true to herself and seek her own way, no matter where the universe leads her.

Becky Bloomwood, a television financial expert in Britain and an out-of-control shopaholic, finds a whole new world of stores open to her when she moves to New York with her boyfriend, but her inability to check her spending puts her job and relationship at risk.

Kate Riordan attends the posh Swan River Academy in hopes of escaping her small Appalachian community where the local girls go wild and start fires around town.

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson.

Holly sets out to New York City to make a new life for herself, and she uses the values she learned while raising her six younger siblings to deal with the trials an tribulations of her first romantic and professional relationships.