Barbara Caruso

Anne and Gilbert are finally married.

Anne Shirley begins her tenure as teacher at Avonlea school, helps Marilla raise orphan twins, and founds the Avonlea village Improvement Society with Gilbert Blythe.

Henry felt that nothing very interesting happened to him until the stray dog begged his ice cream cone.

Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality,...

Anne of Green Gables has grown up, but Rainbow Valley holds a special magic for Anne and Gilbert's offspring, the Blythe children. It is a refuge from adult eyes where they share secrets and plan adventures. It is there they meet the Merediths, the new minister's children, and become close friends.

Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape. Thea Kronborg, an aspiring singer, struggles to escape from the confines her small Colorado town to the world of possibility in the Metropolitan Opera House. In classic Cather style, The Song of the Lark is the beautiful, unforgettable story of American determination and its...

Features the story of a college graduate from St. Paul who leaves to marry a doctor in a small, middle-class town, only to find her efforts to bring culture and beauty to the town thwarted by its residents, testing her idealism.

An immensely popular bestseller upon its publication in 1905, The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton's first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton herself called "a society of irresponsib- le pleasure-seekers" with a precision comparable to that of Proust. And her brilliant and complex characterization of...

Three American children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, find an ancient harp-tuning key that takes one child back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.

Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.