The landmark novel of interconnected stories profiles the people of a small Midwestern town during the early 1900s, revealing the potential consequences of human misunderstanding.

Psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, has fallen out of love with her dead lover, Bill. Bill has no sooner departed for Peru, than Sookie finds the head vampire, Eric, running naked and terrified through the rural night. She helps Eric, and discovers that a coven of unscrupulous, astonishingly powerful witches are offering a huge reward for Eric. Sookie tries to hide Eric, as she finds herself caught in a war among witches, vampires, and werewolves....

In a stunning follow-up to her best-selling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh2s second novel, BAKER TOWERS, is a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II. Bakerton is a company town, built on coal; a town of church festivals and ethnic neighborhoods, hunters2 breakfasts and firemen2s parades. Its children are raised in company houses - three rooms upstairs, three rooms down. Its ball...

Thomas Kinkade's novel, the first in a trilogy, invites you to a small New England town that will stir your soul just as his paintings have stirred your imagination. Visit Cape Light and meet the delightful townsfolk whose lives are intertwined by faith, community and love. Most people in Cape Light are a happy sort. But one person who has not been enchanted by this picturesque village is Emily's sister, Jessica, who has come to help care for their...

For Annie Barnes, going home to Middle River means dealing with truths long hidden. But it is a journey she knows she must take if she is to put to rest, once and for all, her misgivings about her mother's recent death. To an outsider, Middle River is a picture-perfect New Hampshire town. But Annie grew up there, and she knows all its secrets--just like her idol, Grace Metalious, author of the infamous novel Peyton Place, which laid a small town's...

Rusty-James wants to be as tough a teen as his older brother, Motorcycle Boy, who has always helped him out of tough spots. But one day, when Rusty-James faces danger, Motorcycle Boy is not around.

Regarded today as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Ulysses entered the world in a firestorm of controversy. Denounced as obscure, unintelligible, nonsensical, and obscene, it was first published in Paris in 1922 and remained banned in the United States until 1933. Among the innovations that shocked and outraged critics were Joyce's revolutionary use of the interior monologue (better known as "stream of consciousness") and other...

"One ting about Cedar Grove -- people sure are interested in what other people are doing. Take me, for instance. Everybody in the town knows that my husband, Zach, and I recently got a divorce. Everybody also know that Judge Olivia Lockhard decreed a pretty unusual custody arrangement. It won't be the kids moving between my place and Zach's. We're the ones who'll be going back and forth! Olivia isn't immune to gossip herself. Will she stay with Jack,...

A Vietnam veteran stays overnight at the Beldon's bed and breakfast in Cedar Cove. He is poisoned while there and it is up to Peggy Beldon and her husband Bob to determine who killed him.

Learn about the status of the unknown Norwegian and why Lake Wobegon never made it onto the maps and many other small-town stories.