Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a French provincial doctor, scans her solitude with desperate eyes, like a shipwrecked sailor searching for a white sail on the distant horizon. And when Emma's ship finally comes in, it carries with it vast and tragic consequences upon which her own life and the lives of those around her are wrecked. This new translation by Francis Steegmuller was published as a part of the centenary celebration of the original publishing...

Susan B. Anthony Rabinowitz Gersten assumed her marriage was great—and why not? Jonah Gersten, M.D., a Park Avenue plastic surgeon, clearly adored her. He was handsome, successful, and a doting dad to their four-year-old triplets. So when Jonah is found dead in the Upper East Side apartment of a second-rate "escort," Susie is overwhelmed with questions. It's bad enough to know your husband's been murdered, but even worse when you're universally

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A tale spanning a traumatic single day follows Liz Pike, who awakens in her small-town home to discover her husband frantically preparing for what he claims is an IRS audit, but she soon realizes that he has discovered the truth about her affair with another man.

Every Valentine's Day is a gift

A day to celebrate your love--and the hope, the belief, that it will be everlasting.

In Valentine's Daughters by Tara Taylor Quinn, it's a day to remember old promises...and make new ones.

In Our Day by Jean Brashear, it's when love gets a second chance.

In The Hand That Gives the Rose by Linda Cardillo, it's the day love finally bridges two separate worlds.

"When her husband, a brilliant doctor championing the lobotomy, spirals into deluded megalomania, mental illness advocate Ruth Emeraldine races to save a vulnerable young mother who is poised to be the next victim of his ambitions."--

When Carol Milford marries Will Kennicott after college, she has grand plans to turn Gopher Prairie, their hometown, into a more attractive place. However, she has not counted on the attitudes of the old guard.

This is a novel about an ordinary woman, in the middle of her life, seized by love for a younger man.

In the closed society of a rural medical center, five doctors' wives, seeking escape from boredom, become entangled in immoral circumstances.

"Angela Pisel's poignant debut explores the complex relationship between a mother and a daughter, and their quest to discover the truth and whether or not love can prevail--even from behind bars. Grace Bradshaw knows the exact minute she will die. On death row for murdering her infant son, her last breath will be taken on February 15 at 12:01 a.m. Eleven years, five months, and twenty-seven days separate her from the last time she heard her precious...

"A novel based on the life of the first doctor in the world to perform surgery for breast cancer under a general anaesthetic." - from the publisher.