"After fifty years of marriage, Stan and Joy Delaney are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy's door. She says she chose their house because it looked the friendliest. And since Savannah is bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend, the Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. If only that was all she wanted. Later, everyone will...

"Hoban's first book for adults mixes playful fantasy with an insightful meditation on fathers and sons'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequences. He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin, and by something else- a tawny-skinned, amber-eyed beast from another place and...

Wallace a laborer in his late forties; Dotty, an abused teenager who flaunts her sexuality; and a little girl stolen from her playpen are bound together for the next five years by Dotty's manic moods and Wallace's tragic helplessness.

"Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious,...

Will marrying him prove the biggest mistake of her life? After discovering he has a secret son, oil heir Ross Edmond isn't letting Charlotte Jarrett walk away again. His demands? She takes his name... for one year. Ross doesn't know why his family's former chef left three years ago--and the powerful enemy who could bring them both down. But is Charlotte gambling her future on an elusive second chance?