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Novelists Egan (Pulitzer Prize-winner for A Visit from the Goon Squad), Hustvedt ( The Summer Without Men) and Livesey ( The Flight of Gemma Hardy) - the trio that brought Middlemarch and Anna Karenina to life at this book club - are back by popular demand to revisit James' classic. With a reading from the novel by Fritz Weaver.

Despite the wealth of scholarship that pretends to offer proof, archaeologist Donald Gladstone knows there is no solid evidence that a real King Arthur ever existed. When the beguiling Julia Llewellyn, a linguist working on the Oxford English Dictionary, joins Donald on the trail of clues, their fervent enthusiasms, unusual gifts, and unfulfilled yearnings prove a combustible mix. Their impassioned search for truths amid the secret places and half-forgotten legends of the British countryside, must ultimately transform them - and all our understandings of the origins of Arthur.

Bobbi Molinsky had it all - a successful husband, two great boys, and a job she loved - then she opens a stray email from the newest attorney at Chuck's firm and is blindsided by the discovery of his extramarital affair. An angry confrontation leaves her with the broken remains of their 18-year marriage.

Abigail Collins is no stranger to murder, but when a case hits close to home, she’s forced to trust agent Liz Jefferson to solve it. Abby finds a distraction when the victim of a demon shows up in an apartment with no signs of the summoner or the beast, and the new case quickly leads her down a darker road than she expected. Meanwhile, trying to balance the new vampire politics that Levi throws at her is no easy feat. Ira is demanding a meeting under truce. Without knowing the full story, Abby goes in blind, hoping finally to have her shot at killing him.

In this Regency classic by English novelist Jane Austen, two estranged paramours reconnect and give love a second chance.

She was his anchor. He was her home. Gracie Taylor fell in love with Noah Chase on the first day of kindergarten. Gracie was the girl from the wrong side of town. Noah was the town's golden boy. Their families had been at loggerheads since the death of Gracie's mother years ago and as they grew up, they had to risk everything to be together.

For 30 years, Joe Egan has been an owner of one of the largest construction companies in the nation, The Egan Companies. Over that time, he's successfully negotiated millions of dollars in construction contracts based on "the right price, not the low price". There is a method and skill set that made him successful in a tough bidding industry. With years of construction negotiation experience, Joe is here to help you beat your competition at your next presentation with information that is easy to understand and quick to implement.

Although set in the remote Kimberley ranges of northern Australia, this story centers on an ancient kingdom, slightly offset from Earth’s frequency, struggling to deal with a prophecy that predicts the coming of a young earthling whose mission is to realign the two realities before the coming planetary upheavals. Rod Oaken is the teenager who accidently stumbles into this hidden realm, and, through a series of adventures, he learns how to communicate telepathically with nature.

It is the 1980s, and Stamford Holmes is still living in the shadow of his famous grandfather. Languidly living on Sherlock's fortune, he reluctantly agrees to do some work as a consulting detective - if only to provide 'Doctor' Watson with material for the Sunday papers. Watson, on the other hand, brings all the bumbling enthusiasm he can muster to their new cases, forever aping and quoting both their grandfathers - and wielding a magnifying glass.

Back by popular demand, Jennifer Egan ( A Visit from the Goon Squad), Siri Hustvedt ( The Blazing World), and Margot Livesey ( The Flight of Gemma Hardy) revisit Gustave Flaubert's classic in a lively discussion. With a reading by Amanda Quaid ( Pericles at the Public Theater).

As the story moves into the last book of the trilogy, we know that Chaldee’s kingdom has been destroyed, meaning she must seek a new homeland, but the search seems fruitless until, with the help of her Earthling friends, the search leads them into the wonders of a secret city, hidden deep underground. Meanwhile, in Sydney Jake’s efforts to help Adele and her father end in tragedy forcing Jake and Ben to reach out to Chaldee.

It is strange to consider that, although The Hound Of The Baskervilles is Conan Doyle’s most popular novel, his hero is absent for much of the time. Notice how he sets up an atmosphere of supernatural horror right from the start through Dr Mortimer’s reading of the ancient curse, and how he then presents as assortment of bizarre clues – in particular, the riddle of the missing boots – which Holmes will have to unravel.

Nobody needs advice, but everybody wants it. Conversely, everybody wants to give advice but we need to. It's in our blood...because we're stoned. That's the point. And what better way to legitimize two stoned people's need to babble advice than with a book? Allow us to introduce ourselves: We're Tracie and Rich. We go way back. We host an Internet video series in which we answer viewer-submitted questions, solving their problems with the help of an herbal remedy. Basically we get stoned and tell people how to live their lives. At this point, we want to get higher, and take things to the next level....

We live in a high-energy world, but every new technological advancement takes us further from ourselves. We have learned how to cut ourselves off from our true selves. But there’s a solution, and your body already knows it. When our heart and throat chakras are blocked or unbalanced, we feel emotionally trapped and unable to speak our truth. But this doesn’t have to be the way life is. By learning to channel your energy through the throat and heart chakras, you’ll find the peace, truth, and light you didn’t realize you were looking for.

As the story continues, friends of the missing archaeologist and his son discover the mythical kingdom hidden deep in the Kimberley ranges. After many skirmishes, they are finally convinced by the oracle to help Chaldee the ruler of the kingdom find a professor who is developing a powerful healing substance aimed at helping mankind. Governmental forces want to suppress this scientific discovery, so the clash of ideologies as Chaldee and her earthling friends find, then transport the professor to safety is gripping.

Determined to find a murderer, Abigail Collins must go deep undercover, cut off from all resources and communication the Paranormal Investigation Bureau provides. Under the guise of visiting an old friend, Abby must discover who is killing people and how they are tied to a local werewolf pack. With Simon by her side, enemies old and new appear, and Abigail must make a choice. In the witchy world, not everything is black or white, and sometimes life needs a bit of gray.

Ted Willis began his creative life in amateur theatre and journalism before moving into writing for films, TV and radio, and was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific writer for television. His best-known creation was the hit police procedural Dixon of Dock Green which he based on the stories told to him by a policeman friend. This radio anthology includes five of his best-loved crime tales from the 1960s, '70s and '80s.

A love that would span across two dimensions, a battle that has raged since before the beginning of man. Murder, jealousy, and a battle that would start a war no one could have seen coming.

As hysteria grips the town of Salem, Charity becomes the target of a relentless assailant. Her step-mother, accused of witchcraft, meets a grim fate at the gallows, yet the attacks persist. Seeking refuge, Charity's father, Osborne, sends her to the supposedly haunted Dansford's Farms near Boston—a distant and seemingly secure haven. Little does he know that the horrors awaiting Charity are far from over. Dansford's Farms holds secrets of its own. The former tenant, Philip, was executed for a crime he did not commit, leaving the property tainted with rumors of murder and robbery.

Dr. Egan’s presentations will explore the life and writings of John Henry Newman as a resource for Christians in a new millennium, Christians who desperately seek to live more wisely in an age of anxiety, fear, war, and economic distress. Cardinal Newman can teach Catholics and others how to drink deeply of the wine of wisdom and how to fly to God on the wings of wisdom at a time when the church could go adrift as it struggles to be faithful to the wisdom of the Second Vatican Council.