Beatrix Potter"Once upon a time there was a little girl called Lucie, who lived at a farm called Little-town..."'The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle' was first published in 1905, and is...

Beatrix PotterThe story of a little mouse's funny house, the visitors she has there, and how she finally rids herself of the untidy, messy ones.

Liza DalbyThe Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha.In the eleventh...

Beatrix PotterIn the original, Peter and his sisters are told to go gather blackberries and not to go into MacGregor's garden because Peter's father was made into a pie by...

Beatrix PotterThe Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is an old favorite Beatrix Potter stories along with The Tailor of Gloucester and The Tale of Ginger and Pickles. It is the story...

Anne Rice For centuries, Lestat --- vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals --- has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now Lestat is...

Beatrix PotterPeter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny are brought together once more in this exciting tale of danger and friendship.When the cupboard is bare at the Flopsy Bunny's burrow, the family...

Beatrix PotterThe Tale of Tom Kitten is set in the cottage garden Beatrix created herself at Hill Top, the farm she owned near the village of Sawrey. Tom and his...

Beatrix Potter"Once upon a time, there was a very beautiful doll's-house..."So begins 'The Tale of Two Bad Mice', a story written by Beatrix Potter and published in 1904. It was...

Alexander McCall Smith In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious lothario—a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may, much...

Author: Philippa Gregory By the number-one New York Times best-selling author behind the Starz original series The White Queen, a riveting new Tudor tale featuring King Henry VIII's sixth wife,...

Author: William Shakespeare Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men, the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio, and the...