9,789 summaries available
Page 253 of 408
by Carolyn Keene
3.9(7,039)
by Patrick D. Smith
4.4(7,037)
From the Florida frontier of 1858 to the exploited land of 1968, three generations of the MacIvey family climb from poverty to real estate wealth, only to face the cost of their own ambition.
by Iris Murdoch
4.0(7,037)
A middle-aged writer's memoir reveals a life stifled by artistic failure, bad relationships, and self-delusion, as he fights for love, truth, and meaning.
by Anne Rice
3.8(7,031)
In a battle for his soul, the vampire Lestat must come to terms with an ancient spirit possessing him, uncovering the secrets of a lost Atlantean empire whose power now threatens all vampires.
by Karen Kingsbury
4.4(7,027)
Dayne and Katy's celebrity romance struggles amidst rumors and separate film projects. The Flanigans fight to save their Christian Kids Theater, and John Baxter considers selling the family home. The Baxter family's love is tested to secure a hopeful 'someday.'
by Sherri L. Smith
4.0(7,024)
In 1940s America, a skilled Black pilot, determined to fly for her country, makes the choice to pass as white to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots, forcing her to confront the cost of chasing her dreams during war and prejudice.
by Siri Hustvedt
3.7(7,019)
After years of artistic invisibility, a female artist stages a provocative experiment, creating three male alter egos to expose the art world's biases, only to become entangled in a dangerous psychological game with a celebrated artist that ends in his bizarre death.
by Erick Setiawan
3.8(7,018)
In a town where spirits mingle with everyday life, a young bride named Meridia uncovers generations of dark magic and hidden truths within her new family, forcing her to confront her own past and the secrets that bind them all.
by G.J. Walker-Smith
4.2(7,015)
Seventeen-year-old Charli, desperate to escape her small-town reputation and travel the world, finds her plans upended by a New Yorker, leading her to question if fate has a different journey in store.
by Joseph O'Connor
4.0(7,010)
In 1847, a famine-stricken Ireland leads to a transatlantic journey on the Star of the Sea. Desperate refugees, a maid with a secret, a bankrupt lord, and a killer converge in a tale of tragedy, love, and a past that lingers.
by Franklin W. Dixon
3.9(7,006)
Trapped in an old mill, Frank and Joe Hardy untangle a local counterfeiting ring and a national security secret their detective father is pursuing.
by Lee Smith
4.2(7,005)
Through decades of Appalachian hardship and judgment, a woman's spirit and letters turn a life of perceived betrayal and toil into a story of lasting hope and the quiet power of the written word.
by Louise Erdrich
4.0(7,004)
Journey through 1847 with spirited Ojibwa girl Omakayas as she navigates the daily rhythms of family, nature, and the looming shadow of smallpox on Lake Superior's Madeline Island.
by Thomas Hardy
3.8(7,004)
In a remote Cornish parish, a spirited rector's daughter is torn between a young architect and an older literary man, reflecting the author's own struggle between his established career and the call of literature.
by Woody Allen
4.0(7,003)
Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' follows a man who uses a time machine to date Emma Bovary and a burglar's philosophical thoughts, offering a funny, anxious look at modern life.
by Richard Adams
3.9(7,001)
Two experimental dogs, scarred by human cruelty, escape into the wilderness with a fox, only to become targets of a massive hunt fueled by fear, misunderstanding, and the specter of the bubonic plague.
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
4.0(7,000)
Armed with only her wits and a loyal cat, an eccentric girl who feels most at home in the swamp tumbles into the spectral Ever After, a haunting land of ghosts and dangers, desperately seeking a way back to the living.
by T.J. Klune
4.5(7,000)
Haunted by past betrayals and the lingering song of a love he tries to deny, a scarred witch must confront the rising darkness within his chosen pack before it shatters the fragile peace of Green Creek and the bonds he desperately fights to maintain.
by Philip Roth
3.8(6,998)
From the gritty streets of 1930s Newark to the glittering heights of 1940s radio stardom, a passionate idealist's life unravels in the McCarthy era, his public downfall ignited by the private betrayals of a marriage consumed by political paranoia and personal vengeance.
by Deborah Wiles
4.1(6,995)
For ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger, who's attended 247 funerals at her family's funeral home, navigating the quirks of her Southern relatives and a sudden best-friend fallout proves that even an expert in loss still has much to learn about life's most surprising departures.
by Robert B. Parker
4.1(6,993)
When a bitter divorce escalates into a father's violent abduction of his son, Spenser is hired to retrieve the boy, only to find himself on a dangerous mission in the Maine woods to protect the child and outwit ruthless adversaries.
by Rachel Hawthorne
4.0(6,990)
Desperate to become the wolf she needs to be for the boy she loves and the pack she yearns to join, a powerless girl risks everything, including the very Shifters she hopes to impress.
by Jeff Hawkins
4.0(6,987)
Jeff Hawkins presents a theory that the brain models the world using hundreds of thousands of individual, map-like structures, changing our understanding of intelligence and AI.
by Frank Portman
3.5(6,975)
Armed with his dead father's copy of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' high school outcast Tom Henderson unravels a rock-and-roll conspiracy that turns his suburban angst into a Da Vinci Code-esque quest.