"Elizabeth, approaching twenty, has lived anything but a normal life. She has had a regrettable childhood with a controlling, physically abusive mother and a neglectful father. Through a series of flashbacks, readers are introduced to her warring parents and taken on a journey through her tragic childhood and eventual escape to college. Away from home, Elizabeth's search for friendships takes the readers on a series of mini-adventures including cloak...

"Eve Wolcott has it all: a handsome, successful husband from a moneyed old New England family, two bright young sons enrolled in a premier prep school, stately homes sprinkled along the East Coast. Well, except her husband is a serial philanderer, her mother-in-law is the devil in Lily Pulitzer, one of her sons is miserable at prep school while the other is dismissive of her altogether, and it takes a cocktail of antidepressants to get Eve through...

"Hundreds of years ago, Rex, one of the world's rarest and most powerful vampires, decided to quietly settle in Newport, Rhode Island, where the public still has no idea he lives among them. Rex, however, is no ordinary vampire. A tortured soul, he roams Rhode Island's most historic locations, tracking down some of the state's most detestable human beings, to rid the area of those he considers contemptible, while leaving others in ignorant peace....

The third volume in our five-volume selected edition of the novels of John Updike includes three books: The Coup, one of Updike's most outlandish satires, set in a fictional African nation; Rabbit Is Rich, the third, and many say best, novel starring his most famous protagonist; and the wildly popular The Witches of Eastwick, which was memorably adapted in the film starring Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, and Jack Nicholson. In The Coup,...