After moving with his family to Liberia, twelve-year-old Linus discovers that he has a mystical connection with the black mamba, one of the deadliest snakes in Africa, which he is told will give him some of the snake's characteristics. Includes facts about the author's experiences as a thirteen-year-old American living in Liberia in 1982.

Follows the adventures of troublemaker Bart Simpson, his parents Homer and Marge, and his sisters Lisa and Maggie.

"Listen, Beautiful Márcia is a gripping story about a family pushed to the brink. Márcia is a nurse in a hospital near Rio and lives in a favela with her boyfriend, Aluisio, and her daughter, Jaqueline, whom she had very young with another man. Jaqueline, a troubled young adult, makes life difficult for her mother and Aluisio and rebelliously hangs out with members of a neighborhood gang, leading to violent altercations between mother and daughter....

The slapstick comedy about a family of Ozark country bumpkins who strike it rich and move to Beverly Hills ran for nine seasons and at its peak, attracted more than 60 million viewers a week. Get reacquainted with Jed Clampett and his brood, which included his mother-in-law Granny, daughter Elly May and dim-witted nephew Jethro Bodine.

Although two boys grow up in vastly different times and locations, their lives intersect in more ways than one as they discover compassion, develop loyalty, and find renewal in the most surprising of places.

Tony Scali is a tough yet compassionate small-town police commissioner, juggling the grim realities of police work with the laid-back sensibilities of his close-knit community. As dedicated to his family as he is to his work, Scali's intelligence, intensity, humor and quirky charm make him a one-of-a-kind cop.

"When Dominguita finds an old map in the back of an even older book in her beloved library, she is excited to see a telltale X marking an unknown place. Everyone knows that X marks the spot for treasure--and Dom knows that means a new adventure for her, Pancho, and Steph! But everyone seems to think that the map, while fun, probably isn't real. Dom is determined to prove them wrong. And as the trio starts to uncover the mystery of the map, they realize...

"Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head was smaller than a tennis ball, her skin was nearly translucent, and through her chest you could see her flickering heart. Babies like Juniper, born at the edge of viability, trigger the question: Which is the greater act of love--to save her, or to let her go? Kelley and Thomas French chose...

On Golden Pond: Shows the conflicts between three generations as the Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging. Away from her: Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have...

Centers around the rich vineyards and richer people of Northern California's wine country. Winery matriarch Angela Channing lets nothing - not family, honor, or the law - stand between her and power. Murder takes center stage after someone eliminates Carlo Agretti. The trail to the killer winds through a minefield of adultery, divorce, weddings, death threats and battles over control of the wine empire.