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  Pride and Prejudice

  Jane Austen

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  Pride and Prejudice captures the affections of class-conscious eighteenth-century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries. This story of the Bennet family and the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, is told with a wit that author Jane Austen feared might prove "rather too light and bright, and sparkling." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. Austen's artistry is also apparent in the delineation of the minor characters: the ill-matched Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Charles Bingley and his sisters, and particularly the fatuous Mr. Collins, whose proposal to Elizabeth is one of the finest comic passages in English literature.Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

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  Anyuta

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Chekhov's novella Anyuta is a compelling exploration of the human struggle for love and recognition in a rapidly changing world. Through its narrative, the work interrogates issues such as class and gender dynamics, ultimately positing that the experience of being an outcast can lead to greater self-awareness. The protagonist, Anyuta, embodies the plight of a woman navigating her way through a male-dominated society as she tries to reconcile her desires with reality. Read in English, unabridged.

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  Trent's Last Case (Version 2)

  Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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  This is one of a series of EC Bentley novels featuring the highly erudite artist qua reporter / detective, Philip Trent. 
   
  In it, Trent is sent to a charming English seaside village to cover the murder of Sigsbee Manderson for a large London newspaper. The victim is an unpopular and extremely powerful financial tycoon, who is murdered virtually within sight of his own house, at a time when it seems impossible that anyone there – to say nothing of all of its more than half dozen inhabitants – could have failed to see or hear the crime being committed. 
   
  As Trent pokes around, attention is focused on Manderson’s extremely troubled marriage, not least because Trent himself falls in love with Margaret Manderson, the widow of the murdered man. At the same time, Trent himself considers her to be at least complicit in the crime for much of the novel. The plot cannot be described further without spoiling the punch-line, as it were. Indeed, to the really clever detective fiction-lover, this is already almost saying too much. 
   
  Trent’s Last Case was on the “ten best” list of Rex Stout, author of the famous Nero Wolfe mysteries. Like Stout, Bentley has a fondness for complex plot twists of the “boxes within boxes” variety.(Introduction by Kirsten Wever)

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  Sniggles and Giggles

  James Spears

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  52 of the funniest childhood stories that have ever been told.

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  Full Speed

  Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes

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  A novel brimming with nonstop action, quirky characters, sexy highjinks, and sharp humorWelcome to Full Speed by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes. You'll fall in love with Jamie Swift and Max Holt, one dynamic duo who can't seem to escape trouble—and an irresistible attraction—as you follow them from one adventure to another. Newspaper editor Jamie Swift likes a little predictability in her life. When she suddenly finds herself minus a fiancé and with a major case of the hots for her silent partner, millionaire Maximillian Holt, any bit of predictability goes right out the window. Max is like a tornado, turning her well-ordered world upside down. Now someone's unhappy with Max's recent business deal—dangerously unhappy. Before she knows it, Jamie's hotfooting across state lines to help Max and land a story. But Sweet Pea, Tennessee harbors some smelly secrets, many of which reside under the big tent of revivalist Harlan Rawlins, whose link to the Almighty rides shotgun with his Mob connections.Posing as husband and wife, with computer genius Muffin and a mutt named Fleas along for the ride, Max and Jamie are in the middle of another crazy case, closer than ever to each other—and too close for comfort to the kind of people who will do anything to stop them.

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  Sis Boom Bah

  Jane Heller

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  This “breezy” tale by the bestselling author “explores the bitterly antagonistic relationship between two sisters, and the murder mystery they become embroiled in” (Publishers Weekly).    Soap opera writer Deborah Peltz can handle any kind of drama, except for her sister Sharon’s. A wedding planner in Boca Raton, Sharon thinks she has the answers to everything, but with three divorces under her belt, she should be the last person on the planet to dole out all that eyeroll-worthy advice.   Normally, Deborah survives by keeping her distance, safe in the bustle of New York, but when their mother has a heart attack in Florida, she drops everything to be near her. Burying the hatchet with her sister is a challenge in itself, but when they both fall for their mother's handsome cardiologist, winning him over and earning an invite to his place becomes an obsession.   But when they find him dead in his waterfront home, neither sister wants to be near the place. Now the prime suspects in his murder case, they must stick together to stay alive. Hiding out in the Bahamas may be their only chance—if they don't kill each other first… “Delightful.” —People “If you loved Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, pick up Sis Boom Bah.”—Newark Star-Ledger

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