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Corey Sifter is befriended by the wealthy Metarey family, a politically powerful dynasty in New York, and becomes an aide to New York senator Henry Bonwiller as he runs for the Democratic presidential nomination during the Nixon era.

The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age--and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness--assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest echelon of Swedish industrialism--and a surprising connection between themselves.--From publisher description.

Nan returns to New York after twelve years abroad with her husband, and as she tries to get her new business off the ground, she once again encounters Grayer X, who is sixteen and demands to know why she abandoned him years earlier.

Presents a lost manuscript written by Mary Shelly in 1820 and rediscovered in the fall of 1997, in which she tells the story of Maurice, a young boy who has lost his parents; and includes an introductory essay that explores the literary and psychological importance of the story.

Julie, a wealthy young woman rebelling against her conservative father, and Abdu, an illegal immigrant struggling to avoid deportation, fall in love in twenty-first-century South Africa.

Yankee Silas Lapham, a self-made millionaire, attempts to crash Boston's old-guard, aristocratic society.

In 1915, Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath, the youngest daughter of the Niagara Power Company director, finishes board school and returns to her family home at the falls to find that much has changed for the worse, and when she meets the rough and fearless Tom Cole by chance, she is forced to make a difficult decision.

The good times and risky choices of rich Miami Academy for the Performing Arts seniors Vanity, Max, Dante, Christina, and Pippa continue until one of them meets an early death.

Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, a dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.

Wanting to ask Haruhi out, Tamaki tries to plan the best first date ever, but even the help of the Host Club members may not be enough to save Tamaki from himself.