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An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator; a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who's vanished without a trace.

Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At long last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard, to a startling conclusion: Jasmine Dent was murdered. But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already so fragile and doomed?.

Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a most ingenious criminal mastermind, and heir to the Fowl family empire, a centuries-old clan of underworld figures and famous con artists. When Artemis kidnaps Holly Short, one of the Fairy People, to help him on his quest for gold, he takes on a Fairy world determined to rescue Holly.

Forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of the somber Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.

Presents the story of Heathcliffe, a mysterious orphan, who becomes the master of Wuthering Heights.

A graphic novel adaptation of Charlotte Bront?'s classic story "Jane Eyre," in which an orphan girl is married by her wealthy but cruel aunt.

Two sisters of opposing temperaments come to a closer understanding of each other through the shared sufferings of tragic love affairs, but true love finally triumphs.

Presents Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker.

Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

Pip's life as a blacksmith's apprentice in Victorian England changes drastically when he is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman--and an equal with the contemptuous Estella.