guardian and ward

After saving the seven-day world from destruction, Jax Aubrey discovers he may not be the orphan he thinks he is.

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America will haunt Helen for the rest of her life.

Confirmed bachelor William Jennings is left in charge of three young children when a relative dies, so he turns to his sister for help in caring for the little girl, and becomes interested for the first time in marriage, family, and God after meeting his sister's neighbor, Marianne.

Presents Dickens's 1853 novel which tells the story of several generations of the Jarndyce family who wait in vain to inherit money that is tied up in a legal dispute in England's notoriously slow moving Court of Chancery.

Presents Dickens's 1853 novel in which several generations of the Jarndyce family wait in vain for an inheritance tied up in a legal dispute in England's notoriously slow-moving Court of Chancery.

Presents Dickens's 1853 novel which tells the story of several generations of the Jarndyce family who wait in vain to inherit money that is tied up in a legal dispute in England's notoriously slow-moving Court of Chancery.

Presents two New England novels by Edith Wharton, including "Ethan Frome," the story of a young farmer who falls in love with the vivacious cousin of his hypochondriac wife, and "Summer," in which a young woman of humble origins defies society by engaging in a torrid love affair with a man far above her station.

Presents the classic novel about a young woman, Miss Milner, who falls in love with her guardian, a Catholic priest, and of their daughter, Matilda, by eighteenth-century actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth S. Inchbald, and contains a brief profile of the author, textual notes, and introduction.