Harold is the son of Mrs. Chazen, a wealthy woman who pays him no attention. Suffering from depression and a lack of friends, he stages carefully planned but ridiculous suicide attempts that fail to make any impression on his distracted mother. Fascinated by death and all its trappings, Harold drives around the cemeteries near town in an old hearse. At two funerals in a row, he meets Maude, a 79-year-old woman who survived a concentration camp and is as fascinated by life as Harold is by death. Free-spirited, she is the polar opposite of the solemn and self-important Harold. Nevertheless, they become best friends, and she instills in him a desire to live, to spread his wings, and to enjoy his brief time on Earth. As time goes by, they go on several funny and wild adventures together, and their friendship blossoms into love—much to the dismay of Harold’s mother.

A man and his dying wife, a successful hypnotist, an advertising executive, a gang of three robbers, and a hitman. The lives of these very different people turn out to be connected in the most incredible way.

CIA officer Claire Stanwick and MI6 agent Ray Koval left the world of government intelligence to profit from the Cold War raging between two rival multinational corporations. Their mission? To keep secret the formula that will ensure the prosperity of the first company to patent it. For their employers—industrial giant Howard Tully and shady businessman Dick Garzik—no method is off-limits in the pursuit of their goals. But as the stakes rise, the puzzles grow more complex and the methods dirtier; for Claire and Ray, the most surprising thing is their growing attraction to one another. And although each of them tries to play a double game, their ambitious schemes crumble because they cannot deceive their own love.

Richard, a young playwright from Chicago, unexpectedly receives an antique watch from an unknown elderly woman along with the message, “Come back to me,” but he doesn’t think much of it. A few years later, he accidentally finds a photograph of actress Alice McKenna taken in 1912 and realizes that she is the very woman from whom he received the watch eight years earlier. Using a theory about time travel through self-hypnosis, Richard meets her face to face...

World War I. In a small Irish coastal village, Rosie Ryan, the daughter of a local innkeeper and the wife of a reserved schoolteacher, begins an affair with a young British officer who has arrived to investigate links between the IRA and German forces.

After graduating from college, Elliot gets a job at the studio of Erica Tracy—an artist who made a name for herself with her scandalous erotic works. Suddenly, his boss proposes an intimate relationship with a BDSM twist. Since his girlfriend is studying hard for her exams and isn’t interested in intimacy, Elliot gladly submits to Erica, with no idea where this might lead.

Hoshi, a shy high school senior, loses her father in a car accident. Suddenly, a delegation of local gangsters led by the dashing and handsome Sakuma, the underboss of the Medaka family, shows up at her doorstep. The senior boss has passed away, and Izumi’s father was his direct relative. Now, only this fragile young woman can save the small clan, which is being squeezed by brazen rivals who have forgotten the yakuza’s code of honor. Upon learning that her father’s death was no accident, Hoshi sets aside her textbooks and proclaims herself the eighth kumite of the Medaka family.

Humberto Humberto, an immigrant from Europe who had recently arrived in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, devised a cunning plan amid a whirlwind of emotions. He intends to marry Charlotte Hayes. That way, he’ll always be able to be close to his beloved—Charlotte’s charming daughter!

New York City, the one night of the year when sex is allowed. Owen, who has recently gone through a breakup, and Ellie, who dreams of true love, run into each other, and they immediately take a liking to one another. However, the path to getting closer proves to be difficult, and they are kept apart by chance encounters and misunderstandings.

Catherine Miles traveled to the Amazon to visit her parents on her eighteenth birthday. During a boat trip, her parents were killed, and she herself fell into the hands of warriors from a native tribe...