Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation.

A recent medical school graduate, Barry Laverty is delighted by the opportunity to join a small rural practice in the beautiful hills of Ballybucklebo, Northern Ireland, until he meets his superior, Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, a cantankerous older physician who has his own way of doing things.

Beautiful Eustacia is torn between two suitors--one who would help her escape her routine life in nineteenth-century rural England, and another who would make their home the Wessex heath where he was raised.

In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel, her husband Leston, and their five children learn to cope with their last-born child, Brenda Kay, born mentally retarded in 1943.

At the age of 60, a Kentucky man decides to find out why half a century earlier his favorite uncle was shot, a crime for which the killer spent only two years in jail. The man was nine years old when the incident occurred and nobody would give him a reason.

After inviting the Los Angeles Times to his impressive wine cellar to write an extensive piece on the treasures of his collection, Hollywood lawyer Danny Roth finds himself the victim of a world-class wine heist. Enter Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur, and expert on cultivated crime. Called in by Roth's insurance company, Sam follows his leads - first to Bordeaux's magnificent vineyards and then to the wine collectors of Provence....

Disappointed to learn that his sweetheart will not be joining him for a first holiday season in a rural Northern Irish community, doctor Barry Laverty keeps himself busy by caring for his patients and struggling to outmaneuver a newly arrived quack physician.