After inheriting her sixteenth-century childhood home, Julia Beckett is astonished when she is transported back in time and into the body of Mariana, a woman who is struggling against treachery for her love of Richard de Mornay.

Tim Farnsworth walks. He walks out of meetings and out of bed. He walks in sweltering heat and numbing cold. He will walk without stopping until he falls asleep, wherever he is. This curious affliction has baffled medical experts around the globe--and come perilously close to ruining what should be a happy life. Tim has a loving family, a successful law career, and a beautiful suburban home, all of which he maintains spectacularly well until his feet...

When Zebra and his enthusiastic friend Moose are asked to exit a book about shapes, Moose has other plans.

A woman with a magic way of curing children's bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby.

The little boy Charlie Bucket lives in a large and friendly, but very poor family. They cannot afford even the most basic necessities. And Charlie really, really loves chocolate... Not far from their house there is a mysterious chocolate factory. Every morning on the way to school, Charlie feels the sweet smell of chocolate in the air and stops in front of the gate: two hundred types of chocolate, chocolate ice cream that never melts, marshmallows...

Former frontman for the band Narkotika, Cole St. Clair returns to California in hopes of renewing his relationship with Isabel Culpeper.

Mischief-makers Prince Lucas, his best friend Clara, and Ruskin the scarlet dragon learn to respect the hard work of others when they are sent to Flatfrost to fetch more ice from the giants who live there.

Daniel is rude and only learns to be polite when no one wants to play with him.

Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind.

Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever...