Jeanette Winterson

Bala Takes The Plunge
by Melvin Durai

Bala dreams of making Tamil films and directing his favourite actor, Rajinikanth -- a dream that leads him, naturally, to study engineering in college. This earns him his dad's approval and the opportunity to export himself to America. As Director of Design at FlexIt Inc., thinking up new ways to help Americans shed the extra weight around their middles and in their wallets, he's at least a director of some sort. Bala loves America, and America, it seems, loves him even more. He has everything he needs to be happy : a green card, a satellite dish to watch cricket, and a companion to share his home albeit one with a very limited vocabulary.

But he is now less than a year away from the big 3-0 -- with the time difference, even closer in India -- and if he doesn't act fast, he might have to settle for whichever bride his Amma chooses. So begins Bala's quest for romance as he meets both American and Indian women, some who are too old, others too young, and yet others just too stuck up. Will he ever find someone just right for him and good enough to inherit his mother's Corelle dishes.

Summer Sisters
by Judy Blume

In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard's world changed forever when Caitlin Somers chose her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomed Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha's Vineyard, a magical, wind-blown island where two friends became summer sisters. . .

Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting married on the Vineyard. And the early magic of their long, complicated friendship has faded. But Caitlin has begged Vix to come to her wedding, to be her maid of honor. And Vix knows that she will go for the friend whose casual betrayals she remembers all too well. Because Vix wants to understand what happened during that last shattering summer. And, after all these years, she needs to know why her best friend-her summer sister-still has the power to break her heart....

The Lost World
by Michael Crichton

It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.

There are rumors that something has survived.