TEENS

The story of a Russian physician and poet after the Bolshevik revolution. Yurii Zhivago, an individualist and something of an outsider, is separated from his wife by the political upheaval. He falls in love with Lara, the wife of another man. Pasternak's portrait of Russian life includes an epilogue expressing hope for liberation and freedom in the future. Nobel Prize 1958.

This charming, imaginative, and just plain fun novel of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico includes unique recipes at the beginning of each chapter for a variety of traditional dishes. As the youngest daughter in a matriarchial turn-of-the century Mexican family, Tia relinquishes love in order to serve her mother and finds her passion is an ingredient in the food she prepares.

Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to 1743 Scotland, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution. She also finds herself haunted by her growing feelings for a young soldier, James Fraser.

As a little girl, Jane had no one. Her mother, the powerful head of a Broadway theater company, had no time for her. Jane did have one friend--a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael--but only she could see him. Years later, Jane is in her thirties and as alone as ever. Then she meets Michael again--as handsome, smart, and perfect as she remembers him to be. But not even Michael knows the reason they've really been reunited.

In a novel about love and forgiveness, a man and a woman sustain a lifelong passionate relationship even though they have been together only three times.