Book suggestions for Emma

Emma Woodhouse handsome clever and rich with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Haunted by a deadly secret, Sebastian Rockwood, Earl of Melton values emotional restraint in all things. As patriarch of the Clan Stewart's Reckless Rockwoods, Sebastian never yields to the family's reputaiton for impulsiveness. But his prized self-control vanishes when he spontaneously bids on Helen Rivenall in a brothel. Now his heart is in control as he gives way to a reckless temptation.

Elizabeth Bennet's early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by his arrogant pride.

"The joy of liberation from eleven years of marriage is somewhat compromised, Patricia feels, by the arrival of Brian, the lacklustre dog who noses damply into her life as father-substitute for ten-year-old Rachel..."

If Prudence Bates and Jane Cleveland seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at a reunion of old students in Oxford, neither of them is aware of it. Born a decade apart, their pupil and tutor relationship has circumscribed their lives and cemented their friendship.

Beautiful Chiara, in love with the brilliant but aloof Salvatore, asks her worldly English schoolfriend Barney to help her, and becomes entangled in a web of good intentions and massive misunderstandings.