Outlander -- Diana Gabaldon

<b><b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER - The first book in Diana Gabaldon's acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. Don't miss the new Outlander novel, <i>Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, </i> available November 23!</b> <p/>This special twentieth-anniversary edition features an original essay, a new map, and more.</b> <p/><b>One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS's <i>The Great American Read</i>!</b> <p/>Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon's work. Her <i>New York Times</i> bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. <p/>Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. <p/>Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire lear