Just after her mother's funeral, five-year-old Holly is dropped off by her father at her grandfather's South Carolina dairy farm. It will be 30 years before Holly sees her father again--plenty of time to develop a fondness for drinking...
Fiction
- Auteur:Allison, WillSommaire:
- Auteur:Brand, DionneSommaire:
The story of a young six-year-old boy, Quy, separated from his family as they are fleeing Vietnam to begin a new life in Canada. Twenty years later his mother still lives in hope of finding him. Meanwhile Quy, now a dangerous criminal,...
- Auteur:Peterson, TracieSommaire:
When Jana McGuire returns from a mission trip to Africa only to find her pastor husband has taken all their money and left with his secretary, she is devastated. Left with no worldly possessions, Jana is forced to seek help from her...
- Auteur:Day, ZuriSommaire:
Following a steamy European encounter, Tiffany Matthews is now working as a sous chef at wealthy businessman Dominick Rollins' prestigious L.A. restaurant. Tiffany tries to keep her new boss at arm's length, but soon she surrenders to...
- Auteur:Coolidge, SusanSommaire:
Twelve-year-old Katy always planned to do a great many wonderful things but in the end did something she never planned at all.
- Auteur:Cooney, Caroline B.Sommaire:
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.
- Auteur:Lazurko, AnneSommaire:
For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization Released from Nazi forced labor as World...
- Auteur:Eggers, DaveSommaire:
A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked, and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before...
- Auteur:Norman, Howard A.Sommaire:
Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges--the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard...
- Auteur:Octavia, GraceSommaire:
Rachel Winslow is a successful Atlanta wedding planner still searching for true love. When her longtime best friend Ian breaks the news that he's getting married, Rachel realizes the depth of her feelings for him. Ian complicates...
- Auteur:Ridley, JohnSommaire:
Soledad's second adventure finds her hunting down a vigilante who is murdering metanormals indiscriminantly. She has no love for the mutants, but no one is above the law. So with her modified sidearm at her hip, she hits the pavement,...
- Auteur:Machado, Ana MariaSommaire:
A child decides to invite a few friends for a birthday party, encouraging guests to bring food and friends, but the guest list soon gets out of control and becomes the craziest, wildest party ever.
- Auteur:Rankin, IanSommaire:
The world is erupting in turmoil--tragedy, isolationism, and loss. Something strange is going on. The most advanced satellite in Europe loses signal, but there is much more at stake than anyone realize.
- Auteur:Pate, Alexs D.Sommaire:
Edward and his family have escaped the heat and violence of inner-city Philadelphia every summer for the last 5 years. Staying at his Aunt Edna's house in West Rehoboth -- the black side of town -- Edward has the whole summer to have...
- Auteur:Johnson, T. GeronimoSommaire:
Born and raised in the tiny town of Braggsville, Georgia, D'aron Davenport finds himself in unfamiliar territory his freshman year at UC Berkeley. A disastrous party brings him three idiosyncratic best friends who descend on Braggsville...
- Auteur:Kemelman, HarrySommaire:
A member of Rabbi Small's congregation dies a mysterious death during a hurricane. When the suspect turns out to be a troubled but likable young man, Rabbi Small comes to his aid.
- Auteur:Moore, Stephanie PerrySommaire:
Even the best Christians sometimes wear their halos tilted--especially when dealing with troubled marriages. For Shari and Dillon, fissures have appeared in the bedrock of their union. So when Shari jumps on the chance to get away when...
- Auteur:Jensen, CarstenSommaire:
In 1848, Danish sailors set sail to fight Germans. Not all return, and those who do will never be the same, including daredevil Laurids Madsen, who escapes again to the seas. Here also is the story of a Danish town, whose inhabitants...
- Auteur:Clark, Mary HigginsSommaire:
This is a novel of suspense about two friends, Molly and Fran, who are caught up in the aftermath of a vicious crime. Molly was convicted of murder. Years later, when she is released from prison, she involves Fran in a plan to clear...
- Auteur:Han, JennySommaire:
The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her....