No amount of drama between the Dark and Penhallow families can prepare them for what follows when Aunt Becky bequeaths her prized heirloom jug - the owner to be revealed in one year's time. The intermarriages, and resulting...
Historical fiction
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Author:Montgomery, L.M., Lefebvre, BenjaminSummary: - Author:Peterson, Tracie, Miller, JudithSummary:
Jasmine Wainwright never expected her father to include her in a deal to sell off the plantation. Moving to Massachusetts as a new wife, she must look to God's grace for help to withstand an unloving husband.
- Author:Rowland, AlexandraSummary:
A place in your home. A place at your hearth. Kadou, the shy prince of Arast, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court - the body-father of the queen's new child - in an altercation that results in his...
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after years fighting in the First World War. Unknown to his colleagues he is still suffering from shell shock, and is burdened with the guilt of having had executed a young soldier on...
- Author:Barry, SebastianSummary:
When Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, is violently attacked, she takes matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice that will uncover the dark secrets of her past.
- Author:Haynes, NatalieSummary:
From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it allthis novel...
- Author:Hosseini, KhaledSummary:
After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile...
- Author:Parker, T. JeffersonSummary:
A Thousand Steps is a gripping thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach,...
- Author:Starr, MelSummary:
When some valuable books are stolen from Master John Wyclif, the well-known scholar and Bible translator, he calls upon his friend and former pupil, Hugh de Singleton, to investigate.
- Author:Raybourn, DeannaSummary:
Members of an Egyptian expedition fall victim to an ancient mummy's curse in a thrilling Veronica Speedwell novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. London, 1888. As colorful and unfettered as...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Bestselling Author Tracie Peterson Launches Exciting New Series Set in 1890s Montana Emily Carver wants a home where she can put down roots instead of following her gold-hungry father from one mining camp to another. She also longs for...
- Author:Vasey, PaulSummary:
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book About the Past, and selected as an Honor Book by the Society of School Librarians International. Teddy can't believe how fast his life has changed in just two years. When he was twelve, his father took off,...
- Author:Howe, KatherineSummary:
From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time. In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes...
- Author:Rivers, FrancineSummary:
The holy city of Jerusalem has fallen. By the mercy of God, Hadassah, a young Christian girl survives famine, the deaths of her entire family, and unspeakable atrocities. And in Germania, a heroic young chieftain named Atretes battles...
- Author:Feather, JaneSummary:
Lady Serena Grantley was born to the nobility, but fortune's whim placed her in control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her beauty to lure young men to his gambling tables. Serena even dismissed her first love, the Honorable...
- Author:Fowler, Therese AnneSummary:
This program includes a bonus interview with the author. A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling...
- Author:Polders, Claire, Presley, DanielSummary:
Ever since the Germans became the unwelcome “guests” of Paris in the early days of World War II, Papa and Chantal have gone out in the evenings to fish in the Seine. Tonight Chantal is hoping for a salmon, but instead she spies...
- Author:Sawyer, Kim VogelSummary:
Clay Selby works as missionary to the Indians of Alaska in 1898, but after meeting Lizzie Dawson, a beautiful girl who has been ostacized from her tribe becuase of her white father, Clay worries that befriending her will ruin his...
- Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:
A lonely woman is torn between the bonds of family and the potential of new love in this moving novel from the author of A Wrinkle in Time. Caught somewhere between love, hate, and indifference, Emily Bowen's marriage is hanging on by a...
- Author:Robbins, David, Compton, RalphSummary:
In West Texas, Lucius Stark is regarded as a no-good killer with nothing to say in his favor. But when Stark goes tender for a woman he's hired to kill, he's shot in the back and left with a burning desire for revenge.
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