 | April Shadows (Shadows)
Release Date: August 30, 2005| Series: Shadow Series (Book 1) APRIL HAD ALWAYS FELT LIKE AN OUTSIDER.Her older sister Brenda was tall, athletic, competitive, and sure of herself. But April Taylor was short, sensitive, and overweight -- and she couldn't bounce back from their father's cutting criticisms the way Brenda did. April didn't know why their once-loving dad had become a coldhearted monster, but she was sure it had something to do with her. And she could see how his cruel behavior was tearing away at her gentle mother. But a glimmer of happiness returns when Brenda brings home her c...
 |  | Color of the Sea
Release Date: November 6, 2007Raised in Japan and Hawaii, Sam Hamada has been trained in the ways of the samurai. After graduation Sam strikes out for California and falls in love for the first time, with a beautiful young woman named Keiko. But then the Japanese attack Peal Harbor, igniting the war and making Sam, Keiko, and their families enemies of the state. Drafted into the U.S. Army, sent on a secret mission, Sam’s very identity both puts his life at risk and gives him the strength he needs to survive. Taking us from the lush Hawaiian Islands of the 1930s to the wartime world of...
|  | Truth Will Prevail (Work and the Glory)
Publication Date: September 1992| Series: Work and the Glory Truth Will Prevail - the eagerly awaited third volume in the popular series The Work and the Glory - continues the gripping story of the fictional Steed family, a family acquainted with Joseph Smith and caught up in the grand events associated with the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ to the earth. Covering the years 1836 to 1838, this volume finds the Steed involved in both remarkable and turbulent events in Church history. Nathan accompanies Parley P. Pratt on a challenging mission to Upper Canada. Jessica, Joshua's ex-w...
|  | August Folly: a novel
Publication Date: January 1, 2010AUGUST FOLLY chronicles the lives and loves of modern Barsetshire in this comedy of everyday life as it is lived in an English village community. Mrs Palmer with her fondness for staging Greek dramas unwittingly brings about several romances thereby. Chief among them is the affair of Richard Tebben with Mrs Palmer's house guest--the mother of nine children. The end of summer, however. finds Richard himself again. The comedy is held together with word and deed--especially word. ...
|  | Gates of Paradise (Casteel Saga)
Release Date: July 15, 1990| Series: Casteel Saga (Book 4) Stunned by tragedy, desperate and alone, Heaven's daughter clung to the frailest of dreams! The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially for Luke, her half-brother. Friend of her childhood, her fantasy prince, her loving confidante... without the warm glow of Luke's love, she is lost in the shadows of despair. When Annie discovers Troy's cottage hidden in Farthinggale's ...
|  | Broken Flower (Early Spring)
Release Date: September 26, 2006| Series: Early Spring SHE WAS TOO GROWN-UP FOR CHILDISH GAMES. BUT TOO YOUNG TO BECOME A WOMAN. . . . Living with her parents and brother in her Grandmother Emma's enormous mansion, Jordan March tries to be a good girl and follow her grandmother's strict rules. But one day, without warning, Jordan's body begins to change -- and everyone notices her in a way that seems dark, dangerous, and threatening. Suddenly the March family secrets are unleashed, and Jordan is ashamed and afraid that her soft curves are unwelcome indeed. Now Grandmother Emma sets out to ma...
|  | City of God: A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York
Publication Date: September 1, 2009City of God, the latest installment in Beverly Swerling's gripping saga of old New York, takes readers to Manhattan's clamorous streets as the nation struggles to find a compromise between slave and free, but hears the drums of war. This is New York when one synagogue is no longer adequate for thousands of Jewish immigrants, when New Evangelicals rouse complacent Protestants with the promise of born-again salvation, and when it first sees Catholic nuns and calls them whores of Satan. It is New York when ships bring the fabulous wealth of nations to its whar...
|  | When Empires Fall: A Vasser Legacy Novel
Publication Date: August 6, 2012"A modern day epic in the tradition of Gone With The Wind... Infused with deception, lust, murder and romance, Jennings creates a magnificent family saga not to be missed." -J.L. Firestone, author"Exhilarating and fresh... Jennings masterfully weaves an intricate web of deception and lies...When Empires Fall is not as much a story about the rich as it is a story about human character." -Cristian Mihai, author/bloggerDESCRIPTION:Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall...In America, kings are not born, they are made. Men with ambition...
|  | The Unquiet Earth
Release Date: April 2, 1994"A flawless, fearless, great American story. It cuts a wide path through the worst and the best of what we are."BARBARA KINGSOLVERFrom the mining shanty towns of West Virginia comes this moving and passionate saga of a family, a community, and a way of life all but gone. In this coal-smudged place, Dillon, Rachel, and Jackie hopelessly intertwined in love and politics live in the shadow of the dying mines and the doomed union movement. Set against the devastation of the Depression, the fearful pulse of a world at war, the dawning hope of the War on Poverty, and, ul...
|  | Miller's Dance
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|  | Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility
Publication Date: January 15, 2004It's April 1969, and fourteen-year-old Yolanda Sahagún can hardly wait to see her favorite brother, Chuy, newly returned from Vietnam. But when he arrives at the Welcome Home party the family has prepared in his honor it's clear that the war has changed him. The transformation of Chuy is only one of the challenges that Yolanda and the rest of her family face. This powerful coming-of-age novel, winner of the 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest, is a touching and funny account of a summer that is still remembered as a crossroads in American life. Yolanda...
|  | Irish Born
Release Date: July 7, 2009In this stunning trilogy, here in one volume, Nora Roberts captures the enduring passions of the Concannon sisters of Ireland -- three women of ambition and talent, bound by the timeless spirit and restless beauty of their land... Born in Fire... Maggie Concannon is a complex woman and a talented glassmaker. One man, gallery owner Rogan Sweeny, has seen the soul in her art, and vows to help her build a career. When he comes to Maggie's studio, her heart is inflamed by their fierce attraction -- and her scarred past is slowly healed by love... Born in Ice...The icy w...
|  | The Good Husband (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: July 10, 1995| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle "[A] BRILLIANT, WITTY AND PROVOCATIVE NEW NOVEL."--San Francisco ChronicleAs a young woman, the brilliant and eternally curious Magda Danvers took the academic world by storm. Then, to everyone's surprise, she married Francis Lake, a mild, midwestern seminarian, who has devoted his life to taking care of his charismatic wife. Now, Magda's grave illness puts their marriage to its ultimate test. Though facing her "Final Examination," Magda continues to arouse her visitors with compelling thoughts and questions. Into this provocati...
|  | To My Daughter in France
Release Date: April 22, 2008An epic tale of impossible love, of families torn apart and a whole world of hidden secrets—"And to my daughter in France, I bequeath the remainder of my Estate." These words, read from the will of Irish academic Richard Kirwan, come as a complete surprise to his grieving family. Solange de Valnay's perfectly ordered world is shattered when she discovers the identity of her true father for the first time. But the truth of Richard Kirwan's liaison with her mother cannot remain buried, and the Kirwan children and their half-sister must overcome their differenc...
|  | Matters of the Heart: A Novel
Release Date: May 25, 2010In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful and unusual story of one woman’s journey from darkness into light, as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall. . . . Top photographer Hope Dunne has known joy and heartbreak, and finds serenity through the lens of her camera. Content in her SoHo loft, she isn’t looking for a man or excitement. But these things find her when she flies to London to photograph one of the world’s most celebrated writers.Finn O’Neill ...
|  | The Chevalier (Morland Dynasty)
Publication Date: November 1, 1994| Series: Morland Dynasty (Book 7) In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1689, and Annunciata, fiercely loyal to the Stuart cause, follows King James II into exile, leaving her gentle grandson Matt to care for Morland Place. In her absence he contracts an unwise marriage with India Neville, a woman as heartless as she is beautiful, who drives him between the extremes of passionate love and deep despair. When James III—the Chevalier&...
|  | Secrets in the Attic (Secrets)
Release Date: September 25, 2007 From the imagination behind Flowers in the Attic comes a sensational new novel that spins a seductive web between fantasies and lies -- and uncovers the price for keepingSecrets in the Attic Two Friends As Close As Sisters. One Killer Secret That Will Tear Their Small Town Apart.In the dust and shadows of the attic, they shared everything -- fanciful stories, high school crushes, plans for the future, dreams to travel the world. For Karen, the attic is her escape from the reality of her stepfather's unwanted attention. Together in the eaves of a house with ...
|  | Annapolis
Release Date: March 30, 2010From the days of pirate raids on the Chesapeake to swift-boat actions in Vietnam, the Staffords and their traditional rivals, the Parrishes, struggle with foreign enemies and each other to build a navy and a nation. They march across the deserts of Tripoli, sail into the South Seas to battle the British and dally with the native girls, fight aboard the Merrimac and the Monitor, fly into the battle of Midway, and look into the living faces of all four men on Mount Rushmore. When Stafford descendant Susan Browne sets out to film a documentary about her fa...
|  | Mona's compulsion: A family saga
Publication Date: April 6, 2012Here is a tale of compulsion bordering on obsession. Mona doesn’t want to give up any of her possessions. These include her estranged husband Neil and her grown up son Sam. A family saga about a daughter growing up in a family craving for a son........ It is an extraordinary story of romance, a political and social history, a family's struggle with bringing up four daughters set against the backdrop of the most dramatic aftermath of terrorism in India and Pakistan.. a tale of betrayal, murder, deceit and revenge...gives some insight into the complex reli...
|  | Summer in the South: A Novel
Release Date: May 24, 2011Cathy Holton, author of the popular Beach Trip, returns with an intriguing and mysterious tale of dark deeds and family secrets in a small Southern town.After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee, at the invitation of her old college friend Will Fraser and his two great-aunts, Josephine and Fanny Woodburn. Her charming hosts offer Ava a chance to relax at their idyllic ancestral estate, Woodburn Hall, while working on her first novel. But Woodburn is anything but quiet: Ancient feuds lurk just...
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