 | 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...
 |  | The House
Release Date: January 30, 2007The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel s 66th bestselling novel, the story of a young woman s dream, an old man s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door....Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook no detail, from the endless marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, with the once-grand house now in disrepair...
|  | Thy Gold to Refine (Work and the Glory, Volume 4)
Publication Date: October 1993| Series: Work and the Glory Author - Gerald N. Lund-Bookcraft-1993.First Printing-Signed by Author.Text - Clean and Tight.Dust Jacket - Very Good +.Only marks in book are the previous owners names. ...
|  | 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 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Hermanos de sangre / Blood Brothers (Trilog
Publication Date: September 15, 2010| Series: Trilogia Signo Del Siete / Sign of Seven Trilogy (Book 1) En la víspera de su décimo cumpleaños, los tres chicos quedan para acampar en el bosque que rodea Hawkins Hollow. Su destino es la Piedra Pagana, donde hacen un ritual de hermanos de sangre en el que cimentarán su amistad eterna. Cuando sus tres gotas de sangre se unen sobre la Piedra Pagana, un poderoso demonio que había estado escondido durante siglos reaparece. La ciudad se ve envuelta en siete días de caos después de este ritual, pero tras los disturb...
|  | 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...
|  | The Flamingo Rising (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: June 23, 1998| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle In this touching, hilarious novel of the heart and mind, of dreams and memory, of desire and first love, Abe Lee comes of age in the 1960s, living with his unforgettable family at the Flamingo Drive-In Theatre on a scrubby patch of coast between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida. There, some of America's last sweet moments of innocence are unfolding.For Abe's father, Hubert, there's nothing better than presenting larger-than-life Hollywood fantasies on his vast silver screen. Nothing, that is, except gleefully sparring wit...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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...
|  | A Young Wife: A Novel
Release Date: June 19, 2012An epic tale of a mother’s sacrifice, determination, and love spanning three continents When fifteen-year-old Minke van Aisma travels to Amsterdam to care for the dying wife of an older, wealthy man named Sander DeVries, she has no idea what awaits her. Within hours of his wife’s death, Sander proposes marriage, and within days the couple sets sail for the burgeoning oil fields of Argentina. But the future that seemed so bright takes a dark turn the morning their son, Zef, is kidnapped. Dire circumstances dictate that Sander immigrate to New York at onc...
|  | 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...
|  | Consequences
Release Date: May 31, 2007Destinies can change in an instant. In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a penniless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - and Lorna's dreams - away ...Lorna's decisions and their unforeseeable consequences come to shape the stories first of her daughter, Molly, and then her granddaughter, Ruth. Consequences tells of three generations of women in their own twentieth-century times united by ...
|  | 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...
|  | The Forever Street: A Novel
Publication Date: May 24, 2005Berek, a young penniless Jew of eighteen is struggling to make a home of Turk Place, a desolate street that, in 1873 Vienna, was little more than a Gypsy encampment. But Berek believes fiercely in his own power to forge miracles. Taking the caretaker's daughter as his bride, Berek is confident he can thrive on faith. When a mysterious piece of stone comes into his possession, he and his wife believe their prayers have been answered; the stone may be a holy fragment of Jerusalem's Wailing Wall.This relic, no larger than a brick, proves to transfigure the couple...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | The Making of a Marchioness
Publication Date: July 7, 2010An unabridged edition of The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Burnett, with drawings by C. D. Williams ...
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