As the Civil War tears the nation apart, a cynical pact known as the Law of Substitution allows the wealthy to purchase the lives of the poor to fight in their stead. In this sprawling, character-driven saga, four disparate lives are drawn into an inescapable vortex that converges in the small town of Blue River, Georgia.• Roscoe Pierce: A ruthless war profiteer in New York City who brokers lives with chilling efficiency until a tragic accident during the city's deadly race riots p...

A heart-rendering epic of triumph on the costly road to freedom, Fateful Journeys sweeps readers away to experience the painful consequences of choices, the depth of unwavering love, and the indomitable spirit to rise above oppression."Who knows what will happen when those journeys end, and we come home again?" asks Camellia York while the dark clouds of the Civil War gather around her South Carolina home. In this second installment of the popular Southern...

Set against the backdrop of the Old South on the eve of the Civil War, Secret Tides is a saga of passion, greed, romance, and faith that you will not soon forget.Trouble is brewing on the plantation. When the overseer's daughter, Camellia York, accidentally causes the death of the plantation's owner—who is also the father of the man she plans to marry, Trenton Tessier—life as she knows it will never be the same. As Trenton begins to pull away from her, Cam...

Newbery Medal–winning author of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg brings “her offhand humor and her perceptive empathy” (Kirkus Reviews) to this illustrated middle grade short story collection of everyday worries.What do you do when your mother makes you invite the most obnoxious kid in your class to your birthday party? Or when you have to wait another thirty-three and a third years to see a shower of stars? Or ...

A New York Times Notable Book. Inspiration for the film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper.The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the Northa Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting ...

Trent came to Idaho seeking solitude. He built a cabin, broke a few wild horses, and quietly put his past behind him. Then King Bill Hale began laying claim to all the land around Cedar Bluff. When Hale’s son kills one of Trent’s neighbors, Trent quickly steps forward to lead the fight. Their property had been legally filed on, but Bill Hale has the men, money, and political power to steal it from them. What Hale doesn’t realize is that Trent also has connections. With evidence that can ru...

Ever so slowly Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmland. With the coming of the railroad, the small town of Blessing begins to prosper, and the Bjorklund family is reaping the promised harvest that had lured them from their beloved home in Norway.But for Ingeborg and Haakan, realizing their dreams will not come without a struggle. After their own fields are harvested, Haakan and the neighboring men take the steam engine and the separator on the r...

Abandoned by his wife, a man tries to protect his family during the Great Depression, in this "powerful" novel by the bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time ( Publishers Weekly).During the Great Depression, rural Vermont suffers along with the rest of the country, and Henry Talcott, with only occasional work as a butcher, is reduced to moving into a tent on the edge of Black Pond with his two children. Their beautiful but unreliable mother h...

Readers rabid for the sweet historical romances of Tracie Peterson and Tamara Alexander will flock to best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer's prairie-set heartwarmer of high society cast-off and the western town that welcomes her.Abigail Brantley grew up in affluence and knows exactly how to behave in high society. But when she is cast from the social registers due to her father's illegal dealings, she finds herself forced into a role she never imagined: tutoring ro...

"Bittner is one of those writers whose talent has grown over the years; that talent truly blossoms." - Publishers WeeklyDevastated by the droughts and plagues that have ravaged her family's homestead on the Nebraska Plains in the 1870s, settler Ingrid Svensson regards wealthy Jude Kingman as her sworn enemy. But Ingrid gradually sees that Jude shares her commitment to seeing justice served, and when personal tragedy strikes at everything she holds most dear, this strong, i...

A Wild West matchmaker loses her own heart in an enthralling historical romance from the bestselling author of Elusive Lovers.A beautiful woman among the overwhelmingly male population of Breckenridge, Colorado, Kat Fitzgerald is swarmed with men and their marriage proposals. But the young widow's fiery, independent spirit makes her impossible to woo. Instead, she becomes a matchmaker for other couples until a man comes along with the charms to capture her ...

From "the best suspense writer going, bar none," a convict transferred from prison to the care of a psychologist becomes an accomplice to murder ( New York Times).Patrick Cosgrove used to think he'd do anything not to be a prisoner of Sandstone State Reformatory. Fifteen years on the inside for a victimless crime, under the care of a warden whose penchant for violence is legendary—surely nothing could be worse.But when an unbelievably Samaritan act b...