After thirty years behind bars, Bud Fields steps back into the holler he once called home and finds it abandoned, overgrown, and haunted by the ghosts of his past. The roads are the same, but the people aren't. His childhood house is collapsing into the weeds. His father is long gone. And the mother who once fought for him with every breath is now a stranger shaped by grief, loneliness, and time.Bud came home searching for redemption. What he finds instead is a community frayed by ...

When a budding chef flies to Italy to settle her grandmother's estate, she becomes entangled in true love for the first time... and a divisive criminal plot to eradicate her family legacy.More than anything, Anna Blake wants to to earn a Michelin star for her restaurant and put her rural hometown on the culinary map. Unfortunately, her current menu and her anxiety both hold her back. When her grandmother passes away, Anna drops everything to travel to Italy to finalize her...

A dusty store clerk with an American dream. One railroad to span a nation. Ruthless ambition threatens to lead him from royalty into ruin.Collis Huntington, the last living member of the Associates, wants to set the record straight while he still can. He invites his most critical reporter into his home for the interview of the century. The public thinks they know the truth. Changing the minds of millions and rewriting the course of history won't be easy. As his story of the Central...

That's me right there. No, not there. I'm over there at the end of the sentence. You see? That is my whole problem. I'm just that little spec at the end of a line that everyone brushes past. Sure, on occasion I might get decorated if someone is extremely excited, or if they have a question. Beyond that, I'm nothing more than a plain old dot.Well, I'm tired of just being a dot. I want to get out and be something more! It's time that I went out in search of a higher purpose in life. ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “[A] five-star read . . . If you love a family saga, sprinkled with historical fiction elements, and strong female protagonists, you need to read this book.”—theSkimmDiscover a little town in southern Italy that might be just like every town—with women and men, husband and wives, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, all trying to navigate the world while staying true to their hearts.What would ...

In this delightful, moving novel, Peter Pezzelli brings to life the earthy sensuality of Italy's Abruzzo region— the smell of just-baked bread wafting through the village piazza; the shopkeepers sweeping the sidewalks first thing in the morning; groups of cyclists dotting the mountain roads—and spins a story of May-December romance as sharp and delicious as the olives of Villa San Giuseppe. . .SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO TRAVEL FAR TO FIND YOUR WAY HOME....

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, these thirty-one powerful and disturbing stories cement Flannery O'Connor as one of the preeminent fiction writers of the twentieth century. This collection includes twelve stories that did not appear in the two story collections O'Connor put together in her lifetime.This collection includes the following short stories:"The Geranium""The Barber""Wildcat""The Crop""The Turkey""The Train"...

For fans of C.J. Box's Joe Pickett series, a fabulous historical mystery series set in early America.“Deeply imagined and intricately plotted, A Stranger Here Below marries richly textured historical fiction with the urgency of a mystery novel. Fergus knows certain things, deep in the bone: horses, hunting, the folkways of rural places, and he weaves this wisdom into a stirring tale.” – Geraldine Brooks, author of Marc...

A brand new adventure from the world of The 39 Clues!After 500 years, the Cahill family's most dangerous secrets are about to be revealed. Read at your own risk . . . With the British marching on Washington under the command of a Vesper General, it's up to a young Madrigal in 1812 to save a treasure hidden in the White House. However, the enemy will stop at nothing to seize the artifact, even if it means burning the city to the ground.

"[A] compelling and fierce historical novel, where the slave master gives his white daughter his black daughter as a wedding gift," based on a true story (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).In 1852, when prestigious Alabama plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah—her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be, with ambitions of lo...

Anita Hughes's Christmas in Paris is a moving and heartwarming story about love, trust, and self-discovery. Set during the most magical week of the year and with details of the glorious foods and fashions in the most romantic city in the world, it's sure to take your breath away.Isabel Lawson is standing on the balcony of her suite at the Hôtel de Crillon as she gazes at the twinkling lights of the Champs-Élysées and wonders if she’s made a terrible mistak...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartfelt novel of the power of love across three generations of an Italian-American family, from the author of the Big Stone Gap series“[An] epic of small-town life . . . A personal saga of American history and a romance woven together with warmth and good humor.”—The OregonianIn the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in coastal Italy migrated to the promised land of America. They e...