On the eve of the Great Depression, Verna Krone, the child of Irish immigrants, must leave the eighth grade and begin working as a maid to help support her family. Her employer takes inappropriate liberties, and as Verna matures, it seems as if each man she meets is worse than the last. Through sheer force of will and a few chance encounters, she manages to teach herself to read and becomes a nurse. But Verna’s new life falls to pieces when she is arrested for assisting a ...

The Green Pear is the second book in The Harrisburg Trilogy, following The Blue Orchard.From the mid-century glamour of New York to a quiet village on the Italian Riviera, this beautifully written literary novel follows a man who searches for the truth of his own identity in a world of beautiful, broken things.In the late 1950s, Peggy Drexler-Leighton is a well-known face in high fashion. But as the decade turns, she finds herself sideline...

Bubby and Ms. Zazzle is the delightful story of two very different pets, a ferret and a cat, and their unusual friendship.

Womens Day! The Redeemer Church was standing-room only. Russell had every intention of sitting in the back pew, listening to the sermon and going home. Mother Jean, a senior usher, escorted him to the Overflow Room where he watched the worship service on a large television screen. She shared the amazing testimonies of six celebrants that evidenced the miraculous workings of God. Enthralled, Russell was drawn into his own transforming encounter with the Holy Spirita divine Rendezvous. Every...

A practical, empowering guide to navigating your partner's diagnosis of a terminal or life-limiting illness, or death.Receiving the news that your partner has a terminal or life-limiting illness, or has died unexpectedly, is among the worst experiences in life. At a time when you are least able to cope, you are faced with a multitude of difficult decisions, some of which must be made quickly. What you need is a friend who has experienced everything you are about to...

Dory wanted to love again, but didnt see it happening any time soon. Besides (she thought), who would want a middle-aged divorcee with deep-rooted trust issues? Then one night, a silent prayer at a local gospel concert turned her world upside down. Can she, by faith, overcome her fears, insecurity, jealousy, anger, temptation, and the haunting secrets of her past in order to allow herself to experience the purity of a sweet encounter with an unlikely suitor?And then theres Markyoun...

She came back for the truth. They should have buried it deeper . . .Ten years ago, Sally was raped. She was young. She was reckless. Now she’s dead.The events from that fateful night fractured a friendship group that had grown up together. And before anything could be proven, tragedy struck, leaving behind a grieving twin.Now she is back for the ten-year college reunion. She’s come to pay honour to her dead sister. And she wants answers. But everyon...

Her dream life is about to become her worst nightmare…Alice has always gone unnoticed—until she meets Aiden Chandler, a magnetic tech billionaire with a tragic past. When Aiden sweeps her off her feet, Alice is sure she’s found her happily-ever-after.After agreeing to marry him, Alice moves into Ethan’s sprawling, high-tech mansion, Evermere. But beneath the glossy exterior lies the shadow of Lydia, Aiden’s beautiful first wife who mysteriously vanished.

Not all havens are safe. And not all threats knock first. . .When Melanie and Jack flee the chaos of their former life in Boston, they believe a move to the windswept isolation of Stormwatch—a lighthouse perched on a jagged Maine headland—might be the fresh start their family needs. A place to heal from a terrifying break–in. A place where no one knows what really happened that night. Samuel, their bright and sensitive son, soon becomes obsessed with a little girl ...

From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Lewis Carroll's beloved classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice's disappearance?In After Alice, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzli...

"Colin Pendragon retains all of Holmes' quirky, brilliant character" in a Victorian mystery that illuminates a noble family's dark heart (San Francisco Book Review).When a carriage bearing the Arnifour family crest—vulture devouring a slaughtered lamb—arrives at the Kensington home of Colin Pendragon, it is an ominous beginning to a perplexing new case. Lady Arnifour's husband has been beaten to death and her niece, Elsbeth, left in a coma. Is the motive p...

Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced...