April and Rob were friends in high school in Medford, Oregon. They were part of the music and drama gang at Medford High. Following graduation, their group went its several ways. completely losing track of each other. April graduated from the UNiversity of Oregon in Elementary Special Ed., while Rob attended Utah State University in Logan. His dream was to be the Sports writer covering the Utah Jazz for one of the state's biggest newspapers. Rob found the love of ...

Greta and Oliver: Escaping Fortuna is the first in a series of books about the mouse family of Greta and Oliver. Their home in very near the redwood coast of northern California, in the beautiful village of Ferndale. The time is 1932. Times are tough in their burrough beneath the farmer's house. Due to a sortage of living space, they must relocate...a decision which leads them on an extraordinary journey. With their six tiny, young children, they embark into danger and per...

A great read for older teenagers or young adults. This story tells the tale of a well-organized, brilliantly designed crime organization operating in Beverly Hills. Their target? The homes of the very wealthy. The police are baffled and angry. In between the bad guys and the police is a group of unlikely detectives. They are the pampered pooches of the rich families who are being ripped off of everything in their palatial homes. The dogs have a meeting place: Phideaux's Grooming Salon. It'...

They have come to refer to him as "the Artist". Some of them have served with him for many years, while others have come to work with him only recently. These young nurses and members of the US military have been "called" by the aged, short, white-haired gentleman, to labor in behalf of those to him he leads them. With their callings and assignments come a variety of gifts or powers, with which they are betteer able to serve, uplift, give comfort to those who suffer terribly throughout the...

He entered the dining car of the Southern Pacific " Coast Daylight", an attitude of self-importance dripping from his thin moustache. He acted as if he owned the entire train, though he was only a passenger. He had business to transact. He was in possession of a priceless, ornate necklace, which he had removed from a museum in Mexico City. His name was Spaulding...or at least that's what he told most people. He had made arrangements with the train's head chef, Williams, for the safekeeping...

"Greta! Follow me!" Oliver turned and ran. He knew that if they turned to the right, they would be leading the huge, persian cat to their children. To the left, they would be trapped. Either way, the whole family would be killed by the cat, Princess Nightshade. The train was just beginning to pull out of Monterey Station, gaining speed with each passing second. Their only chance of saving their children was to run directly out the wide-open, sliding door of the baggage car that was their h...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this “spectacular” (The Washington Post) novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.“An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—PeopleA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, T...

In this thrilling novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author, a crime lord has declared war on America—and only Detective Michael Bennett knows why.Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic, ruthless strongman, he slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suits. Detective Michael Bennett is the only U.S. official ever to succeed in putting Perrine behind bars. But now Perrine is out—and vows to find and kill Benne...

In this “an electrifying historical thriller that is sure to become a classic” (The Real Book Spy) the long-anticipated origin story of legendary Marine, fan favorite, and father of literary icon Bob Lee takes us to the battlefields of World War II as Earl Swagger embarks on a top secret and deadly mission.July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature—German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allie...

Enjoy this fan-favorite story of blind dates, high school reunions and unexpected romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs.Beautician Twyla McCabe was voted most likely to succeed in her high school graduating class, but a run of bad luck forced her to give up her dreams of college and a career. Now a widow with a six-year-old and essentially Dear Abby with a blow-dryer, she longs to show up at her ten-year school reunion with a date she can s...

National BestsellerDavid J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction, Honorary Mention for 2015The New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters returns with a moving and powerfully dynamic World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who together race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives.Normandy, 1944. To cover the fighting in France, Jane, a repo...

Unexpectedly suspenseful, but written with all the fluency and dark humor of Tom Perrotta's The Wishbones and Joe College, Little Children exposes the adult dramas unfolding amidst the swingsets and slides of an ordinary American playground.Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed ...