She made a list of what she wanted in a husband. Might be time to check it…twice.Junie Harper is no stranger to the rumor that Santa’s radio brings couples together. She’s heard stories of the radio’s matchmaking magic her whole life. As a child, Junie created a list of everything she wanted in a husband, just to make sure Santa paired her with the right person.But Santa never got the list. It was still in her stocking Christmas morning. And though the radi...

Rumor has it, the radio once belonged to Santa Claus…And once it starts playing, those who hear the magical melodies fall in love.Holed up in her room at Harper’s Inn, Grace Eastland is bound and determined to write the next great American novel. But the jolly strains of Jingle Bells drift through her door and soon she finds herself on a last-minute, snowy excursion with the inn’s surly sleigh driver.She doesn’t know much about driving sleighs, but...

A heart divided and a decision that could be the most difficult of her life.Betrayed by her ex and determined to follow her dreams of traveling, Natalie has sworn off relationships. But when her car gets stuck at Havenwood Farm, Colton Holden comes to her rescue—something she so doesn’t need.Except Colton is a far cry from what she expected. In fact, he makes her question everything.As they spend more time together, Natalie and Colton forge an unexp...

Their bargain could destroy the family rift he's trying to repair.To keep her boutique store from closing its doors, Allie needs a leg-up...Her grandparents bequeathed her cousin, Belle, their collection of valuable, antique Christmas ornaments. These vintage ornaments would fetch a high price. But convincing Belle to hand them over isn't likely. What she needs is an "in," especially since Belle is about to get married the day after Christmas.Dating...

The authors of Making Sense of Science and Religion believe that addressing interactions between science and religion is part of all science educators’ collective job—and that this is the book that will help you facilitate discussion when the topic of religion comes up. Designed for teachers at all grade levels, the book will help you anticipate and respond to students’ questions—and help students reconcile their religious beliefs even as you delve into topics such as evolution, geochronol...

Country music’s golden boy. His small-town ex. A competition neither of them saw coming.When Cambry returns home, she never expects to become the nanny for her ex-boyfriend’s brother—especially when that ex is Kyler Holden, now a famous country star with a stunning city-girl girlfriend at his side. She tells herself she’s moved on. So has he. Everything will be fine.But when a documentary crew arrives to film Kyler’...

With this snowman, I thee wed.Lacie is organized and outlines everything in her life to the minute. One thing she doesn’t plan on? Her fiancé breaking up with her the morning they’re going to leave for a Christmas getaway at Harper’s Inn.Devastated, not wanting to vacay alone, Lacie begs her best-friend-since-birth, Jared Kingston, to take her ex’s place and come with her.Magic has been rumored to exist at the inn. The best friends play it off until...

WINNER OF THE ANNE B. AND JAMES B. MCMILLAN PRIZEA powerful collection of firsthand stories from the Tuskegee Institute High School Class of 1964—students who came of age in the crucible of the Civil Rights Movement. Their stories uncover the bold choices of their ancestors who chose to stay and help shape the South.Children of the Struggle and the Ancestors Who Stayed, edited by Sonjia Parker Redmond and Beatrice J. Adams...

An injured cowboy, a single-mom, and a connection they’re not sure they can trust.Living at her best friend’s farmhouse, Bex struggles to navigate life after divorce and be the mom her three small children need. When a wounded cowboy also takes refuge at the farmhouse, he throws Bex’s life into a complete tailspin.Dawson is charming, flirtatious, and completely unpredictable. Just what Bex doesn’t need right now. She needs stability, someone she can rely on...

"Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger American picture." —New York TimesDebutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of America’s Black upper class and the focus of the first book written abo...

This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever compiled of African American life under segregation.

At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of antebellum plantations, from the reign of lynch law in the Jim Crow South...