A cynical teenager discovers that angels appear in the most unexpected places when sixteen-year-old Leah is hospitalized during the holiday season and meets a large, warm, and loving Amish family...
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Author: McDaniel, LurleneSummary:Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Smith, LeeSummary:This collection of nine stories, ranging from poignant ballads to delightfully inventive forms, will make you chuckle and leave you with a satisfying sense that no matter how unruly or warped life...
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Smith, LeeSummary:
Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals,...
Genre: Epistolary fiction -
Author: Maron, MargaretSummary:
Amy Steadman is the young heiress of a prosperous children's book publishing franchise in New York. After her grandmother is murdered, apparently in a botched robbery, Amy goes to North Carolina...
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Author: Windsor, LindaSummary:
After recieving funds to excavate an 18th-century sunken ship, Jeanne Madison sets off with a number of her graduate students to find the wreck of the Luna Azul. Compelled to hire rough-and-tumble...
Genre: Religious fiction -
Author: Phillips, Jayne AnneSummary:
Teenaged Lark is filled with boundless compassion and tenderness for her younger brother Termite, who cannot walk or talk. Nine years earlier and half a world away, Termite's father faced the...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Wood, Jane RobertsSummary:
In 1946 a young couple is brutally murdered in the East Texas town of Cold Springs. Now--34 years later--rumor has it that the sole suspect in these murders has returned. While the response to...
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Author: McDonald, MeganSummary:When a puppy who is being trained as a police dog goes missing, third-grader Judy forms a detective agency to solve the mystery, imitating her literary heroine, Nancy Drew.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: McDonald, MeganSummary:When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Rivers, FrancineSummary:
Set in the 1850s Smoky Mountains, Rivers tells the gripping tale of a girl who's desperate to remove the guilt of her sister's death and anxious to absolve her departed grandmother of sins. While...
Genre: Bildungsromans, Historical fiction -
Author: Valent, Jennifer ErinSummary:
Although Jessilyn and Gemma's friendship has weathered the storms of heartache and prejudice, the turbulent summer of 1936 threatens to shatter the ties that bind. After the hit-and-run death of a...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Valent, Jennifer ErinSummary:
When Jessilyn's parents begin raising her best friend as their own daughter, this kindness toward a dark-skinned orphan triggers threats and violence. While teetering on the brink of womanhood,...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Valent, Jennifer ErinSummary:
In the summer of 1938, the dreams of 19-year-old Jessilyn Lassiter begin to come true when her long-time crush falls for her. But their budding romance is interrupted when a young black doctor...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Peterson, Tracie, Miller, JudithSummary:
When a fiery young woman named Audrey Cunningham moves with her father to Bridal Veil Island, it seems like the perfect place for her dad to be near God and remain sober. But big-wig investors...
Genre: Romance fiction, Religious fiction -
Author: Peterson, Tracie, Miller, JudithSummary:
Lady's maid Melinda Colson is forced to leave Bridal Veil Island before her beau, Evan, has had a chance to propose. Back at her employers' home, Melinda finds solace only in Evan's letters. But...
Genre: Romance fiction