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Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice as they prepare for the encroaching war.

Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of the city's most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society. And her given name, Bezellia, has been passed down for g

From the author of "The Year of Fog" comes this intensely emotional and startlingly provocative family drama, in which a woman's search for her sister's killer spirals into a journey of secrets, revelations, and damaged lives.

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Marcus Sherbrook is an almost perfect gentleman -- reliable, trustworthy and dignified. The one blight on his reputation is the rebellion of Isabel Dunham, who at the age of seventeen, defied his guardianship, eloped and fled to India. Ten years later, the widowed Isabel returns to England. Marcus is enchanted with her, though being the proper gentleman, he would never let her know. But when Isabel is threatened by the schemes of a blackmailer...

When a tornado rips through Montgomery Estate Vineyard, it not only destroys some of Lucie Montgomery's newest grapevines, it also unearths an old grave. When the corpse is identified as a former business associate of Lucie's father, he quickly becomes the prime suspect. To make matters worse, Lucie's vineyard manager, is accused of abusing migrant workers, and a Civil War re-enactor is shot with live ammunition on her property. As Lucie piece...

Nothing ever happens in Eudora and that's the way this small town, surrounded by oil, wheat and cattle, likes it. Eudorans are allergic to innovation. But when a former resident publishes a novel with characters based on a number of townspeople, it prompts a sudden interest in contemporary literature. All of a sudden, there are a whole lot of new ideas in town -- not all of them good. As longstanding allegiances are challenged, rivalries grow,...

From a hidden enclave in the maze of Tehran, an Iranian scientist who calls himself "Dr. Ali" sends an encrypted message to the CIA. It falls to Harry Pappas to decide if it's authentic. Dr. Ali sends more secrets of the Iranian bomb program to the agency, then panics. He's being followed, but he doesn't know who's onto him, and neither does Pappas. The White House is no help at all. To get his agent out, Pappas turns to a secret British spy t...

The summer after Abby Hansen's first year of college -- and several months after doctors find a malignant tumor in her mother Helen's brain -- she and her parents drive to northern New Hampshire to say goodbye to a lifetime of friends. During a single week at a historic resort, the family welcomes a small procession of visitors, and shares with them the heartache of Helen's imminent passing. As the week progresses, the Hansens and their guests...

Once a brilliant local TV reporter, Julie Mueller has been fired for being forty. Broke, divorced, unemployed, and struggling to raise a teenaged daughter alone, she's given up on happiness -- that is until she receives culinary classes for Mother's Day. The dessert classes spark a new burst of creativity for Julie -- and a burning desire for one of her fellow students, Michael Slayton. And Michael's not just any exciting guy -- he just happen...

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It is 1959 when Haruko marries the Crown Prince of Japan. Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman to accept the marriage proposal of her son, with consequences both tragic and dramatic.

On an April evening in 1955, a teenage boy named Dewey Finn died on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, and the mystery of his death still confounds the people of this small town. River of Heaven begins some 50 years later and centers on the story of Dewey's boyhood friend, Sam Brady, whose solitary adult has been formed to a large degree by what happened in the days leading up to that evening on the tracks. It's a story Sam woul...

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This "passionate, lush, and dramatic" (Sandra Gulland) debut novel reveals the story behind the building of the Taj Mahal and the destruction of a royal family.

When single mother Priscilla Lynn Macy learns she's having another child unexpectedly, she packs the family into the car to escape. Eight-year-old Janie and Rainey Dae, her seventeen-year-old sister with special needs, embark on the last family vacation they'll ever take with Poppy and Grandma Mona in the back seat. The trip seems aimless until Janie realizes they are searching for the father who left them years ago. When they can't find him, ...

Someone is targeting people in the witness protection program. Two women have been murdered in Montana, and it's clear that journalist Violet Kramer may be the next target. But feisty Violet is determined to get to the bottom of the case. Undercover cop Clay West thinks Violet is making a deadly mistake that could bring the mob to her door. And when he insists on protecting her himself, Violet realizes that it's possible she's in an entirely d...

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