In 1791 after her family's journey from Pennsylvania, ten-year-old Lizzie suffers from the disease of asthma in her new home in the Southwest Territory (present-day Tennessee).

When thirteen-year-old Ann Fay Honeycutt's father goes off to fight Hitler, he hands her a pair of blue overalls to become "man of the house." Her feelings are mixed: "Wearing britches so I could take the place of my daddy wasn't the same as wearing them so I could climb trees." Ann Fay fights her resentment at losing the life she'd known just as she fights to keep the weeds and the blue wisteria from overtaking the family vegetable garden. But when...

In Unpretty-by National Best Book Award finalist Sharon Carter Rogers-a powerful blast rips through a West Virginia art gallery. Although Hummingbird Collins can identify the bomber, she's frightened into silence by chilling messages from a deranged cult member calling himself Number 26. But when she goes missing, an unlikely young man may be the only one who can help her. "A gripping, fascinating tale . that keeps you guessing."-Nancy Moser, author...

The compelling fiction of best-selling author Jane Roberts Wood, recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters Award, has prompted the Dallas Morning News to praise her as "a genuine Texas treasure." 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 this report ranges from giddy excitement to vile loathing, another...

National best-selling author D.B. Henson's Deed to Death is a riveting tale of one young woman who loses everything in a heartbeat. Toni Matthews suffers cruelly when her fiancé Scott falls to his death at a construction site just days before their wedding. Living alone in their custom-built home, Toni is shocked when police rule Scott's death a suicide. Toni knows Scott would never have given up on life, and she's determined to somehow prove her...

Ask not what your cat can do for you—ask what you can do for your cat.
Tired of politics as usual? Despair not: Rita Mae Brown’s intrepid feline co-author, Sneaky Pie, is taking time off from her busy schedule writing bestselling mysteries to run for President of the United States. It’s never too late to start! With help from her friends—the irascible gray cat Pewter, the wise Corgi Tee Tucker, and Tally, the exuberant...

In this Junior Library Guild selection, Little Rose must brush her teeth, wash her face, and climb into bed while Mama takes a quick phone call. But as the call drags on, waves of uninvited guests pass through the front door. Soon the house overflows with bizarre visitors-from "muscley" men to winking wizards. As Mama continues to ignore the raucous revelry, Rose finally joins the party. But before the uproar gets out of hand, something quite surprising...

Spanning the 1930s to the present day, James Driggers' evocative Southern Gothic collection introduces the intriguing inhabitants of Morris, South Carolina--a small town where a mix of rich, poor, and in-between co-exist, grappling with desire, ambition, hope, and loneliness... Amid a landscaped dotted with farms, trailers, and genteel homes, there lives a talented baker who desperately needs to win a cooking contest but must team up with a down-on-her-heels...

The father/daughter writing team of Gilbert and Lynn Morris returns to the compelling characters and intriguing situations of their earlier best-sellers, The Stars for a Light and Shadow of the Mountains. This thrilling adventure takes listeners into the most compelling frontier: the human heart. By 1866, Dr. Cheney Duvall has had her fill of places where people distrust her skills simply because she is a woman. So she and her assistant, Shiloh Irons,...

Popular inspirational novelists Lynn Morris and Gilbert Morris pen absorbing plots rich with adventure and historical detail. In this exciting tale, they portray one woman's search for independence and self-expression amid the rigid social expectations of 1865 New York City. Twenty-four-year-old Cheney Duvall believes she will be taken seriously once she finishes medical school. Months later, however, she still is without a position; no one wants...