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Joanna Trapp found adventure serving in France as a "Hello Girl" for the Army Signal Corps, but she still mourns her doughboy sweetheart killed in battle. Returning to Hot Springs, Arkansas, she takes a job as a switchboard operator at the Arlington Hotel and quickly discovers that after her experiences overseas, civilian life proves dull. Joanna is surprised by the attention from successful hotel manager Thomas Ballard, whose practical nature starkly...

When Katie Lapp finds the satin infant gown in the dusty leather trunk of her parents' attic, she knows it holds a secret she must discover. Why else would her Amish mother, a plain and simple woman who embraces the Old Order laws, hide the beautiful baby dress in the attic? But nothing could have prepared Katie for the startling news that stumbles out of her anguished parents on the eve of her wedding to Bishop John. Will Katie suddenly find herself...

"The breathtaking, emotional new novel from Clare Mackintosh. A story about impossible choices. A story about the strength and fragility of love"--

They survived extinction—but at what cost? What If…The blood of the Ancients, nearly lost, now flows in the veins of their hybrid descendants, the Sassen and the Akassa. But though they share the same past, their futures are destined to diverge.Alone and unprepared...The mantle of leadership lies heaviest on those unprepared to accept its weight. Burdened with a responsibility she did not want, Pan, daughter of Moc’Tor, searches for the answers...

What if...a long time ago...in order to avoid extinction...The Ancient Sasquatch, created by the hand of the Great Spirit thousands and thousands of years ago. Their very blood tied to the flow of the creative life force, the breath of the Great Spirit, in and out of their realm.Without them, their world of Etera would struggle, falter. Die.What if...The days of the Ancients were numbered after a devastating contagion left them facing eventual extinction....

"England, 1940. Nurse Annie Russell anxiously listens to the terrifying sounds of planes and gunfire overhead, worried about what the morning will bring for the patients in her care. The boys from the local airfield fly up in the skies each night, risking their lives to protect the people of Bramble Heath village, but they can't stop every bombshell. Until a knock at the door makes her jump. Awaiting Annie on the doorstep is a hatbox. Peeking under...

"Raised by guardians in Philadelphia, the Brinkman sisters have suddenly inherited the Five Sisters Ranch in Eden, Colorado, from their late estranged father. To claim it, they must live on it for six months. But as the foreman is opening his heart to Belle, someone is bent on driving them out before they can secure their legacy"--

"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...

As Pelican Island's history-making drought wears on, the water level on Bex and Davey's beloved marsh reveals the hand of a statue that has been underneath the water for who knows how long, and the siblings are determined to find out more.

""There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side. That night, I fantasized about the separate spheres of our lives colliding ..." Introspective and headstrong, and fueled by an intensity she can't name, Margot Louve has lived as her parents' secret. For seventeen years, her father - an influential French politician with presidential ambitions - has led a double life, his only contact with Margot and her mother...