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"[In 1905 Des Moines, Iowa], Katherine Arthur's dying mother arrives on her doorstep, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them running for the prairie, into the unknown. Taking her family, including young Katherine, to live off the land was the last thing Jeanie Arthur had wanted, but she would do her best to make a go of it. For Jeanie's husband...

A novel based on the true story of seventeen-year-old Clara Estby's walk across America with her mother Helga in 1896, to win a ten thousand dollar prize and save their home from foreclosure.

Lou Ann Hunter's mother, Patricia, has always had a passionate nature, which explains why she's been married and divorced five times and spooned enough male patients to be ousted from three elderly care facilities. She also has Alzheimer's, which is why she wants to spend her remaining months or years surrounded by memories at her family's decrepit old plantation in Louisiana with her only daughter. As Lou Ann adjusts to this new and inevitably temporary...

"England. 1191. After the death of her friend and patron, King Henry II, Adelia Aguilar is living comfortably in retirement and training her daughter, Allie. Learning the practical knowledge of anatomy, forensics, and sleuthing that catches murderers, Allie is already a skilled healer, with a particular gift for treating animals. Her father, Rowley, Bishop of Saint Albans, and his patron, the formidable Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, have plans to marry...

Twisted Secrets, the second book of the "twisted trilogy," begins with an event that shatters TV newswoman Sydney Lawrence. Returning to her father's horse farm, Sydney seeks sanctuary with her adopted Iranian daughter, Lydia. But Ali Hassan, a notorious arms dealer, locates them in Kentucky and abducts Lydia. Sydney turns to the only man wo can find them, a former member of the IRA, a mysterious man, Kerry Donavan. Together they journey first...

Dumped by her possible boyfriend at a drive-in theater, Katie returns home to find that her mother, a former convict and current addict, wants to take her away from her foster family, friends, and church, and Katie must make important decisions as she considers what family and home really mean.

Mama and Grammy's humorous childhood anecdotes help Caitlin come to terms with her fear of spiders.

Leah Yoder dreams of marrying an Old Order Amish man and raising children in the peaceful Delaware community, but when Daniel Brown a Mennonite missionary arrives to share his story with their church, Leah is fascinated by him. Before long, she has a choice to make.

When Frannie "practices being a fashion designer" at the mother- daughter fashion show, everyone is surprised by the consequences.