Lakshmi, a bright student who grew up in poverty, marries and immigrates to the United States from India to provide a better life for herself and her family. Clinging to her cultural realities, she fo
It’s 1838, and Europe is obsessed with mechanical contraptions, and the Rajah is the height of entertainment as the ultimate chess-playing machine. Kit has toured with the Rajah since the age of ten a
When religious fanatics kill her father, Noa and her sisters are in danger of being sold into bondage. Noa vows to win inheritance rights to protect her sisters and herself. Pleading her case before e
Cagney wakes up to the smell of breakfast and runs into the kitchen with her tail wagging furiously. It's Lake Day! After a fun day of chasing sticks and splashing in the waves, Cagney wakes up the
Hidden in the forest of Sweden, a country church gleams white, as stark and resilient as the Lutheran faith that sustains it. The First World War rages on the continent. Anna, in the front pew, refuse
As a novice horsewoman, Nancy Pfeiffer took off across Patagonia alone on horseback. Over the next two decades and 3,000 kilometers of rugged horse trail, the hospitable people who live there took her
The characters in the eighteen stories that comprise Restless Dreams, a collection of short stories, share a certain resemblance: tired eyes, a slow trudging step, and the distracted air of someone wi
"Over the meadow and through the woods" was never like this... Sara hates visiting her grandmother’s shack in the bayou during her summer vacation. She hates the swamp, the mold, and t
Not so very long ago, a woman wanted to know why women can't be up on the bimah (alter), holding the torah. She asked the rabbi why this was so. The "learned rabbi" responded, stroking his beard, "A w
In the remote desert town of Lafontaine, Casey Prentice has been trying to survive the endtimes by keeping her head down, refusing to give a damn about anyone except her younger sister Emily and wingm
Temple novice Katia wants nothing more than to become a priest in the Temple of the Triple Gods. She tries hard to do the right thing, but she's running out of ways to convince Elder Sevanya, the King
Helena Dray” Draybeck is a cocky military brat, and Jordan Bowers is the daughter of a high ranking ambassador. Both want to be top pilots when they finish fighter pilot training at a Terran military
Life in a remote fishing village in the middle of a civil war is neither safe nor inspiring. So, when an opportunity comes along for village girl Lynn to be kidnapped and enslaved by a ruthless pirate
Spanning the latter half of the nineteenth century, this coming-of-age novel unfolds in the form of a historian’s notebook. Protagonist and narrator Millie Langlie (daughter of a S’Klallam maiden and
?I was an orphan then, I am an orphan now, and I will always be an orphan.” For years, people have told Shelby Adams Lloyd that she should write about her life growing up in the Oxford Orphanage in Ox
Emma Hansen, a poor farm girl born in 1900, has exceptional scholastic ability and a deep fascination with the natural world. She fights her way through poverty, her family’s indifference, and prejudi
Three women, united by love and kinship, struggle to conform to the social norms of the times in which they lived. In 1931, Katherine Henderson leaves behind her small town in Kansas and the marriage
As Dede Montgomery moves through grief to accept of the death of her father, the stories in My Music Man shed light on change, acceptance, and forgiveness amid close personal relationships and Oregon'
Isobel Reinhardt is a hot mess. The daughter of a wire-walker turned federal fugitive and a high-end sex worker who likes to call herself a feminist, Isobel has failed decisively at everything she&rsq
