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Twenty-seven-year-old Joanna Kurtz has made several trips to the altar, but never as a bride. The single young Amish woman is a closet writer with a longing to be published something practically unheard of in her Lancaster County community. Yet Joanna's stories aren't her only secret. She also has a beau who is courting her from afar, unbeknownst even to her sister, Cora, who, though younger, seems to have suitors to spare. Eben Troyer is a responsible...

During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

This is a coming-of-age story set in the mid-sixties, in America's heartland. The story spans three years in the lives of four teenagers connected to a small Nebraska town.

A sequel to "Season of Yellow Leaf", concerns a band of proud Comanches who surrender at Ft. Sill in 1875 and successfully learn to adjust to the changing world of the white man.

When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies.

Hamilton High Principal Wendell Quinn is tired of the violence, drug abuse, teen pregnancies, and low expectations at his Indianapolis school. A single father of four, Quinn is a Christian and a family man. He wants to see change in his community, so he starts a voluntary after-school Bible Study and prayer program. He knows he is risking his job by leading the program, but the high turnout at every meeting encourages him. A year later, violence and...

The strange land of Washington, D.C., is teeming with aliens, politicians, and other bizarre life-forms. Beltway insider and stuffy talk-show host John Oliver Banion finds his priviledged life turned topsy-turvy when he is abducted by aliens from his exclusive country-club golf course.

During the Depression era of the 1930s, Maggie grows up in logging camps and small towns of Oregon while living in the midst of a troubled family with an abusive father. Includes a reader's guide.

Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.

Bird learns that friends and family are the way to win in life, even if they don't come with a trophy!