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Ever since the Bommarito sisters were little girls, their mother, River, has written them a letter on pink paper when she has something especially important to impart. This time, the message is urgent-River requires open-heart surgery, and Isabelle and her sisters are needed at home to run the family bakery and care for their brother and ailing grandmother.
Isabelle has worked hard to leave Trillium River, Oregon, behind as she travels the globe...
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From acclaimed author Cathy Lamb comes a warm and thoughtful novel about the secrets that can break or unite a family-and the voices that resonate throughout our lives...
Toni Kozlovsky can't explain how she knows exactly what her sisters are feeling-only that the connection seems to happen out of the blue, just when they need it most. Since Toni, Valerie, and Ellie were little girls growing up in Communist Russia, their parents have insisted it's...
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From the acclaimed author of Four Hundred and Forty Steps to the Sea and Under a Sardinian Sky comes a lyrical new novel set against a stunning Italian backdrop.
Famed for its natural beauty and rich history, Sardinia in 1968 is notorious, too, for the bandits who kidnap wealthy landowners for ransom. Eleven-year-old Alba Fresu's brother, and her father, Bruno, are abducted by criminals who mistake Bruno for a rich man. After a grueling journey...
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Hannah Swensen mysteries volume 27
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Spring has sprung in Lake Eden, Minnesota, but Hannah Swensen doesn't have time to stop and smell the roses-not with hot cross buns to make, treats to bake, and a sister to exonerate!
Hannah's up to her ears with Easter orders rushing in at The Cookie Jar, plus a festive meal to prepare for a dinner party at her mother's penthouse. But everything comes crashing to a halt when Hannah receives a panicked call from her sister Andrea-Mayor Richard Bascomb...
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When her 16-year-old daughter reveals that she is pregnant--an announcement that shocks the small community of Yorktide, Maine--Cindy Bauer, as their family is thrown into chaos, bands together with her friends and neighbors to make a baby quilt that reflects all of their hopes and dreams.
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In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven-years-old and already an expert liar. Though Dixie Dupree is learning that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures, even her vivid imagination couldn't concoct the events about to unfold. Only when Dixie desperately needs help and is met with disbelief does she realize how much damage her past lies have done. Donna Everhart's remarkable debut is a story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain...
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"Christmas is approaching and Duff MacCallister expects visitors on his Sky Meadow Ranch this holiday season. His cousin, Falcon, is coming as well as the Twins, Andrew and Rosanna, who are taking a break from their acting tour to come to the Wyoming territory. But before any of his relatives arrive, Duff runs afoul of four outlaw brothers who have come to Chugwater to rob the bank."-- Publisher's description.
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"Alberta can hardly believe it. Her childhood screen idol, 1950s Hollywood starlet Missy Michaels, has signed up for the local Tranquility Players revival of the classic Arsenic and Old Lace. But before Missy memorizes a single line, she's found dead in her dressing room wrapped in lace and clutching a bottle of arsenic. The ultimate drama-queen suicide? Everyone thinks so--except Alberta. A Ferrara woman knows murder when she sees it"-- Publisher....
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Nearly a century ago, Gwen Engel's great-great-grandfather cast a spell with catastrophic side-effects. As a result, the Grand Council of Witches forbade his descendants from practicing witchcraft. The Council even planted anonymous snitches called Watchers in the community to report any errant spellcasting... Yet magic may still be alive and not so well in Zenobia. Gwen and her cousins, Trudy and Milo, receive a letter from Gwen's adopted sister,...
13) The Witch hitch
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Lots of people get pre-wedding jitters, but Bailey Tomlin's are a bit extreme. Paranoia... the sudden ability to communicate with her pet parrot... something odd is definitely happening. And while Bailey searches for the perfect dress, she discovers the unexpected reason why: her birth mother, Esme, is an actual witch, part of a magical clan in the neighboring town of Zenobia, New York. Esme insists that Bailey, too, has witch blood in her veins....
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"Missouri, 1860. Rumors of war between the North and South are spreading across the land. In rural Green County, many of the farmers are already choosing sides. But not John Zachary. His loyalties lie with his family first--and his heart is telling him to go west. Hoping to build a new life in the fertile valleys of Oregon, he convinces his best friend, Emmitt Braxton, to pack up their families and join him on a wagon train across the Oregon Trail....
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