By Jane Kirkpatrick

“Jane Kirkpatrick has, nearly actually, created her personal style of fiction. Her books enfold…whisper, ‘Let me inform you a few girl who…’ They discover a mystery position in every one people and produce it lightly to the surface.”–Salem Statesman JournalSuzanne felt the tears press at her eyes because the dream-state drifted away–taking with it the sight of the guy she enjoyed. wide awake, she blinked again the tears. This used to be her existence now. The sounds of the ladies and oxen, these have been genuine. And the darkness–her darkness. She lay inside of it, resigned. She was once now not a spouse attaining out for her husband yet a widow, a blind widow, wistful and whole of desire.FACING demanding situations AND LOSS, A neighborhood OF striking girls struggle to beat THE discomfort OF THE prior – AND include the longer term. while blind and widowed Suzanne Cullver reaches California with a gaggle of girls who've survived tragedy at the Oregon path, she units her brain on doing for herself all that has to be performed. notwithstanding she can't see, she rejects bargains of suggestions, unwittingly risking her children’s safeguard – and her personal. Her partners blindly falter besides, held hostage by way of their very own pasts. As Suzanne makes an attempt to manage her lifestyles in Shasta urban, Ruth defends opposed to earlier mistakes, failing to determine how she limits love. in the meantime, Mazy’s imaginative and prescient looks completely clouded by means of her past due husband’s betrayal. but if a tender stagedriver hazards desirous about a Wintu Indian, his existence turns into entangled with the turnaround girls – and jointly they're replaced eternally as they notice that No Eye Can See the entire strong God has in shop if you love Him.

By Sally-Ann Ashton

This fantastically illustrated new biography of Cleopatra attracts on literary, archaeological, and artwork ancient facts to color an intimate and compelling portrait of the main well-known Queen of Egypt.

• Deconstructs just like Cleopatra to discover the complicated old determine in the back of the parable
• Examines Greek, Roman, and Egyptian representations of Cleopatra
• Considers how she was once considered by means of her contemporaries and the way she offered herself
• Incorporates the author’s contemporary box paintings at a temple of Cleopatra in Alexandria
• Beautifully illustrated with over forty images

By Sholem Aleichem

A translation of 2 comedian novels through the Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916). "The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl" portrays a tumultuous marriage via letters exchanged among the name personality, an itinerant bumbler looking his fortune within the towns of Russia ahead of departing on my own for the hot international, and his scolding spouse who turns into more and more frightened, jealous and mystified. "Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son" is the first-person narrative of a mischievous and keenly observant boy who emigrates together with his relations from Russia to the USA. the ultimate 3rd of the tale happens in manhattan, making this Sholem Aleichem's basically significant paintings to be set within the usa. Motl and Menakhem-Mendl are in a single feel opposites - the single a clear-eyed baby and the opposite a pathetically deluded grownup. but either are perfect conveyors of the comedian disparity of notion on which humour relies. If Motl sees greater than do others round him, Menakhem-Mendl has a nearly limitless ability for seeing much less. Sholem Aleichem endows every one personality with anyone comedian voice to inform in his personal approach the tale of the cave in of conventional Jewish existence in sleek commercial society as we

By Tracie Peterson

Newly widowed Lydia discovers that via an unexpected fluke, she is the only recipient of her husband's fortune. yet rather than granting her safeguard, it simply motives strife as her grownup stepchildren conflict to regain the inheritance for themselves. Lydia, longing to place the stories of her painful marriage at the back of her, determines to shuttle to Alaska to affix her aunt.Lydia's arrival in Sitka, although, brings issues she did not anticipate. One is the acquaintance of Kjell Bjorklund, the good-looking proprietor of the sawmill. moment is the invention that she is pregnant together with her useless husband's baby. what's going to this suggest for her budding courting with Kjell? And what lengths will her stepchildren visit reclaim their father's fortune? Lydia quickly unearths her life--and that of her child's--on the road.

By Richard L. Mabry MD

Dr. Anna McIntyre's existence was once going alongside simply positive until eventually another person begun residing it. Her sufferer died as a result of an identification mix-up, her clinical profession is in jeopardy due to solid prescriptions, and her credits is in ruins. She notion issues couldn t worsen, yet that was once sooner than she opened the envelope and observed a favorable HIV try out together with her identify on it. Her allies are males who're additionally competing for her affection. Dr. Nick Valentine is a cynic who includes a load of guilt. lawyer Ross Donovan is a getting better alcoholic. The deeper Anna digs to find who is at the back of the id thefts, the better the stakes. eventually, whilst her lifestyles is at the line, Anna reveals that her choice to transparent her identify could have been a prescription for difficulty.

By Jody Hedlund

In 1650s England, a tender Puritan maiden is on a challenge to save lots of the infant of her newly widowed preacher--whether her help is sought after or no longer. constantly able to aid these in desire, Elizabeth ignores John's protests of her relief. She's even keen to danger her lone marriage prospect to aid the little family.Yet Elizabeth's new position as nanny takes a deadly flip while John's boldness from the pulpit makes him a objective of political and spiritual leaders. because the preacher's enemies turn into desirous to silence him, they draw Elizabeth right into a lethal net of deception. discovering herself in additional possibility than she ever bargained for, she's extra made up our minds than ever to save lots of the child--and man--she's come to like.

By Judith Miller

Their neighborhood has been ripped aside via the corporate strike. . . . Can something carry their love together?When Pullman automobile Works staff stroll out in protest in their wages and excessive lease, Olivia Mott is torn among her loyalty to the corporate and her love for Fred DeVault. Amidst the turmoil in Pullman, Fred is requested to behave as a neighborhood delegate to the nationwide conference of the yankee Railway Union, but if the delegates vote for a boycott of the well-known Pullman snoozing automobiles, Olivia wonders if Fred will ever be ready to exhibit his face back within the corporation city. what's going to turn into in their becoming affection for every other?Traveling to England to reunite along with her mom and dad, girl Charlotte Spencer is confronted with tragedy. Armed together with her fledgling religion, Charlotte comes to a decision to come to Chicago along with her son to restart her existence. but if Matthew Clayborn, a reporter for the Chicago bring in, desires to spend time together with her, she concerns approximately his motivations. Is he attracted to her or basically the data she will be able to offer?

By Missy Tippens

In Magnolia, Georgia, neighborhood legend says couple who holds fingers round the "forever" tree can have an never-ending love. in spite of this, invoice Wellington held Lindsay Jones's arms round that tree years ago...and then left her in the back of. He selected the large urban, and now he desires to convey his grandmother there. yet to his amazement, he reveals that Granny has a boyfriend--and a colourful existence. A existence that incorporates Lindsay, Granny's caregiver. invoice by no means suggestion he'd are looking to come domestic, but Magnolia essentially has its charms. As does Lindsay, who makes him lengthy for a moment likelihood at without end love.

By Trice Boerens

By Delia Parr

With out potential to help herself, Ellie Kilmer has the same opinion to paintings as a housekeeper for the younger widower who lives on Dillon Island, hopeful she will be able to receive a formal reference. yet Jackson Smith fast realizes that Ellie's presence could remedy his personal problems--both the rearing of his younger boys and the scandal that surrounds his first marriage. whilst a wedding of comfort is obtainable, Ellie is at the beginning humiliated. even though she is previous the age most girls marry, she has extra satisfaction than to conform to his outlandish advice. but what strategies does she have? To marry may suggest a house and balance. So regardless of the rumors circling Jackson and his first spouse, Ellie accepts this not likely proposal...