An intriguing tale of faith, love, and death that spans the generations. When fourteen year old, Amelia Morelli, loses her beloved father in the 9/11 terrorist attack, her near perfect world comes to a stand still.In an attempt to rescue the melancholic Amelia, her Granny Lou, orchestrates a search for the girl's ancestral namesake. The family sleuths travel from their Connecticut home, to the tidewater area of Virginia. With dogged determination, they eventually uncover the truth ...

Health is on a continuum. One day we have it, while the next day it is lost to us. Often, during times of illness or injury, we begin to ask the hard questions: Why did this event befall me or my loved one? Why did God let this happen? Am I hurting because I have sinned, and will God heal me if I pray?. Always the answers lie not so much in the concrete and visible, but rather in the spiritual and the invisible.The medical health care delivery system can do much to relieve our pain...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FIRST NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL“Riveting.”—PEOPLE“A terrific debut . . . elevated by sharp writing and sharper insights.”—STEPHEN KING“Keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.”—CHICAGO TRIBUNEFresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: sh...

I Never Tell Other People's Secrets…Amelia O'Donohue was stunning. We all knew we were in the presence of tremendous beauty, humbled by her eyes and by her expensive designer clothes. We all deferred to her, waiting for her to initiate conversation, and hanging on every word she said.So when Amelia asked for my help, What was I to do? Did I have a choice? It's not like I could tell everyone that she sneaks off in the middle of the night in her pink...

Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America. In this novel, Oates returns to the Buffalo, New York, region to brilliantly explore the dangerous intersections of romance and eroticism, guilt and obsession, desire and murder. Little Bird of Heaven, a soaring work by the New York Times bestselling author and a nominee for the 2009 Man Booker Prize—one of the world’s most prestigious lit...

Beware of falling in love with the boy across the street.Disappearing from their dangerous life in Chicago, Ginny and her mother went from riches to rags by way of a new life in the sleepy, rural suburbs of New York. Under the illusion of safety, Ginny blossomed into a beautiful young woman with hopes and dreams for a future her mother was determined she would have.Lucas Young, her best friend’s oldest brother, was the dashing hero in all of her dreams. The man she ...

For a man called Chris Kringle, Christmas is the most magical time of the year. But this year, there's something about a certain elf that's grabbed his attention in the best of ways.Leah Ward didn't start the day intending to be an elf in Santa's Village, but to help her sister she'd do anything, including an impersonation and squeezing into a too–tight elf suit. But Leah didn't count on the boss discovering her deception – or that he'd be enchanted by it. She certainly di...

In the Fictional town of Beauville, anything is possible.Annabelle Macon left home to become somebody. When fired from her job in New York, she’s anxious to come home. Home is where the heart is, and her heart has always been set on Jackson Storme. But when an opportunity presents Anna with an exciting new job back in New York, she doesn't know what to do.Sheriff Jackson Storme is happy being deemed a player. He hasn't found the one woman to call his own, a...

Award-winning author M. E. Kerr challenges stereotypes in this story about a fifteen-year-old grappling with his older sister's sexualityParr Burrman lives with his parents and his older brother and sister on a farm in Missouri. They're a typical Midwestern family—except for one thing.Parr's father thinks Evie's going to marry Cord Whittle, who's had a crush on her forever, and settle down in their hometown to help out with the farm. Instead, she falls in lov...

All Amy Johnson wanted was to get on with renovating the old farmhouse she had just bought. Then, Jackson Riker's back hoe driver dug-up a corpse in her back paddock, stopping her work and bringing cops and forensic teams to crawl all over her land. The cops warned of danger and suggested she move out, but Amy stubbornly resisted. That left Jackson only one choice--he moved in to protect the woman who, unknowingly, had captured his heart on the day she hired him.Jackson was recently...

Want to know a secret? There is something very, very strange living in the trees behind my house. If you tiptoe slowwwwly and quietly (ssh!) to the bottom of my garden, you might hear it rustling and rootling and 'peh!'ing in the dark undergrowth, on the other side of the low stone wall. And if you peek over the wall - holding your breath - there's a chance youcould spot two saucer-round eyes blinking out of a strangely squareopening in the tree roots . . .Ruby and Jackson...

Jackson is cold and starving in the dreadful winter weather. He's looking forward to the steaming pie that is payment for a long night's work. When the huge black dog comes - growling and glaring - Jackson gives it half his meal. One bargain soon leads to another - and to some unexpected rewards . . .With an engaging (and very creepy) story, illustrated in colour and black and white on every double page spread, this story is ideal for newly confident readers.