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Beneath the quiet surface of life in Old Kane, Illinois, love, cruelty, murder and friendship drive the destinies of Worthy and Willa Giberson and their boy Cappy in this novel spanning 1925 to 1950.
A soldier's story, one particularly timely amid the news of abuse in Iraq. It is the beautifully and poignantly told story of Gabriel Cuttman, an aging Korean War veteran, a good man who has done bad things and is struggling by a terrible secret.
Written in a tone of suppressed eroticism and infused with surprising revelations of false identities, Find Courtney is a psychological thriller that keeps the reader guessing up to its startling climax.
This novel is set against the backdrop of Iran's turbulent modern history, is a saga of an indentured servant's devotion and love for his masters during the years 1928 to 1981.
A tender story of mother-daughter relationships over three generations unfolds amid secrets and revelations.
A tavern mistress in 1777 unravels a puzzle that involves stolen diplomatic letters, spies and avaricious traitors, while trying to find the killer of an overnight guest.
A newcomer to New York searches for a boy he believes has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a box. When he tries to enlist help he's treated with indifference or disbelief.
This is the story of the emotional awakening of a perceptive and precocious 14-year-old English girl, Tatum, while on vacation with her family in Tanzania.
A woman farmer observes with a poetic and appreciative eye the transformation of the plant and animal life on her land through the changing seasons, and now through the encroachment of residential development.
This book is the story of the struggle for reconciliation by three men who return to their changed hometown along very different paths-Cappy Giberson from journalism school, Drayton Hunt, his biological father, from prison, and Tick Giberson from a traveling evangelist's life.
When a land developer is found floating face down in a water hazard on the golf course of an exclusive Long Island country club, local homicide detective Karl Kanopka is called in to investigate.
Tarlton writes of the adventures, discoveries and triumphs of a contemporary woman struggling to balance work and home responsibilities.
This novel is an amusing, ironic tale of a contemporary Arab village elder, the family and political turmoil that engulf him, and his nightly discussions with an angel who helps him understand how our modern, fractious world got this way.
This book examines the impact of immigration on U.S. society-on schools, social services, jobs, taxpayers. This book offers alternatives to present policies.
Set in Renaissance Italy, this classic of American popular fiction is the story of Andrea Orsini, a peasant boy who rises to perform delicate political, military, and romantic missions for Cesare Borgia.
Navy intelligence officer Neal Olen finds himself a pawn of both the author,a woman with whom he had an affair and who hopes to promote her book and the Navy eager to demonstrate zero tolerance of sex scandals.
A love story about a young woman in a displaced-persons camp and a fellow survivor smuggling guns and DPs to Palestine.
In this moving first novel, a Korean-American family faces not only intergenerational cultural conflicts between immigrant parents and their Americanized daughters, but also the results of a terrible prophecy, made by a fortune-teller 20 years earlier to Chinhominey, the long-estranged grandmother.
A witty tale of marriage and midlife longing, as a taked-for-granted-wife pursues a fantasy love via e-mail.
A conservative Republican examines how and why America is losing the war against illegal drugs-and presents a case for carefully controlled legalization.
A story of love and loss, and the evolution of farm life as the 20th century unfolded, narrated by a feisty farm woman as she reflects on her life.
A former headmaster of the prestigious Lawrenceville School, near Princeton, New Jersey, tells with an insider's authenticity the poignant story of the fierce competition for admission to select colleges-and the havoc the resulting stresses can wreak on one teenager and her ambitious family.
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