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Karlina Richter must get past her feelings of animosity toward a hired shepherd if she is ever going to find out the secrets her father is keeping, while Dovie Cates risks her budding relationship

Set in the 1885 Amana colony of Homestead, Iowa, this tale finds 22-year-old Gretchen Kohler trying to tend her father's general store while watching over her young brother and senile Oma.

Johanna has lived her entire life in Amana and she longs to explore the outside world. Meanwhile, rebellious Berta struggles to adjust to life in their close knit community.

With the Great War fueling anti-German hysteria, agents of President Wilson's Council of National Defense threaten to disfigure Jutta Schmidt, torch her family's bakery, and butcher her p

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

Can love conquer all? Kate and Tom are the original star-crossed lovers. Kate is a beautiful model; Tom a successful football star at the peak of his career.

The riches to rags to riches again story of a film star and her family and their coming to terms with a homosexual son and tragedy.

This is the story of a successful business man faced with the death of his wife from cancer, a custody suit for her child, and the adjustment to his life this causes.

Contemporary novel of two people from different worlds whose lives are changed by 'five days in Paris'.

Charles Waterston's marriage ends abruptly and he is sent to work in New York.

The time is the 1950's, life was simple, the family was nearly everything.

After one broken marriage Gillian feels she has found happiness with Chris, however his infidelity sends her into the arms of another man.

As one of the world's richest women, beautiful Kesia Saint Martin was the pampered darling of the jet-set, her life a careless round of glamourous games.

Bill Thigpen, writer and producer of the No. 1 daytime TV drama was so busy watching his career soar that he failed to notice his marriage collapsing.

Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice and a home, near San Francisco.