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Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the century, Washington Square is the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations.

Just after her mother's funeral, five-year-old Holly is dropped off by her father at her grandfather's South Carolina dairy farm.

Set in the quiet, small town of Mitford and starring aging Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh, the books are welcome reminders of the simpler and gentler pleasures of life.

When her husband dies on the eve of their impending European vacation, housewife Emma Hanley watches her dreams of world travel vanish even as she becomes more immersed in the lives of her two livi

Taking his daughter Sara home from school one day, New Jersey accountant Glen drives his car into another vehicle, killing its driver.

Englisher Amelia Devries gets lost in a storm and finds herself in Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania, in an Old Order Amish community.

In the late 1960s, a group of young idealists form a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man.

Widower Jick McCaskill, his daughter Mariah, and Mariah's ex-husband Riley take a road trip back and forth across Montana.

Carolyn takes a break from her widowed San Francisco existence to celebrate her mother's 70th birthday in the Canary Islands.

Three middle-aged sisters--each harboring a secret pain--gather to close up their grandmother's beach house for the final time.

In 1970s Boston, the glossy veneer of 16-year-old Sarah Kunitz's wealthy family is starting to show cracks.

Tobacco brides--women prisoners shipped from England--are a hot commodity with farmers in 1643 Virginia. Drew isn't concerned about marriage--he just wants a servant to keep his house.

Exiled to Texas with his grown daughter, sculptor Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is commissioned to create a statue for a man who recently lost his son in WWI.

After a personal tragedy, writer Ava spends the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee at the invitation of an old friend and his aunts.

Holton's novel finds four middle-aged friends convening at a beautifully appointed beach house--and reexamining their lives.