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After moving with his mother to a trailer park to care for an injured aunt, eleven-year-old Jamie Reardon struggles to cope with a deeply buried secret.

Vanella Morris is beautiful, strong, successful and extremely happy with her long-time boyfriend Alton. But Vanella is also uneasy and apprehensive about making big commitments. She doesn't want to end up divorced like most of her girlfriends or stuck in a loveless marriage like her parents. When Alton proposes, she has to make the most important decision of her life: walk away now from this good thing or convince Alton that by living together the marital bliss he longs for can still be theirs.

Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since Mam�a died a year ago. When Mam�a's sister, T�ia Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are overjoyed. But T�ia Dolores has lots of new ideas! She starts a family weaving business. And she teaches the girls to read, something Mam�a never learned to do. Josefina worries that all of T�ia Dolores's changes will make them forget Mam�a.

Meet Addy Walker, a courageous nine-year-old girl growing up during the Civil War. When her poppa dna brother are sold to another plantation, Addy and her mother take the terrible risk of escaping to freedom in the North. To get away safely, they must leave Addy's baby sister behind in the slave quarters--her cries could cost them their freedom. As Addy and Momma slowly build a new life in Philadelphia and struggle to bring their family together again, Addy comes to realize a powerful truth--freedom has great costs.

Against the vivid backdrops of a killer hurricane that nearly destroyed the Florida Keys in 1935, the Spanish Civil War, post-war Hollywood and the first days of the Castro regime in Cuba, Hector Lassiter--legendary crime novelist--engages in a decades-long duel against a cabal of killer artists.

When crime novelist Hector Lassiter hears his old friend Hemingway's missing manuscripts have turned up, he visits Hemingway's widow Mary to make sure the manuscripts don't reveal too many of Lassiter's personal details or hint too strongly at his writing methods. Meanwhile, professor Richard Paulson is determined to prove Mary killed her husband despite the commonly held belief that the great author committed suicide. As the two men endeavor to find answers to the mysteries surrounding Hemingway, it becomes evident the FBI was somehow involved.

When Senator Prescott Bush demands the mummified head of Pancho Villa for Yale's Skull & Bones Society's trophy case, a pulp writer named Lassiter winds up holding the bag.

This novel tells of Golden Richards, a man who, despite having four wives and 28 children, hasn't quite found fulfillment in life. And even after he falls in love again and takes a mistress, life continues to fall short of expectations.

After the unexpected death of his daughter, musician Adam Anker loses all sense of direction in his life. Adrift, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery, one that will take him from New Zealand, to Poland, and finally to Sweden for a reunion with his daughter's mother.

Deeply forlorn following the devastating loss of her fianc�e, young New Zealand writer Veronika resettles alone in a quaint Swedish village. Her arrival is quietly observed by Astrid, an elderly, reclusive neighbor, whose companionship will be a great blessing to Veronika--if she embraces it.