National Network for Equitable Library Service

It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.

In 1920s Indiana, small-town beauty Ottie Lee Henshaw escapes her husband and leering boss by taking a cross-country journey, where she encounters Calla, a young woman looking for her lover.

In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril.

It's not every afternoon that an enigmatic blond named Stilton (like the cheese) walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin tends bar. It's love at first sight, but before Sammy can make his move, an Air Force general named Remy arrives with some urgent business.

Frank Guidry knows the first rule of running is "don't stop," but when he sees a beautiful women and her children broken down on the roadside, he too sees the perfect disguise to cover his tracks.

1936, Kentucky. Blue-skinned nineteen-year-old Cussy Carter, the last female of the Blue People ancestry, has just given up on marriage and joined the Kentucky Pack Horse library service.

Late one night in April 1958, a filing assistant for Miss Brickett is murdered. Almost unwillingly, Marion Lane, a first-year inquirer-in-training, finds herself being drawn ever deeper into the investigation. When her friend and mentor is framed for the crime, to clear his name she must sort through the hidden alliances at Miss Brickett's and secrets dating back to World War II.

Growing up, David Almerin Ames and his brothers believed the wild patch of Maine where they lived along the Penobscot River belonged to them. The river shared its name with the people of the Penobscot Nation. When the local paper mill is burned down, it divides the town. The building anger and resentment explodes in tragedy, wrecking the lives of David and those around him.

The Five Nations of the Iroquois have been at war with one another for far too long. A Peacemaker arrives, sharing stories that people believe can convince the leaders of the five nations to set down their weapons.

1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her family's indifference, to sit for a portrait. But there are other important stories to be told on the Guilbert plantation. Stories that span generations, from the big house to out in the fields, of routine horrors, secrets buried as deep as the family fortune, and the tangled bonds of descendants and enslaved.