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Sariah Udy has been staring at, and falling in love with, Mack Quinn every game of the Patriots' winning season, but she knows she could never date someone perfect like him. Sariah has deformities and heartache that she covers with her long hair and lots of humor. When Mack pursues her across the country, can she trust him with her heart, and her sad past?

When Beverly Overholt's beloved Orange Blossom Inn is broken into, she's shaken to her core. As she puts the inn back together with the help of it's owner, Eric Wagler, and prepares for Christmas, the trust between them grows. Will Christmas bring a second chance at love for Beverly? And if it does, will she be brave enough to take it?

Edmund is a good man, and will make a decent husband, just not for Leona. The more time she spends with him and his overbearing ways, the less she wants to be his wife. But when a chance encounter with a wayward cat brings her face-to-face with a handsome, fun-loving Amish man named Zachary Kauffman, Leona's faced with two vastly different futures.

How can you say goodbye forever when you've left an important secret unspoken? "I'll tell you what I'm going to do," Zoltan said. "When I die, I'll leave my luck to you." Zoltan Beck is dying. His devoted but long-suffering sons, Ben and Frank, are trying to prepare themselves and their families for Zoltan's eventual departure... but they can't quite bring themselves to believe that the end is really at hand, and neither can Zoltan himself.

After a sudden heartbreaking loss, young widow Abigail Stolz must somehow help her troubled son adjust-even if it means working with Jamie's stern schoolmaster, Ethan Miller. Much to her surprise, Ethan is actually a sensitive man who is also grieving-and lonely. But will family duty and the past keep them from a chance at happiness together?

As a young girl, Lillian Walsh lost both her parents and a younger sister. Now in her twenties, after enduring the death of her adoptive mother, Lillian must find her place in the world. Just as her adoptive father is leaving for an extended trip to his native Wales, a lawyer appears at the door to inform Lillian that she has inherited a small estate from her birth parents-and that the sister she had long believed dead is likely alive.

This definitive collection of short fiction explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind.

Ellis Kimball is prepared for every way the world could end. What she doesn't expect is meeting Hannah Marks, the only girl who knows how it's going to happen. Despite Ellis's anxiety, the two girls become fast friends. But time is ticking down, and as Ellis tries to help Hannah decipher the details of her doomsday premonition, their search for answers only raises more questions. When does it happen? Who will believe them? How do you prepare for the end of the world when it feels like your life is just getting started?

Upon the death of their art-loving parents, two young Jewish adolescents are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister's forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna. Once in England, however, Hedy discovers her younger sister Susannah longs to be independent- and in Italy.

Davina McKie est une jolie jeune fille de dix-sept ans, brillante et musicienne talentueuse. Incapable de parler depuis son enfance, elle est couvée par ses belliqueux frères cadets, Will et Sandy, qui se sont juré de protéger leur soeur muette. Quand les garçons sont contraints de quitter la vallée, Jamie McKie conçoit le projet d'égayer l'été de sa fille en accompagnant Davina à l'île d'Arran. Ses cousines l'accueillent au presbytère, et la paroisse se réjouit de l'arrivée de cette violoniste talentueuse.