Number-one international best-selling author Lori Nelson Spielman follows The Life List with Sweet Forgiveness, in which a woman’s receipt of two “forgiveness stones” sends her searching for atonement. The Forgiveness Stones craze is sweeping the nation – instantly recognizable pouches of stones that come with a chain letter and two simple requests: to forgive…
Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him “Baby Moses” when they shared his story on the ten o’clock news. It all happened before I was born, and by the time I met Moses and my…
Nicolle Wallace’s third riveting insider Washington novel tells the story of single day in the life of America’s 45th President, Charlotte Kramer. The day commences before sunrise with more than a dozen news crews “embedded” with the president, vice president and the White House senior staff to chronicle a typical day at the center…
From the author of the New York Times best seller and 2014 Edgar and Anthony nominee Reconstructing Amelia comes another harrowing, gripping novel that marries psychological suspense with an emotionally powerful story about a community struggling with the consequences of a devastating discovery. At the end of a long winter in well-to-do Ridgedale, New…
Multiple narrators give voice to Oliver’s realistic young adult novel, which follows sisters Nick and Dara as they recover from a traumatic car accident. The narrations of the girls’ voices are saturated with a harshness and negativity that initially add to the sense of darkness that pervades the novel. But eventually the mood becomes tedious…
Every child prodigy grows up eventually. For the Promise sisters, escaping their mother’s narcissism and the notoriety that came with her best-selling book hasn’t been easy. Minerva Promise claimed that her three test-tube daughters – gifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Avery – were engineered and molded to be geniuses. In adulthood, their modest…
Down on her luck and running from the law, Clara, now known as Sara, sets out to heal and reinvent herself. Narrator Tavia Gilbert’s voice expertly reflects the range of moods and thoughts going through Sara’s mind. Gilbert’s smooth, well-modulated voice adds to the overall picture of the complicated island people and the life Sara…
When Beverly Overholt’s beloved Orange Blossom Inn is broken into, she’s shaken to her core. The inn has been her whole life since her fiancé left her for her best friend. In the face of repairing what’s been lost, Beverly calls Eric Wagler, the inn’s handsome owner. To her surprise, he promises to be on…
Emma Keim was heartbroken when her husband, Sanford, passed away, leaving her to raise three young daughters alone. In the years since, her relatives have made it no secret that they expect Emma to remain a widow, mourning Sanford indefinitely. But when she meets Jay Hilty – a widower with three young sons of his…
Penny Troyer rarely disobeys her parents. But tonight she’s bending the rules because Michael Knoxx, the most famous member of The Knoxx Family Singers, a traveling Mennonite Evangelical family – is scheduled to speak. Penny has heard of Michael – how he lost part of his leg in a terrible accident and uses the experience…