Fiction - Sagas

Author: Connie Leonard GeronISBN-10: 1450035086ISBN-13: 9781450035088Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/23/2010Pages: 528Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.18d

Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World brings us a rich and loving novel about a non-traditional family in the aftermath of a terrible accident.When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers a head injury in...

In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover household across the street is in upheaval: convinced that his wife is having an affair, Malcolm Glover has suddenly disappeared. The reverberations...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA New York Times Book Review Notable BookAn NPR "Great Reads" Book All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. Philip Bowman returns to America from the battlefields of Okinawa and finds success in the competetive...

This book was previously published as the Chris & Sydney Boxed Set. The story has been enhanced and re-released to now include Betty's Journal which was previously sold separately. **********************************************************************************************************************************Chris has spent his life dodging the police and trying to protect his son from...

PLEASE NOTE: This book has been rewritten as LOVERS AT HEART, REIMAGINED, now available on this retailer.In LOVERS AT HEART...Handsome, wealthy resort owner Treat Braden is used to getting what he wants. When Max Armstrong walked into his life six months earlier, he saw...

Here is a true publishing event-the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction's giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for a century, Zola's The Kill (La Cur e) emerges as an unheralded...

When Charlie Shade and Alice Bussard find each other, neither is prepared for the powerful, aching feeling of love that unites them. After falling for the cheerful and empathetic young man, Alice asks God: "Please, leave us alone. Leave us just like this." But...

A captivating debut novel, Hidden marvelously re-creates New York City in the 1920s, from the hustle and bustle of the Lower East Side to the hushed hallways of the homes of the rich and powerful. In graceful, eloquent prose, Victoria Lustbader presents a fierce,...

Isabella Dawson had spent her entire life knowing that she was adopted-chosen by her parents who had saved every penny for years to be able to have the child that her mother could never give birth to. She'd grown up feeling a certain kind...

At seventeen, Jemma Foster is about to become a very wealthy young girl. This wealth will come, not by her own hand, but because of a trust set up for her long ago by a young woman who wanted Jemma to have every opportunity...

The Valente family has left their Sicilian village of Catania, where they have been living at the foot of a menacing volcano, to fulfill their dreams in America. They settle in a coal patch town in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, nestled in the glorious Laurel...

She strolled the mall as if it were her private catwalk, men stopping her at every step. Grace was used to it though and paid it no mind. She stopped at the MAC counter on her way to Rich's to get a Chestnut lip...

Back Cover Marketing Copy Two generations of a Southern family leave their mark on Florida, their adopted home. Ellen Adair is a vivacious beauty who weds Joseph White. Marrying about the time Florida is ceded to the United States, Ellen leaves Kentucky to trek...

Winner of the 2000 Book Award in Prose from the Association for American Studies and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for 2002!The award-winning author of Pangs of Love triumphs with "a work that manages to be consistently funny, infinitely sad, and surprisingly exhilarating... truly...

Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family. Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where...

"A gripping two-pronged tale of psychological terror and spiritual redemption."--The New York Post Successful London lawyer Carter Graham has power, sex appeal, and a well-ordered life. Everything has gone according to plan, including her recent marriage to Kim Betz, an investment banker with the...

Author: Danielle SteelISBN-10: 0385363257ISBN-13: 9780385363259Publisher: DiversifiedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2013Pages: 512Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.19h x 6.11w x 1.11dLarge PrintReview Citation(s): Romantic Times 07/01/2013 pg. 41 - Excellent

When director Lucas Cameron finds letters to his grandmother from her protege--the young actress Jessica Fontaine, who had vanished mysteriously after a tragic accident--he is intrigued and determined to find her. When finally they meet, they have one magic week of passion and love....

Helen Forrester's moving story of an English girl and her love affair with an Indian man. Peggy Delaney was a Lancashire girl born and bred, beginning to live again after the heartache of the war. Ajit Singh was a charming young Indian student, shortly...

Amanda Saddler has lived a long and happy life. She's not ready to die or anything melodramatic, but she's long since given up on finding her fairytale ending.But when her adoptive granddaughter Emery picks up a box that was delivered to her doorstep, some...

Braun uses the mountainous area and cabins to her advantage in telling the stories of her characters. An exceptional plot. Her character development is outstanding." -Readers' FavoriteAfter her father's death in 1923, when Ruth Ann Landry is just ten, she joins her mother as...

"Webb...where are we?"At time's inception a world was created, a world unknown to any race or culture, nor told of in any legend or myth. It is world whose skies boil with the darkest of tempests, but the lands are ripe with the lushest...

Laurence P. Cromwell was once like many of us, navigating through life without direction or purpose, eager to uncover some deeper meaning to it all. Out of sheer desperation, and through the influence of a series of strange childhood occurrences, he became obsessed with...

After the turmoil of the past few years, the Nelson family is finally starting to come back together. Jan has opened her bakery, Jack has established his pottery shop, and the toddler twins-Joe and Mary-are growing fast. Jack is realizing, through Jan, how important...

Braun uses the mountainous area and cabins to her advantage in telling the stories of her characters. An exceptional plot. Her character development is outstanding." -Readers' FavoriteAfter her father's death in 1923, when Ruth Ann Landry is just ten, she joins her mother as...

Embark on an Inspiring Tale of Resilience and Rebirth Amidst Ireland's CharmDiscover a heartwarming saga of resilience, love, and rebirth in Dr. Jac Fitzenz's The Shanahans Full House. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis, this third novel in the Shanahans...

1884 - When Betsan Morgan's mother succumbs to a devastating illness, she doesn't think her life could get much worse. But then her father moves in his new beau, an unserious flitty woman and coincidentally also the bargirl in the pub he works in,...

Trapped in a homeless, nomadic life, teenage Ruby lands in yet another random town-Gunpowder, Kentucky. To the real world, Ruby does not exist. Undocumented, no last name, and recording her approximate age with slash marks on her forearm, Ruby survives only with what fits...

The saga of Sy'vena the Heir of one of the galaxy's most powerful and influential clan the Khi' Dyron. As Sy'vena's life unravels they begin to uncover the dark secrets of their clan, which threaten not only their planet but the galaxy itself.Author: Rafael...

It was just another working day in the humdrum life of master baker, Arthur Marsden, and his family. As he mixed dough for the morning's bread run, he had no concept of the change that was about to be unleashed, the repercussions of which...

The Aids virus has mutated into a highly lethal strain that kills within two weeks. The Government has formed death camps worldwide those infected are labeled with a tattoo ..G.O.D. Government ordered destruction. A biochemist develops a drug that can make the virus as...

When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji's true identity as a child born from a liaison...

For 300,000 years hunters hunted, gatherers gathered, they sometimes mated. Then something happened. They got civilized This is that story.Tallstone and the City: A New Heaven and Earth, Second Edition tells the simple story of two members of the Clan of the Serpent from...

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. "A vivid re-creation of a Tudor tragedy."--Kirkus Reviews In the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "marvelous romantic comedy" (The New York Times Book Review) from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen "[A] wise tale about second chances, starting over, and going after what is most important in life."--Minneapolis Star TribuneStill Life with Bread Crumbs...

A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy With its family secrets and hallowed texts containing explosive truths, The Night Journal suggests A. S. Byatt's Possession transplanted to the raw and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest. Meg...

"A sumptuous historical novel anchored by its excellent depiction of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third queen . . . This is a must for all fans of Tudor fiction and history."--Publishers Weekly Ever since she was a child, Jane has longed for a...

Tall, dark, and handsome as sin. With a smile that speaks to my soul. Nathaniel Hawthorne is the epitome of the perfect man. But twelve years older and worlds wiser, my brother's best friend doesn't long for me the way I crave him. He...

The classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James ClavellAfter Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he...

"KALEIDOSCOPE does for the CIA what THE SOPRANOS did for the mob... The function and dysfunction of a whole family where the patriarch is ensnared in a dark and dangerous world." MICHAEL APTED, Academy Award nominated film director of COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER, THE WORLD...

"A kaleidoscopic gem that adeptly showcases how the shameful misdeeds of the past reverberate into modern acts of violence... An emotional tour de force." David Jackson Ambrose, author of Unlawful DisorderGabi Keefer flees Holocaust-era Germany with nothing but her husband, her nephew, and the...

A historic adversary comes calling, looking to feed on the source. Keterlyn is the source.Tony Small and Detective Janet Walsh, with the aid of a legendary friend, help her avoid certain death by teaching her what she needs to know to keep herself alive.Author:...

Tall, dark, and handsome as sin. With a smile that speaks to my soul. Nathaniel Hawthorne is the epitome of the perfect man. But twelve years older and worlds wiser, my brother's best friend doesn't long for me the way I crave him. He...

If someone does the wrong thing... ...for all the right reasons is it still wrong? William was born at sea in the middle of a storm, one that still rages inside. But when he learns an innocent girl's about to be destroyed, he takes...

""An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures and connects it all--the imperial ambitions of the postwar generation, the rebellion of their offspring in the Sixties, and the fallout we're still sifting through today. . . . This...

One magical story across seven extraordinary generations--filled with love and faith and hope Twins born beneath an enchanted tree split by lightning--an enchanted door, enchanted table, enchanted bench A knife thrower, pistol duel, an heirloom opal ring---spectral soliloquies and premonitions that hit the mark...

For any woman that has wanted to chick the high heels and chart a new adventure...Charlotte "Charlie" Chase appears to have everything: a lucrative marketing career, a handsome fiancé, a mansion in Houston. But a chance encounter with the mysterious, and alluring, Paxton Crown...

A young woman returns to Liverpool to rebuild her life and find new love in this engaging family saga 1959. Her modelling career in tatters and her long-term relationship with her sailor boyfriend at an end, nineteen-year-old Maggie Gregory returns to her family in...

Two ancient tribes of gypsies struggle to get the sacred stone that will give them power and wealth. This precious stone that came from the bowels of Teide Volcano has been the subject of battles and blood of those who wanted to possess it....