Sarah buried her beloved dog Missy just two days ago. Missy was an Australian shepherd. She was smart and sensitive. She loved to kiss Sarah on the nose. Sarah loved to run her fingers through Missy's long light-brown hair and gently rub the tips of her ears. Missy and Sarah loved to play tug with Missy's big green rubber ball. Missy passed away after a long and happy life at their cabin home. She was born there and lived her whole life there. Sarah was very sad when Missy passed away. Missy would always wait for Sarah to come home. Missy waited in the same spot, right in the middle of the driveway, next to the cabin, where Sarah's dad parked his old pickup truck. As Sarah and her dad drove up, Missy would trot to the passenger side where Sarah got out so she could greet Sarah as soon as the truck door opened. But Missy was gone. Sarah felt sad and empty. Just after sunset, Sarah arrived home after school with her dad. Daylight slowly faded.. Sarah gazed at the bright orange and red clouds that hung over the mountains in the distance as they pulled into the driveway. Dad suddenly stopped the truck short of where he was usually parked. Sarah heard him gasp. Then she saw it too. Sarah couldn't believe her eyes.

From the experts at Jarden Home Brands, makers of Ball canning products, comes the first truly comprehensive canning guide created for today's home cooks. This modern handbook boasts more than 350 of the best recipes ranging from jams and jellies to jerkies, pickles, salsas, and more-including extender recipes to create brand new dishes using your freshly preserved farmer's market finds or vegetable garden bounty. Organized by technique, The All New Ball Book of Canning and Preserving covers water bath and pressure canning, pickling, fermenting, freezing, dehydrating, and smoking. Straightforward instructions and step-by-step photos ensure success for beginners, while practiced home canners will find more advanced methods and inspiring ingredient twists. Thoroughly tested for safety and quality by thermal process engineers at the Fresh Preserving Quality Assurance Lab, recipes range from much-loved classics — Tart Lemon Jelly, Tomato-Herb Jam, Ploughman's Pickles — to fresh flavors such as Asian Pear Kimchi, Smoked Maple-Juniper Bacon, and homemade Kombucha. Make the most of your preserves with delicious dishes including Crab Cakes garnished with Eastern Shore Corn Relish and traditional Strawberry-Rhubarb Hand Pies. Special sidebars highlight seasonal fruits and vegetables, while handy charts cover processing times, temperatures, and recipe formulas for fast preparation. Lushly illustrated with color photographs, The All New Ball Book of Canning and Preserving is a classic in the making for a new generation of home cooks.

MISMATCHED BRIDES In modern Memphis, Tennessee, beautiful, headstrong Missy Monroe has found the perfect fiancé, gorgeous and genteel Jeff Dalton, a man she can control in every way… and who bores her to tears. Meanwhile back in antebellum Memphis, Missy’s distant cousin, shy, demure Melissa Montgomery, has been promised from birth to virile, arrogant Fabian Fontenot, a man whose fierce sensuality scares the starch out of her crinoline. Missy and Melissa plan their weddings in the same house, on the same day, only 140 years apart. TUMBLE IN TIME Who would think that a misstep on the stairs could lead to such a crazy tempest in time? One minute the brides are descending the stairs to wed their fiancés; the next, they are switching places in time. Suddenly Missy finds herself stuck in a provincial outpost of the antebellum South, as the presumed fiancée of the most insufferable, sinfully handsome man in all of history. And Melissa finds herself thrust into an amazing, bewildering new world… where she is only too happy to exchange her beast of a fiancé for the gallant soulmate who has now replaced him. Will these two switched, mismatched brides find happiness with their destined grooms? Or will the fickle hand of Fate wreak havoc with them once again? Tempest in Time is an all-time “keeper” in the time-travel romance genre, a full-length, hilarious, sexy romp through the past and present that gives new meaning to the phrase, “The first step is a doozy!”

The four-time Olympic Gold medalist and her parents trace the inspirational story of how she became both a legendary athlete and a happy and confident woman, achievements that were accomplished by doing things their own way and making the right choices for their family. --Publisher's description.

Alexandria Dumont is a doctor of rehabilitation medicine working long hours at Regional Hospital as she finishes her residency. Lately, she hasn’t had much time for a life. Her one treat is going to the flea market. When she buys a portrait of an old Southern Plantation, she can’t get over how intriguing the picture is. It is a beautiful plantation surrounded by live oaks draped in Spanish moss, but the reflection in the lake doesn’t show its grandeur. It reflects a home burned to the ground. When she moves the portrait, a child’s diary falls upon the bed and Alexandria begins to read. The next morning when she finds herself in 1835 she figures she has finally gone off the deep end. Nothing makes sense. Alexandria is unsure why she has fallen back to 1835 until she meets a crippled child she knows she can help walk again. However convincing the child’s brother, the arrogant Brad Wentworth, who hates doctors, that she can help his sister to walk again might be the biggest task that she has ever encountered. As Alexandria sets about her task, she finds River Bends Plantation holds many secrets. Finding the answers to those secrets just may cost her . . . her life.

All Samuel Brennan wants is to return home from university, help his brother, Casey, make their once- profitable farm rich again, and tell his childhood friend, Kathleen, how much he loves her. Despite Sams good intentions, his dreams are about to turn into nightmares. Secrets, long buried at the Brennan farm, are about to be unearthed. Years of mental illness and child abuse could harm everyone he loves unless he, with the help of Kathleen, can expose these family secrets before its too late. In this romantic thriller, a young man and woman risk everythingincluding loveto unveil the truth about childhood abuse long concealed in rural Maine. A provocative read that keeps you coming back for more. Atas Book Club

The Holy Warrior picks up the House of Winslow saga several years after the Revolutionary War. Two Winslow sons race west--one to embrace his dreams and the other to escape the future. Will either survive the dangers of the frontier?

From the author of the bestselling "Shoeless Joe" comes another vintage baseball tale that "like magic . . . holds together and entices you from one page to the next, until at the end you ache for more" ("Milwaukee Journal").