It is 1974 and the country is still struggling to come to terms with the Vietnam War. In the small town of Conners, Georgia, Darcy has just started high school, her older sister Adel goes to weekend dances at the local Army base, and their mother tends her beautiful garden–the biggest and best in town. But Darcy’s world is soon changed forever when her mother goes to Atlanta for tests. The diagnosis is not good–breast cancer. There is so much Darcy wants to talk to her mother about: the war and what happened to the soldiers who were there; the feelings she is having for the new (and troubled) boy in school. But she can’t. So she finds solace in her mother’s garden. There she can help the flowers her mother planted bloom.

Dr. Charlotte Adam is torn between two men in this final book in the heart-tugging Angel’s Bay series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Freethy. For years, Dr. Charlotte Adams has been concentrating on her career and trying to make up for her past by helping out pregnant teenagers. Taking care of Annie’s baby has gone a long way in healing old wounds and Charlotte realizes she needs to think about what she wants for her future and if Andrew Schilling, a high school romance gone wrong, or Joe Silveira, the hot divorced police chief, have any part in it. Both Andrew and Joe are trying to convince Charlotte to give them a chance. But when Pamela, the girl who destroyed Andrew and Charlotte’s relationship, shows up once again—and this time pregnant and in trouble—Charlotte realizes that Andrew is hiding things from her. Unsure of telling the truth, Andrew keeps his cards close, even when trouble comes in the form of Kenny, Pamela’s ex-con boyfriend and Andrew'’s old college buddy. But keeping his silence could have deadly results. Meanwhile, Joe is given a second chance at love and realizes Charlotte is the only woman he wants. When he can’t find her anywhere, he knows something is wrong. With Kenny in town and Pamela due, Joe knows he must find Charlotte before it’s too late.

Two women, both alienated from mainstream society, improbably connect and help to bring each other back to life in a small, down-at-the-heels Southern town in a memorable fiction debut.

The Angel in the Garden is a favorite bedtime story that takes you on a scavenger hunt with nature while encountering some of life's valuable lessons. Build an angel garden for Mother Nature's beautiful creatures with Monarch Mountain, Caterpillar Cottage and Bullfrog Bog. Be inspired to dream bigger and learn that love endures forever.

Pollyanna is a high school student who dreams about all the amazing things in her future. Every spring, she visits her Grandma and Grandpa Thorn out in the country on their farm, where she explores the woods and goes fishing. She is a young woman devoted to her family and filled with love for her parents and grandparents. Author Sandra Latherow penned Pollyanna’s cheerful tale after the loss of her own beautiful granddauther, Tricia. Unable to watch Tricia graduate high school or realize the future she had planned for herself, Sandra uses the written word to give her granddaughter the life she deserved. Sandra still misses Tricia, but The Angel in the Garden has helped to heal her grief. Tricia smiles down at her from heaven, but also on Pollyanna’s playful story—a poignant, touching novella featuring the neverending love of family.

Ancient scrolls and beliefs entered the land in the satchels of Buddhist pilgrims and in the baggage of military invaders - from Alexander the Great to Mughal, Persian and Arab conquerors and even the ill-fated armies of the British Raj. This title seeks the clues which each migration left, in the company of the young Bruce Chatwin.

A THE TIMES BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR 2022 When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches – earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep from his father. Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under the Nazis, and to the defining moment of his grandfather's life: when Paolo's support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city's underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can't stop reading – but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all.

Ely's perceptions about the desire to find security as well as the rhythms of his prose, his vivid detail, and the fullness of his characters make The Angel of the Garden a compelling collection of short fiction.

In the fishing village where he lives, David sits alone by the shore at night, watching the path of light that stretches across the sea until it almost touches the moon. Wondering, where does it go? Then one day he hears a voice of the Moon-Angel. Why not try the moon-path tonight? As David will discover, the path leads to a magical world behind the moon.

This book is an allegory fiction story for children written in a manner similar to C.S.Lewis' allegory stories. The main characters are children who find an alternate fantasy world in which they discover truths that can be applied to their own real world. They go on an adventure in this fantasy world and encounter danger, challenges, grief, joy, discouragement, and faith. Through all this, they learn to be faithful friends, and to conquer disappointments; they gain in confidence, and come home thoroughly changed by their adventure.