From the Back Cover: Susan MacKendrick is a top-notch trauma surgeon with a haunting secret. As a young girl she made a decision, and despite her resolve never to look back, a tragic shooting one night reawakens the buried regrets. Now her life is forever changed by two young boys, one with every advantage, the other with none at all...

Since he lost his wife in a tragic accident, Dr. Brad Williams has felt his life spiraling out of control. His five daughters are growing up and away from him, and he can only watch helplessly. Some days the only thing that keeps him going is the knowledge that one day he will see his beloved wife again. Then one night, he meets Dr. Susan MacKendrick.

With her latest novel, Coming Home, best-selling author Jennie Hansen once again creates an intriguing drama for every woman who still believes in love.

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About the Author: Jennie Hansen attended Ricks College and graduated from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has been a newspaper reporter, editor, and librarian, and is presently a circulation specialist for the Salt Lake City library system.

Her church service has included teaching in all auxiliaries and serving in stake and ward Primary presidencies. She has also served as a stake public affairs coordinator and ward chorister. Currently she is the education counselor in her ward Relief Society.

Jennie and her husband, Boyd, live in Salt Lake City. They are the parents of four daughters and a son.

Coming Home is Jennie’s sixth novel for the LDS market. In addition to the two previous books in this series, Run Away Home and Journey Home, she has written When Tomorrow Comes, Macady, and Some Sweet Day.

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By the Same Author: Abandoned (2002), among others.

This short novel covers a span of five years, from 1924 to 1929, in the lives of the four motherless Hughes children, Evelyn, Floyd, Dale, and Vernon, who range in age from three to twelve years. They are left at the Wyoming State Orphanage in Cheyenne by their alcoholic father, Thomas. When he does not return for them, as he has promised to do, or pay forty dollars a month for their support, they become wards of the State Commission of Child and Animal Protection. The children have lived in poverty in a small broken-down house next to a railroad coaling station in Worland, Wyoming. Nevertheless, their very young mother somehow taught them to honor their father despite his flaws, and they have become an affectionate, close-knit family with deep loyalty to each other. When the children are placed separately in potential adoptive homes in various parts of Wyoming, they lose all contact with each other for a period of time, but regain their connection under circumstances that reinforce Evelyn’s belief in a protective spirit. At the age of eighty, Evelyn begins an attempt to reconstruct this portion of her early family history, relying on snippets of memory, fragments of conversation, over-heard remarks, and a sketchy official record of the Hughes family obtained from the Wyoming State archives. What gradually emerges is not a true biography, but a story of love in many guises, which is as simple and as true as if it were a fairy tale.

Jaimie Reese’s life is a series of endless empty caverns. Her father is in prison. Her mother walked out when she was in kindergarten and now she finds herself being bounced from one Midwestern foster home to the next. Highly intelligent, but fiercely introverted, Jaimie can never quite connect with anyone or anyplace for long which leads to cyclical, reckless behavior. Shortly after her eighteenth birthday, knowing she is no longer a ward of the state, Jaimie changes her name and drives west not knowing where she will eventually land. Carving out a new life as Brynn Williams in Portland, Oregon is difficult, and she eventually learns that traits of both her father and mother are woven deeply within her personality and the life experiences she encounters. Desperately wanting to cut ties with her past, Jaimie/Brynn moves to Ottawa Institute, a spiritual retreat center in coastal northern California, where she feels at home for the first time in her life. After she establishes roots in a new relationship and a place that allows Jaimie/Brynn to finally soften her heart, a distant relative suddenly reveals herself and unearths long buried secrets about her mother. Common Threads unwinds the multiple strands that create a woman’s life, then weaves them back together into a journey that is both extraordinary and quietly triumphant.

From the Dust Jacket: On a snowy night in the winter of 1946, Arthur Henning arrives at a New York banker’s country estate. All he has with him are his young son, his sewing machine, and the painful history of the refugee—the home in Vienna he left behind, the wife and infant daughter who perished in London’s blitz, and the relatives and friends who disappeared into the abyss of the Holocaust. He has come to begin a new life and to forget.

Once an expert tailor, now he is employed as a chauffeur. He drives Mr. Duvall to work in the city, Mrs. Duvall to her shopping, their daughter, Agatha, to school. The job gives Arthur solace. There’s a cottage for him and his son, Toby, to live in, congeniality in the mansion’s kitchen with the other servants, pleasure in watching Toby grow up alongside charming little Agatha. And so there he has remained for nearly a decade, hidden, unable to confront his shattered faith, his fear, and the measure of everything he has lost.

Hidden, that is, until life steps in to release Arthur from his seclusion. On orders from Mr. Duvall, he must drive Agatha to her own confinement in that peculiarly American institution of the 1950s, a home for unwed mothers. The Duvalls’ plan to give the baby away shocks Arthur from his emotional slumber. The story of these two people—a man who has lost his past and a girl who is forced to give up her future—winds its way to a conclusion that is both inevitable and wholly unpredictable.

Infused with her trademark haunting sensibility, Carrie Brown’s fourth novel is a deeply moving tal eof the small miracles and large revelations of love.

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About the Author: Carrie Brown lives with her husband, the novelist John Gregory Grown, and their three children near Sweet Briar College in Virginia, where she teaches fiction writing. Her many prizes and awards include the Barnes& Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the 2001 Great Lakes Book Award, the 2001 Library of Virginia Literary Award, and a 2004 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

From the Dust Jacket: Constancia Hartt, beautiful young socialite of Westchester and New York, finds out on the eve of her marriage to a famous geneticist, that she is an adopted child of very dubious parentage.

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About the Author: Margaret Widdemer began her literary career at an early age. A recognized writer of both prose and poetry, she became, in her twenties, a bestselling novelist. Miss Widdemer, particularly well known as a poetess, has been a recipient of awards from the Saturday Review and the Poetry Society of America.

Although she is an orphan, Consuelo’s voice wins her a place in a convent music school. Later she becomes a music tutor for a Bohemian aristocratic family.

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About the Author: George Sand (1804-1876) was a prolific writer of nearly 60 novels who shocked Paris with her own sexual escapades, but in her writing dealt with the serious issues of her time and was identified with the Romantic literary movement. Sand’s strong, independent women characters would win her both the adoration of many other writers (mostly women) and the wrath of many reviewers (mostly men). She and her characters are enthusiastic, outspoken, sententious, with a bold manifesto of women’s independence and a legitimate claim to emotional and sexual fulfillment. She was unique in her approach as a woman who refused to trivialize her craft because of her gender. Sand became known more for her eccentric lifestyle and love affairs with famous contemporaries, such as Alfred de Musset and Frederic Chopin, than her career as a writer.

From the Back Cover: When journalist and adoptee Dorie McKenna learns that her biological father was a famous artist, it comes with another startling discovery: she has a twin sister, Catherine Wagner, who inherited their father’s talent. Dorie is eager to introduce her sister’s genius to the public, but Catherine is a cloistered nun with a vow of silence who refuses to show or sell the paintings she dedicates to God.

Hoping to get to know her sister and research the potential story, Dorie poses as an aspiring nun at the convent where Catherine lives. Her growing relationship with Catherine helps Dorie come to terms with her adoption, but soon the sisters’ shared biological past and uncertain futures collide as they clash over the meaning and purpose of art. Will they remain side-by-side for the rest of their lives, or will their conflicts change the course of the future?

Find out in this beautifully detailed story that takes you on a spellbinding journey of the heart.

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About the Author: Maura Weiler grew up in Connecticut and earned her BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, respectively. She is a former columnist for The Connecticut Post and a trash artist whose work has been featured on NBC Television and in galleries and shows across the country. As Director of Development at Blue Tulip Productions, she helped develop the screenplays for such films as Speed, Twister, The Paperboy and Minority Report. Contrition is her first novel.

From the Back Cover: Personal trainers, personal shoppers and borderline personality disorders fill the daily void of Thom Thompson III, a young, rising sitcom star whose pampered Hollywood existence has become even more two-dimensional than the nihilistic character he portrays on TV.

When Thom’s estranged twin shows up on set and begins impersonating him (after a lengthy hibernation shooting gay porn), Thom’s keen sense of denial instinctively seeks refuge in crystal meth. But a voicemail from his father, whom his valium-popping mother "accidentally" murdered decades ago, pushes an already fragile Thom over the edge.

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About the Author: Sean Meyrick Hanley was raised in Old Greenwich, Connecticut and is a graduate of Lewis & Clark College. He was on the writing staff of The Nanny starring Fran Drescher and recently co-created the sitcom, Half-Share starring Alec Mapa (amzn.to/halfshare). He currently lives in New York City and is in pre-production for a feature film called Scamdance (scamdance.com). The Convertible Life is his debut novel.

From the Dust Jacket: Juliet, Saskatchewan. You might imagine that not much happens in this dusty oasis on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills, its inhabitants caught in the limbo between a century-old promise of prosperity and whatever lies ahead.

But the hills vibrate with life, and the town’s heart beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people: the foundling afraid to accept responsibility for the farm his adoptive parents left him; the bank manager grappling with a sudden understanding of his own inadequacy; a shy couple, well beyond middle age, struggling with the recognition of their feelings for one another; a mother of six troubled by recurrent dreams of a plane crashing in her backyard. And somewhere, lost in the sand, a camel named Antoinette.

As Juliet’s characters go about the business of their daily lives, navigating the all-too-human reality of miscommunications, fumbled dreams, unexpected detours and even unmarked victories, they discover, too, moments of grace, compassion and beauty—moments to remind them that, despite it all, they will find their way forward. At once witty and perceptive, deeply moving and profound, Cool Water is a timeless story of the mysteries of everyday life.

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About the Author: Dianne Warren is the author of three books of short fiction and three plays. Her most recent collection, A Reckless Moon, was a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year, and her play Serpent in the Night Sky was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award for Drama in 1992. In 2004, she won the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career. Warren lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Dark, disturbing, and, often, violent. Everyone belongs to a family. Hardly typical, these five families express what is often relegated to the fringe of Americana; however, what happens when these families examine their meaning and structure, sets each on an irreversible collision course. Conflict and compassion, reluctance and retribution, the members of these families face a future—with equal, yet unexpected consequence—just as reasonable as they are unimaginable.

From the Back Cover: WHEN HUMANS FIRST WALKED THE WORLD AND NATURE RULED THE EARTH AND SKY...

Panoramic, authentic, explosively dramatic—this is the breathtaking new series “The First Americans,” which began with Book I, Beyond the Sea of Ice. Now the heroic great hunter Torka, his woman Lonit, and his adopted son Karana emerge from a land forbidden to all men, a land where mountains walk and spirits speak. Across the fierce glacial tundra Torka leads his people—survivors of a horrifying natural disaster—to a winter camp where many bands gather to hunt the great mammoth. There he and his followers encounter an evil more dangerous than the wild lands—the magic man called Navahk, who vows cruel destruction of the bold hunter Torka. To survive they must draw upon the courage of one brave boy who will grow to manhood and see with his mind’s eye where the sun’s light has led them—to the dawn of man on the American continent.

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About the Author: Joan Lesley Hamilton Cline is the real name of William Sarabande, author of the internationally bestselling First Americans series. She was born in Hollywood, California, and was first published when she was only seventeen. Joan’s novel The Lion and the Cross, a novel of Saint Patrick and ancient Ireland, is published under her given name, Joan Lesley Hamilton. She lives in Fawnskin, California and is currently writing a new novel set in the Age of Ice.

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By the Same Author: Beyond the Sea of Ice (1987), Forbidden Land (1989), Walkers of the Wind (1990), The Sacred Stones (1991), Wolves of the Dawn (1992), Thunder in the Sky (1992), The Edge of the World (1993), Shadow of the Watching Star (1995), Face of the Rising Sun (1996), Time Beyond Beginning (1998), and Spirit Moon (2000).

From the Dust Jacket: An engrossing saga of honor and betrayal, blood ties and vengeance, The Corsican sweeps from Nazi-occupied France to the treacherous streets of Saigon, from conspiracies in the upper echelons of government to power struggles among society’s darker elements as it traces three generations of the Sartene clan, a family that has created a fearsome and legendary financial empire on a foundation of crime.

The patriarch of this dynasty is Buonaparte Sartene. Raised among bandits and smugglers, Sartene now is monarch of an international criminal syndicate based in Southeast Asia and known to Corsicans as the milieu. Betrayed by a trusted member of his own organization, who murders Sartene’s only son, Sartene is forced to send his young grandson, Pierre, into safe exile in the United States.

Fourteen years later, Pierre returns, and under Sartene’s guidance, begins a chilling and brutal hunt for the man who killed his father, a hunt that carries him through a labyrinth of intrigue and mystery, violence and love, in a world where appearances are always deceiving, the world of the Far East.

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About the Author: William Heffernan is the author of Broderick and Caging the Raven. He lives in Vermont’s Champlain Islands, where he is currently at work on his fourth novel.

From the Dust Jacket: Millions have shared the unforgettable story of the waif Cosette, adopted daughter of Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. Now the tale of Cosette continues in this sweeping, exhilarating epic that brilliantly interweaves its own galaxy of characters and eloquent narrative with real events and historical figures.

The barricades in Paris of 1832—the fever of revolution has once again descended on the city. Seventeen-year-old Cosette’s great love, Marius Pontmercy, fights at the barricades and narrowly escapes with his life—a feat that remains a mystery to him for many years. After their marriage, Cosette and Marius together publish a radical newspaper, La Lumière, which becomes a symbol of the social struggles that divide France. Their lives are touched by remarkable characters of the era: urchins and actors, printers and painters, prostitutes, ragpickers, and spies. Demanding a free press and the old revolutionary ideals—liberté, égalité, fraternité—Marius, Cosette, and La Lumière are at the center of the Revolution of 1848 that topples the monarchy. In the years that follow, Cosette and Marius are first embraced by the Republic they had so anticipated and then betrayed by it, as power shifts among opposing parties in France. When Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte orchestrates a coup d’état and overthrows the Republic, Cosette and Marius again take to the barricades only to meet with a disastrous defeat that threatens to shatter Cosette’s life forever. Her son, Jean-Luc, grows rich and arrogant in the days of the Second Empire, while her daughter, Fantine, lives in penniless exile in London. Cosette goes into hiding, a fugitive in Paris, and lives among ragpickers’ hovels and brothels in crooked alleys. But her spirit is not broken. Cosette has risen from squalor before and she will find a way to do so again.

From dingy artists’ cafés to brilliantly gas-lit Parisian boulevards, from shadowy prisons to balls at the presidential palace, author Laura Kalpakian has crafted an epic reminiscent of Hugo’s original but fueled by its own creative combustion. The revolutionary music and cannon blasts, the decadence of the Second Empire and most of all the single sterling flame of true love transform Cosette, once a waif, into a legend.

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About the Author: Laura Kalpakian is an award-winning novelist and short story writer, author of Graced Land and Dark Continent and Other Stories, among others. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction in 1990 and has served as Theodore Roethke Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington. She lives in Washington state.

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By the Same Author: The Memoir Club (2004, St. Martin’s Press), among others.

From Kirkus Reviews: A soft-toned romance, this is also a somewhat indulgent flirtation with history (two of the four central characters here—King Pedro I of Spain, and Maria, the beggar girl he loved have their authenticity). Fourteenth century Spain, torn by civil war as well as the fight against the Moslems, and its extremes of splendor and poverty background the saintly life of sin led by Maria, the adopted daughter of Constancia, queen of the beggars, who became the mistress of Pedro but could never love him as she loved Jeronimo, penniless and renamed the Count without Castles. Maria, through the years, is able to buy happiness for the poor by “serving the king in a way which God forbids”; she bears him children, but never forgets the insecurity of her status or her wish to marry Jeronimo—finally achieved at Pedro’s death. ... A definitely sentimental stress—almost a dedication—less to history than to the purity of Maria, the gallantry of Jeronimo.

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About the Author: Jeanne Humphreys received her formal education at schools in Spain, England, and Switzerland, and later studied at the Sorbonne and the University of Madrid. “Informally, I might well say, I have studied at roadside taverns of Castilla, located in the sunshine of Andalucia, pondered in the cathedrals of France, and tried my hand with the cape and the young cows at the Perez Tabernero bull-raising ranch outside Salamanca. Under the arches of the University of Salamanca I learned something of love and by the Mediterranean I found out something about romance.”

Before she was nineteen, Jeanne Humphreys was married to a Spanish officer, the son of the Baron del Sacro Lirio, and together they spent much time in the family castle at San Martin de Valdeiglesias where knights in armor, mounted on horses, adorned the great dining hall. Her husband died in the Spanish war. Now married again, Mrs. Humphreys lives in Lima, Peru.

Imagine you are a twelve-year-old boy without parents, without friends, without a home to call your own. Ripped from your family, the world is frightening, confusing, a place where children can be discarded, where parents can disappear, where feelings have no meaning. Utterly alone, there is no one to talk to, to lean on, to confide in. No one speaks your language, or if they do, they just won’t answer. Now imagine yourself a twelve-year-old kid with a mom and a dad, a sibling, a pet, a home to call your own. The world is predictable, safe, comfortable, with no worries, no shadows stalking your dreams. Then you notice that strange boy, the odd one you never bother to talk to, and when you and your friends allow him into your world, he changes you—and your world—forever.

Based on a true story, this sequel is an unabridged accounting of one unique Florida caseworker and the influence he has in the lives of a multitude of young children and teenagers in his caseload. We’re talking children relegated to a system that is considered a last resort for those whose parents have been deemed absent, mentally unfit, or emotionally unstable to care for them. Until they are ready for their children to be returned to them, if ever, the state becomes their overseers, mentors, while caseworkers and GALs become their guardians. This is not a book of pleasure or entertainment; it’s a book about real people with real feelings and about what happens when parents stop being parents. So come spend some time seeing what these dedicated caseworkers actually do and why they do it. Our story picks up in St Augustine where the main character is in the employment of a new agency, with a new caseload, dealing with new children, and a host of new problems. Care enough to hear his side of the story?

Many of us have grown up in a two-parent home environment and some a one-parent home environment. This novel isn’t about them. It is about children who have been court ordered into foster care and relative and non-relative placements. This is a story based on the true experiences of one unique Florida caseworker and the influence he has in the lives of a multitude of children and teenagers in his caseload, we’re talking children relegated to a system that is considered a last resort for those whose parents have been deemed absent, mentally unfit, or emotionally unstable, to provide and care for them. This is a powerful story about trust, commitment, rejection, abandonment, professionalism, and love. This is about children lost in a system few of us know about. Powerful, heartwarming, and thought-provoking. Care enough to hear their side of the story?

From the Dust Jacket: Early one summer morning, Matthew Bishop kisses his wife, Marissa, gets dressed, and eases his truck through Milwaukee, bound for the highway. His wife, pregnant with their first child, has asked him to find the antique cradle taken years before by her mother, Caroline, when she abandoned Marissa, never to contact her daughter again. Soon to be a mother herself, Marissa now dreams of nothing else but bringing her baby home to the cradle she herself slept in. Matt’s wife does not know—does not want to know—where her mother lives, but Matt has an address for Caroline’s sister nearby, and with any luck, he will be home in time for dinner.

Only as Matt tries to track down his wife’s mother, he discovers that Caroline, upon leaving Marissa, has led a life increasingly plagued by impulse and irrationality, a mysterious life that grows more inexplicable with each new lead Matt gains, and each door he enters. As hours turn into days and Caroline’s trail takes Matt from Wisconsin to Minnesota, Illinois, and beyond in search of the cradle, Matt makes a discovery that will forever change Marissa’s life, and faces a decision that will challenge everything he has ever known.

Elegant and astonishing, The Cradle tells the story of one man’s journey into the heart of marriage, parenthood, and what it means to be a family. Confirming the arrival of an exuberantly talented new writer, this uniquely imaginative debut novel radiates with wisdom and wonder.

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About the Author: Patrick Somerville grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later earned his MFA in creative writing from Cornell University. He is the author of the story collection Trouble (Vintage, 2006), and his writing has appeared in One Story, Epoch, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007. He lives with his wife in Chicago and is currently the Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University. This is his first novel.

From the Back Cover: The medication brought on depression, irritability, and insomnia—misery beyond what she had imagined. Yet Laura is willing to endure that and more, if only it will lead to a child. But hope fades with each new phone call—each prognosis another blow to endure. Unwilling to give up until she has seen the last expert on earth, Laura becomes consumed with overcoming her empty arms. But why is it that she seems to struggle alone, while her husband drags his heels at every turn? Isn’t this their dream she’s fighting to fulfill?

Humiliation. For Paul, that word describes the whole unpleasant process. And for what? To achieve a dream no one can guarantee? He and his wife have rewarding careers, common interests and hobbies, nieces and nephews to enjoy. Now all that was good and right and comfortable about their marriage has faded with the realization of this one strike against them. Against him. Paul, feeling he owes his wife something that can never be repaid, simply wants to see Laura smile again. But at what cost?

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About the Author: Joseph Bentz is a professor of Azusa Pacific University. He is the author of Song of Fire and A Son Comes Home. He holds degrees in English as well as a Ph.D. in American Literature from Purdue University. He and his wife have two children and make their home in Southern California.

Yu Hua’s beautiful, heartbreaking novel Cries in the Drizzle follows a young Chinese boy throughout his childhood and adolescence during the reign of Chairman Mao.

The middle son of three, Sun Guanglin is constantly ignored by his parents and his younger and older brothers. Sent away at age six to live with another family, he returns to his parents’ house six years later on the same night that their home burns to the ground, making him even more a black sheep. Yet Sun Guanglin’s status as an outcast, both at home and in his village, places him in a unique position to observe the changing nature of Chinese society, as social dynamics—and his very own family—are changed forever under Communist rule.

With its moving, thoughtful prose, Cries in the Drizzle is a stunning addition to the wide-ranging work of one of China’s most distinguished contemporary writers.

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About the Author: Yu Hua was born in 1960 in Zhejiang, China. He finished high school during the Cultural Revolution and worked as a dentist for five years before beginning to write in 1983. He has published four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. In 2002 Yu Hua became the first Chinese writer to win the prestigious James Joyce Foundation Award. His novel To Live was awarded Italy’s Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1998, and To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant were named two of the last decade’s ten most influential books in China. Yu Hua lives in Beijing.

Allan H. Barr is the translator of a collection of short stories by Yu Hua, and his research on Ming and Qing literature has been published both in the West and in China. He is Professor of Chinese at Pomona College.

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By the Same Author: The Seventh Day (2015, Pantheon Books), among others.

When first published in French in 1881, this novel made its author famous; it is the story of a man who sells his library to provide a dowry for the daughter of his former lover, whom he has “rescued” from an abusive boarding school.

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About the Author: Anatole France (1844-1924) was a writer, critic, one of the major figures of French literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. France’s skepticism appears already in his early works, but later the hostility toward bourgeois values led him to support French Communist Party. In the 1920 his writings were put on the Index of Forbidden Books of the Roman Catholic Church.

Crimson Angels is a touching story of a small town couple going through the adoption process. However, somewhere along the line something went terribly wrong. Crimson Angels is a must-read for anyone interested in international adoption. The story will take the reader along the process. However, the ending may surprise you. Sometimes, things don’t always happen the way they should. About the Author: Susan Turner resides in Augusta, KS, with her husband of seven years. They are the proud parents of two beautiful girls. Emma, is from Russia and Molly, from Kazakhstan. Her and her husband are looking forward to their next trip to Russia to adopt a boy.

From the Dust Jacket: Once Byzantium was the meeting place of East and West, the Holy City where subtle princes, rich merchants, and scheming priests built great monuments to the glory of God and their own ambition. It was the center of the world’s most fearsome empire, greater even than the famed empire of pagan Rome. But now, after centuries of power, the Imperial throne is in danger. The forces of Islam have attacked the Empire’s borders from the East: they have captured Jerusalem, Christianity’s holiest city, and all seems lost. From the West have come Jerusalem’s saviors—the armies of Franks, Normans, and other Christians who are willing to die to reclaim Jerusalem for Christ’s faithful.

But at what price comes their help?

For the people who stand in the midst of this momentous upheaval, the arrival of the Crusaders sounds as a warning klaxon. For Leo Ducas, a man who was once a hairsbreadth away from assuming the Imperial throne but who has rejected that life, they represent hope and danger in equal measure. For his wife, Asherah, the beautiful and haunting Jewess who saved Leo’s life so long ago, the barbarians are nothing but the murderers of her people. And for Binah, their bewitching daughter, a woman who holds the world’s power in her grasp, they are but pawns in her own mysterious game. They will all play a dangerous game to save their homeland, from infidel and barbarian Christian both ... and the things done in their various gods’ names may condemn an entire generation.

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About the Author: Susan Shwartz received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval English from Harvard University. She is the author of Shards of Empire, The Grail of Hearts, and Silk Roads and Shadows, and has been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards.

Shwartz lives in New York City.

From the Dust Jacket: Every family has its trinditions that are passed down through tha generations. The Crossley clan has a long, proud tradition not getting along...

Bridget, Jean, and Sunny Crossley grow up in modest circumstances on Long Island, and all end up in the New York City of the 1980s. Free spirit Bridget, the oldest, is a well-traveled, sometime massage therapist in the East Village. Outspoken and ambitious Jean is a corporate headhunter in double-breasted power suits who lives in a gleaming Upper East Side tower. Harvard-educated Sunny, the youngest and sweetest sister, drifts from eligible boyfriend to eligible boyfriend until she falls for Leon, a Harlem real estate developer, and starts a family.

When Bridget dies unexpectedly during what should have been a routine operation, she leaves behind a ten-month-old girl named Jade. The big question becomes: Who should take the baby? The obvious and expert Sunny, or the never-at-home career woman Jean? The answer is, of course, more complicated than either sister could have anticipated.

Set in the richest and the poorest neighborhoods of New York City in the 1980s, from Manhattan’s sleek corporate hallways to the gritty tenements of Harlem, The Crossley Baby is a novel about the real life of sisters—complete with rivalry, grudges, and abiding love. But at the same time it is a witty, touching, and sharply observed portrait of three women who may not have picked each other as friends, but who connect in unexpected ways as sisters.

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About the Author: Jacqueline Carey is the acclaimed author of Good Gossip and The Other Family. She has written for The New Yorker, Elle, Allure, and is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, writer Ian Frazier, and their two children.

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By the Same Author: Kushiel’s Scion (2006, Warner Books); Kushiel’s Justice (2007, Warner Books); and Kushiel’s Mercy (2008, Grand Central).

Terra is a cultural anthropologist from Boston who travels the world in search of the unknown. Always, she has been on the outside looking in at the villages she visits. She records their way of life, language, and interactions. In a tiny village in Arizona, this all changes. A woman’s death leaves her with two young children to raise on her own. As a non-tribal member, she cannot take them off reservation without other members along for the trip. The village elder persuades her into the center of crumbling village politics. Her knowledge of multiple cultures leads her to want to save this village in any way possible. In so doing, it becomes the home she longed for, and had never found in all her cross-continental travels.

From the Back Cover: Salma has committed a crime punishable by death among her Bedouin tribe: she had sex out of wedlock and became pregnant. To save her from the honor killing waiting for her at the hands of her tribe, Salma is rushed into protective custody where her newborn is seized from her arms, and where she stays for years before being ushered to safety in England. Away from the colors and smells of her village, Salma finds herself culturally dispossessed, under pressure to reassess her values and way of life. But just as she begins to form a new identity, the need to return for her lost daughter overwhelms her, and one fateful day, Salma goes back to find her. It is a journey that will change everything.

Slipping seamlessly from the olive groves of the Levant to the rain-slicked streets of England, The Cry of the Dove is a searing novel of forbidden love, violated honor, and unwavering courage from “a brilliant Jordanian writer” (Malcolm Bradbury, The Telegraph).

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About the Author: Fadia Faqir is the author of two other novels, Nisanit and Pillars of Salt. Brought up in Amman she now lives with her husband in Durham, UK.

From the Back Cover: When the Morrises choose Crystal from all the children in the orphanage, she is full of optimism—at last she has a home to call her own. Karl Morris, her new dad, likes maths as much as she likes science, and he’s already proud of her being a good student. Thelma, her new mom, makes her feel truly wanted for the first time. And though Thelma seems more interested in her television soap operas than in real life, Crystal feels in her heart that their tidy little house will become a real home.

Crystal is especially pleased when the Morrises approve of her first boyfriend. But she will soon discover that in her new home, sadness is banished to the back of a closet ... and that means no one is prepared when a shocking tragedy comes rattling at the door.

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About the Author: Virginia Cleo Andrews, who became a bestselling author with the publication of her breakthrough novel, Flowers in the Attic, in 1979, died in 1986. Since then, new books, written by a “carefully selected writer, inspired by her genius,” have been published under her moniker(s) by her estate. The ghostwriter has since been identified as thriller novelist Andrew Neiderman.

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By the Same Author: Tarnished Gold (1996); Butterfly (1998); Brooke (1998); Raven (1998); Runaways (1998); Cat (1999); Into the Garden (1999); Rain (2000); Lightning Strikes (2000); Willow (2002); Hidden Leaves (2003); Child of Darkness (2005); Daughter of Darkness (2010, Gallery Books); Secret Brother (2015, Gallery Books); and Sage’s Eyes (2016, Gallery Books), among many others.

From the Publisher: Miss Morrison always writes of people whom we feel we would like to meet, and those in this intriguing story of, at first thwarted, and, later, fulfilled, maternal love are no exceptions.

The story begins in the early years of this present century when the laws concerning the adoption of children were non-existent, and we start with a heroine who owns to forty years, a despairing husband and a yet unborn child.

Round that trio of unsuspecting persons Miss Morrison has woven this absorbing story, which, while it has many moments of both humour and pathos, is, above all, a story of human happiness and achievement.

Henry, the cuckoo—a fact completely unknown and unsuspected by himself—becomes world-famous, and for the explanation of how and when Maisie, his supposed mother, discovers and forgives the deception practised upon herself we recommend our readers to find out for themselves, and read The Cuckoo.

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About the Author: Margaret Morrison regards writing as her “Jubilee Career” for she wrote her first novel at fifty and has been writing steadily ever since. Her output of novels and children’s stories rivals that of many much younger writers. And her popularity is constantly growing at a time when many authors are reaching the “falling off” stage. It is perhaps quite possible that the secret of her success is that she doesn’t mind growing old. In fact, she says that life becomes more interesting as the years go by. In her early life Miss Morrison was a nurse and during the First World War she was awarded the Royal Red Cross for her services. It is difficult to pinpoint Miss Morrison’s interests. She seems to be interested in everything. But her main hobbies are domestic and it is not surprising to learn from those who have sampled her hospitality that she is an expert cook. Miss Morrison is a typical example of the untypical woman—successful at everything she turns her hand to.

From the Back Cover: Marcelle, born at the close of World War I, carries her father’s surname—along with the shame of illegitimacy. Her daughter Sophie, born during the throes of World War II, believes her childhood nightmares are over when she moves to the US—but finds them reoccurring once her mother calls her to France to honor her deathbed request: “Find my father.” Sophie’s American friend Kate, who agrees to help Sophie search for her grandfather, harbors her own dark secrets from the Vietnam War—unbeknownst to Sophie.

As Sophie and Kate struggle to resolve the issues of Marcelle’s past, their own paths become inextricably intertwined—and they begin to lay bare the truth of their lives.

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About the Author: Carole Bumpus, a retired family therapist, writes a food/travel blog taken from excerpts of her interviews with French and Italian families, known as Savoring the Olde Ways. She has been published in both the U.S. and France for her articles on WWII veterans and has also been published in three short story anthologies: Fault Zone: Words from the Edge, Fault Zone: Stepping up to the Edge and Fault Zone: Over the Edge. A Cup of Redemption, her first historical novel, is loosely based on an elderly French woman’s final request to find a father she never knew and the two women who, in their search, find they, too, are struggling with their own travails of wartime legitimacy.

Nick Santinelli, driver of a New York City street sweeper, steers the powerful machine around a corner and sees a cardboard box lying in the gutter just ahead. He stops the vehicle, puts it in park and steps out to investigate. Once in a while something useful could be found in someone else’s trash, or so he believes. The box moves and his first impression is that someone abandoned a bunch of puppies. He picks it up and unfolds the lids over the sides and what he sees inside shocks him. “Holy Christmas! What the hell? You cute little guy. How in the world did you get in there?” Inside the filthy box, on a padding of foam, is a sleeping new born baby. Nick races home; only blocks from his route. Along with his girlfriend who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, they lovingly raise the boy they name Curby. Three years later, Sandy, as expected, passes away. Without a birth certificate for the three-year-old, Nick can’t prove the boy is his. He battles the court and the temporary caretaker vying for full custody of the child.