"From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them ..." So begins David Hayden' s story of what happened in Montana in 1948. The events of that cataclysmic summer permanently alter twelve-year-old David' s understanding of his family: his father, a small-town sheriff; his remarkably strong mother; David' s uncle Frank,...

A story from an author's childhood of lovingly making fruitcakes from scratch at Christmas-time with his elderly cousin, and has stood the test of time to become known as an American holiday classic.

Eric Moore's perfect life begins to crumble around him when his teenage son Keith is implicated in the disappearance of a neighbor's eight-year-old daughter, and as Eric struggles to clear Keith's name, he begins to wonder if his son is really as innocent as he claims.

In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Trevor's bankrupt parents have begun a trial separation, and his father, Jones Riddell, has brought Trevor to Riddell House for the summer with the goal of selling off the house and property for development into "tract housing for millionaires." But Trevor soon discovers there's someone else living in Riddell House: a ghost with an agenda of his own. As...

In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960's, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sister who inhabits her own secret world, the boy takes his amusements where...

In the aftermath of the long breakup of her marriage, Neve Halloran and her teenage daughter Mickey are making a new life together amid the austere beauty of Rhode Island's South County. There they meet a lonely boy, and a man who has devoted his life to the nearby wildlife sanctuary.

On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly, leaving his wife, brother, and young son to deal with his sudden death.

A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raisesd as a pet.

The Cecil family travels by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming.

The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young man's coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature.
A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better...