Lily is haunted by memories--of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu ("women's writing"). They painted letters...

After a comedy of errors on Christmas Eve, a five-month pregnant woman, traveling to Cedar Cove to search for her child's father--who doesn't know she's pregnant--finds herself lodging in an apartment above a barn. The residents of Cedar Grove come to her rescue as an early labor begins.

Four years after leaving the Amish community to marry an outsider and live in Baltimore, Anna Mae McDonough, expecting her first child, returns with her husband at Christmas in hope of a reconciliation with the family that shunned her.

A family of tiny people experiences a crisis when a baby is born during a snowstorm.

During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a six-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life. During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota....

"Peep can't wait for Egg to hatch. They will have so much fun together! But Egg isn't quite ready...yet"--

A plain and simple Christmas: Anna Mae was shunned by her family four years ago when she left her Amish community to marry a non-Amish man in Baltimore. She arrives back in Lancaster County for Christmas. Is it too late for a miracle? She's determined to follow God's will regardless of the outcome. Naomi's gift: Part of a family-oriented Amish community, twenty-four-year-old Naomi King has given up her dreams of finding true love. But when a young...

"An ordinary day in an ordinary neighborhood turns out to be extraordinary in this story about new life, death, and family"--

Caillou is curious about how he was born. When Daddy explains, Caillou realizes with surprise that he was once a baby, but Daddy was once a baby too! Caillou becomes more determined than ever to be just ilke his daddy.

Rhymed text describes the excitement of a little girl awaiting the arrival of her new sister.