Finalist for the National Book Award: The mesmerizing saga of a Texas family torn apart by passion and pride Twelve years after Hannah Hunnicutt was committed to a Dallas asylum, her body is brought home to northeast Texas to be buried alongside those of her husband and son. Etched on all three gravestones is the same date of death: May 28, 1939.   Home from the Hill is the story of that tragic day and the dramatic events leading up to it. The biggest...

As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.

When Susan Morris buys a glass goldfinch bottle from a desperate young man, she thinks she is merely adhering to her aunt's admonition to "buy something pretty" for herself. Instead, she has just taken the first step toward the change in her life she has longed for-an adventure, a purpose, and love. Daire Grassick is the only member of his family who has failed in their glassblowing business-failed in business altogether. He has failed so badly he...

Story of the early days of San Francisco and the owner and people of the Shining Light saloon.

A Woman of the Night…Her husband left behind a bankrupt estate when he died, but Sylvia, Lady Montgomery, won't allow the villagers who depend on her to starve. She leads their smuggling operation, even as she endeavors to come up with a safer alternative for their livelihood. A Rogue on the Prowl…Now that Tony Sinclair's elder brother, the earl, has returned from war and relieved him of familial responsibilities, Tony is free to do … something....

"In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protegee of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school lessons, her writing instructor, Tetsuko, encourages Ichi...

This recreates a turbulent period in American history witnessed through the lives of its most notorious figures & explores the changing attitudes toward women, minorities, religion, & sexuality in 19th century America.

"Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childhood, which launches her across the world to the heart of Berlin just before the wall comes tumbling down"--

The Acclaimed Trilogy That Has Been Called a Must-Read for Fans of Downton Abbey A generation has been lost on the Western Front. The dead have been buried, a harsh peace forged, and the howl of shells replaced by the wail of saxophones as the Jazz Age begins. But ghosts linger-that long-ago golden summer of 1914 tugging at the memory of Martin Rilke and his British cousins, the Grevilles. From the countess to the chauffeur, the inhabitants of Abingdon...

In this irresistible historical novel set in the turbulent world of the Medicis, a young woman finds herself driven from pick-pocketing to espionage when she meets a mysterious man.-- NoveList.