Ruth Hostettler believes her dream of being a wife and mother is finally coming true after she marries Martin Gingerich, but when the attacks on her family's farm take a violent turn, Ruth's future is destroyed, leaving her questioning her faith and purpose.

""You're so exotic!!" "You look so unusual." "But what are you really?" Eleven-year-old Isabella - whose father is black and mother is white - is used to these kinds of comments, but it doesn't mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along WORSE THAN EVER), Isabella feels like a push-me-pull-me toy. Being split between Mom and Dad is more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: It's switching...

Summer, whose bright future as a dancer has recently been destroyed by an injury, begins to understand the meaning of her father's advice to travel light, and learns the intensity of real love and devotion, as she watches her brother Todd slowly die of AIDS.

What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working...

"Bestselling Author Duo Delivers Heart-Stirring Drama Jack Livingston has been raising his nine-year-old adopted niece, Natalie, since the accident that took her parents' lives. While he travels for work, Natalie is lovingly cared for by Laura, an Amish nanny who loves her as her own. Kelly Maines is nearing the end of her rope. Her baby was kidnapped, the apparent victim of a black market adoption ring, and for eight years, Kelly has tirelessly pursued...

"In the 1950s, Ellie and Brick are teenagers in love. A basketball star, Brick could escape his abusive father and be the first person in his working-class family to go to college. But when Ellie becomes pregnant, they marry, she gives up her dream of nursing school, and Brick gets a union card instead. This riveting novel tells the story of three generations in a working-class family; especially Brick and Ellie's daughter Samantha. Illuminating issues...

What to Keep looks into the lives of Denny Roman, her mother, her father, her stepfather, and her surrogate mother--all practicing variations on the theme "parent" but none of them quite done being children themselves.

Struggling with cultural divisions in a Cleveland suburb mostly populated by Indian Americans, lonely forty-something Harit dresses up in a sari to comfort his grief-stricken mother before befriending a woman who writes paranormal romances to manage her fears about her husband's affair.

When a World War II veteran returns home he struggles with self-doubt as his wife and children have changed, his successful business is gone, and he questions how to face the future.