Moving to Devonshire only to discover that the village matriarch has prohibited all dancing, London dance master Alec Valcourt finds an unlikely ally in the matriarch's daughter, a recklessly flirtatious girl who would discover Alec's secrets.

In Appalachia and the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century, fifteen-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow leads her farm family through a series of challenges and hard-won triumphs.

When city dweller John McCall finds himself searching for a missing child in the High Sierras, he meets Penny Scott, a country woman comfortable in the woods, and the two are kidnapped by a powerful, ruthless man.

Lilly plans to take revenge against the wealthy mill owners for her father's death and stealing his farm until she discovers Matthew Cheever is involved.

"Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go"--

"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...

A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community--Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted--and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and Odell want to break loose and taste life's wild side, without...

As Alina Dziak dreams of her fianc�e, Tomasz, returning from college for their wedding, invading Nazi forces take hold of her rural Polish village, dividing the town's families by fear and hate.

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery...

"When Karlina Richter discovers that a new shepherd will be sent to her village, she fears that she'll no longer be allowed to help her father with the sheep. She'll be relegated back to kitchen work, stuck inside all day. Her fears increase when the new shepherd shows little interest in the flock -- or in divulging why he's suddenly been sent East. Is he keeping secrets that will impact Karlina's family?" --P. [4] of cover.