For most Americans, Thanksgiving is a day to gather with friends andfamily and share in the heavenly bounty that has been bestowed uponthem; except of course, for the first Americans, whose idea of thatparticular holiday might not be quite so romantic.
Book SummaryFully capable and fiercely independent at the age of seventy-four, Marjorie Palmer is unexpectedly reunited with her wayward daughters-in-law, Sandra and Kate, to perform a rather unpleasant task.
A fictional planet of three countries, developing from the Cave Man era through to a civilization, capable of firing objects into orbit around the planet, for future readers.
After their father is killed in an accident on the lake, ten-year-old twins Phil and Will are separated from each other when Will is kidnapped by child traffickers.
Richard Malone and Caroline Sue Miller are born on the same day to parents who live on opposite sides of the societal fences in a small coal-mining town of western Pennsylvania.
In 1928, the Barre families of Texas and rural Louisiana are all that remain of the once aristocratic and wealthy La Barre family of Louisiana plantation owners.
A rural English family endures as the Great War ends—and more storm clouds loom—in this saga from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Avenue novels.
The Civil War alters life for a Louisiana plantation mistress and a poor seamstress in this novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of Jubilee Trail.
The New York Times-bestselling author of Jubilee Trail does "e;a grand job of storytelling"e; in this saga of pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness (The New York Times).
This New York Times bestseller set during the American Revolution is "e;an exciting tale of love and war in the tradition of Gone with the Wind"e; (Chicago Tribune).
The New York Times bestseller that brings to life the passionate, adventurous men and women who transformed San Francisco during the California Gold Rush.
The New York Times-bestselling author of Jubilee Trail does "e;a grand job of storytelling"e; in this saga of pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness (The New York Times).
The Civil War alters life for a Louisiana plantation mistress and a poor seamstress in this novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of Jubilee Trail.
Two books in one: Irwin Shaw's bestselling Rich Man, Poor Man and Beggarman, Thief chronicle one family's struggle with the forces of change after WWII.
The rarefied realm of opera comes alive in the story of a diva torn between passion and ambitionShe is Kavalaris the most magnificent singer ever to grace the international operatic stage.
This epic novel of a wide-eyed missionary and a rebellious woman thrust into China's Communist revolution is "e;an excellent read, panoramic in scope"e; (Financial Times).
This "e;ambitious"e; New York Times bestseller tells the multigenerational saga of a Russian-Jewish family who emigrates to America and eventually Israel (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
The interlocking lives of five Hollywood leading ladies spawn "e;tragedies, dark doings, jealousies, murder, passion on the grand scale"e; (Chicago Tribune).
Two families are united-and torn apart-by the Civil War in these three dramatic novels by the #1 New York Times-bestselling master of the historical epic.