Patrick Collins is seven years old, and on his Christmas list are only three items. He wants the army to find his father. He wants to leave his grandfather's house. And, for reasons even he doesn't understand, he wants the soldier that's tucked away in his grandfather's attic.Set at Christmastime in 1943, The Unfinished Gift tells in an engaging, simple style the story of a ...

Manufacturer: Revell
Written By: Dan Walsh

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition™ includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader enjoy the characters and situations as Austen intended and not merely as relics of a long-past era.Jane’s Austen’s delightfully scathing satire on class, pride, and proper behavior is as beloved today as it was when first published in 1813. The long road that ...

Manufacturer: Prestwick House Inc.
Written By: Jane Austen

Praise for Lye in Wait, the first Home Crafting Mystery:"McRae crafts strong characters [and] spins a credible, enjoyable plot." —Library Journal"[A] wonderful start to a mystery series." —Cozy Library Wine jelly. Watermelon pickles. And a suicidal stalker? Great.Thirty-something crafter extraordinaire ...

Manufacturer: Midnight Ink
Written By: Cricket McRae

As the Industrial Revoltion sweeps across the land, three adventuresome women will be transformed when they become "mill girls"Daughter of the Loom--Forced to work in the mill as her only means of survival, Lilly Armbruster is deeply resentful of the powerful mill owners she believes forced her father's premature death. Lily is torn, however, when she discovers her one-time ...

Manufacturer: Bethany House
Written By: Tracie Peterson, Judith Miller

As Uniform Justice opens, Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a parent's worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, ...

Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
Written By: Donna Leon

EVERYONE DREAMS OF FINDING BURIED TREASURE, and that is why Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is such an enduring classic. Treasure Island, published in 1883, gave Stevenson his first popular success, and it's easy to see why it remains a favorite of readers of all ages. The tale of young Jim Hawkins and his unlikely band of adventurers strikes at the very heart of our own ...

Manufacturer: Prestwick House, Inc.
Written By: Robert Louis Stevenson

As he grows into manhood, Josh Jones faces important questions about life, love, and faith. Includes Once Upon a Summer, The Winds of Autumn, Winter is Not Forever, and Spring's Gentle Promise.

Manufacturer: Bethany House Publishers
Written By: Janette Oke

Donna Leon’s eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon’s best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also violent crime and political ...

Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
Written By: Donna Leon

Zodiac, the brilliant second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the The Baroque Cycle and Snow Crash, is now available from Grove Press. Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil—all too ...

Manufacturer: Grove Press
Written By: Neal Stephenson

When purple-haired Mayla Strong slumps into the back pew of Mama's little country church she has only one goal - to get Mama off her back. But Pastor Paul's message pierces her soul, and almost before she knows what's happening she's in front of the congregation, lip stud and all, praying the prayer that changes her life forever. She is baptized on the spot, wearing Mama's slip under her white ...

Manufacturer: Kregel Publications
Written By: Virginia Smith