fiction

Jesus weeps for the poor cow locked out of the barn on that cold Nativity night, and though a helpless baby He works a way to bring the cow into the warmth.

Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.

A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.

The quest for the Holy Grail is postponed again when Ailis is kidnapped by Morgain the sorceress, and her friends, Newt and Gerard, must leave the court of King Arthur seeking to rescue her, accompanied by a grumbling knight.

"A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"--.

"A novel about the death of Marilyn Monroe"--.

Rudi Friemel, a soldier with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, is captured and eventually sent to Auschwitz where he petitions and is granted permission to marry his sweetheart Marga, the mother of his child.

The Sister probes into the unknown life of Emily Dickinson. Revealing her tense relationship with her parents, her hidden passions and aspirations, the men in her life, and her secret views on religion and love, all seen through the eyes of her younger sister Lavinia. Drawn from authentic journals, documents, and letters from the Dickinson family, The Sister fills in a vital missing piece of the jigsaw, getting us closer to understanding the enigma that is Emily Dickinson.

Lydia Bennet, the younger sister of "Pride and Prejudice's" Elizabeth Bennet, believes George Wickham is the man of her dreams, but she soon realizes reality is not a fairy tale and happily ever after may come from unexpected places.

Tom, a fifteen-year-old with amnesia living on the streets in Canada, plays a role in a First Nations father's search for his son and struggles to make his way to a performance of the opera "The Magic Flute," which holds a key to his past.