Susan Meissner
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A heartrending story about a young mother's fight to keep her daughter and the winds of fortune that tear them apart, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the War. California, 1938--When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser's daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert's...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Language
English
Description
"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries...and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she's made. Will what she learns...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Annaliese Lange and Simone Deveraux cross the Atlantic to join their American husbands after the war, but their troubled pasts lead Annaliese to disappear during the voyage, as seventy years later a friend of Simone's discovers the truth about Annaliese's disappearance.
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being left at the altar, Daisy Murien opens a secondhand wedding dress boutique, where a retired Episcopal priest blesses the tiny, blue satin heart she sews into each gown, but when the priest falls ill, Daisy begins to understand why she has never sold her own dress.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub. Date
uuuu
Physical Desc
416 pages pages ; 206 x 130 mm
Language
English
Description
She stood at a crossroads, half-aware that her choice would send her down a path from which there could be no turning back. But instead of two choices, she saw only one--because it was all she really wanted to see ... Current day, Oxford, England. Young American scholar Kendra Van Zant, eager to pursue her vision of a perfect life, interviews Isabel McFarland just when the elderly woman is ready to give up secrets about the war that she has kept for...
Author
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Marielle marries Carson Bishop and moves into Holly Oaks, his dead wife's Virginia family home, she investigates stories that the house is haunted by her ancestress, Susannah Page, who is rumored to have been a Civil War spy.
Author
Series
The men of Lancaster County volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Matthew and Amanda Zook discover an old but beautifully ornate clock. After examining it, they discover a secret that indicates it belonged to the Amish clockmaker Clayton Raber, who, fifty years earlier, was arrested for the murder of his wife, despite his claims of innocence. Can they help him now?"--
12) The Amish groom
Author
Series
Men of Lancaster County volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tyler Anderson, raised by his Amish grandparents after the death of his ex-Amish mother, pays a visit to his father in California that leads him to question his Amish lifestyle, and his future with the girl awaiting his proposal.
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Based on real history and alternating between three perspectives, When We Had Wings tells [a] ... story of heroic service, perseverance in the darkest of days, and the hope of the human spirit"--