Fourteen-year-old Lizzie knows what she's not. She's not at home in her new house on the other side of town, after an incident with a neighbor forced her family to move. She's not ready to say goodbye to the wild apple tree in her old backyard, or to her older brother, who just left home for his first semester of college. She's definitely not happy to be taking women's self-defense with her sworn-enemy PE teacher. And unlike her best friend--and seemingly...

"Cindy Woodsmall's latest book For Every Season concludes the remarkable love story and the choice Rhoda Byler must make between brothers Jacob and Samuel King"--

Twelve-year-old Al Schneider is used to holding things in. She lives right across the hall from her best friend, Leo, and even he doesn't know anything about her crushes on girls or her sneaking suspicion that she poops more than anyone else on the planet. So when Al is diagnosed with Crohn's disease, she figures it's just one more thing to keep to herself. After all, who want to talk about what you do in the bathroom? The problem is, the more Al...

When Athena Greydon's fiance ends their engagement a month before the wedding, she has no choice but to pack up her few possessions and move into the Spite House she recklessly bought him as a wedding gift. Which is a real problem, for several key reasons: The house is only ten feet wide. Her ex's home is literally attached to hers. And Dr. Matthew Vine the Freaking Third - AKA the uptight, judgy jerk who convinced his younger brother to leave her...

Middle school is a dungeon. At least, that's how Jess sees it. Luckily, she and her best friend, Olivia, know how to escape into the sprawling worlds of their own imaginations. The two friends have always loved making up stories, first with little-kid games of make-believe, and more recently with the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. When they play, Olivia runs the game as Dungeon Master, and Jess is the solo party member, playing a take-no-prisoners...

Selah knows her rules for being normal. And she always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to tear off her normal person mask the second she gets home from school and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it. Until the...

An army widow at twenty-one, Heather Clarke has spent the past three years running her aunt's quilt store, raising her twin girls alone and earning a degree in landscape horticulture. Finally, she's launching her new career and starting to feel as though she's on solid ground. Then Rick Slater rides onto her job site.

One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants—some of whom have barely spoken to each other—become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel,

In "Vixen in Velvet," the high-born Victoria trades places with a tavern maid to avoid an arranged marriage, and in "Whitefire," Katerina, seeking vengeance against the marauders who destroyed her village, finds an ally in her sworn enemy.

Holding down the hated Fort Misery deep in Arizona Territory, Captain Peter Joseph Kellerman and the men under his command stand their ground against the most wanted outlaw on both sides of the border who has raised an army to slaughter every man wearing Union Blue.