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In this gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called “propulsive” and a “must-read” (Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace’s past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart.

The extraordinary story of Sabine Zuur, a beautiful, young Dutch resistance fighter who spent over two years in three concentration camps during World War Two, told by her daughter using an astonishing archive of personal letters After her mother’s death, Eva Taylor discovered an astounding...

How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? If you're the US Army in 1944, you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That's not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we've been given, but it's the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do.

The young and beautiful Isabel Archer finds herself suddenly wealthy beyond her imagination thanks to her devoted uncle. Sought after by many suitors and yet determined not to marry any of them, Isabel embarks on a journey of self-discovery throughout Europe, only to find herself drawn to the charming and clever Gilbert Osmond. Through betrayal and heartache, Isabel not only learns what she truly wants out of life but also just how strong she really is.

Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: He was worried about his underwear, which was engaged in a relentless crawl of its own. Sheer Misery trains a humane and unsparing eye on the corporeal experiences of the soldiers who fought in Belgium, France, and Italy during the last two years of the war.

Magda Trudell is the present-day caretaker of Whimbrel Estate, the Key West home of the famous poet Isobel Reyes. Isobel's suicide at the residence in 1918 has nearly overshadowed her creative legacy, but Magda, a botanist and avid historian, is determined to protect it. Over the past decade, Magda has lovingly restored the house to the exact condition Isobel would have known. And even though a fierce October hurricane is headed straight for the Keys, she isn't about to abandon her life's work to evacuate.

Abandoned at birth, her family roots a mystery, historical museum curator Sloane Kelley has dedicated her life to making sure others know theirs. When a donor drops off a dusty old satchel, she doesn't expect much from the common artifact...until she finds real treasure inside: a 19th-century diary. Now she's on the hunt to find out more.

This audiobook contains 45 selected passages from the Book of Mormon, chosen for their focus on the core doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each passage is prefaced by a brief introduction, identifying the circumstances of the sermon, prophecy, or vision. The selected passage is then read by one of seven narrators - men and women of a variety of ages.

In the heart of Vienna, 12-year-old Sarah Ann Reisende wanders into a mysterious shop where snow globes double as portals to other worlds. After breaking the globe tethered to Earth, she discovers a cryptic note scribbled on the back of a photograph. The note links her father, who left before her third birthday, to a place called Elohi. Could this be a chance to find her father at last?

Mornings with Jesus, an annual 365-day devotional by Guideposts, will inspire you, comfort you, and delight you. Spend 2022 reflecting on daily devotions that show God's unchanging love and faithfulness. In just five minutes a day, Mornings with Jesus 2022 will help you experience a closer...

If you thought community gardening was nothing but pulling weeds and planting seeds think again. In this fresh and delightful debut, Christy Wilhelmi shows that there’s more to gardening than merely keeping pests at bay … Each time Lizzie steps through the gates of the Vista Mar Community...

At the age of 94, Maggie Howard’s final wish is to return to San Francisco and find out what happened to the young man who saved her life in 1906 after the disastrous earthquake and fires that devastated the city. The morning of their rescue, Orlando Gallo promised he would find her again. But Maggie hasn’t seen or heard from him in over 70 years, and now, widowed and childless, Maggie hopes to leave her estate to Orlando’s descendants. She invites her neighbor to travel with her, and as the two women return to San Francisco to track down Orlando, they form a strong friendship.

The Tuttle twins and their team of heroes tackle a new quest in an adventure game that they soon begin to realize is closer to reality than they might have guessed. A magical battle against the forces of Leviathan and its Idol turns out to be packed with lessons for what’s happening in the world around them.

In 1944 London, Anne Billings is off to meet Ken, a dashing American bomber pilot, when she and her four-year-old son, Tommy, get caught in an air raid. Anne clutches Tommy's hand as they run for the nearest shelter. In a terrifying blast, Tommy is swept away, and Anne is blown into the air...landing, near death, in New York's Central Park. When she awakens in the hospital, she has no memory. It is 2008. The handsome Dr. Jon Miles falls for the mysterious Anne, and he attempts to help her as she begins to remember her true identity.

Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel takes place over the course of a single June day in the lives of some very different Londoners: wealthy society hostess Clarissa Dalloway, who is preparing for a party; her old friend Peter Walsh, recently returned from India, whose proposal of marriage Clarissa rejected years ago; Septimus Warren Smith, a WWI veteran suffering from shell shock; and his Italian-born wife, Rezia, who is trying to care for him as best she can. Woolf's beautiful prose captures the minds and souls of these vivid characters.

Eve Sawyer is expecting a fun summer vacation until the chef at a popular food truck is attacked. But he’s not the only victim...Chef Blake Conway has been stirring up the locals with his campaign for a plastics ban on the quaint town’s littered beach. When Eve’s friend Cassie takes her to visit Blake’s crêpe food truck and they discover he’s being rushed to the hospital, the college journalism student can’t just stand by, especially after Cassie’s beach house is burglarized.

In this brief introduction to the second half of the book of Alma, philosopher Mark Wrathall painstakingly works out the logic of Alma s understanding of faith, justice, mercy, and the final judgment and restoration of all things, encouraging listeners to receive salvation today.

An essential listen for parents and teens navigating mental health issues...There is no simple fix with a kiss to the forehead. Will Jackson learn to hear the chatter in his head and know what to do about it? Will love and hope prevail? With unwavering empathy, Jackson is a bold and unforgettable story of a family navigating through the terrifying waters of mental illness. Jackson's battle to take control over his own mind and life portrays what millions of people are fighting around the world: Mental illness.

The Orphan’s Daughter is suspenseful literary fiction about a girl who grows up in the shadow of her charismatic but troubled father, a man shaped by his boyhood in a Depression-era Jewish orphanage. The two life stories are woven together to form the fabric of this funny and fast-paced novel.... Clyde Aronson survives the cruelties of the seemingly bucolic orphanage but is left scarred. Brilliant and self-destructive, a popular high-school teacher and a callous womanizer, he yearns for a son to replace the relationship lost when his father abandoned him.

When it comes to our healthcare, we all want the same thing: the care we need, when we need it from people we choose, at a price we can afford. Americans are confused about how to achieve this. Why must all Americans have the same healthcare structure? If Californians want a single-payer system, if Texans want market-based medicine, and if New Yorkers want Obamacare, why should Washington say no to 86 million Americans?