Smuggling pages from a forbidden book is a small act of defiance against Queen Elizabeth I, but it entangles Joan Pryce in a plot that may cost her both her heart and her life. Joan is not only Catholic--her beliefs outlawed by the queen--but also Welsh, a people long oppressed by the English. When Joan's father dies, she is cast out from her home. Nicholas, the childhood friend she was supposed to marry, is a cold stranger, disfigured by an accident...

Two brothers brave a whirlwind summer in this taut and luminous coming-of-age novel. A twelve-year-old boy lives with his family in a small, poverty-stricken town in Vermont. His father works at a manufacturing plant, his mother is a homemaker, and his fifteen-year-old brother is about to enter high school. His family has gained enough financial stability to move out of the nearby trailer park, and as conflict rages abroad, his father's job at a weapons...

Enjoy again a tale of friendship, faith and finding your destiny in this classic women's fiction novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. They were sisters once. In a more innocent time, three girls enter the convent. Angelina, Kathleen and Joanna come from very different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common-the desire to join a religious order and serve as best they can. Despite the seclusion of the convent house in...

Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time.
For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was...

Offers excerpts of Pope Francis' homilies, speeches, and addresses, and provides the reader space to reflect on his words.

Adapted from Thomas Maier's highly acclaimed novel, we follow the Kennedys and Fitzgeralds' extraordinary lives in an American saga of the Irish-Catholic experience.

Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates.