Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgivi...
Winter Promise (Seasons of the Heart (Martha Rogers), #3) (Seasons of the Heart, #3)
by Martha Rogers
Coming from California (The Pioneer Brides of Rattlesnake Ridge, #2)
by Catherine Bilson and Sweet Promise Press
When mysterious incidents begin occurring on a moor in Yorkshire, an old friend begs Drew for help. At first it seems to be simply bad luck--fires started, livestock scattered--but then the vicar is murdered. As danger closes in, Drew and Madeline must determine what's really going on and find the killer before it's too late.
Austen in Austin (Austen in Austin, #2)
by Suzie Johnson, Niki Turner, and Dina Sleiman
Un Sermon à la Ville (Trois Sermons Sous Louis XV, #2)
by Felix Bungener
Joseph's Dream is a biographical novel based on the life of Joseph Trumpeldor. After losing his left arm in the Siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War, and being deported from the little kibbutz he retired to afterwards, Joseph Trumpeldor volunteers to lead a brigade of Jewish soldiers on the Turkish Front of World War I. Will the Allies force the Turks out of the Land of Israel before the Jews there suffer the fate of the Armenians? Will Joseph ever make his way back? Will his gir...
