Tells the story of black, eleven-year old Pecola Breedlove. She prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blonde, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom, Pecola's life changes in painful, devastating ways.

Nell Dysart's boring life is spiced up when she begins working for a small detective agency and finds herself involved in a baffling case.

"Some Amish men don't know what's good for them. That's what Millie Fisher told herself when young Ben Baughman set his heart on marrying Tess Lieb. With Tess's father refusing to give his blessing and Tess's ex-boyfriend being a wet blanket, the hapless couple was bound to butt heads more than Millie's Boer goats. But when Ben tragically dies in a mysterious fire, Millie wonders if someone in her hometown of Harvest, Ohio, wanted Ben out of the wedding...

"Quilter and widow Millie Fisher must help the man she is sweet on, Uriah Schrock, prove his late sister's innocence in the murder of her husband by stitching together the clues to find the truth"--

Ruth Byler has never failed at anything in her life, but Zach Bender is going to test the limits of her heart.

A student at heart, Ruth is finally a teacher at the Amish schoolhouse. But after her first day, she wonders if she’s made a mistake. The students want nothing to do with learning. Deflated, she makes a promise to herself to not give up—not yet.

When Zach comes to fix a repair at the schoolhouse, he

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Widower Eustace Byler. who stands out in his Amish community for his eccentricity and wealth, wonders if he can ever come to terms with his son's very different life choices.

This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines -- from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation. The one, Nel Wright, chooses to stay in the place of her birth, to marry, to raise a family, to become a pillar of the tightly knit black community. The other, Sula Peace, rejects all that Nel has accepted. She escapes to college,...

When Amish wife Moriah Byler is abandoned by her husband, she fears that she'll never find a man of his word. What Moriah doesn't know is that Levi's twin, Gabriel, has loved her for years. Moriah must learn to accept his love so that she can be made whole again.

After the murder of a young girl sends her over the edge, Homicide Detective Scarlett Bishop teams up with former Army Ranger Marcus O'Bannion, a champion of victims' rights, to take down a powerful underground ring that deals in human trafficking.

When the leader of the Elkhart Ghost Getters winds up dead, and Kate Wilder, a member of the League of Literary Ladies, is accused of the crime due to her known hatred of the man, the other League members band together to prove her innocence.