In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone,...

Examines the Borden murders, using newspaper articles to recreate the events and the trial and acquittal of Lizzie Borden and exploring Lizzie's story to theorize on what may have happened.

At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline.

What if you could see inside the head of the guy you love? Know his every thought? Feel his every dream and fantasy? The mystery girl who's Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn can. She tells us the intoxicating story of her beloved Gideon, an adorably clueless boy who flukes his way into New England's fanciest prep school. Gideon's naïve compared to the wolves at Midvale Academy, especially Cullen and Nicholas, his charming, morally ambiguous roommates....

At a fancy New England prep school, Molly tries to break up her ex-boyfriend Gideon's new relationship with sexy classmate Pilar after Molly finds herself inside the head of Pilar, hearing her innermost thoughts.

"From the author of The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets and The Borden Murders comes the absorbing and compulsively readable story of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins who were the sensation of the US sideshow circuits in the 1920s and1930s. In a story loaded with questions about identity and exploitation, Sarah Miller delivers a completely compelling, empathetic portrait of two sisters whose bonds were so sacred that nothing--not...

"A simple life of faith and love was all that Mary wanted. Life in the Amish community of Faith's Creek is a mixture of joy and despair for Mary Beachey. Her courting years were spent caring for her elderly parents; now all she has is her job at the school. Teaching is a joy, but her nights are spent alone with no children of her own. She loves the Christian values of her simple life but sometimes it can be dark and lonely, until she spot a new man...

"Emma works tirelessly for an Englischer clothing factory but she's barely making ends meet. The only thing that makes her happy is painting. Blacksmith Jesse King is new to Faith's Creek and is settling in, if only the women of the community would stop trying to court him. One day, he spots a lovely young woman walking with her hands full of painting supplies. When she drops everything he offers to help and give her a ride home. Jesse is intrigued...