WINNER David Unaipon Award. First released in 1993, this historical thriller was a national success. '...excellent characterisations and a seasoning of racial and sexual tension...' Sydney Sun-Herald.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be, comes a novel about buried secrets and the redemptive power of forgiveness—includes a special ...
The Sweetness of Water: 'Better Than Any Debut Novel Has a Right to Be' Richard Russo
While journeying to find a remedy for her mother's illness, Celia and her grumpy dog Brumble encounter strange and threatening characters who have never known kindness.
In this brilliant, luminous novel, one of our finest realist writers gives us a story of surpassing depth and emotional power.
The water swallowed her, the edge of the ice cut through her mitten and into her fingers. Coldness enveloped her. Her lungs sucked in a mouthful of water. She kicked hard, and the water opened to air. She coughed, sputtering, reaching ...
In 1891 in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, two young women stand at a crossroads.
Spurned by her ex-fiancé, Tara Sweet moves back to her childhood home of Otter Bay California, finding friends and a new flame in firefighter Josh, but also dredging up shocking family secrets that test her unwavering faith. Original.
This book is a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural South.
A literary detective story in which the expatriate writer Henry James's clandestine visits to a water spa in Vermont are discovered one summer by the hotel's current owners, a biographer and hose trainer.
Welcome to the world of Harmony, where—despite its name, things are anything but—danger lurks just beneath the surface in this new novel by New York Times bestselling author, Jayne Castle.