Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from life-immersing herself in a high-powered job-until the day the company downsizes her out of a job and the doctor tells her that she may have cancer. It's a double blow that sends Karen on a search for herself in the last place she ever thought to look: Grandma Rose's old farm. As Karen's hectic schedule falls away, she opens up to the unexpected. In the quiet of the Missouri Ozarks, she hears the soft, secret language of the sycamore trees, and discovers answers and a joy to make her life complete.
If you've ever escaped to your own self-made "fort" beneath a table covered with sheets, you will relate to those times as you go with twelve-year-old twins, Jason and Jessica, as they seek solace in the hollowed-out sycamore tree on their farm. What begins as just another day of solitude and reading to each other from one of their favorite books becomes an adventure that will touch their lives as none other. In the blink of an eye, they are whisked away to an enchantment beyond their wildest dreams and where friendships are formed, mystically and unbreakable; where imaginations blossom and time stands still in a land beyond the rainbow, but right in their own back yard.
According to the legend, the spirit of a dead man entered the sycamore tree and turned it white. But two cousins discover that the sycamore tree contains someting even more surprising.
Queen Victoria's court knows Charlotte Sycamore as the mild-mannered sixteen-year-old daughter of Her Majesty's royal surgeon. Yet Charlotte has a penchant for inventing new gadgets, and most nights she sneaks out to sword fight with her best friends, Peter and Jillian. When the three are mauled by what look like rabid dogs, Charlotte is forced to hide both her friends and her own injury. As her symptoms worsen and people are murdered across London, she embarks on a race against time to find the antidote and ultimately save the queen's life. Full of action, a luxe royal court, engineered beasts, and a good dose of humor, this steampunk novel is a masterful blend of science fiction, fantasy, and alternative history.
An adventurous tale filled with mystery, teen romance, and mechanical creatures from award winning and "USA Today" bestselling author Kate Maddison. "I'm Charlotte Sycamore, sixteen years old, and in a complicated relationship with Peter Moreley. As if struggling to keep my secret identity a secret isn't hard enough, I'm trying to clear my name in the mysterious theft of two royal horses. The Palace is going mad!" By day, Charlotte lives within the rich walls of Buckingham Palace, stealing Queen Victoria's medical supplies to treat the poor. By night, she sneaks out with her friends into the fantasy world of Victorian London with its scientific inventions and mechanical creatures. Charlotte, secretly training to be a surgeon like her father, is forced to rely on her bold and daring ally, Peter, a boy who works in the royal stables and wishes to become a Scotland Yard detective. With the odds against them, Charlotte, Peter and friends race through the gaslit streets of London to capture the real horse thieves. There's no time to spare, for if she's caught, Charlotte will be hanged for her crimes.
A Southwest Book of the Year "In this masterful performance, Bryn Chancellor explores the loss around which an entire community has calcified with humanity and wisdom. Chancellor digs deep in these pages, unearthing broken hearts, secrets, betrayals, passion and—most impressively—grace. What a joy to find a book that is both propulsive and perfectly composed."—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest An award-winning writer makes her debut with this mesmerizing page-turner in the spirit of Everything I Never Told You and Olive Kitteridge. Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore’s longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier, an unsolved mystery that has soaked into the porous rock of the town and haunted it ever since. In the days it takes the authorities to make an identification, the residents rekindle stories, rumors, and recollections both painful and poignant as they revisit Jess’s troubled history. In resurrecting the past, the people of Sycamore will find clarity, unexpected possibility, and a way forward for their lives. Skillfully interweaving multiple points of view, Bryn Chancellor knowingly maps the bloodlines of a community and the indelible characters at its heart. Evocative and atmospheric, Sycamore is a coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a moving exploration of the elemental forces that drive human nature—desire, loneliness, grief, love, forgiveness, and hope—as witnessed through the inhabitants of one small Arizona town.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours comes a heartfelt novel about the bonds of family and the power of second chances. When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother’s Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she learns that the lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. The family has given Kate the job of convincing Grandma Rose, who’s become increasingly stubborn and forgetful, to move off her beloved land and into a nursing home. But Kate knows such a change would break her grandmother’s heart. Just when Kate despairs of finding answers, she discovers her grandma’s journal. A beautiful handmade notebook, it is full of stories that celebrate the importance of family, friendship, and faith. Stories that make Kate see her life—and her grandmother—in a completely new way....
A story about the hunger for food, life, and opportunity. After stealing a loaf of bread, Edward was running to escape when he slammed into Dorothy. In that moment, fate intervened, and a love began that would span the years. Desperate to make a better life for himself and be a man worthy of Dorothy, Edward takes a job in the mines. When catastrophe strikes, he finds his world in a state of upheaval once more. But his isn’t the only future at stake. War is looming and the desire to stand for his country is staring Edward in the face. In the midst of battle, surrounded by pain and suffering, it’s his love of Dorothy that keeps him fighting. Will he find his way back to her, under their favorite sycamore tree? Or will his hunger to be a better man end in tragedy? From author James Keith comes, Under the Sycamore Tree, a gripping tale of life, love, and hope.
An anonymous man has received nine seals from The Prophet, with each seal containing mysterious sayings and prophecies from the Book of Isaiah about America's recent past and possible future destruction.
