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Feisty Marietta Greer changes her name to "Taylor" when her car runs out of gas in Taylorville, Illinois. By the time she reaches Oklahoma, this strong-willed young Kentucky native is catapulted into a surprising new life. When a forlorn Cherokee woman drops a baby in Taylor's passenger seat and asks her to take it, she does.

Rachel Vinrace embarks on a sea voyage to South America and falls in love with an aspiring writer.

Sharon has lived calmly in Chinook Springs, Washington, her entire life. All that changes when her best friend of twenty years, Penny, takes an impulsive trip to seek out her only living relatives in Finland -- and brings Sharon with her. The land of reindeer and saunas holds infinite varieties of zaniness for these two unlikely friends -- Sharon is a quiet mother of four and Penny was a motorcycle mama before she came to Christ -- who return home...

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, set between the two Jacobean insurrections in 1736 and during the Porteous Riots, marks the peak of its author's achievement; many consider it to be Scott's national epic.

Best friends Hope and Laurie are both turning 40 this year. What better way to celebrate than on a sandy beach in Waikiki? Their husbands and children urge them to go, but a few months before she boards the plane, Hope discovers she is carrying a little surprise. When she lands in Hawaii, she's packing a maternity bathing suit along with her tour brochures. Will these two sisterchicks still learn to do the hula?

At the age of 40-plus, Englishwoman Isabella Bird arrives in 1870s Colorado to attempt to be the first woman to climb Long's Peak in the Rocky Mountains. In the process she falls in love with Jim Nugent, her guide. By the author of Flaming Sky.

When the pre-launch party for their anticipated cruise is interrupted by the murders of the cruise line owner and two additional victims, Judith and Renie find themselves prowling the hilly streets of San Francisco in a case that is complicated by the perpetually intoxicated interference of two fellow travelers.

A famous female artist, Sara Ehrenreich, resurfaces after being lost to the world for thirty years. She has been living on a tiny island in the South Pacific for all this time, after running away to paradise with fellow artist Philip Ehrenreich. During there marriage Sara becomes more famous as an artist. Philip is killed during WWII, but Sara survives and becomes an expert on native tattooing and uses her own body as the canvas for her art. She now...

"Objectively, Sophie is a success: she's got a coveted job at a top consulting firm, a Manhattan apartment, and a passport full of stamps. It isn't quite what she dreamed of when she was a teenager dog-earing pages in exotic travel guides, but it's secure. Then her best friend bails just hours after they arrive in Hong Kong for a girls' trip, and Sophie meets Carson, a free-spirited, globetrotting American artist. In the midst of their whirlwind vacation...

A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...