Icy Sparks

Songs in Ordinary Time

Songs in Ordinary Time is the story of Marie Fermoyle, an Irishwoman living in Atkinson, Vermont. Lonely, ambitious for her teenage children, she is drawn to the stranger Omar Duvall. Her youngest son Benjy, who is desperate for Marie to be happy, ...

McNally's Chance

At the request of his friend, celebrity author Sabrina Wright, series hero Archy McNally travels to Palm Beach, Florida, to look for Sabrina's missing husband. As he navigates the treacherous waters of Palm Beach's high-toned social world, he discove...

Here on Earth

A professor`s wife named March Murray travels from California to her hometown in Massachusetts to attend the funeral of the woman who helped raise her after her mother died. While there, she becomes passionately involved with her old flame, Hollis, a...

All We Know of Heaven

This unusual novel tells the tale of young Paul, who is determined to become a monk. His entry into the ascetic life at the monastery is described in detail. When he becomes enamored of an older monk he is horrified at his feelings, but he finds the ...

Jubilee

This classic tale, which takes place during the Civil War, tells the story of the daughter of a white plantation owner and his black slave mistress.

The Fourth Hand

Patrick Wallingford, a TV reporter, is good looking, successful, and a hit with women. On an assignment, his hand is bitten off by a lion, making him into an instant media celebrity. He meets a childless woman who offers him the hand of her dead husb...

A Lesson Before Dying

A story of injustice and redemption set in rural Louisiana during the late 1940s. Grant Wiggins, a backwoods schoolmaster, is asked visit a young black prisoner on death row. Jefferson, the prisoner, was falsely accused and convicted of murder and i...

Open House

This charming novel from Elizabeth Berg tells the story of a recently divorced woman who opens her heart and her home. In the process, she reclaims the person she used to be.

Black House

Part science fiction, part adventure, and part murder mystery, this is the story of gruesome violence and unsettling evil. It s written by celebrated authors Peter Straub and Stephen King.

The Map That Changed the World

Winchester, acclaimed for THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, tells the story of William Smith, who in 1815--despite his lower-class status--laid the foundations for modern geology. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.