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Told in the alternating voices of a wise Chippewa Indian leader, and a young, embittered mixed-blood woman, the novel chronicles the drama of daily lives overshadowed by the clash of cultures and mythologies.

FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team, sent by the feds wherever there are problems in tribal territory. Their latest assignment takes them to the Oneida lands in upstate New York where Brenda Two Kettles, an elder of the Oneida Tribe, has been found dead in a cornfield, every major bone in her body shattered.

Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her family's three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family for land she does not own. A sudden, inexplicable event leaves the daughter of her childhood friend in her care. Pressured by her community to allow her former fiancé to raise the child, Dottie must face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget. Spanning a decade, This Heavy Silence explores the...

A novel of the daughters of King Arthur's descendant, Merin Pendragon; three proud, passionate sisters who live and love according to their own rules

The story of Charles O'Brien, an Anglo-Irish itinerant healer and occasional journalist born in 1860 and his claims of dealings with famous people such as Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Charles Stewart Parnell and founders and leaders of the Sinn Fein and the IRA.

An impoverished 1840s Scottish minister tasked with evicting a hermit from his island home ends up forming an unlikely connection with the man as the pair navigate language, loss and the legacy of forced displacement.

"Kieran Lucas's grandmother is slipping into dementia, and, when her memory is gone, Kieran's last tie to the family she barely knows will be lost forever. Worse, Granny Mac is being tormented by flashbacks of her mother's death and the loss of their home. In 1931, Rosie McCauley's Smoky Mountains home is threatened by the Tennessee Great Smokies Park Commission as they create a new national park. But Rosie vows the only way they'll get her land is...

The moving conclusion to the "Blue Ridge Legacy" series, delivers a clear sense of the immeasurable height and depth and bredadth of divine love.

At the turn of the century, Cordelia Underwood of Maine inherits a parcel of land which is believed to contain a treasure, the hunt for which involves her with wacky characters. A tale of romance, smugglers and moose, and a debut in fiction.

Dan Quaid had a chance to buy prime cattle range in Central Oregon at $2.00 an acre. And he wanted to get his boy out to the country where a man could breathe without knocking down his neighbour.So the Quaids pulled stakes and moved. Dan didn't know that the company selling him the land was at war with the squatters already on it, and that the squatters were led by a vicious, violent man who thought nothing of murder when it came to keeping people...