Akron Public Library

Romantic and poignant tale of family life and cultural traditions in turn-of-the-century Mexico

Travis Parker has everthing a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life-boating, swimming, and barbecues with his close buddies. Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life--boating, swimming, and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies--he...

"Margot Harrington is an American volunteer, an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she discovers a fabulous collection of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano that accompany sixteen of Pietro Aretino's steamy sonnets. When it was published over four centuries ago, the Vatican mandated that all copies be destroyed. Only this volume remains. The abbess begs Margot to save the abbey's finances by secretly...

It was the time of the French Revolution - a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds.Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported...

A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman.

When Mike Corwin awakens after some wild partying in Vegas $100,000 richer and married to Amber Rose Brennan, the gorgeous woman he met the night before, he thinks he's hit the jackpot. The bad news is that Amber's a con who takes his money and runs. Seems the family jinx has finally hit him. Hard.But to Amber, Mike isn't business as usual. If only she didn't need the money to ensure her father's safety, she might actually have fallen for the intense...

1910, Russian Immigrants, the Colorado Front Range Coal Strike, children, orphans, Marisa, a girl with Hirschsprung's Syndrome, a colon that won't work; her friend, Katrina; and a Danish boy, Lars, survive a massacre, abuse, discrimination, and WWI. Lars, a hyper-testosterone male, a Medal of Honor winner, a hero, a killer who can't quit, comes home looking for his lost love.

Return to Promise: Jane Patterson leaves Promise, Texas, after she and her husband face a threat to their marriage. Will she be back by Christmas? Mail-order bride. Caroline Myers ends up in Gold River, Alaska, after being jilted by her fiancé. Her aunts send her on what she thinks is an autumn vacation, but she ends up in the home of Paul Trevor, as his mail-order bride.