Akron Public Library

"Dragons have few laws. The most important forbids harming Human, Dwarf or any lesser creature cursed with the Power. Slaying one means disaster. So a wise Dragon avoids them altogether, but since Dragons are seldom wise, they cannot resist a small taste. Breaking the law condemns the ancient black Dragon, Gaspotine the Dark death. To escape his decaying flesh, his spirit visits time's Silver River where he sees Dragon-kind's fate and the farm girl...

Orchid plans such an elaborate party for the garden residents that she soon becomes tired and cross and the idea of a party is no longer fun.

American Matthew McCallum, pursued by the dangerous section chief for the Stasi, locates Sabina and her father in East Germany in 1962, and now must find a way for the three of them to escape to freedom

In the midst of danger, romance, and international politics, Matthew, Sabina, and their son, Tad McCullum, return to united Germany to participate in a conference on spreading the gospel in the postCold War era. The country has experienced many changes and new freedoms. Yet powerful men still plot ways to oppress and gain control. Unexpected encounters bring them face-to-face with the KGB and the remaining links of the Network of the Roseencounters...

Injured Texas Ranger Dakota Rawlings returns to work early, but his boss objects and asks him to escort his niece to another town. Darvi and Dakota are attracted to each other, especially when they realize they are both believers. Mistaken for another, Darvi is kidnapped. When an abductor takes a shine to her, he refuses to release her. Unable to imagine how God could rescue her, she is amazed when Dakota appears!

Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Kluger's story of her years in the camps and her struggle to establish a life after the war as a refugee survivor...

When Kate and her husband and baby son move to her grandmother's Missouri farm in an effort to influence the grandmother to move to a nursing home, Kate is helped by the discovery of her grandmother's journal.

Delight in the intrigue and romance of the historical Harvey girls.

Disowned by her parents for marrying a man they disapproved of, Ashely Reynolds faces even greater hardship when she loses her husband in a tragic incident - and she's left alone with a baby on the way.

Sharing the unique beauty and history of the Southwest had always delighted Rainy Gordon, and now as a tour guide for the Harvey House Detours, she's given ample opportunity. But the past she's left behind threatens to haunt her again when she becomes a suspect in an investigation of stolen Indian artifacts.