When nine-year-old Eleanor's beloved babysitter Bibi moves away to care for her ailing father, Eleanor must spend the summer adjusting to a new babysitter while mourning the loss of her old one.

A dog with unusual communication talents loses his poet owner before rescuing two children trapped in a snowstorm and leading them to the poet's cabin, where the children explore the memories that the poet has left behind.

After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.

In St. Louis, Alan Christoffersen faces another life-changing crisis, putting his journey to grace in jeopardy. Alan Christoffersen decided to leave his painful memories behind and walk from Seattle to the farthest point on the map, Key West. In St. Louis, when his severe vertigo is diagnosed as the side effect of a brain tumor, Alan must go to Los Angeles for treatment. He is surrounded by those who care most for him, but one by one he alienates...

"A telephone call informs Krishan that his grandmother's caretaker, Rani, has died under unexpected circumstances. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, a woman Krishan fell in love with years before while living in Delhi, stirring old memories and desires from a world he left behind. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for Rani's funeral, so begins an astonishing journey into...

In the third part of Richard Paul Evans's Walk series, Alan Christoffersen continues his journey for self-discovery. Determined to walk from his home in Seattle, Washington, all the way to Key West, Florida, Christoffersen meets interesting people along the way who inspire him and change his life for the better.

France sends the Merci Train to the United States to thank America for helping France during and after WWII, and one of the train stops will be the small town of Gladiola, Texas, where ten-year-old Glory Bea hopes for the greatest miracle--that her missing-in-action father will be on the train.

It is New Year's Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm's wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife's death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who will repair Quinn's and Maggie's...

After battling personal, professional, and financial setbacks, Jayson Wolfe has fame, fortune, and a great family at last. But when he reaches an irreversible crisis point in his life, God's arms reach out to protect Jayson from his own worst impulses and he learns that the road to healing can be arduous and elusive even with the love and support of his precious Elizabeth. Part two of the Jayson Wolfe story.