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It's 1942: Tomi Itano, 12, is a second-generation Japanese American who lives in California with her family on their strawberry farm. Although her parents came from Japan and her grandparents still live there, Tomi considers herself an American. She doesn't speak Japanese and has never been to Japan. But after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, things change. No Japs Allowed signs hang in store windows and Tomi's family is ostracized. Things get much worse.

The Dust Bowl sweeps a handsome stranger into a small Colorado town to dangerous effect "...exhilarating and hard to resist." —The Washington Post on Westering Women 1937. It’s been seven years since the dust storms started in Colorado. Folks can barely remember a time when the clouds were...

In this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold-mining father. "...exhilarating and hard to resist." —The Washington Post on Westering Women After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an...

"Narrator Angela Dawe’s warm voice varies seamlessly to capture the many characters, their fear, fortitude, and, in some cases, vileness. There is nothing subtle about this adventure, but it is exhilarating and hard to resist." -- Washington Post From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale...

Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before it was Colorado. Nit Spindle is just seventeen and newly married. She and her husband have just moved to the high country in search of work. It's 1936 and the depression has ravaged the country and...

"The narration by Carly Robins is exceptional." - The Reading Frenzy on Little Souls Sandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver mid America’s last deadly flu pandemic. Colorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but it’s the home...

During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers. Rennie has just turned thirteen and until this time, life has pretty much been...

"...exhilarating and hard to resist." —The Washington Post on the Westering Women audiobook "Addictive. Highly recommended!"—Paulette Jiles, New York Times bestselling author of News of the World "Németh-Parker delivers a powerful performance, smoothly transitioning to several different...

It is 1863 and Emily Blue Hatchett has been told by her father that, come spring, their family will leave their farm, family and friends in Quincy, Illinois, and travel the Overland Trail to a new home in Golden, Colorado. Emmy and her mom have mixed feelings about the trip and are saddened by all they must leave behind. The journey by wagon train is long and full of hardships, and Emmy's experiences along the way bring the period of westward expansion, as well as issues facing women, to life for young listeners.

Wie fühlt es sich an, neben einem Fremden aufzuwachen, mit Handschellen aneinander gefesselt? Ava und Jaxon wissen nicht, wie sie in diese verrückte Situation geraten sind, aber sie beschließen, das Beste daraus zu machen. Eine zufällige Begegnung, die zu einem Abenteuer wird, wie kein anderes. Und während die Flötenklänge von Ava auf Jaxons Football-Leidenschaft treffen, entfaltet sich eine einzigartige Verbindung, die die Regeln des Spiels neu schreibt - knisternd, unerwartet und unwiderstehlich.