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4) Jazzed
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The discovery of a set of black-and-white photograph negatives has sent Annie Dawson searching for answers to why they were secreted away behind the portrait of her grandparents...The negatives hearken back to the heyday of the jazz scene in New York City in the late 1940s. Obviously of professional quality, the negatives lead Annie down a mysterious pathway as she and her friends from the Hook and Needle Club track down how Annie's grandparents are...
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FINALIST FOR THE BELLWETHER PRIZE
Nelly Grace is starting over. With her two young sons, Nelly has fled to the simple stone house built by her great-grandfather in the moneyed horse country of Maryland in order to escape the grief of her husband’s death—and perhaps find a way back to her first love: photography. Easing her transition into this strange, mannered world is Emma Crofton, the grand matriarch of the foxhunting community,...
Nelly Grace is starting over. With her two young sons, Nelly has fled to the simple stone house built by her great-grandfather in the moneyed horse country of Maryland in order to escape the grief of her husband’s death—and perhaps find a way back to her first love: photography. Easing her transition into this strange, mannered world is Emma Crofton, the grand matriarch of the foxhunting community,...
6) Bittersweet
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"India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she married seventeen years before. This was the life she had chosen-not the award-winning career as a photojournalist she once had."--BOOK JACKET. "India couldn't pinpoint the moment the price of the sacrifices she'd made began to seem high. Perhaps it was...
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It's 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first female correspondents on assignment in Saigon. She is dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter. Son is a Vietnamese photographer anxious to get his work into the American press. Together they cover every aspect of the war, from combat missions to the workings of field hospitals. Then one November morning, narrowly escaping death during an ambush, Susan and Son find...
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USA Today–Bestselling Author: She married royalty-and now, back in America, she allies with a journalist to find the assassin who made her a widow . . .
Princess Lara Kincade returned home to New Orleans, accompanied by a small staff of assistants and security people, to continue her late husband's humanitarian work. She also hopes to force his killer out of hiding. But a priceless painting has put her plans-and life-at risk.
Embroiled in...
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At thirty, American photojournalist Serena Stone had already made a name for herself with her unique and dramatic coverage of wars in the Middle East, as she followed in her famous father's footsteps. But after his unexpected death in France, she left her job at the renowned photo news agency that he founded. She grew tired of dodging bullets and exploding landmines. Leaving the front lines behind, Serena returned to New York, where she started work...
13) Bonfire night
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A press photographer in 1936 London attends an anti-fascism protest in East London where she befriends a brilliant, Jewish medical student and is exposed to the dangers and demands of his world ahead of World War II.
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The Irish Century concludes in this climactic novel, Llywelyn's masterpiece is complete
The Irish Century series is the story of the Irish people's epic struggle for independence through the tumultuous course of the twentieth century. Morgan Llywelyn's magisterial multi-novel chronicle of that story began with 1916, which was followed by 1921, 1949, and 1972. It now concludes with 1999: A Novel of the Celtic Tiger and the Search for Peace. 1999 brings...
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When she was just seventeen, Marni Lange loved Brian Webster with a consuming passion. Then a tragic accident tore them apart. Brian's broken body mended, but he never forgave himself for the accident that killed Marni's brother. Marni, her world equally shattered, was forced to choose between honoring her powerful, wealthy family . . . and the man she loved. Now, fourteen years later, Marni is a successful businesswoman about to be profiled by a...
16) Darkroom
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After scattering her mother's ashes in Vietnam, photojournalist Xandra Carrick comes home to New York to rebuild her life and career but when she experiences, in her darkroom, supernatual visions that reveal atrocities perpetrated by American soldiers during the Vietnam War, she finds herself entangled in a forty-year-old conspiracy that could bring the nation into political turmoil.
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"Emma Woodson is hoping the cobblestone streets of Nantucket and the charm of her late husband's family cottage will be the fresh start she and her young son, CJ, need. Securing a dream job at an art gallery is one more step along the path to a new life . . . and away from a piece of her history she hopes will never be revealed. Falling in love with the kind and handsome guy she hires to clean out the rental apartment above the garage wasn't part...
19) Blow up
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"International photojournalist Sophie Medina and her old school friend Father Jack O'Hara are out for a run on Capitol Hill when they find the body of Associate Supreme Court Justice Everett Townsend lying in an alley, barely alive. Townsend, a diabetic, later dies in the ER from complications due to hypoglycemia. His tragic death has unexpected repercussions for Sophie when Javi, a young homeless man of Sophie's acquaintance, is murdered. Before...
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