Tavia Gilbert

A true story about a mama duck and her five ducklings that had to be rescued from the town storm drain during an early morning walk. How three fireman and a pickup truck rush to their rescue makes for vivid and exciting drama that children will return to over and over again. This delightful new classic has an inspiring environmental message.

In the tradition of such classics as My Ántonia and There Will Be Blood, Anna Keesey's Little Century is a resonant and moving debut novel by a writer of confident gifts. Orphaned after the death of her mother, eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers heads west in search of her only living relative. In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, she's met by her distant cousin, a laconic cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. Pick leads her to a tiny...

Growing up in foster care, Officer Traci Lucky had a rough start to life, but things are looking up now that she's found a place in Bridgeport with two sisters she never knew she had. One night while on the job Traci finds Gwen, a pregnant teen caught up in a dangerous world of drugs, and takes her straight to the hospital. There Traci encounters the oh-so-charming Dr. Matt Rossi, who surprises Traci with his compassion-and his movie-star good looks. A...

"In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in...

In early 1970s Riggold, Georgia, Catherine Grace Cline, the daughter of the local Baptist preacher, dreams of escaping her small town for Atlanta, but after her dream becomes reality, a tragedy transforms her perspective.

A thrilling ride through D.C.'s criminal justice, as Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis makes a series of choices that jeopardizes her career, her relationships, and her very life.

When librarian Lydia Bancroft is rescued by a man who she recogizes as a mysterious book-loving patron of her library named Sebastian Marks, they begin to form a promising friendship, until a shocking truth about Sebastian comes to light.

In 1917 Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared. Now, in 1924, her uncle Oliver thinks he's found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer for Jessie, but it isn't her. Oliver proposes that Leah impersonate Jessie, claim the fortune, and split it with him. The role of a lifetime, he says. A one-way ticket to Sing Sing, she hears. But when she loses her job, Oliver's offer looks...

Vaudeville actress Leah Randall took on her most daring role ever when she impersonated missing heiress Jessie Carr in order to claim Jessie's inheritance in The Impersonator. Now that the dust has settled around that tumultuous time in her life, Leah has adopted Jessie's name as her own and moved to Hollywood, where she's taken a modest but steady job in the silent film industry. Jessie's thrilled when Bruno Heilmann, a movie studio bigwig, invites...

As the twenty-first century enters its second decade, foreign wars, the recession, and a caustic political environment are taking their toll on Americans. But the party hasn't ended for Aidan Cole and his friends, journalists and bloggers at the intersection of media and celebrity whose frenetic talk of scoops, sexual adventures, and trendy restaurants continues unabated. Then a bomb rips through a midtown office tower. Middle Eastern terrorists are...