Henry Carter Hull

When she is spotted by a modeling agency and her beautiful sister falls seriously ill, gangly fifteen-year-old Edwina "Ted" Trout must choose between fame and family.

After spending the last seven years of her life in and out of hospitals, sixteen-year-old Cam Cooper is less than thrilled with her family's decision to move to Promise, Maine, where she discovers purple dandelions, a boy named Asher, and an envelope that could help her rekindle her ability to believe in both life and love.

"As a town prepares for the anniversary of the deaths of five cheerleaders who were killed in three separate, horrific accidents, two teens uncover long-buried truths about what really happened years ago"--

The third book of the "Christmas Box" collection, telling the story of the love between David and MaryAnne Parkin, and following David's quest to find his mother, a woman whose abandonment had a devastating impact on David's life.

Follows the life of Macon Dead, Jr., the son of the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he leaves home on a quest for personal freedom.

"In 1952 Afghanistan, Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters"--Provided by OCLC.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

Tells the story of Marie Fermoyle, a lonely divorcee, who in the summer of 1960 falls prey to a dangerous con man while struggling to keep her family together against a variety of obstacles.

Irene America, having discovered that her artist husband Gil is reading her diary, begins making things up for him to find, placing their marriage on even shakier ground, and while she drinks and works on her doctoral thesis about a painter of Native American subjects, Gil begins the defining work of his career, and their three children suffer the consequences of their parents' failed relationship.

When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him.