FICTION · LARGE TYPE
Delia Parr
In the beginning there was a warm room with a table, a black iron stove and old red-flowered wallpaper.
— from Evergreen
Most acclaimed
Sunrise
1937
A tale of an innocent woman accused of murder, and the lawyer forced into the most harrowing choice: his career or his heart. A town seeped in scandal. A woman accused of murder. A lawyer torn between saving her... and loving her. Jane Foster is a woman of uncommon honesty and convictions, married to a scoundrel who didn't deserve her. Wrongly accused of her husband's murder, she is forced to turn to Daniel Colton, a notorious big-city lawyer with a renegade style of justice. He's drawn to this woman whose idealism and faith illuminate the dark cynicism that's threatening his career. As a scandal of lust, betrayal, honor and vengeance unfolds, shattering the quiet peace of a tiny town, Jane and Daniel are plunged into the depths of uncharted emotions, awakening passion, and bittersweet love. Jane has no choice but to trust Daniel with her life, unaware he must harness all the love in his heart to save her, even if doing so forces him to shatter their precious hopes for a future together.
Day by day
Maggie MacKenzie has everything that matters most. She has Spence, the husband she adores. She has two beautiful daughters. She has her sister Jackie, her best friend and confidant. Then Maggie's life and the lives of her loved ones are shattered when a car accident leaves her in a deep coma. By her bedside, day after day, are Spence and Jackie, who refuse to give up. Yet each day that Maggie lies lost to the world, Spence and Jackie die a little more inside. In a moment of pure despair, they reach out blindly for one another. But just as all hope seems lost, Maggie awakens. And everything has changed. Maggie is determined to reclaim her once-charmed life and heal the distance she feels growing in her marriage. But nothing can prepare her for a shocking truth—or for the ways in which the world has carried on without her. Yet Maggie remains certain of one thing: she's been granted a second chance…and she intends to make the most of it. Piecing things together as best she can, and living her life in a whole new way—minute by minute, hour by hour…
Evergreen
8 Months on the N.Y. Times Best-Seller List. The Best-Loved Best-Seller of the Year: A young Polish immigrant woman, in love with the scion of the German-Jewish banking family for which she works as a maid, marries fellow immigrant Joseph Friedman and lifts him from poverty to a real-estate fortune by one act of illicit passion.--WorldCat Born into poverty and fear, Anna is desperate to leave her native Poland. Determined to make something of herself, Anna moves into a cramped New York slum and finds a job in a sweatshop. When two very different men fall in love with her, Anna is destined to be forever torn in love and loyalty.--GoodRead