Isabelle Holland

A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.

Feeling overweight, unattractive, and unloved by her adoptive father, Bridget learns to put aside her escapist fantasies and live in the real world after uncovering the secrets of a mysterious house.

Four heartwarming tales of Christmas cheer--and cats who play Cupid! These stories include Julie Beard's "My True Love Gave to Me" in which a woman spends Christmas Eve searching for her black cat and finds a tall dark knight; Jo Beverley's "A Gift of Light" which tells of a tenacious tom courting a fiery feline at Christmas, as his master and her mistress follow suit; Barbara Bretton's "Home for the Holidays" in which college sweethearts almost break up on Christmas Eve, but their wise old cat gets in the way; and Lynn Kurland's "The Gift of Christmas Past" in which a feline guardian angel has to pull his mistress back in time to a Christmas Eve long ago where she finds her own true love.

At the request of his gravely ill grandmother, twelve-year-old Ion Radu sets out to find his parents who had been taken as political prisoners years before, and he is caught up in the 1989 revolution in Romania.

When her beloved seeing-eye dog is kidnapped, Jocelyn, orphaned and blind since the age of twelve, determines to solve the mystery surrounding his disappearance.

After going against her mother's wishes and buying a horse with her baby sitting money, thirteen-year-old Janet works for his upkeep in the stables but finds she has no extra money for the riding lessons she desparately wants.

In brooding about how everyone mistreats him, Henry acquires an invisible toad companion who encourages his resentment and anger.

The opinions of other animals make Kevin Crocodile think his new hat doesn't suit him until he looks at himself in the funhouse mirrors.

When Andrew Green actually turns green and suffers teasing and ostracism, he learns that power does not breed popularity: one must give love.

In a letter to God, recently orphaned Rebecca explains how lonely she is now that she has gone to live with her aunt and uncle and how helpful her imaginary friend has been.

A twelve-year-old girl expresses her thoughts about God as she interacts with her family and schoolmates.

Already at odds with her father for placing her in a boarding school while he travels on business, Jessamy becomes uncontrollable when she discovers her horse has been sold without her knowledge.

It was the children who, innocently, started the train of events that was to have such a devastating climax. Every day, in a newly opened primary school next door to the Marchington home, the pupils would create a minor uproar under the elder Miss Marchington's window and disrupt her customary afternoon nap. So her great-niece, the young painter, Avril Marchington, went over to the school to see if she could persuade the teachers to keep the children more quiet. It all seemed so simple.... As simple and uncomplicated as the fact that the same day, Avril's estranged sister and her husband and two children arrived back in the States after years abroad and came to stay in the tall brownstone on New York's East Side. Yet these two events were linked in a way that Avril could not have imagined in her wildest nightmare. Any more than she could imagine the real and crucial role played by her old enemy, Julian Demarest, young partner of her tyrannical late father, and, she believed, fellow-conspirator in her own unhappiness. But if Avril was now haunted by the ghost of a child that had been taken from her, Julian had his own tragedies and fears to contend with. That a chain of terror linked the school, Avril, her family, and Julian together—and that a shattering culmination was rapidly approaching—was something none of them could ever have dreamed.

Gothic romance. Candida is being haunted by a twin sister she never knew. Candida had no wish to leave her publishing job in New York to play guardian angel to a spoiled -- and very frightened -- wealthy beauty who was, in fact, losing her money and her looks to alcohol. But Diana Egremont was used to having her own way and Candida soon found herself on her way to Tower Abbey, Diana's huge family mansion high in the hills above the Hudson River. There was indeed an evil presence in that house. Candida sensed something from the moment she entered. Something deadly from the past. But there was something else from the past, also, Simon. Candida's first and only love. A man she'd thought long dead. Now he was back. Here, in the midst of the darkness and terror...