When her cousin, Samuel, asks her to write down the word of Yahweh to keep the kingdom united after King Solomon dies, Judith does so to give women a stronger role in her father's religion, in a novel that speculates how the oldest parts of the Bible...
After the 1872 death of her father while trying to rescue drowning sailors from a sinking schooner, Faith takes over his job as a lighthouse keeper on Lake Michigan, until her mother decides to move into town, where Faith soon finds herself stifled b...
Don't tell anyone -- the only safety is in secrecy. During the summer of 1894 the giant sequoia trees -- the oldest living things on earth -- are being felled for lumber in northern California. When fifteen-year-old Francie finds a note hidden in...