Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl, Hanna, in a small town in America's heartland, in 1880. Hanna's adjustment to her new surroundings, which primarily means negotiating the townspeople's almost...

" Paris, 1939. Maison Chanel has closed, thrusting haute couture dressmaker Lila de Laurent out of the world of high fashion as Nazi soldiers invade the streets and the City of Lights slips into darkness. Lila's life is now a series of rations, brutal restrictions, and carefully controlled propaganda while Paris is cut off from the rest of the world. Yet in hidden corners of the city, the faithful pledge to resist. Lila is drawn to La Resistance and...

Every major decision in Jane Lindsayś life has been made for her. When her husband becomes disillusioned with their marriage and moves out, Jane simply waits for him to decide if they have a future together. While her regrets clash with the fragile hope of reconciliation, Jane finds an ancient betrothal ring engraved with her own name and concealed in a sixteenth century prayer book. Jane comes to believe that the ring once belonged to Lady Jane...