"Newbery Honor winner Preus . . . delivers a riveting story about teenage freedom fighters in WWII Norway" (Publishers Weekly).
After Nazi Germany invades and occupies Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian resistance movement. Espen gets his start by delivering illegal newspapers, then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a spy, dodging the Gestapo along the way. During five...

Alli The mighty and majestic mountains capture her heart Allis incredible ability to lock away the hurt and sadness of lost love and surround herself in music and dance happens once more when her heart is left bleeding. She throws all her love and passion into the relationship with a man who loves her unconditionally. She moves with him to the little Town deep in the mountains. For a time the nightmares are left behind and Alli revels in the closeness...

Caleb and Joshua Roar to Life in this High-Impact Old Testament Saga. Two men were brave enough to tell the truth about what awaited the Hebrews in Canaan. This is their story. From the slave pits of Egypt to the efforts of an eighty-five-year-old Caleb as he drives out the last of the giants, Shadow of the Mountain is a vivid portrait of two of God's chosen champions, and a meditation on masculine mentorship and the challenges and blessings of growing...

As the evening sun settled behind the Rocky Mountains, a cool breeze licked at the faces of the two young boys who sat on the front porch steps, whittling. Raven Morgan, the elder, a nine-year-old, looked at his brothers notched and crooked piece of wood. You are doing a fine job, Hawk. What is it going to be? Seemingly offended, but only for a moment, Hawk gave a sideways glance and answered, Smart as you are, Raven, and you can't tell? Amused at...

The mayor of a quaint little town in the middle of nowhere hired Eve to be the new librarian, not because of her degree in library science, but because of her military training. Eve thought she got lucky landing a job as a head librarian fresh out of college. She didn't realize what danger awaited her, and that she had been chosen to fight, rather than to catalogue. Follow Eve into the library in this monster of a novella.

Abbie Aickman arrives in Broken Spur to work as governess to Leah, daughter of handsome Irish rancher Patrick Donovan. As Abbie settles in at Mountain Shadow Ranch and tries to forget her troubled past in Maine, she discovers that Patrick and his daughter are trying to recover from a tragedy of their own. Powerless against her growing feelings for Patrick, Abbie is drawn into a world where a broken past haunts the Irish rancher and his daughter but...

Cheney faces two enemies-superstition and greed... Cheney Duvall has proven herself as a true doctor to those 200 brides with whom she traveled to the West. But arrival in Seattle with a string of medical successes during the voyage does not open any doors for her in this frontier town-she's "just a woman." Returning east, she finds an invitation to a remote spot in the Ozark mountains where there are no doctors at all. But she runs into walls of...

In this adventurous tale of historical fiction, Edward Whymper's struggle to scale the Matterhorn results in triumph and loss, and inspires courage in a young blind friend. As an old man, Emile Favre tells how this famous mountain climber's quest led him to dream beyond his small village in Italy.

The triumphs and tragedies of Denver's founding family as they carve out an empire in the American West-an epic saga from the beloved bestselling author. Bold, headstrong, and passionate, the indomitable Kirklands struggle to survive in a treacherous, hostile land. From penniless settlers to wealthy mine owners to Denver's regal first family, together-and separately-they pursue their dazzling dreams of love and glory. Through the era of the covered...

If ever there were two little girls reared as differently as night is from day, whose early lives were shaped and influenced by polar-opposite ideologies and mindsets, it was me and my mother. Born into the Baby Boomer Generation, life for me in the shadow of Barrett's Mountain, although filled with its share of ups and downs, moments of conflict and unthoughtful behavior and words, was as near to idyllic as one can get without crossing over into...