Gentle Reads for Adults

In the tiny town of Big Stone Gap, a self-proclaimed spinster discovers she's not who she thought she was.

When Grandpa Blakeslee marries a mere three weeks after his wife has died, he inspires a whirlwind of local gossip.

A group gathers monthly to share homemade dinners, admissions of misdeeds, embarrassments, and insecurities.

Oceanside is Annie’s Eden, but when she receives the opportunity of a lifetime, she is torn between excitement and safety.

The exciting, imaginative story of the first dog.

The use of certain letters of the alphabet are banned as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop.

A British farm girl, American pilot, and a German soldier are brought together by an unlikely hero.

A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker finds an unlikely family in an unexpected place.

A fashion designer bonds with members of a lace-making society and heals by listening to their stories.

A novel of family, values, hard work, fate, and the secrets of making a world-class beer.

From his floating bookstore on a barge on the Seine, Monsieur Perdu prescribes novels for the hardships of life.

The Major and Mrs. Ali disrupt the quiet life of the village of St. Mary, England, with their unexpected friendship.

Brought together by a fascination with the Tollund Man, two people find they have more in common than they imagined.

After decades of service, Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief.

Down a dead-end street, Frank's music shop is jam-packed with records and room for everyone.

Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has hurt, and so Elsa's greatest adventure begins.

A veterinary pathologist intends to sell his father's failing practice and get out of town as fast as he can.

A ladies' quilting club in Kansas must band together to keep safe the club's secrets.

An American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of friends sabotage Hitler's regime.

"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." So begins Abby and Red Whitshank’s story.