Danielle Thorne: 8 books

Danielle Thorne never forgot her Yankee heritage, even as the beauty of the South shaped and influenced her paths. This is the volume of a young woman finding her way through the mire of family roots and tradition, motherhood and the society of the Valentine GoldSouth. Her poems at times are frank...

Stranded with two unlikely suitors on a deserted island, Mia has nothing but a volume of Jane Austen stories for entertainment. It's the only reminder the trio has of civilized society, but can the tattered book help Mia recognize a rogue? This Jane Austen-inspired flash fiction adventure is a very short, clean read (<10 minutes).

Athena Gray is strange. Dead butterflies flutter to life with just a wish, and she saved her dying grandfather by willing him to live. The only person who doesn't think she's weird is Dan, the most popular boy on Omega High School's baseball team. But who can have friends—or more—when a dark spirit...

“So You Want to Be a… Commercial Airline Pilot” puts you inside the cockpit of a modern-day airliner for an insider’s look at one of the most glamorized, yet deadly professions in the world. What makes an airline captain, and how did they end up flying your plane? What makes air travel...

Have you ever wondered about the man behind the face on the $20 bill? Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born 250 years ago. During his two terms as president, Andrew Jackson enacted a number of changes to the U.S. government and created policies that are controversial...

Today, we think of Illinois as the Land of Lincoln, as the home of "the windy city" Chicago, and as the longtime residence of Barack Obama, our 44th president. But, 200 years ago, Illinois was the Wild West -- the frontier on the edge of the United States. It didn't have any major cities...

Almost 200 years ago, the cries of a newborn baby echoed through the halls of London’s Kensington Palace. No one who celebrated Princess Victoria’s birth in the late spring of 1819 could have imagined that the little girl born fifth in line to the English throne would be the ruling monarch of...

"I'm not like this.At least, that's what I like to tell myself.At first, everything was clear to me. The impulse that moved me was strong, sharp and pristine. I wanted to destroy this man. But now I feel confused and guilty. Nothing makes sense anymore. Have I failed? My motivations...