Mary: 1452 books

Reflections on Life in the San Juan Islands, is a series of essays on island living in the Pacific Northwest that are wistful, introspective and laugh-out-loud funny. Admirers of The New York Times’ Verlyn Klinkenborg will find a kindred voice in Kalbert’s natural instinct for the telling detail....

As he started to unlock the cab of his truck, he saw a young woman making her way toward him. For some reason, Ryan felt his heart starting to hammer in his chest. There was something about her that affected him. Maybe it was her delicate beauty, but he couldn’t be sure.“Hey, mister, do you think...

Katie gazed across the open field to Ryan McDermott’s ranch. Without fail her insides plummeted just thinking about him.They had a past, not a good past, but a past none the less. No matter how hard she tried she couldn’t erase the scenes of that rainy afternoon they’d spent together.As her...

Set in New York and Washington City, Four Summers Waiting weaves a Civil War epic that emerges as a love story.Maria Onderdonk, daughter of a prominent Long Island widower, steps out of a dutiful-daughter role after a year of family mourning. Her best friend, Carolyn involves her in an Abolitionist...

The year is 1776. British soldiers occupy Long Island and struggle begins for the Patriot farmers of Cow Neck. Fourteen year old Joseph Onderdonk yearns to join the Continental army with his best friend, Martin Freer, but his father refuses to allow it. Martin was like an older brother to Joseph before...

Safe, safe at last, after twenty-four days of nothing but sea and sky, of white-crested waves—which made no secret of their intention of coming on board whenever they could or of tossing the good ship Edinburgh Castle hither and thither like a child’s plaything—and of more deceitful sluggish...

Grace and Jesse have a secret. This sweet short story follows them as they struggle to nourish and protect what they have together. This inspirational romance follows the shaky path of two brand-new lovers. There is always a light to show the way, but the course of true love doesn't always run smooth.

A man cursed by the faerie queen must slay a dragon to earn his freedom. (Originally published in ROAR 4.)

In the cultural upheaval of 1968 Chicago, a wise-cracking street girl named Zak meets an itinerant, brilliant and slightly mad old gardener, Rose, and sparks begin to fly. Solid and character-driven, Litany is the tale of working-class desperadoes who, in spite of piles of evidence that they...

"My Own Book of Poetry" is a collection of poems written over six decades of my experiences in life. This little book contains the first set of these poems, with more to come later. I began writing poems when I was 17 or 18. Many of my poems were inspired by my own experiences, but many...

Is this another collection of stupid poems that children cannot use? Will they look hopelessly through this volume for poems that suit them? Will they say despairingly, "This is too long," and "That is too hard," and "I don't like that because it is not interesting"? Are...

Excerpt “I’m sorry, but I have to break our date Friday night. There’s something important that came up unexpectedly. I received a letter in the mail today about a court date I have to attend in Salem.” “Oh,” he murmured, in an interested tone. “Has something happened?” “If you have...

Passion's Vision takes place in the mid 1700's in the Carolina Cherokee villages. James Fitz-Gerald is an agent in the court of King George II. James is on an undercover mission from the King when he arrives in the Cherokee village, Chota Town. He knows this mission will be his most difficult with...

Brokenhearted over the death of her big brother, famously private pop star Jessie Raina is barely managing to keep her career and family together, until little brother Luca's latest screw-up gives a notorious paparazzo a free pass to expose the most intimate details of her life. But this photographer...