Jessamyn West's spirited novel—set in the Ohio Territory in the early 1880s—is a handsomely paced adventure for lovers of period romance and suspense. Leafy Rivers is a young bride caught up in emotions she does not altogether understand and cannot quite control. As she races against time to save a life and a marriage that may already be lost, a vivid assortment of characters—such as Simon Yanders, a man whose loss has taught him generosity and whose grief has made him alert to joy; Cashie Wade, irresistibly wild and free; and Leafy's husband, Reno, whose love is matched only by his ineptitude—offers challenges that threaten to waylay her at every turn.

This sympathetic portrayal of adolescence tells how young Cress sets out to change her personality and becomes an individual

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Narrates the reactions of a small 1824 Indian settlement to the capture, trial, conviction and execution of five white men for the premeditated murder of nine peaceful men, women and children of the Seneca tribe

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A Quaker's fondness for fast horses is an amusing sidelight in this tale of Friends who dealt with the Civil War in their own way

Thirty-eight stories depict suspense, romance, obsession, the supernatural, adolescence, and sexual relationships (view table of contents)

The author recounts her thoughts and experiences from three months in the early 1970s, when she lived alone in a travel trailer on a remote bank of the Colorado River

The noted American writer celebrates her mother's life-affirming values and behavior and records their influence on her own fight with tuberculosis and her sister's courageous response to the onslaught of incurable spinal cancer

Traces the life of Ginerva Chalmers, a romantic young girl growing up in a small California town in the 1920s

Reviewing her personal journals and letters she had written to her parents fifty years ago, the author recalls her trips to England and Ireland and what travel taught her about herself

Although Orpha Chase, the author of eighteen popular and pious novels, is considered a reflection of her characters' morality, such a belief contrasts sharply with the shocking violence and passion that are parts of her past