The gripping, moving story of a mother and daughter's quest to uncover a dark secret in the Alaskan wilderness, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sister and Afterwards.Thrillingly suspenseful and atmospheric, The Quality of Silence is the story of Yasmin, a beautiful astrophysicist, and her precocious deaf daughter, Ruby, who arrive in a remote part of Alaska to be told that Ruby's father, Matt, has been the victim of a catastrophic accident. Unable to accept his death as truth, Yasmin and Ruby set out into the hostile winter of the Alaskan tundra in search of answers. But as a storm closes in, Yasmin realizes that a very human danger may be keeping pace with them. And with no one else on the road to help, they must keep moving, alone and terrified, through an endless Alaskan night.

After the death of her husband, Bella Jordan and her son need a fresh start. But on their way to stay with family in Chicago, a storm forces them to spend the night in Lily Dale, New York.

Held by many in the town of Paradise, Rhode Island, to be responsible for her politician husband's death, Sandra Winslow decides to sell her home and hires her husband's friend Mike Malloy to restore it before the sale.

A CBA Bestselling Author -- Settling in to her new life in Canaan, Colorado, Katie Ann Stoltzfus gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. Following the death of her estranged husband, her one true love, Katie vows never to trust another man. Eli Detweiler arrives in Canaan to attend his niece's wedding. Back in Ohio, he raised his kids alone following his wife's death. With them grown, he's looking forward to a less structured life. Then a meddling Englisch woman plays matchmaker ...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... the government of the country an interest in providing facilities for its consumption." A pecuniary interest, of course; an interest, the extent of which depends upon the amount of wreckage performed upon human character, human happiness, and upon personal and domestic peace and prosperity. For, the proportion of the liquor profits belonging to the government being substantially fixed by law, the extent of the government's interest in the liquor traffic is practically in the direct ratio of the degradation, want, and despair inflicted by alcohol upon the victims of disease. Living upon the western frontier for some years, I there became acquainted with a "mountain man;" a person employed in the service of the American Fur Company. This man, when he came into the settlement, was a drunkard. While recovering from the effects of a spree he told me that he had engaged in the business of trapping solely to be removed from the temptation to drink; that, when he was within the reach of liquor he could not resist the impulse to intoxication. He had no serious craving for alcohol while away in the mountains. He knew it could not be obtained, and his appetite was not aroused by contemplating the subject of drink. The plans to which the inebriate resorts in order to cheat and overcome his appetite for liquor are innumerable, and they are known, as a rule, to himself only. But they demonstrate his weakness and the imbecility of his will in the direction of his proclivity, while they also prove his anxiety to escape from the galling yoke of his morbid predisposition. CHAPTER X. Dipsomania in its mental attitudes and relations, continued. The operations and characteristics of impulse further considered--When impulse may be...

Hannah Glick, a recently widowed Old Order Amish woman, struggles to support her three children after unexpectedly losing her husband, so when she meets a nice Englischer at the luxury hotel where she works, her world is turned upside down while she tries to decipher God's plan for her. (religious fiction)

When ruthless pirate Christopher St. John is released from prison to discover the intimate secrets of the scandalous Lady Winter, whose two husbands have met untimely deaths, he becomes immersed in a dark world of seduction, intrigue, and danger. Original.