http://www.ratinghq.comRatinghq Category Comments Feed for Fiction BooksRatingHQ (http://www.ratinghq.com)enReece Gilmore has come a long way to see the stunning view below her. As the sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, she has been on the run, desperately fighting the nightmares and panic attacks that haunt her. Reece settles in Angel's Fist, Wyoming-temporarily, at least-and takes a job at a local diner. And now she's hiked this mountain all by herself. It was glorious, she thought, as she peered through her binoculars at the Snake River churning below. Then Reece saw the man and woman on the opposite bank. Arguing. Fighting......http://www.ratinghq.com/3-249/angels-fall-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-18 07:46:46The blaze that night at her family's pizzeria changed young Reena Hale's life. Now as a fire investigator, she tries desperately to trace the origins of the taunting phone calls she's receiving, the fires, and the hatred aimed in her direction. In doing so, she will step into the worst inferno she has ever faced.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-250/blue-smoke.html2008-07-18 07:50:101996 When Jack Mercy died, he left behind a ranch worth nearly 20 million dollars. Now his three daughters, each born of a different marriage, are gathered to hear the reading of the will. But the women are shocked to learn that before they can inherit, they must live together on the ranch for one year. They are sisters and strangers. Now they face a challenge--to put their bitterness aside and live like a family. To protect each other from danger--and unite against an enemy who threatens to destroy them all.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-264/montana-sky.html2008-07-21 07:59:00When 5,000-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adventure, danger and romance.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-285/birthright-paperback-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:21:11From 1988 Brazen Virtue features an irresistible police detective and an eccentric mystery writer trying to separate business from pleasure while pursuing a deranged murderer.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-286/brazen-virtue.html2008-07-21 10:21:54Returning as an adult to her hometown of Progress, South Carolina, Tory Bodeen plans to put the past behind her and open a stylish home-design shop. Following her friend, Hope's, brutal murder--unsolved to this day--she is determined to find a measure of peace and free herself from the haunting visions of that terrible night. But her return will be more difficult and frightening than she ever expected because Hope's killer is nearby as well.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-287/carolina-moon-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:23:34After an all-too-public breakup with her conductor lover, a classical violinist returns to her small Mississippi home town--a place recently visited by brutal, unsolved murders. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-288/carnal-innocence-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:24:58Sculptor Clare Kimball's dynamic, individualistic style has set the New York art scene on its ear. But when Clare travels back to her tiny home town, she must confront her father's suicide, her half-remembered childhood fears, and an untimely romance.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-289/divine-evil-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:26:16Eve Benedict knows a half-century of Hollywood secrets. She chooses author Julie summers to write her biography, in which she will reveal these secrets.And some, even Eve's stepson Paul, are willing to kill to make sure some things stay buried. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-290/genuine-lies-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:27:36Dora Conroy is an antiques dealer who knows the tricks of the trade. But nothing could prepare her for the deadly consequences of purchasing a few curiosities at an auction. Now the target of a ruthless smuggler, Dora turns to her new neighbor, ex-cop Jed Skimmerhorn, for help. Together they find that hidden riches can have a most ordinary facade. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-291/hidden-riches-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:29:21Dr. Miranda Jones is summoned to Italy to verify the authenticity of a valuable Renaissance sculpture. There she encounters a seductive art thief whose own agenda forces them into a reluctant and uneasy alliance. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-292/homeport-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:30:341992 The daughter of a world-renowned magician, Roxy has inherited her father's talents--and his penchant for jewel thievery. Escape artist Luke Callahan comes into Roxy's world and captures her heart, but he keeps secrets that could send her house of cards tumbling. (ttpbooks.com )http://www.ratinghq.com/3-293/honest-illusions-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:31:51Sitting deep in the bayou of Louisiana, Manet Hall has a secret that's been buried for a hundred years. Nora presents a novel in which the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is this once-grand house. Its new owner is maverick Declan Fitzgerald, a man distracted by the alluring Angelina Simone, a woman with her own surprising connection to the mystery that's been buried for a hundred years. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-294/midnight-bayou-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:33:39Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'd watched his partner die on the street--and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town, where he unearths the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath Lunacy's placid surface. And his discovery will threaten the new life--and the new love--that he has finally found for himself. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-295/northern-lights-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:34:481993 After TV talk-show host Angela Perkins taught Deanna Reynolds all about the business, Deanna becomes a star in her own right--with the ratings and Angela's ex-lover, sexy foreign correspondent Finn Riley, to prove it. Consumed with jealousy, Angela declares war. Backstage back-stabbing, after all, it's her forte. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-296/private-scandals-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:50:31Emma grew up a frightened, lonely child, the illegitimate result of a pop music star's secret union. When her famous father rescues her and leads her into a star-studded world of wealth and privilege, Emma realizes that she carries a frightening secret--one that someone might kill to have kept private. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-297/public-secrets-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:51:36A beautiful young student of marine archaeology and a sea-scarred young man are forced into a reluctant partnership as they both attempt to find a jeweled amulet said to be lost at the bottom of the sea. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-298/the-reef-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:53:09Traumatized by the events surrounding the breakup of her parents' marriage years ago, a young woman seeks to confront her past and know the truth about the infamous night in her life that has become a part of Hollywood history.(ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-299/river-s-end-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:54:16A fast-paced novel of romantic suspense, Sacred Sins is set during a simmering Washington, D.C., summer when a police detective and a beautiful psychiatrist join forces to stop a serial killer nicknamed "The Priest"--and soon find themselves entangled in both love and murder. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-300/sacred-sins-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:55:34A suspenseful tale of dangerous liaisons and family betrayals. When someone begins sending her disturbing photos especially one of her long-lost mother, successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway realizes that she must return to her Georgia roots to regain what she feels is her lost sanity. What she finds is a man--and his brother.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-301/sanctuary-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:56:50The daughter of a Hollywood starlet and a charming playboy whose rich-girl pose masked the cruelty behind her parents' fairy-tale marriage. And now, though nothing will bring her mother back, she is ready to make her father pay. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-302/sweet-revenge-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:58:01The breathtaking story of a mother's secret, a daughter's love, and a shattering crime--set in the fascinating world of championship thoroughbred racing. (ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-303/true-betrayals-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 10:59:52Sophia Giambelli has never worried about competition. For three generations, the Giambelli wines have been renowned for their quality-- from Napa Valley to Italy, and throughout the world. The pride of the Giambelli family and a top PR executive, Sophia loves her job-- and excels at it. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli. Tereza, the matriarch, has announced a merger with the MacMillan family's winery-- and Sophia will be assuming a new role. As a savvy businesswoman, she knows she must be prepared for anything . . . but she isn't prepared for Tyler MacMillan. They've been ordered to work together very closely, to facilitate the merger. Sophia must teach Ty the finer points of marketing-- and Ty, in turn, shows her how to get down and dirty, to use the sun, rain, and earth to coax the sweetest grapes from the vineyard. As they toil together, both in and out of the fields, Sophia is torn between a powerful attraction and a professional rivalry. At the end of the season, the course of the company's future-- and the legacy of the villa-- may take an entirely new direction. And when acts of sabotage threaten both the family business and the family itself, Sophia's quest will be not only for dominance, but also for survival.(ttpbooks.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-304/the-villa-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-21 11:02:11Eve Dallas investigates the death of a high-priced prostitute - and finds herself falling for the number one suspect. Her personal involvement with Roarke, an Irish millionaire, threatens to destroy her investigation.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-326/naked-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 11:52:00The relationship between Eve and Roarke is moving to a higher level. When Roarke turns out to be a link between two murdered woman, should she trust him.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-327/glory-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 11:55:32An ancient coin whisks an American woman and a modern-day earl into the past-and into each other's arms-in Mary Blayney's stirring tale, AMY AND THE EARL'S AMAZING ADVENTURE. When a city girl visits a Scottish castle in Ruth Ryan Langan's novella TIMELESS, she is thrust into a timeless romance with a mighty Highland laird. And Mary Kay McComas gives an unhappy wife a magic-carpet ride into an alternate reality to show her the grass isn't always greener in her story ON THE FRINGEhttp://www.ratinghq.com/3-328/dead-of-night-by-j-d-robb-and-others.html2008-07-23 11:56:57Number Twelve is an urban legend in 2060 New York City. The hot club in the 1960s, it is now reported to be haunted…and cursed. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called there to investigate the apparent murder of Radcliff Hopkins, its new owner and the grandson of the man who made Number Twelve a cultural icon. Several bullets from a banned gun end his dream of returning the building to its former glory.With everyone around her talking about the supernatural, pragmatic Eve won't let rumors of ghosts distract her from hard evidence. The case becomes even more bizarre when it appears to be linked to the suspicious disappearance of a rock star eighty-five years ago. As Eve searches for the connection, logic clashes with the unexplainable. She may be forced to face the threat of something more dangerous than a flesh-and-blood killer.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-329/bump-in-the-night-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 11:58:37Eves impending wedding to Roarke is interrupted when a model is murdered and Eve's friend Mavis stands accused. Amid this evil backdrop of murder, Eve must deal with a hidden secrets from her past.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-330/immortal-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 11:59:40While on her honeymoon with the Roarke, Eve's suspicions are raised when several well-known professionals turned up dead. Eve's detective work brings her into the world of virtual reality games.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-331/rapture-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:01:01Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground - and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity's most seductive form of evil.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-332/ceremony-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:02:24The killer is an expert with the latest technology. He stalks his prey, then haunts the police with cryptic riddles, solved moments too late. Both victims had ties to an ugly secret of ten years past- which is shared by Eve's new husband Roarke.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-333/vengeance-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:03:45No one likes to be alone during the holidays. For New York's most posh dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together. But Lt. Eve Dallas, on the trail of a ritualistic serial killer, has made a disturbing discovery: all of the victims have been traced to Personally Yours. Eve soon enters an elite world of people searching for their one true love--and one killer searching for his next victim.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-334/holiday-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:05:12Eve's name has a made a Christmas list, but it's not for being naughty or nice. It's for putting a serial killer behind bars. Now the escaped madman has her in his sights. With her husband Roarke at her side, Eve must stop the man from exacting his bloody vengeance-or die trying.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-335/silent-night-by-j-d-robb-others.html2008-07-23 12:06:03When a man is found dead on a New York sidewalk with a laser-perfect hole in his chest, Lieutenant Eve Dallas begins her most challenging manhunt--for a serial killer with a dangerously psychotic mind and a surgeon's skill.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-336/conspiracy-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:07:59Eve Dallas returns to face her most ingenious foe--a "secret admirer" who taunts her with letters, and kills without mercy. It's a race against the clock for Eve, who must stop an unknown bomber from wreaking mass terror and destruction in New York City.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-337/loyalty-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:09:39Opening night at New York's New Globe Theater turns from stage scene to crime scene when the leading man is stabbed to death center stage. Eve Dallas is not only the lead detective, she's also a wintess--and when the press discovers her husband owns the theater, the spotlight turns on them.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-338/witness-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:11:02Police lieutenant Eve Dallas tracks down a cop killer to an underground criminal hellhole known as Purgatory. This club is the last chance for atonement--a place where one's fate depends on one's most intimate sins.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-339/judgment-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:12:38When a maid is strangled by a thin, silver wire at the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, Lt. Eve Dallas suspects Sly Yost, a virtuoso of music and murder--a hit man for the elite. But someone else is involved, someone with a personal motive. And Eve must face a terrifying possibility: that the real target may, in fact, be her husband, Roarke.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-340/betrayal-in-death-by-jd-robb.html2008-07-23 12:15:36Walter Pettibone arrived home to find more than a 100 friends and family shouting, "Surprise!" It was his birthday. Although he had known about it for weeks, the real surprise was yet to come. At 8:45, a women with emerald eyes and red hair handed him a glass of champagne. One sip of birthday bubbly, and he was dead. The women's name was Julie Dockport. Eve was personally responsible for Julie's incarceration nearly 10 years ago. And now, let out on good behavior, she still has nothing but bad intentions. It appears she wants to meet Dallas again - in a reunion neither will forget ...http://www.ratinghq.com/3-341/reunion-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:18:08Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache was unbearable-it felt like spikes drilling into his brain. And it was getting worse. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened the door, and started swinging.... The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice. Louie died instantly. Detective Eve Dallas had taken over the investigation, but there's nothing to explain the man's sudden rage or death. The only clue is a bizarre message left on his computer screen. ABSOLUTE PURITY ACHIEVED And when a second man dies under near-identical circumstances, Eve starts racing her brain for answers and the courage to face the impossible ... that this might be a computer virus able to spread from machine to man...http://www.ratinghq.com/3-342/purity-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:19:24Eve Dallas is on the trail of a killer who's a perfectionist and an artist. He carefully observes and records his victim's every move. And he has a mission: to own every beautiful young woman's innocence, to capture their youth and vitality- in one fatal shot...http://www.ratinghq.com/3-343/portrait-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:26:53Summer, 2059. A man wearing a cape and a top hat approaches a prostitute on a dark, New York City street. Minutes later, the woman is dead. Left at the scene is a letter addressed to Lieutenant Eve Dallas, inviting her to play his game and unveil his identity. He signs it, "Jack." Now Dallas is in pursuit of a murderer who knows as much about the history of serial killers as she does. He has studied the most notorious and the most vicious slayings in modern times. But he also wants to make his own mark. He has chosen his victim: Eve Dallas. And all Eve knows is that he plans to mimic the most infamous murderers of all - starting with Jack the Ripper...http://www.ratinghq.com/3-344/imitation-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:30:29Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that she used to be Elaine O'Hara, daughter of the notorious con man Big Jack O'Hara. Or that she grew up moving from place to place, one step ahead of the law . . . Laine's past has just caught up with her, though-in a very dramatic way. Her long-lost uncle suddenly turned up in her shop, leaving only a cryptic warning before dying in the street, run down by a car. Soon afterward, her home is ransacked. Now it's up to Laine, and a sexy stranger named Max Gannon, to find out who's chasing her, and why. The answer lies in a hidden fortune-a fortune that will change not only Laine's life but also the lives of future generations. And danger and death will surround that fortune for years to come. Until New York City detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas gets on the case.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-345/remember-when-by-nora-roberts.html2008-07-23 12:32:38This is the 18th novel featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke Found alone on the streets as a child, Eve Dallas has built a new identity and a new future as a cop. Now the hard-edged and coolheaded detective fights for truth and justice, but she still has one very human weakness-enigmatic Irish billionaire, Roarke. And when a trusted employee of Roarke Enterprises is a suspect in a double-homicide, Roarke comes to Eve for help. Reva Ewing was a former member of the Secret Service, and now a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises-until she was found standing over the dead bodies of her husband, renowned artist Blair Bissel, and her best friend. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes there was more to the killing than jealous rage-all of Bissel's computer files were deliberately corrupted. To Roarke, it's the computer attack that poses the real threat. He and Reva have been under a code-red government contract to develop a program that would shield against techno-terrorists. But this deadly new breed of hackers isn't afraid to kill to protect their secret-and it's up to Lieutenant Eve Dallas to shut them down before the nightmare can spread to the whole country.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-346/divided-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:33:39On one of the city's hottest night, New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas is sent to Central Park and into a hellish investigation. The victim is found on the rocks, just above the still, dark water of the lake. Around her neck is a single red ribbon. Her hands are posed, as if in prayer. But it is the eyes removed with such precision, as if done with the careful hands of a surgeon that have Dallas alarmed.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-347/visions-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:35:26No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city - not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband Roarke at her disposal - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family members were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision. The state-of-the-art security was breached, and the killers used night vision to find their way through the cozy middle-class house. Clearly, Dallas is dealing with pros. The only mistake they made was to overlook the nine-year-old girl cowering in the dark in the kitchen. . . Now Nixie Swisher is an orphan - and the sole eyewitness to a seemingly inexplicable crime. Kids are not Dallas's strong suit. But Nixie needs a safe place to stay, and Dallas needs to solve this case. Not only because of the promise she made to Nixie. Not only for the cause of justice. But also to put to rest some of her own darkest memories - and deepest fears. With her partner Peabody on the job, and watching her back - and with Roarke providing the kind of help only he can give - Lieutenant Eve Dallas is running after shadows, and dead-set on finding out who's behind them.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-348/survivors-in-death-by-jd-robb.html2008-07-23 12:37:35A pioneer of modern reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, Dr. Wilfred B. Icove, is found dead in his office-murdered in a chillingly efficient manner: one swift stab to the heart. Struck by the immaculate condition of the crime scene, Dallas suspects a professional killing. Security disks show a stunningly beautiful woman calmly entering and leaving the building-the good doctor's final appointment. Known as "Dr. Perfect," the saintly Icove devoted his life to his family and his work. His record is clean. Too clean for Dallas. She knows he was hiding something and suspects that his son-and successor-knows what it is. Then, like father, like son, the young Dr. Icove is killed with the same deadly precision. But who is the mystery woman-and what was her relationship with the good doctors.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-349/origin-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:40:04Police Lt. Eve Dallas walks a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons. When the twisted woman who tormented Eve's childhood tries to blackmail Eve's husband Roarke--and ends up dead--Eve and Roarke follow a circuitous, dangerous path to find out who turned the victimizer into victim.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-350/memory-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:41:00Technology has advanced in 2060 New York City, but childbirth has been the same since the beginning of time. And despite the brutal double homicide on Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s caseload, she has to be there for her pregnant friend Mavis, even if it means throwing the dreaded baby shower.But Mavis needs an even bigger favor now. Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in her class, has gone missing, just days before her due date – not even showing up at the shower at Eve and Roarke’s place that she’d been looking forward to so much. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends in New York, and no family. When Eve enters Tandy’s apartment and finds Mavis’s shower gift wrapped and ready on the table - and Tandy’s packed hospital bag still on the floor - her spine starts tingling. Normally, this would be turned over to Missing Persons. Eve has more than enough on her plate trying to find out who murdered Natalie Copperfield and her fiancé, both employed at a highly prestigious accounting firm.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-351/born-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:43:42Craig Foster's death devastated his young wife, who'd sent him to work that day with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the private school, too, and as for the ten-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in a pool of bodily fluids-they may have been traumatized for life. Eve soon determines that Foster's homemade lunch was tainted with deadly ricin, and that Mr. Foster's colleagues have some startling secrets of their own. It's Eve's job to sort it out- and discover why someone would have done this to a man who seemed so inoffensive, so pleasant . . . so innocent.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-352/innocent-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:45:23NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps the streets of a near-future New York City safe in this extraordinary series. But even she makes mistakes, and is haunted by those she couldn't save-and the killers she couldn't capture. When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, artfully positioned and marked by signs of prolonged and painful torture, Eve is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier. The city was on edge from a killing spree that took the lives of four women in fifteen days, courtesy of a man the media tagged "The Groom"-because he put silver rings on the fingers of his victims.http://www.ratinghq.com/3-353/creation-in-death-by-j-d-robb.html2008-07-23 12:46:57Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard, since the family must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But it is also exciting as Laura and her folks celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town. And every night they are safe and warm in their little house, with the happy sound of Pa's fiddle sending Laura and her sisters off to sleep. And so begins Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story. (barnesandnobles.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-458/little-house-in-the-big-woods.html2008-08-04 10:13:28Long, long ago, a little girl named Laura Ingalls headed west toward the prairie with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters, Mary and Carrie, and their good old bulldog, Jack. They traveled far each day in their covered wagon, driving through tall grass until they found just the right spot for their new home. With the help of their kind neighbor, Mr. Edwards, Pa built a snug little house for the family in the middle of the wide-open prairie. (barnesandnobles.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-459/little-house-on-the-prairie.html2008-08-04 10:19:57Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but keeps at it so that she can help pay for her sister Mary's tuition at the college for the blind. During school vacations Laura has fun with her singing lessons, going on sleigh rides, and best of all, helping Almanzo Wilder drive his new buggy. Friendship soon turns to love for Laura and Almanzo in the romantic conclusion of this Little House book. (barnesandnobles.com)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-460/these-happy-golden-years.html2008-08-04 10:22:08Faith in God and the determination of youth sustain nineteen-year-old Marty after her husband is killed on their journey westward and she is forced to face the uncertainties of the frontier alone. (fantasticfiction.co.uk)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-480/love-comes-softly.html2008-08-06 08:45:20Clark and Marty, a pioneer couple, struggle to raise their family, and wonder if their new community can find a suitable teacher.(fantasticfiction.co.uk)http://www.ratinghq.com/3-481/love-s-enduring-promise.html2008-08-06 08:46:55