Bernadette Dunne

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses.

A night at the opera ends on a bitter note when the celebrated diva's voice emits only a dying gasp. Daisy Dalrymple soon discovers that the notoriously difficult opera star had her share of adversaries, and now she is up to her fashionable bob in temperamental artists—one of whom is a cunning killer.

A fictionalized account of the life of Caterina, the mother of Leonardo da Vinci, in which the young woman disguises herself as a man during the Italian Renaissance in order to watch over her son, who was taken from her the day after his birth to be raised by his father.

With their home being used as the marshalling point for the annual Caerphilly Christmas parade, Meg Langslow, her husband Michael, and Chief Burke find the festivities interrupted by murder when the local curmudgeon playing Santa turns up dead.

When America entered World War II, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books. Outraged librarians sent donated books to our troops. The War Department joined the publishing industry in an extraordinary program: 120 million books printed in small, lightweight paperbacks. Beloved by the troops and still fondly remembered, theirs is an inspiring story.

"The first full biography of Joy Davidman, known primarily as C.S. Lewis's late-in-life bride, but who here receives her much deserved rescue from that shadow"--

Chronicles the lives and achievements of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, focusing on how they help create the modern beauty industry and changed the way women think about cosmetics, salons, and wrinkles.

"New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray spins a beautiful holiday tale of finding love in unexpected places. Twenty-year old Ruth Stutzman is a wonderful caregiver--but she has no experience with kinner. Laid off from her job at a retirement home due to budget cuts, she's relieved to find work--even if it means temporarily watching widower Martin Rodes' brood of six!Martin has done the best he can since his wife's passing, but he and...

It looks like a familiar story: A woman reeling from a great loss with too much time on her hands and too much booze in her glass watches her neighbors, sees things she shouldn't see, and starts to suspect the worst. But looks can be deceiving... Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to her family's lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she passes...