With The Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later – after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – was hailed by The Times of London as “an extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself.”
Frank Bascombe’s story resumes, in the fall of 2000, with the presidential election still hanging...

"A young workaholic avoiding home for the holidays discovers that you can't run away from who you are. Everly Lancaster always dreamed of leaving her hometown in rural Illinois. Now she helps run a burgeoning startup in Chicago, where her professional goals leave little time for friends...or a vacation. When a massive snowstorm hits, Everly's mother urges her to come home for Christmas, but she hesitates to return to the life she's worked so hard...

Realtor and amateur sleuth Darby Farr is back in her Maine hometown for the highly anticipated wedding of her fellow real estate associate, Tina Ames. But the festive mood on the snow-swept island of Hurricane Harbor is darkened when the body of Lorraine Delvecchio-- the police chief's assistant-- is found tangled in a lobster trap near the abandoned lighthouse on the Manatuck Breakwater. Darby uncovers evidence that the death was more than just a...

Madeline Pruett is shocked from her cocoon when a father she never knew dies and leaves her an inheritance, and two unknown sisters. Madeline intends to fly to Colorado, meet these sisters, and quickly return to Orlando. Luke Kendrick is called home to Pine River to rescue his family, again, and reclaim the ranch his father has inexplicable lost. Madeline knows what she wants, until Luke teaches her a thing or two about breaking down walls, finding...