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New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather,...

Alone at his fantastic estate known as Xanadu, 70-year-old Charles Foster Kane dies, uttering only the single word Rosebud. So ends the odyssey of a life, and begins a fabulous tale of the rise to wealth and power, and ultimate fall, of a complex man.

In 1955 Elizabeth and Glen Widel decided to take a series of slides documenting the production of a weekly newspaper. While certain things were common to many shops, there also were individual differences. This is how it was - then - at The Omak Chronicle. -- [page 1].

"Francis H. Cook was one of Spokane, Washington's founding fathers, as well as the 'Father of Mount Spokane State Park.' Starting Spokane's first newspaper, building its first motorized streetcar line, developing the nucleus of what became Spokane's renowned Manito Park, and building the first road to the top of Mt. Spokane were among Cook's many accomplishments. Not only a printer, editor and publisher, he was also a Washington Territorial Legislature...

This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the...

Members of the Burl Creek Thimble Club, a quilting circle in small-town Alpine, Washington, are planning a fete to welcome back Genevieve Bayard, who left Alpine, decades ago. But Gen's homecoming is cut decidedly short when she dies at a dinner party. Emma Lord, owner and publisher of the local newspaper arrives on the scene to report the incident and sleuth her way to the truth.

When news is slow for Emma Lord, publisher of the "Alpine Advocate", the town's oldest family feud flares up, leaving three people dead, their bodies stowed in a meat freezer. The startling discovery of a fourth body launches Emma on the story of a lifetime. As she races to scoop the local radio station, Emma unwittingly uncovers a shocking conspiracy that will change her life.