Rhymed text and illustrations relate the life of John Chapman, whose distribution of apple seeds and trees across the Midwest made him a legend and left a legacy still enjoyed today.

In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity of Calamity's Indian friend No Ears, Annie Oakley's shooting match with Lord Windhouveren, and other highlights of the tour, McMurtry turns the story...

Imagines the life story of Christina Olson, the subject of Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World," describing the simple life she led on a remote Maine farm, her complicated relationship with her family, and the illness that incapacitated her.

"One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through. German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education--and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda's driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early twentieth-century...

In first-century Jerusalem, questions arise concerning the identity of Yeshua of Nazareth, while Zahav finds herself waiting for the Messiah and Manaen, blinded by violence, and Susanna, struggle to overcome the evil surrounding them.

This retelling of the Christmas story follows Joseph and his fiancée Mary--a virgin teenager pregnant with the Son of God--as they prepare for the Messiah's birth while trying to escape the ever watchful eye of the evil Herod.

The sequel to First Light returns to the story of Peniel, the no-longer-blind beggar who still longs for the connection of hope and family, and introduces new characters such as Lily, Cantor, and Rabbie Ahava who hold onto hope in spite of their devastating affliction of leprosy.

""A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts." -Karen Joy Fowler For fans of Jo Baker's Longbourn, a witty, poignant novel about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane. Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was? England, 1840. For the two decades following the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone, spending her days visiting...

A poor seventeenth-century servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty whispers and rumors circulate throughout the town.