Danielle Ferland

One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat,...

For most of her eleven years, Delly has been in trouble without knowing why, until her little brother, R.B., and a strange, silent new friend, Ferris, help her find a way to be good--and happy--again.

Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.

It's 1894, the year of Essie's thirtieth birthday, and she decides the Lord has more important things to do than provide her a husband. If she wants one, she needs to catch him herself. So she writes down the names of all the eligible bachelors in her small Texas town, makes a list of their attributes and drawbacks, closes her eyes, twirls her finger, and picks one. But convincing the lucky "husband-to-be" will be a bit more of a problem.

When a baby was abandoned 19 years ago on Verna Mae Olsen's doorstep, she was forced to turn him over to the state. Now a superstar college basketball player, Will Knight asks Abby to help find his birth parents. They start with Verna Mae Olsen, who is a wealth of information--even though she really should know nothing of the child after giving him up. When Verna Mae turns up dead, things get tricky. Looks like Abby's got a murder mystery on her hands,...

Deep in the heart of Heartland lives Ruby Valentine and her trusty parrot Lovebird. Ruby's favorite day of hte year is Valentine's Day--she loves to say "I love you" and make cards and treats to deliver to everyone in her town. But Ruby is so exhausted that she sleeps right through the holiday. Although Ruby's worried that she'll have to wait a whole year to tell everyone that she loves them, Lovebird convinces her to deliver her treats and messages

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The Garden of Eden -- Open house -- Bull's-eye -- A woman of mystery -- The stalker -- Mummy and Jack -- Bonding -- Discards -- Tendrils of love -- Malibu dog -- The back page -- Mr. Barton's head case -- Hot water -- Free parking -- The luck of the draw -- Small miracles -- The summer of my womanhood.

Theres a parade rolling through the historic French Quarter, with gigantic floats, silver beads, and dizzying lights-and Kimber Breeze of KBEZ-TV is broadcasting live from a small balcony on the fourth floor of the Hotel Tremain, interviewing locals and capturing the spectacle down below. Her next subject will be Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine scrapbooking shop. Carmela has never been a fan of Kimber, but she isnt about to turn down the chance...

"An evening's work deciding on the class schedule for her scrapbooking shop has put Carmela in the mood to kick up her heels. But after some strange noises draw her into Oddities , the neighboring antiques shop, Carmela's night is abruptly put on hold when a bloody body falls out of a curio cabinet --and into her arms. While shop owner Marcus Joubert was known for being an eccentric with a penchant for eclectic merchandise, Carmela never thought he...

Laura Childs "returns to the Big Easy and the historic Garden District, where scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand discovers a bride-to-be murdered in the legendary Lafayette Cemetery..."--