Thomas Kinkade

Erika Tamar

When her mother resumes her outspoken activities with regard to suffrage in her new hometown, Rose is upset by her actions and finds comfort in a new friendship with an abused racehorse, Midnight Star, whom she becomes determined to keep for herself.

Rose's Story

Liesl, a young Jewish refugee who yearns to be glamorous and famous like Rita Hayworth, finds herself sidetracked by Billy, an incorrigible troublemaker, in a story about a girl coming of age in Manhattan during World War II.

Good-Bye Glamour Girl

Meet The Girls of Lighthouse Lane. . . Katherine is the daughter of the lighthouse keeper. She dreams of becoming a painter. But in 1905, a girl can't grow up to be a famous artist -- can she? Rose just moved to the town of Cape Light. She wants to fit in with her new friends, but Rose has a secret she can't share with anyone. . . . Lizabeth is Kat's rich cousin who always gets what she wants. But Lizabeth soon finds out that money can't keep her from losing the most precious thing of all. . . . Amanda's mother passed away, and now Amanda keeps house for her minister father. When she meets a very special young man, can she find the courage to be friends with him in spite of her father's disapproval? The quiet New England town of Cape Light never seems to change. But in the year 1905, the lives of these four friends will be transformed in ways they never could have imagined. . . .

Katherine's Story

The Girls of Lighthouse Lane #1

An orphan train child escapes a coldhearted adoptive family to join a vaudeville troupe and travel to Texas to find her older brother Sean. Deirdre O'Rourke and her brothers Sean and Jimmy are sent by their mum from their tenement existence to ride one of the last of the orphan trains west, in the hope of finding a good family. Instead, all three are separated, and Deirdre is placed with a straitlaced minister and his wife, who she soon learns adopted her out of pity. Deirdre can only hope that someday she will be reunited with her beloved older brother, Sean. When at last she finds that he is on a ranch in Texas with a wonderful family, Deirdre longs to be with him, but with no money, she has no real hope of escaping. Then a vaudeville troupe comes to town on its way west. Deirdre convinces the vaudevillians to take her with them, and suddenly her life takes on a real purpose: getting to Texas. But along the way, Deirdre discovers she has a greater depth and purpose than she'd expected--and that being on stage is perhaps an even greater pull than family.

The Midnight Train Home

When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudeville t

Midnight Train Home

Min vän Lucky

A summer romance with an older woman gives seventeen-year-old Andy a hard lesson about physical love, spiritual love, and their consequences.

The Things I Did Last Summer

With the advice of her stepfather, eleven-year-old Katie takes on the job of feeding an abused junkyard dog and building it a doghouse for shelter during the hard winter.

The Junkyard Dog

Separated from her brothers while on the orphan train, Dierdre is placed in a horrid adoptive home and soon learns that her beloved brother is in Texas, and when she implores the vaudeville troop that arrives in town to take her to her brother, she is surprised to find that her place in life is on the stage. Reprint.

Nine-year-old Venus Macquire is ready to trade smiling for the camera for nailing a soccer ball into the net. Her mother isn't thrilled. She's been grooming Venus for supermodel status since her daughter was three. Everyone at school knows about Venus's famous commercials, and some of the girls on the soccer squad don't think she's cut out for athletic competition. Thing is, Venus is a soccer natural—and she almost has her team convinced. When she's scheduled to be the Cinderella doll at a toy store grand opening, the would-be soccer star has to show everyone, even herself, that her real goal is not to be special. It's to be the real Venus—a regular kid, with a kick!

Venus and the Comets

High school senior Laura Jean is shocked when the school jocks are accused of gang-raping a retarded girl and her boyfriend Scott appears to be involved.

Fair Game

A talented singer's love turns to obsession when he starts dating the female guitarist in his rock band.

Erika Tamar

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