Angela Johnson

On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living. The videotaping is Ola's idea--Ola, Emmie's grandma who lives in the California desert is dying of cancer. Emmie and her mother have come to "the dry" to paack up Ola's house and take her back to a hospital in Cleveland....

After a brush with death in New Orleans, Cameron De La Valle is getting back to work and traveling to California for a one-night-only concert. The potential dangers presented by too many choices and a wild circle of new friends is nothing compared to the danger presented by the stalker watching him from the shadows...

When love arrives in the form of an enemy, who knew it would be covered in mud? Baxter Fernley, the Earl of Grafton, takes his duty as a member of the ton with the utmost sincerity, even if King George III has lost his mind. As a respected member of the peerage and the local magistrate, his life has order and meaning until an unruly American woman with a muddy skirt falls at his feet in what he believes to be an attempt at trapping him in marriage. Briar...

When love arrives on a racing horse, who knew it would require one thousand white lilies? Mr. Archibald Fernley has secured the most sought-after editor in England only to discover his current manuscript is unacceptable. With a deadline of one month, Archie's assignment is to discover a topic to enchant the ton while exposing the inequalities in England's social classes. On the eve of his departure from London, Archie finds himself entangled in a...

Arranged Marriage with a mystery Phillip Watson, Earl of Arundel is a lover of literature and music. Anyone viewing his family from the outside would think he lived a privileged life. But privilege comes with expectations, and Phillip finds himself engaged to a woman he never considered a match. Accepting his duty, Phillip agrees to the engagement until he nearly dies in an ill-fated accident and is left with amnesia. Finding himself in an unfamiliar...

In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.

The son of a sharecropper dreams of leaving Mississippi on a train with the legendary engineer Casey Jones.

Maya and Julius, the pig her grandfather brings her from Alaska, learn about fun and sharing together. When Maya's grandfather comes for a visit, he brings a surprise in a crate-something, he says, to teach her "fun and sharing". Maya hopes it's a horse or a big brother. But instead it's Julius, a big, cool pig. Maya's parents see Julius as a slob, but Maya herself sees another Julius altogether. She sees a playmate, a protector, and sharer in all...

From the days she banged her rattle in the crib, Violet has been looking for friends to share her love of music.

Recalls the unheralded men whose labors served to build the canals, roads, railroads, bridges, and towering buildings of the United States.