Leaving Blackberry Island seems all but impossible for Nina Wentworth when the small-town nurse who's already sacrificed so much deals with a returning sister, Averil, who seems disinterested in her own husband; faces the affections of both a high school sweetheart and a young maverick; and struggles to maintain control as Nina and Averil's mom lives just as carelessly as ever. Sisters Nina and Averil Wentworth deal with life and love--and their...

Trygve Knutson is devoted to his family and his community. With his construction job, he's helping to build a future for the North Dakota town of Blessing. Yet he sometimes dreams of other horizons -- especially since meeting Miriam Hastings. Miriam is in Blessing for practical training to become an accredited nurse in Chicago. But her growing attachment to Trygve soon has her questioning a future she always considered set in stone.

"This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents...

"Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who is said to be living without food, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. As Anna's life ebbs away, Lib finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child but for that child's very survival. Haunting and magnetic, The Wonder is a searing examination of doubt, faith,...

"This photo-illustrated book for early readers describes what nurses do in the clinic, hospital, or emergency room and how they work to help keep us healthy and well"--

Book 6 of the bestselling Love Comes Softly series. Belinda, Marty and Clark Davis's "surprise child," has always had a tender and compassionate heart toward anything hurt and broken. Her parents watch with both misgivings and genuine pride as Belinda's older brother, Doctor Luke, influences her toward nursing. Will she have the inward strength to face the "hurt and broken" people whose bodies, minds, and emotions need mending? Belinda's niece, who...

When Shannon Adair accompanies her minister father to the western gold rush town of Grand Coeur, Idaho, she is certain she will never be happy away from her beloved Virginia--and that she will not lose her heart to a man who is neither a Southerner nor a gentleman.

When nurse Sophie Lee, who has spent 10 years in prison for a crime she did not commit, is exonerated and released, she retreats to her attorney's home to avoid the media frenzy that surrounds her and must learn how to make her way back into the world and adjust to her freedom.

After losing his clients' life savings, former banker Rick Salinger went in search of redemption. Now a pastor in the remote Canadian town of Churchill, he focuses on his congregation and working with the kids at a center for troubled boys. When the center's new nurse arrives with her own struggling son, Rick fears getting too close. Widowed mom Cassie Crockett once lost almost everything because of Rick and he's not sure she'll ever forgive him....

"She's never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy has her reasons for making the crossing to Hawaii, and they run a lot deeper than escaping a harsh Michigan winter. Newly enlisted as an Army Corps nurse, Eva is stunned by the splendor she experiences aboard the steamship SS Lurline; even more so by Lt. Clark Spencer, a man she is drawn to but who clearly has secrets of his own. But Eva's past--and the future she's trying to create--means that...