As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.

An orphaned baby elephant goes to live in the city with an old lady who gives him everything he wants, but he eventually returns to the forest where he is crowned king of the elephants.

When their hard-drinking, but loving, father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their Pennsylvania hometown for Arizona and the mother who ran out on them. Then Candace Jack, a wealthy eccentric whose family once owned the county coal mines, decides for reasons even she doesn't understand to offer them a home--a stately mansion of a home full of artwork centered, oddly, on bullfighting. Under...

Father Tim, a rector in the small hill town of Mitford, North Carolina, finds marriage quite an adjustment after years of living an orderly bachelor life, and must face other changes in his life, including a new computer for the church newsletter, and the resolution of an old mystery.

When a new highway is planned that will bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, the town's inhabitants are divided on whether or not the town will benefit or suffer from the construction.

Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh, recently retired from service at Lord's Chapel in Mitford, accepts a post as interim priest at a small parish on an island off the Atlantic Coast where he and his wife Cynthia quickly become involved in the lives of a whole new community of people.

"New to the historic town of Metamora, Indiana, Cameron Cripps-Hayman is looking to make friends with her neighbors. What she isn't looking for is one of their bodies floating in the canal. When she and her estranged husband, the town sheriff, are both suspected of murder, Cameron takes crime solving into her own hands, teaming up with her eccentric group of volunteers who dub themselves The Metamora Action Agency"--Page 4 of cover.

"Gloria the rhino loves glitter. She has glitter slippers and a glitter scooter, and she spreads her sparkles wherever she goes; here, there, and everywhere! The townsfolk, though, are tired of it. No more glitter, Gloria! they tell her. But soon, the entire town is covered in glitter. What will everyone think now?"--Provided by publisher.

When sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay discover boxes of vintage Christmas decorations in the grand old beach house, they decide to restore the former owners' traditions of holiday parties for guests. Families and friends come together, and love is in the air-until a priceless discovery at the beachside inn complicates matters. Bennett Dylan, the mayor of Summer Beach, helps organize the multicultural celebrations. However, this holiday season will test...