Joan: 2841 books

AT 4 PM ON A HOLIDAY WEEKEND IN 1943, the Pennsylvania Railroad’s premier express departs Washington’s Union Station for a high-speed run to Penn Station in New York City. Among the 541 passengers in its sixteen coaches are a disillusioned war widow and a Navy submarine officer on route to an...

Carolyn Marshall is a young woman of modest means liviing in a community of the mega-rich.  During a weekend at the family home in Clear Water Cove, she rediscovers an old love and meets a handsome stranger.  Unaware the stranger has  been hired by malicious gangsters to recover a lost treasure,...

From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Luck and the Man Booker Prize nominated Critical Injuries From three very different points of view, Joan Barfoot creates three very different lives, through them examining the interdependence and ties, resentments and affections that both bind...

The irrepressible Laura Morland, Professor of Gender Studies, is back again! In WADING INTO MURDER, Laura climbs - or - or more accurately falls - down a wall and swims across a rat-infested pool to rescue a baby in the famous Roman Baths of England. Attempts on her life and near-escapes come thick...

Laura Morland is back! So is Thomas, her enigmatic art detective love interest, who makes a dramatic and unexpected appearance as Laura rides a train through Switzerland's most magnificent scenery in winter. The reunion is heartfelt but smelly due to its location in a rest room. Thomas is posing as...

An eleven-year-old boy, Doliitchii, lives with his family in a small cottage on the grounds of the Animal Park in San Diego. He has many stories to tell. The Tiger and the Dolphin is about the friendship of a tiger, Tim and a dolphin, Daphne. One day, the tiger escapes from the park. Why does he run away? Where do they find him?

Vivian Taylor’s dreams drowned the night she found her husband, father of their four young children, in the pool with her. Days from finalizing divorce and in need of resuscitation, Vivian’s three closest friends whisk her off to exotic Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where she meets sexy Canadian soap...

Les secrets d’Amy, Angel Smits Pour Amy, la petite ville de Rattlesnake Bend, où elle a passé son enfance, est l’endroit idéal pour élever sa fille Katie. Jusqu’au jour où Jace Holmes fait irruption dans sa vie, bouleversant son petit monde si tranquille : il lui apporte des nouvelles d’un...

Merrill Joan Gerber holds the record of having sold more short stories to Redbook Magazine than any other writer. This selection of twenty-five linked tales, published in Redbook from 1964 to 1991, chronicles the passionate (domestic) adventures of Janet, Danny and their three daughters.

Written by Joan Benson, one of the champions of clavichord performance in the 20th century, Clavichord for Beginners is an exceptional method book for both practitioners and enthusiasts. In addition to detailing the historical origins of the instrument and the evolution of keyboard technique, the...

Colorful oil paintings and a playful child's story tell why a five year old French girl sneaks a pony from the nearby riding academy to look for the Wild West in the Jura Mountains of France. See what happens when Sasha follows an owl through the pine forrest. Does she find the Wild West? What happens when her parents find out what she has done.

A story adapted from Irving Berlin's song lyrics "Anything you can do I can do better" with colorful oil paintings showing all the things boys and girls can do. The story ends with the idea that even a black woman can become president.

An eleven year old girl follows a bluebird and a boy into the woods. She watches the boy as he talks to a wolf. Because she is afraid of wolves, she runs away. Through her new friendship with the boy, she soon gains courage and later plays with the wolf pups. This children's picture book contains photographs of 16 oil paintings by the author.

Kiana and Leon walked with their parents and Grandma on a trail winding through the woods of the Jura Mountains, foothills of the French Alps. Soon, they would reach the top of the mountain where they would share a picnic lunch. What would happen when they see a Big Horse galloping towards them?