EL LIBRO QUE HA INSPIRADO A LA PELICULA Una primera novela dolorosamente hermosa que es a la vez la historia de un misterioso asesinato, de una iniciacion a la vida y una celebracion de la naturaleza ... Owens explora las marismas desoladas de la costa de Carolina del Norte a traves de los ojos de una nina abandonada. Y en su aislamiento, esa nina nos abre los ojos a las secretas maravillas (y peligros) de su propio mundo". --The New York Times Book...

Now, in the first volume of the Millwood Hollow Series, she serenades us with a gritty, unforgettable saga of joy, faith, and hope set in Arkansas during the Great Depression.

Housed in a rustic red barn, the Simple Gifts crafts shop celebrates the talents of the Amish of Willow Ridge--and the faith that inspires them. For the acceptance of simplicity opens the path to love. As far as Edith Riehl is concerned, the baby twins thrust suddenly into her arms are a heaven-sent gift. Unable to conceive, she longs to be a mother with a home of her own. She's going to abide by her promise to handsome Asa Detweiler to take care...

Behold the Many is the eerily beautiful story of three young sisters, Anah, Aki, and Leah. In 1913, they are sent away from their family for treatment for tuberculosis to an orphanage in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, in spite of the nuns' best efforts to save them, and only Anah, the eldest, will grow to adulthood. But, the ghosts of the dead children are afraid to leave the grounds of St. Joseph's, which is the only place...

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...

In the fall of 1945, eight children, all brothers and sisters, vanished from a small rental house in Morganton, Georgia. The oldest was ten and the youngest was a newborn. They were taken by mule and wagon to a shack on a remote mountain in the Blue Ridge foothills of Fannin County, up where it hugs the North Carolina line. For the next four years they would live mostly alone, without mother or father, roaming the mountains and valleys of what had...

The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father's disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge--for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much...

"Hansel and Gretel's stepmother is a real meanie. She makes them do chores and never lets them eat dessert. And then she ditches the kids and Clementine in the woods! The trio tries to find their way back, but they stumble upon a mysterioius house made of sweets." --