Dorothy Garlock, Author . Grand Central $24.99 (372p) ISBN 978-0-446-54019-3
The prolific Garlock (The Moon Looked Down
) returns to a familiar setting—a smalltown boarding house run by a struggling young woman—in her true-to-form latest. In Carlson, Minn., circa 1926, Rachel Watkins ekes out a living overseeing...
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Dorothy Garlock. Grand Central, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4555-2728-1
Garlock’s terrific story, set in mid-20th-century Missouri, pairs a lonely single mother with a flashy auto racer. Clara Sinclair’s husband died in WWII, and she has no time for dating. Between trying to do right by her rebellious 16-year-old son,...
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Dorothy Garlock. Grand Central, $13.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-54014-8%E2%80%A8
Slow and bland, this historical romance set in 1939 Oklahoma features moments of high tension, such as a wildfire and a stampede, that somehow manage to seem unremarkable. The romance between school teacher Charlotte Tucker and mysterious cowboy...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author Warner Books $12.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-446-69394-3
Set in Depression-era Missouri, Garlock's latest novel picks up where The Edge of Town left off, once again presenting the down-home charm and familiar characters that have made her books so popular. April Asbury, a lovely young nurse, has just...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author Warner Books $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-446-60814-5
Set in northern Iowa farm country in the 1950s, Garlock's retro romance (following With Heart) details the fitful relationship of high-school sweethearts Nelda Hansen and Lute Hanson. As teenagers, the two were hurried into a shotgun marriage by...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author Warner Books $6.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-446-60256-3
The bestselling author of Sweetwater and more than 20 other novels tackles Depression-era Oklahoma with wit, freshness and memorable characterization. In 1932, after Henry Ann Henry's father dies, she's left with a farm to run and two disreputable...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author Grand Central Publishing $7.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-60253-2
Veteran author Garlock dusts off the time-honored, land-grab plot and brings Kristin Anderson to 1880s Big Timber Montana, a town choked by vicious corruption. The determined, young city woman, manages to keep her inheritance, find gutsy friends,...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author Vision $5.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-446-60252-5
When town manager T.C. Kilkenny advertises for women to work in Timbertown, Wyo., he hopes to marry them off to his lumberjacks. To his surprise, he finds himself falling in love with strong-minded Jane Love, who is running from a dark secret and a...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author Grand Central Publishing $5.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-446-36414-0
Garlock ( Tenderness ) brings to atmospheric, energetic life a hard-edged, meaty story of passion, sin and redemption. Branded a slut in her Idaho logging community, unwed mother Dory Callahan tends the homestead for her beloved brother James and...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author Grand Central Publishing $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-35990-0
When Willa Hammer's guardian is lynched and her home burned, she finds herself heading west with teenage Charlie and Jo Bell Frank, whose down-and-out father has been killed for cheating at cards. The three are heading for the ranch of Oliver...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author Grand Central Publishing $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-36370-9
Nurse Jesse Forbes first meets Wade Simmer when she rides out in 1902 to combat scarlet fever among rural families outside Harpersville, Tenn. Wade is considered somewhat dangerous: he is a loner and folks suspect he might be ``The Looker,'' a man...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author Grand Central Publishing $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-446-35989-4
Garlock's ( Homeplace ) trite, cliche-ridden tale is set in the years before and after World War I. When 15-year-old Letty Pringle becomes pregnant, her father, a hypocritical evangelical minister, beats her and orders her to ``take your hot little...
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First love is sweet for a fresh-faced country girl in bestselling author Garlock's latest romance, set in 1920s Missouri. Since her mother's death, lovely Julie Jones has cared for her farmer father and five siblings. She dotes on her family,
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Dorothy Garlock, Author . Grand Central $19.99 (386p) ISBN 978-0-446-69535-0
When WWII breaks out, many Americans find their lives turned upside down, few more so than the Heller family. Seeking refuge from Hitler-controlled Germany, the Hellers had moved to smalltown Victory, Ill., only to find themselves, 10 years later,...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author . Grand Central $19.99 (355p) ISBN 978-0-446-69534-3
Garlock's newest (after On Tall Pine Lake
) feels old, and not just because it's set in 1890. Schoolteacher Hallie Wolcott flees Whiskey Bend, Colo., with her friends Pearl and Mary after Mary is beaten by Chester, one of the town's...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author . Grand Central $22.99 (372p) ISBN 978-0-446-69533-6
On the day her father is buried, 21-year-old Adrianna Moore learns that he left the family fortune under the control of Richard Pope, his attorney and partner who has lusted after Adrianna for years. Pope informs Adrianna that she’ll get her...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author . Warner $22.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-69532-9
Garlock's 50th novel is a delightful treasure set in seemingly tranquil Home, Ark., in 1980. Nona Conrad has moved her 14-year-old sister, Maggie, and her friend Mabel Rogers to Tall Pine Lake to spend the summer managing an isolated lakeside...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author . Warner $12.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-446-69531-2
In Garlock's latest sweet, satisfying Depression-era romance, rugged westerner Tate Castle meets fragilely beautiful Katherine Tyler, a New Orleans native, in a west Texas romp. Kate, who has earned a nursing degree in New York, is California-bou
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Dorothy Garlock, Author . Warner $12 (402p) ISBN 978-0-446-69305-9
Pregnant, spunky Mary Lee Clawson returns to Cross Roads, N.Mex., and the motor court her beloved late father built on Route 66 in this engaging Depression-era romance, Garlock's third to feature the legendary highway. All is not right at the...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author . Warner $22.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-53063-7
Novel number two in popular romance writer Garlock's Depression-era Route 66 trilogy (after Mother Road
) follows a caravan of trucks on their way to California. Twenty-three-year-old Margie Kinnard's dream of going to Hollywood to become a...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author . Warner $22.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-53062-0
The author of A Place Called Rainwater
(and dozens more) is back with another sweetly entertaining historical novel. Widowed Andy Connors, his single sister-in-law Leona and his two young daughters run a gas station alongside the famed Route 66 (the
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Dorothy Garlock, Author . Warner $22.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-446-52950-1
The Midwest in the 1920s is the setting for this romantic melodrama featuring the spunky, independent little sister of Julie Jones, the heroine of another Garlock novel, The Edge of Town. Jill Jones has recently come from Missouri to the boomtown...
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Dorothy Garlock, Author . Warner $22.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-52946-4
Prolific romance author Dorothy Garlock returns to 1920s Missouri in her latest historical. At 21, Annabel Lee Donovan leads a nomadic life, constantly uprooted by the urgent demands of her father's mysterious occupation. When they move to a...
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