Fort Morgan Public Library

According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian-born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness-is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations-looking, listening, touching, and asking-something a man can never do with a female patient. From...

The matchmakers have their eyes on romance -- and in this small Amish community, no one is safe. Their sights are set on plain, independent Willow, who's shocked when her parents try to marry her off to bachelor Samuel. But can she and Samuel evader their parents' meddling long enough to find love on their own? Then there's Valerie, a widow who's never recovered from losing the man she really loved. Now at her friend's urging, she and Ed have...

"Young Henry began his rule as a magnificent and chivalrous Renaissance prince who embodied every virtue. He had all the qualities to make a triumph of his kingship, yet we remember only the violence. Henry famously broke with the Pope, founding the Church of England and launching a religious revolution that divided his kingdom. He beheaded two of his wives and cast aside two others. He died a suspicious, obese, disease-riddled tyrant, old before...

Spunky young Ruth Priggish is on the run from an 80-year-old suitor. Her only hope of eluding him is to seek help from an unwilling protector, U.S. Marshall Dylan McCall.