A young woman who has lost her high income job and broken up with her fiance moves temporarily to New London, CT, to start over and figure out what she really wants. She gets a job on an oyster farm, something she has no experience with. Her life swirls up and down like a ferris wheel while she vacillates between her old life and her future. A complicated story ensues as things get all mixed up.
A very engaging and wonderful story packed with sweet characters and a couple of truly awful ones. The scenes of an antique story where happiness reigns plays against two husband and wives homes riddled with strife. A chance to have a delightful outcome hovers among the pages.
An intense novel relating the possible demise of a complicated and dysfunctional family. Depression resounds throughout the story along with alcoholism and deep insecurities and feelings of being lost within the dysfunction. As situations come to a head, every character must face this reality.
The magical essence of Thornwood House is dying and all will fade away unless a new and accepted caretaker is found. Evie accepts the job and with her adopted daughter Ruby, moves to the house to begin the arduous task of finding out what is causing the loss of magic.
A creative and delightfully descriptive story of the perils Evie and Ruby face, of a village of mostly wonderful people, and of a house in desperate need.
The trials and tribulations of four generations of Black South Carolina horsemen are recounted in this poignant story. Each generation faces deep troubles, sadness, and grief amid times of joy.
The story is told in a true to form prose and dialog of the Black community. The situations, experiences, and lives of the characters will touch you on many levels, evoking deep sentiment and emotion.
An extremely moving novel that at its core is about love and dreams meshing with reality.
Letters to an Alice are delivered to another Alice. The letters from 1985 somehow convey her emotions and situation and lead her on a journey to find the author. More to the center of the story are Alice and her best friend Spence and Mike, the author of the letters, and his best friend Kate. There are similarities in the relationships that unfold as the story proceeds. It is a very stirring and touching novel.
A sweet and engaging story of a second chance after twenty years. The teen pregnancy of Sarah and Hal broke them apart, spurned on by her unforgiving mother. A broken leg forces Sarah to ask Hal for a ride to their son’s wedding in France. Hal has planned out a road trip of camping in his old VW camper which creates fun and adventures that bring them to a different reality even as doubts linger.
