“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.” ― Khaled Hosseini
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Margaret Leaving
by Rosemary Hayward
Margaret Leaving is the story of Jenny North from the moment Margaret leaves home to the moment Jenny decides to return to her true family. In 1967, in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, there is a family. The family is William North, Margaret North and Jenny North. One Friday evening Jenny gets home from school to discover Margaret has left and her father does not know why, or so he says, and Jenny’s secure life starts to unravel. Her neighbor, the cheerful and capable Emily, has opinions and half-revealed knowledge about her parents’ relationship. Her father, the self-effacing William, accuses her of…View this book -
Still Breathing
by E. A. Fournier
Newly widowed and on the threshold of seventy, Lizzie Warton questions the value of her remaining years. Uncharacteristically, she decides for the first time in her life to do what she wants, instead of what everyone expects. Against the wishes of family and friends, she sets out for Africa to work at a Ugandan middle school. When she lands at night in the Entebbe airport, her hosts are not there to meet her. Near panic, she hires a local taxi. The driver drugs her, steals everything, and dumps her body in a slum. Waking in the dark, she feels someone…View this book -
Space in the Heart
by Rodney Walther
Before his wife was murdered, astronaut Garrison Sterling couldn't wait to rocket into space on his first shuttle mission. Now he merely survives, one day at a time, blaming himself for the events that put his wife in a grave and his daughter Zoey in a wheelchair. And he struggles to raise Zoey, a headstrong teenager who longs for independence and rebels against his overprotective ways. Danica Cortez, Houston's favorite morning news anchor, dreams of practicing real journalism instead of forever reading teleprompters. When she witnesses a plane crash and rescues the only survivor--a U.S. Senator--Danica becomes a national hero.…View this book -
Little Girl Leaving
by Blume, Lisa
The 1960s have come to a close—it’s 1972, and America is changing. So is Deidi’s world; she’s seven, and her family is moving. As she packs her room and unearths precious objects from her past, her thoughts begin to stray to the years before—to her first memories in 1968, and all that followed. From these reveries unfolds a story of terrible abuse and incredible survival. We see Deidi grow from a three-year-old whose understanding of the world is just beginning to form to a child whose courage, compassion, and sense of wonder persist despite every obstacle. Through her vivid recollections,…View this book -
Letters from Wishing Rock
by Pam Stucky
Letters from Wishing Rock (a novel with recipes) synopsis: Wit, wisdom, and recipes! What would happen if everyone in town lived in the same building? Ruby Parker is about to find out. Her fiancé has left her and she needs a fresh start, so she moves to Wishing Rock, Washington, a small town on Dogwinkle Island in the waters near Seattle, where she meets a quirky cast of characters who quickly become family. Letters between the neighbors and their friends chronicle the twists and turns of the characters' daily lives. There's Jake, a handsome and charming first-year medical student who…View this book -
Sisters of the Soul
by Kristin Fulton
Sisters of the Soul is an epic tale that spans over sixty years in the lives of Elizabeth Dumond and Sophie Washington. The story crosses the Continent of North America, starting at Sweetbrier Plantation in Louisiana and ending in San Francisco, California, with an interlude at Vancouver Island, Canada. Like petals on a flower, the story unfolds as different characters narrate the sometimes violent and tumultuous life events. Sisters of the Soul touches on themes of slavery, friendship, romance, love, hatred, tragedy and joy, and of strong women surviving and thriving in an unpredictable and often brutal world. Ultimately, Sisters…View this book -
Patches of Grey
by Roy Pickering
Tony Johnson is a studious young man planning to soon graduate from much more than high school. Although his zip code places him in a Bronx tenement pre 'rise of Obama', his sights are set far beyond the trappings of a humble upbringing. Collegiate dreams combined with falling in love with a white classmate put him strongly at odds with his father. He incurs Lionel Johnson's wrath for the sins of ambition and daring to be with Janet Mitchell. Seeing unrealized goals reincarnated in the eyes of his eldest son remind Lionel of what once could have been, and of…View this book -
Raised By Committee
by Carollyne Haynes
Set in Devon, England in the 1960's, Raised by Committee tells the story of an abandoned and abused young girl's journey as she struggles to make sense of her past. At age 12 Gail is made a 'ward of the courts as being in need of moral protection'. She is placed under the care of the ubiquitous Children's Committee and sent to live in a children's home. With a backdrop of Beatlemania and the sexual revolution, Raised by Committee chronicles Gail's roller coaster emotional ride as she rails against the restrictions put on her life and struggles to fill the void…View this book -
MAILBOX
by Nancy Freund
"Deep, delightful, and compulsively readable." It's 1976. The USA turns 200 while scrappy agnostic Sandy Drue turns 10, finds an electric typewriter in her father's office, and begins turning out page after page on the conflicting demands of burgeoning adolescence and her own quiet search for the Meaning of Life. The result is a beguiling collection of loosely linked short stories and vignettes, gathered by a now 13-year-old Sandy into an unconventional novel structured like a blog, long before blogging. In the wake of the Watergate scandal, American society is in a state of bewilderment, the economy is fragile, and…View this book -
Liverpool Connection
by Elisabeth Marrion
"Oh Danny Boy. the pipes,the pipes are calling....." Annie sang quietly, holding Derek's baby blue cardigan and trying to detect a familiar smell. The same cardigan he was supposed to wear at his christening. Annie and her friends leave Ireland in 1926 young and optimistic. hoping to find a better life in Liverpool. Only things do not turn out the way they had imagined. Annie falls in love, marries and starts a family of her own. But with the onset of World War II comes tragedy and loss, testing Annie's strength to the limit. Little does she realise that the…View this book -
Quail Fried Rice
by Jill Carroll
Quail Fried Rice is a romance novel written in a somewhat literary style outside the usual "romance" formula. The story follows Tori Reed and Elena Rios--talented, smart and beautiful women--as they transition their lives away from big cities to the pace and culture of a small town in West Texas. Readers join their journey as they create new lives for themselves in the midst of grief, loss, significant change, and the pressures of societal expectation. The result is an artful narrative of discovery set within the sparse beauty of the desert landscape.View this book -
Rita Just Wants to Be Thin
by Mary W. Walters
As she breaks 200 pounds, and not in a good way, 29-year-old Rita finds herself married to a self-focused widower with two difficult kids and a mother who almost makes Rita's own mother look like a role model - which is really saying something. Graham's first wife, being dead, just keeps getting better and better in everyone's memories while Rita just gets fatter and more aggravated. She's tried every diet in the book, but it's not until a family crisis forces her out the door that she discovers that the easiest way to thin is to get rid of the…View this book
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