The fact that THE CHILD OF AUSCHWITZ by Lily Graham was inspired by real events is just as powerful as the narrative itself. Two women, Eva and Sophie, did the unimaginable. They requested to be sent to Auschwitz Read more...
Mariana Andros is no stranger to loss. First, her mother when she was a child, her sister and brother-in-law and most recently, her husband. Working as a group therapist is a form of therapy for her grief. When her niece Zoe calls her to Read more...
Aaron Coblentz wants to take the GED test because he feels if he passes his employer will promote him. But, he thinks he has to keep this secret from his family because he doesn't want them to think he is leaving their way of life. He Read more...
CHRISTMAS AT THE AMISH BAKESHOP consists of three novellas, each with a Christmas theme.
The first is A CHRISTMAS CAKE FOR REBECCA. Twenty-five years. That's how long it has been since forty-two year old Rebecca Christner has seen Aden Raber, the man Read more...
Since childhood, Sophia Collicchio and Antonia Russo were best friends. Their parents were close and were like family, but it was the Family that actually dominated their lives. The story follows their lives as they grow up, marry and have children. However, their relationship is, in part Read more...
Three Black women, one a refugee, one an American executive, and one a former model and now airline attendant, find themselves linked to a white Swedish owner of a marketing agency. One works for him as a janitor, one works for him in an executive capacity, and the Read more...
She came to be known as 1671 after she arrived in Auschwitz at age fourteen. Maria Florkowska was her given name and, despite her youth, she was a member of the Polish Resistance. One unfortunate encounter with the Nazis resulted in torture and then her imprisonment in Read more...
When readers first meet Carmen, not much in her life is going well. Unemployed and living with her parents, the future looks bleak. Bending to pressure from their mother, Carmen's super successful sister Sophia offers Carmen a place to stay (in Sophia's basement next door Read more...
It is one thing to know what you aspire to become. It is quite another to be told that you can't realize your dream because you are a woman. This is the situation Ruth Duncan found herself in. The story opens in 1914 in Baltimore Read more...
An excellent neighborhood with good schools and caring neighbors, Cottonwood Estates is an excellent choice for families. There is even a rather unusual book club. The neighborhood is safe. Or is it?
The story gives a thoughtful portrayal of three women coming to terms Read more...
Sixteen-year-old Maggie Dawes is sent from her Seattle home to live with her aunt on an island off the coast of North Carolina in 1996. No malls, movie theaters, or many people her age. However, she is not there to socialize. Bryce Trickett is hired Read more...
One man, three daughters-each from a different woman, his mother, and a famous vineyard all come together in this beautifully told story. The storyline of THE INHERITANCE by JoAnn Ross is unique as the girls don't know Read more...
There is so much about A VINEYARD CROSSING by Jean Stone that makes it a compelling read. Set in Chappaquiddick, readers meet a large cast of endearing characters who have become a family that has little to do with Read more...
Despite the secrets, bad choices, and transgressions, the Brennans fully embody the definition of the word family. When readers meet them, the four children are adults, their father is alive and their mother is dead. A childhood friend has also become part of their clan. After Read more...
Three women are still haunted by their mother's suicide twenty-five years ago. It fell on the two oldest girls to raise their young sister when their father just couldn't cope. Alex, the oldest, is a nurse who finally found the time to do something for Read more...
They were a family: Tallulah, the teenage mother of baby Noah, her baby's father Zach and Tallulah's mother, Kim. They lived together in Kim's house until the night Tallulah and Zach went missing. Fourteen months later Shaun and Sophie move to this community and Sophie Read more...
Located in the Champagne region of France, Chateau Fouche-Leblanc has produced a highly coveted champagne for two hundred years. In 1939, France declares war on Germany and in anticipation of a Nazi occupation, Gabrielle has hidden bottles of their premium blend. She will do whatever it takes Read more...
All Alice wanted was to make friends when she and Leo moved into their new neighborhood. The Circle, gated and with a few homes, gave the semblance of safety. Alice soon finds out the house holds a dark secret that she becomes obsessed with. When she Read more...
Sometimes a place takes on a life of its own. Elle Bishop's family compound named the Paper Palace is such a place. For most of her fifty years, she has vacationed there and she has a powerful relationship with both the structures and the land it Read more...
In the prologue of FORGIVE ME by Susan Lewis, readers learn that Archie is in jail writing a letter he never imagined writing through the Restorative Justice program. He is writing to the victim of a crime he committed. A Read more...