Blogs in August 2020

A Misty Mourning 28th August 2020

A ten-hour car trip with your eighty-year-old grandmother is never much fun, especially if you’re seven months pregnant. But when Torie O’Shea’s longtime family friend Clarissa Hart Campbell insists that she and Grandma Gert come for a visit at...

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The Star Fisher 28th August 2020

“This poignant, gently humorous novel is about prejudice and acceptance….15-year-old Joan Lee is a child of two worlds. As a Chinese American, she has never felt her separateness more than now, in 1927, in this new place in West...

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Child of the Mountains 28th August 2020

Growing up poor in 1953 in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia doesn’t bother Lydia Hawkins. She treasures her tight-knit family. There’s her loving mama, now widowed; her whip-smart younger brother, BJ, who has cystic fibrosis; and wise old...

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Way Down Deep 28th August 2020

Although Ruby seemed to just appear out of thin air on the steps of the courthouse on the first day of summer in 1944, no one in Way Down Deep, West Virginia, ever worried too much about where the...

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Apple Cider Slaying 28th August 2020

Blossom Valley, West Virginia, is home to Smythe Orchards, Winnie and her Granny’s beloved twenty-five-acre farm and family business. But any way you slice it, it’s struggling. That’s why they’re trying to drum up business with the “First Annual...

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