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The Road Towards Home
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Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway
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The Writing Circle
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Always in Trouble
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Pirates Go to School
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Are Pirates Polite?
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Saying Goodbye to Lulu
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Everything I Was
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Daughters
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The Perfect Tree: A Picture Book
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"An excerpt from my review of this wonderful novel in The Massachusetts Review: What do we owe our parents and what do parents owe their adult children? Demas is working subterranean territory, reflecting pain across generations in dialogue stitched w"
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"I loved the book. I liked the suspenseful moments, the way the characters were built through dialogue, and the characters themselves. Interestingly, it was a real page-turner!"
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"I won this book and I am so grateful. Every character was flawed except Eloise and Wylie. Oh, my! I just couldn't stand Meredith's mother. Then, I had to stop and think what I might have done. It kept getting on. my nerves that she wouldn't take no f"
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“Even the most taciturn of men had their breaking points. As for herself, well--she would not consider her own breaking point. Mothers were not supposed to have them.”
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“If you didn't want to know things, you didn't have to know them. Things didn't become facts until someone actually spoke them. Until then, you could just go on acting just the way you had been acting and even if you suspected there was something that would change everything, you didn't have to acknowledge it; you didn't have to let it in.”
― Returning to Shore
― Returning to Shore
“The cold water stung Cassandra’s toes. She thought about everything—a blur of images and sounds: leaving Clarion, driving to the Cape, Noah kissing her, unpacking the car into the cottage, the cello singing out to the sea—and then she sank into the moment and let herself think about nothing. It had been so long since she’d been able to think about nothing. Nothing at all.”
― The Road Towards Home
― The Road Towards Home
“I’m always happy. But I often experience a bit of a wobble before I take off—a short period of time when all my doubts gang up against me.”
― The Road Towards Home
― The Road Towards Home
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“The cold water stung Cassandra’s toes. She thought about everything—a blur of images and sounds: leaving Clarion, driving to the Cape, Noah kissing her, unpacking the car into the cottage, the cello singing out to the sea—and then she sank into the moment and let herself think about nothing. It had been so long since she’d been able to think about nothing. Nothing at all.”
― The Road Towards Home
― The Road Towards Home
“I’m always happy. But I often experience a bit of a wobble before I take off—a short period of time when all my doubts gang up against me.”
― The Road Towards Home
― The Road Towards Home
“Even the most taciturn of men had their breaking points. As for herself, well--she would not consider her own breaking point. Mothers were not supposed to have them.”
― Daughters: A Novel
― Daughters: A Novel
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I love the book valitine surprise I rate it 5 stars Love,
Veronica