Synopsis: Heloise grew up as Helen Lewis, the product of her mother’s unfortunate devotion to her father, Hector, an abusive adulterer who never divorced his wife. Hector told Helen that…
Synopsis: Sandy Lincoln has everything going for her. At seventeen, she is a beautiful and popular honors student and cheerleader headed for college and a bright future. But when Brad…
Synopsis: The Bissette family is on the verge of homelessness. Arthur Bissette’s factory is about to be shut down by the bank and seized, along with the family home in…
Synopsis: Lttle Charity, age six, has never known her father. That’s because her unmarried mother, Lizzie Engel, left the tiny little Mennonite community of Kingdom, Kansas, shortly after her birth.…
Synopsis: Chelsea King was a vivacious, accomplished, and extremely popular high school senior who expressed her goals and ambitions with eloquence and insight far beyond her years. She was good…
It is my honor to welcome acclaimed true crime author Caitlin Rother to Colloquium today. She has penned eight fiction and nonfiction works, including Dead Reckoning, in which she recounted…
Synopsis: Alice Humphrey really needs a job. So when she attends a gallery opening and is approached by Drew Campbell about serving as the manager of a new gallery, she…
Synopsis: Phoebe Hall has survived the break-up of her long-term relationship and being falsely accused of plagiarizing her most recent book, a celebrity biography that, like her previous work, hit…
Synopsis: Nicole-Marie Handy has been fascinated by the French language and anything having to do with France her entire life. As a child, she was enchanted by the French dictionary…
Jacqueline E. Luckett is my special guest today. She is the author of Searching for Tina Turner and Passing Love, an engrossing tale about a woman who fulfills her lifelong…
Synopsis: In the little North Carolina town of Hope Springs, the Sanders family is gathering for Christmas at the home of their matriarch, Grandma Jeri, for a reunion. Granddaughter Stephanie…
Synopsis: Logan Pyle’s life is falling apart. It has been just four months since his father, Gus, died after an agonizing four-year illness. Bennie, Logan’s stepmother, has moved out of…
Synopsis: Lucy Tucker is one of the nameless, faceless people who roam America’s streets, seeking shelter wherever they can find it. Lucy’s eightieth birthday is looming and over the years…
Emily Jeanne Miller’s first novel, Brand New Human Being, has just been published and is garnering praise for its “wonderfully real characters” and quick paced exploration of the “struggles of…
Synopsis: Claire Silver is ambitious, driven, and idealistic. She has her dream job. But she’s not sure that she wants it any longer because her boss, legendary Hollywood producer Michael…
Synopsis: It is the summer of 2002, and the world is a far different place than it was just one year prior. The events of September 11, 2011, impacted everyone,…
Today my special guest is author Meg Mitchell Moore, whose second novel, So Far Away, was recently published. It is the story of how the lives of a wayward teenager…
Today I welcome best-selling author Linda Lael Miller to Colloquium for the first time! Linda’s latest book, Big Sky Country, has just been released. Sheriff Slade Barlow grew up in…
Synopsis: James Turner dreams of utopia — a community where the residents live and work together, pooling their resources and labor, and sharing equally in the benefits derived from everyone’s…
Author Steve Wiegenstein is a historian and first-time novelist. He has penned an intriguing story of about James Turner, an impulsive writer and lecturer, who is given a tract of…
Synopsis: The body of a soldier killed during World War I has just been discovered. At the time of his death, he was carrying with him two letters, written by…
Synopsis: At thirty-three years of age, magazine writer Anne Blythe (her mother was so obsessed with Anne of Green Gables that her brother is named Gilbert) always seems to pick…
Synopsis: It is a dark and stormy night at Sterne, the beloved family home of Charlotte Torrington Swift and her children, Clovis, Emerald, and Imogen, better known as Smudge. After…
Synopsis: At the age of forty-two, Alex Armstrong, has left behind his life as a college professor in Chicago. Alex returned to school, graduated from seminary, and has accepted his…