Synopsis: Virtually no one in American can say that he/she has not been impacted by breast cancer, either directly or because a friend or family member has struggled to survive…
Synopsis: In the early 1990’s, Chloe, Talia, and Quincy were looking for an apartment in Manhattan. Jules de Marco had the apartment, but was looking for roommates. “I have a…
We have had a delightful summer here in the little village of Lodi. The temperatures have been uncharacteristically mild. Usually, by mid-August, we have endured many days when the temperature…
Synopsis: The Davidsons are the perfect family. Maggie is a psychology professor at a community college. She and her husband, Mike, have two teenage sons, Brian and Jamie. Brian, the…
Synopsis: Raquel Azorian, 25, is one of the folks working behind the scenes at Belmore Corporation, a Hollywood production and marketing company. An executive assistant, she works night and day…
Welcome Margo Candela, author of Goodbye To All That. Raquel Azorian, 25, has worked her way from temp to executive assistant and is close to a promotion at Belmore Corporation,…
A homily is defined as “a sermon, especially one intended to edify a congregation on a practical matter and not intended to be a theological discourse” or “a sermon that…
Synopsis: Sylvie Serfer Woodruff has devoted herself to being the ideal political wife. The first night they got together in college, Richard Woodruff informed her that he wanted to someday…
Synopsis: Four women. Each at a crossroads in her life. Each unsure what her future will be like, aside from the fact that it will bear no resemblance to her…
Synopsis: Jill Murray’s life hasn’t turned out the way she envisioned and planned it. For the past seven years, she has been raising her daughter, Anastasia, now ten years old,…
I write because I can. I’d love to be a musician or a painter, but writing is the place where my urge to create and my ability intersect. I think…
The idea for Beachcombers came to me when I was literally walking on the beach. I was thinking about mermaids, specifically the Hans Christian Anderson story in which the mermaid,…
Synopsis: Trapped. Without options. Lacking self-empowerment. Enslaved by addiction. Harmony Dust is 19 years old, living in the Los Angeles area, attending college, and addicted to an abusive, opportunistic relationship…
Synopsis: It is 1987. Lucy West is primarily a stay-at-home mother to two children, Margaret and Jeremy. She also works part-time, sometimes contributing articles to the Sussex newspaper of which…
Our family has been through some major transitions over the course of the past year, and the evening of June 3, 2010, not only felt like the culmination of all…
Synopsis: The main character, Violet, is “adrift” and “on a mission of self-destruction” even though, by all outward signs, she has everything: Successful husband, beautiful daughter, wealth, gorgeous home, luxurious…
Synopsis: Sometimes we get lucky and life presents with the opportunity for a “do-over” — a rarely bestowed second chance. It might be the prospect of a new job or…
Synopsis: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is author Gregory Maguire’s reworking of a children’s classic, Cinderella. But Maguire’s reinvention of the tale bears little resemblance to that or any other…
Synopsis: When Shaquille O’Neal was drafted into the NBA in 1992, not only was his life changed forever, but so was his mother’s. Her son’s success on the basketball court…
Synopsis: Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He’s a writer, a house painter, an original thinker — everything she’s imagined she wanted in a partner. But one…
Synopsis: Somewhere between belief and doubt lies faith. For the second time in her marriage, Mariah White catches her husband with another woman and Faith, their seven year old daughter,…
Synopsis: Author Kim Edwards describes the books’ premise this way: “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter opens with a pivotal moment, one that changes the lives of all its characters forever.” A…
1. Where are my feet? I can barely feel them . . . they are still numb from all of the walking I did in New York City! 2. If…