| Welcome to the Honey B&B by Melody CarlsonWith multiple narrators, including 60-something Honey, her husband CT, and their artist daughter Jewel, this moving story follows the family as they deal with CT's worsening dementia. To help, Jewel and her 14-year-old daughter move to Oregon where they work to turn the family farmhouse into a bed-and-breakfast. |
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Hope's enduring echo : a novel
by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Spotting a fossil in a young woman's hands while riding a train through Colorado, a geology student, Leo, leads them on a thrilling hunt, sparking their unexpected friendship and offering them each a deeper understanding of their destinies.
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| The Filling Station by Vanessa MillerDuring Jim Crow America, there was only one place Black Americans could safely refuel their vehicles along what would eventually become iconic Route 66. But more than just a place to refuel, it was a place to fill up the soul, build community, and find strength. For two sisters, the Threatt Filling Station became the safe haven they needed after escaping the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
After looking in the face of evil and leaving her whole world behind, Margaret Justice wants nothing more than to feel safe and hold tight to what she has left. Her sister, Evelyn, meanwhile, is a dreamer who longs for adventure and to follow her heart, even though she's been told repeatedly to not dream too big.
As they both grapple with love, loss, and racism, Margaret and Evelyn realize that they can't hide out at the filling station when Greenwood and their father's legacy needs to be rebuilt. Going back will take strength they are not sure they have. But for the love of Greenwood, they will risk it all and it may be just the catalyst to bring Black Wall Street back to its former glory.
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Heart of the Glen
by Jennifer Deibel
When Saoirse Fagan arrives at Drumboe Castle to start her new job as housekeeper, she is upset to learn that the lord of the house passed away a week prior. Already running from the tragedy that claimed the lives of her family members, Saoirse wanders the road through the darkening glen with nowhere to go until Aileen McCready offers her a lift and a place to stay for the night.
Aileen's brother, sheep farmer and weaver Owen McCready, is known for his intricate and impeccably woven tweed, but when he's injured, his livelihood is threated and a new and distracting mouth to feed is a further nusiance as Owen struggles to keep his family afloat. Though Saoirse is eager to help, even offering to learn the weaving craft, Owen is hesitant to accept aid from this strange young woman, no matter how inexplicably magnetic he finds her.
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| The Long March Home by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca LeeJimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons, to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire.
Life in the Philippines seems like paradise, until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila that the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours, the teenage friends, along with fellow soldiers are at war, as Japanese warplanes attack Luzon, beginning a battle for control of the Pacific Theater.
What follows will become known as one of the worst atrocities in modern warfare, The Bataan Death March. With no hope of rescue, the three friends vow to make it back home together. But the ordeal is only the beginning of their four-year fight to survive.
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| The Italian Ballerina by Kristy CambronBased on true accounts of the invented Syndrome K sickness, The Italian Ballerina journeys from the Allied storming of the beaches at Salerno to the London ballet stage and the war-torn streets of WWII Rome, exploring the sometimes heart-wrenching choices we must make to find faith and forgiveness, and how saving just one life can impact countless others.
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| The Foxhole Victory Tour by Amy Lynn GreenOutspoken trumpeter Maggie McCleod and beautiful violinist Catherine Duquette come from quite different worlds, but both are relieved to be part of a small USO variety show for their own reasons. An unlikely friendship develops, though neither anticipates the difficult conditions and dangers they will encounter performing so close to the front lines in 1943 North Africa.
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| Embers in the London Sky by Sarah SundinFleeing the Netherlands after the Germans invade, Aleida Martens' cruel husband, Bas, abandons his three-year-old son, whose right hand did not form properly, to an English couple to get rid of him. When Bas is killed, Aleida makes it to London in search of her son and gets help from a kind-hearted BBC radio correspondent.
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