Tag Archives: Cancer
Nancy Gotter Gates. Life Studies. Detroit: Five Star, 2011.
Liz Raynor, widowed at 55, is struggling to find any joy in her life in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her husband, Peter, lost his battle to cancer only two months previously, and nothing catches her interest until someone comes to her … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Gates, Nancy Gotter, Guilford, Piedmont, Romance/Relationship
Grace Greene. Beach Rental. Louisville, KY: Turquoise Morning Press, 2011.
Juli Cooke has been beaten down by life. Passed from foster home to foster home as a child, she didn’t even graduate from high school, and now works multiple jobs just to keep her head above water. She doesn’t have … Continue reading
Diane Chamberlain. The Midwife’s Confession. Don Mills, Ontario: MIRA, 2011.
Thus far 2010 has been a difficult year for Tara Vincent and Emerson Stiles. First, Tara’s husband, Sam, dies in a car accident; then their best friend, a local midwife named Noelle Downie, inexplicably commits suicide. Sam, Noelle, Tara, and … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Chamberlain, Diane, Coast, Mystery, New Hanover, Robeson, Romance/Relationship
Sarah Martin Byrd. Guardian Spirit. Athens, OH: Lucky Press, 2011.
Survival for Millie and her two young children, Sadie and Sammy, requires thoughtful planning, strong willpower, and magic. When Millie finally musters the courage to leave her abusive husband, Brad, in Texas and to hide in the Blue Ridge Mountains … Continue reading
Sandra Z. Bruney. Angels Unaware. Columbia, MD: Draumr Publishing, 2010.
At Christmas Kat Knightly saw a reflection of herself and her husband, Jordan, in a mirror and thought to herself that they were a handsome couple in the prime of life. By summer that all has changed. A cancer diagnosis … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Bruney, Sandra Z., Novels Set in Fictional Places, Piedmont
Patricia Hickman. The Pirate Queen.Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2010.
Saphora Warren has had it. Although her life looks good to outsiders–she has raised three children, she lives in a home that will soon be featured in Southern Living, and she is liked and admired in her community–Saphora’s sense of … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Coast, Hickman, Patricia, Pamlico, Religious/Inspirational
Monique Truong. Bitter in the Mouth. New York: Random House, 2010.
All of her adult life, Linda Hammerick has been asked “what it was like to grow up being Asian in the South.” Linda, adopted at the age of six by a white couple in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, has always … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Cleveland, Piedmont, Truong, Monique
Gina Holmes. Crossing Oceans. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2010.
Jenny Lucas has a lot to do and not much time to do it. Six years ago Jenny left her small home town, pregnant with the child of a man who had moved on to a new love. The pregnancy … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Holmes, Gina, Religious/Inspirational
Lynne Hinton. Christmas Cake. New York: Avon, 2009.
Beatrice, Jessie, Louise, and Margaret are fixtures in the Hope Springs Community Church. They are also best friends – the type, for example, who accompany each other to doctor’s appointments. When Margaret’s cancer resurfaces, the heartbroken women react to it … Continue reading
Lynne Hinton. Hope Springs. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 2002.
The sequel to Friendship Cake finds the women of the Hope Springs Community Church Women’s Guild at it again. Although their cookbook has been published, the group has become accustomed to getting together on a regular basis to talk about … Continue reading
