Tag Archives: Cancer
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
Nicholas Sparks. The Last Song. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009.
Ronnie’s parents divorced when she was in middle school, and her dad left New York City and moved to the North Carolina coast. It’s three years later, and Ronnie is still angry at her parents–especially her dad. Spending a summer … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Coast, New Hanover, Sparks, Nicholas
Joan Medlicott. From the Heart of Covington. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
From the Heart of Covington continues the stories of Hannah, Amelia, and Grace, older ladies who share a house in the fictional town of Covington, NC. In this, the third book in the series, a close friend’s cancer impacts all … Continue reading
Ellyn Bache. Daughters of the Sea. Banks Channel Books, 2005.
Veronica, Guy and their daughter Simpson have made a life moving from one beach town to another, always in search of a better climate or a better construction job for Guy. When Veronica decides she’s finished with the nomadic existence, … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Bache, Ellyn, Coast, Dare, New Hanover
Yvonne Lehman. Coffee Rings. Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour Publishing, 2004.
Four college girls go to the beach and cut loose. One of them dies. When the book opens, the remaining three friends are women in their early forties. Each of the friends has built a life, but all are still … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2004, Buncombe, Coast, Lehman, Yvonne, Mountains, Religious/Inspirational
Mary Alice Monroe. Time Is a River. New York: Pocket Books, 2008.
If your friend was recovering from breast cancer and sexual betrayal, would you offer her quiet time in a cabin where a murder might have taken place? What was Belle Carson thinking?!? She clearly wasn’t expecting her friend Mia to … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Buncombe, Coast, Monroe, Mary Alice, Mountains, Novels in Series, Romance/Relationship
Penelope J. Stokes. Circle of Grace. New York: Doubleday, 2004.
On the day they graduated from college, four close friends–Grace, Liz, Tess, and Lovey–promised to keep in touch with each other using a “circle journal.” The plan was for each woman to write about her life and then pass it … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2004, Buncombe, Mountains, Stokes, Penelope J.
Catherine Landis. Some Days There’s Pie. New York: St. Martins, 2002.
When Ruth Ritchie’s marriage falls apart, she flees Tennessee and ends up in the fictional eastern North Carolina town of Lawsonville. (There is a real Lawsonville in Stokes County near the Virginia border, but this is clearly not the one … Continue reading
Kaye Gibbons. A Virtuous Woman. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1989.
Ruby Pitt Woodrow and Blinking Jack Stokes tell, in alternating chapters, the stories of their lives. Ruby’s chapters are told from her perspective as she is dying of cancer at age 45, while Jack’s reminiscences are set during the period … Continue reading
Filed under 1980-1989, 1989, Coastal Plain, Gibbons, Kaye
