Juggling a career as a TV reporter and raising a grandchild alone is challenging enough for lovely plus size 18 Jolene Jefferies. But then she meets Akron (Ron) Jamison, a strikingly handsome widower with a college-age son and teenage daughter. Ron is a carpenter who has started his own construction company and wants her help in convincing the city council to give him a grant to repair old houses in the community. Jolene knows she has her hands full, for it isn’t long before their romance deepens and they try to build a house of their own. But will a dark secret from Jolene’s past cause her to lose her career—and Ron’s love?
But the story's heart lies deeper, in an unexpected series of personal hardships that call into question what "home" really means, and what it means to grow up.
From Wendy Corsi Staub, the acclaimed author of FADE TO BLACK, comes a masterful new work of suspense... Lake Charlotte. A quiet little town in upstate New York. The perfect place to raise a family. Or is it?
All the Way Home is the long-awaited sequel to Mary Pride's revolutionary book, The Way Home. Building on the theme of the home as the center of life, this book...
It’s August 1941, and Brick and Mariel both love the Brooklyn Dodgers.
We are accustomed to thinking of the gospel solely as the means by which we enter the kingdom of God.
We were aware of their attention to detail and the way our clothing and artifacts were respected and kept in order. ... felt any repercussions here in the Delta and I doubt if it will have much effect on the over-all situation here.
I can't leave a number where I can be reached , but I'll call her when I get back . ” “ Fine , ” Molly says , jotting left town , will be back in messy handwriting Rory probably won't be able to read . Oh , well , too bad .
McClelland & Stewart, A Division of Random House of Canada Limited 1 Toronto Street Toronto, Ontario M5C 2V6 Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Braithwaite, Max, 1911- All the way home eISBN: 978-1-55199-638-7 I. Title. PS8503.
How little we all are! And how surely we all know it. How many years shall anyone of us wander this earth or any other planet? As a race, we have only been around a few million years. A speck. A drop. An easily forgotten event.
I saw her maybe once after that weekend.” “I had to pack my bags and make your apartment look as if I'd never existed. You practically shoved me out the door ten minutes before they arrived. I had given you everything, and suddenly I ...