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|  | | An Accidental Life
When four teenage girls decide to risk the enticing world of temptation and danger, they cannot predict how their behavior will change...and in some cases...destroy innocent lives.
Summertime is hot and dull in the Central Valley of California and four teenage girls from very different families are determined to spice it up. With a single-mindedness that foretells disaster, they push aside all the rules and explore the underbelly of valley life. Drugs, sex, alcohol, adventure, anything to challenge the norm, yet all experienced without the benefit of maturity. As the girls become increasingly uncontrollable, their mothers--from dramatically diverse social classes---are forced to work together to save their daughters. Like a tornado moving acros | |  | | Chasing Stardust
A touching and poignant tale of an unwed mother's journey to create a satisfying life and find true love.
An examination of life, love, and parenting in the modern world, and an exploration of wonderfully flawed characters impossible not to love for their dogged misdirected affections.
A single mother learns to love herself (finally) after years of defeat, humiliation, and self-loathing when she figures out what makes her happy as a parent, as a professional, and as a woman. With her hands full at home and at the office, love comes late in more ways than one. It's not exactly the love she was looking for, but finally, for once, love comes to stay and she's no | |  | | Embrace the Whirlwind
In this novel, the author explores how a restless young woman learns to overcome her dysfunctional family, face her personal demons and find the happiness she so richly deserves.
How does one person connect to another in a meaningful and satisfying way? Can a tortured past and tangled family history impede prospects for finding happiness in the future?
The author worked for over thirty years with families in crisis. She saw firsthand how even the most flawed people had a deep desire to make better lives for themselves, even if it meant facing almost insurmountable odds to make that happen. The author's experiences lend an authenticity to the characters and the situations in which they find themselves. The multi-di | |  | | Interior Designs
Meet Martha Scott Cummings: an interior designer, an abandoned wife, and a newly single mother to her daughter Meadow. Now, she must begin an interior journey to reexamine the life she had, the choices she made, and find the strength to begin again.
Meet Martha Scott Cummings: an interior designer, an abandoned wife, and a newly single mother to her daughter Meadow. Now, she must begin an interior journey to reexamine the life she had, the choices she made, and find the strength to begin again. She could wallow in self-pity amongst the detritus that is her life, or she could explore her feel-ings, study her behavior, and figure out how to redesign her life by changing the way she reacts to disappointments, betrayal, and insecurity. Along the way to rediscovering who she was and who she can be, Martha reconnects with her best | |  | | Miles to Go
A tale of friendship between two women that begins in college, when the two are radical protesters against the war in Vietnam, and spanning more than thirty years, during which time they begin careers, enter marriages and relationships, have children, and survive the many turbulent times they find on the road.
California 1970: flush with idealistic ambition and youthful passion, best friends Lindsay and Gia are preparing to graduate from college. With their history of radical student activities, they're determined to make their mark on a country divided by the Vietnam War. Life rarely goes according to plan, however, and they soon find themselves juggling love and motherhood with careers and dreams that seem always just out of reach. They cling to their friendship through it all, relying on one another for the wisdom, laughter, and support that sustain them. Spanning | |  | | Web of Tyranny
A story that illustrates the cycle and historic sequence of abuse and betrayal, this literary fiction examines one woman’s will to survive and the scars that define her and ultimately set her free.
Authentic, encompassing and believable, Web of Tyranny by the author Laurel-Rain Snow is a rich journey of the woman’s heart in all of its flawed glory. Stirring, this narrative tale is a furtive and complex story full of people, language, sadness, torture and, ultimately, inspiration.
Set during the 60s and 70s, the incredibly and convincingly flawed Margaret Elaine Graham leaves a bad childhood to unwittingly marry a control freak. If hindsight is 20/20 it takes Meg a few turns on the stile to set things right.
Caught up in a near-compulsion of politics and war |
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