I have sooooo many books!
The This or That Giveaway! feature that I post every Saturday is a way for me to cull my collection and to share some of the many books I have. I get to clear off some of my shelves to make room for more books and give someone else the chance to enjoy these treasures.
Good luck and be sure to stop back next week!
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Under the Southern Sky
by Kristy Woodson Harvey
Paperback ~ Published April 2021
Recently separated Amelia Saxton, a dedicated journalist, never expected that uncovering the biggest story of her career would become deeply personal. But when she discovers that a cluster of embryos belonging to her childhood friend Parker and his late wife Greer have been deemed “abandoned,” she’s put in the unenviable position of telling Parker—and dredging up old wounds in the process.
Parker has been unable to move forward since the loss of his beloved wife three years ago. He has all but forgotten about the frozen embryos, but once Amelia reveals her discovery, he knows that if he ever wants to get a part of Greer back, he’ll need to accept his fate as a single father and find a surrogate.
Each dealing with their own private griefs, Parker and Amelia slowly begin to find solace in one another as they navigate an uncertain future against the backdrop of the pristine waters of their childhood home, Cape Carolina. The journey of self-discovery leads them to an unforgettable and life-changing lesson: Family—the one you’re born into and the one you choose—is always closer than you think.
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Happy Family
by Tracy Barone
Paperback ~ Published May 2016
A mordantly funny and propulsive novel about a woman coming to terms with her family--adoptive, biological, and future.
In 1962, a pregnant girl staggers into a health clinic, gives birth, and flees. A foster family takes the baby in, and an unlikely couple, their lives unspooling from the recent death of their infant, adopts her.
Forty years and many secrets and lies later, Cheri Matzner is all grown up and falling apart. Ironic and fierce, she's a former cop-turned-disgruntled academic, a frustrated wife trying to get pregnant, an iconoclastic daughter bearing war-wounds from her dysfunctional family. Thrust unto an odyssey of acceptance, she discovers that sometimes it take's half a lifetime to come of age.
Weaving together the stories of the deeply flawed but well-intentioned people who've shaped Cheri's life, Happy Family is an intimate exploration of the gap between our expectations and beliefs about our families, and the truth.
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This is an easy one for me. Autumn is all about Apples, for me.
ReplyDeleteRakes, lots of leaves in my yard.
ReplyDeleteAcorns start with the letter A.
ReplyDeleteSnow. Living in South Dakota, that's a very possible thing, as much as I hate to think about it.
ReplyDeleteJack-O-Lanterns start with J!
ReplyDeleteI would like to see nuts that are on sale, of course!
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Marshmallows roasting in the fire pit and many leaves falling
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Leaves falling is something we see in the fall. —Lindsey
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