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The Pink House
$18.00
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Julie Summers fled the family farm soon after high school graduation.
Now in her fifties, she's drawn back to small-town Iowa to care for
her mother, who's dying from bone cancer. During her months in tiny
Nathan Springs, she struggles to come to terms with the secrets and
deceptions of her family's past and to make sense of the present. Julie's
not looking for romance but she meets Paul Franklin and finds herself
questioning her most basic ideas about her own life.
This simple story of complex family dynamics reverberates with the dilemmas
many women face in the middle of their lives. Trying desperately to
move with some sense of grace into their own mature years, many women
long for both adventure and serenity. Caught in this dichotomy, women
in their forties and fifties have raised their children but now may
face the difficulty of their parents' declining health and security.
Julie feels all of this and more, as she watches her mother, Grace,
move toward death. Julie's older sister and younger brother provide
some support, but the major burden rests on Julie's shoulders. As she
deals with Grace's deteriorating condition, she asks, "Who is this
woman who gave me life? Why did she stay with Dad, a man so hard we
all left home at the first opportunity?" Finding friendship with
the woman who owns the pink house on the corner, Julie learns that life
doesn't always give up its secrets and some things are better left in
the box in the closet.
Let Me Die Laughing!
$12.00
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Megan Timothy is a woman of action. She grew up in Rhodesia, in Southern
Africa, and came to the U.S. at twenty-one. With her spunky personality
and stunning looks, she quickly fell into the Hollywood "scene". She worked
more than 20 years as an actress and a screenwriter. Along the way, Megan
acquired an old house in North Hollywood, which she converted to a B & B
that became a well-known stopping place for celebrities and big-name politicians.
Not content with the glitz and glamour of her life in Hollywood, Megan
took a friend's challenge and rafted down the Mississippi, then canoed much
of the Amazon. At 56, Megan needed an even greater challenge and biked solo
more than 10,000 miles around most of Europe and parts of the Middle East
and North Africa.
But, in 2003, at the age of 60, Megan faced her greatest challenge of all.
She suffered a major bleed in her brain as a result of an unknown, genetic
defect and lost all ability to communicate. Initially unable to speak, read,
or write, Megan has recovered from that horrible experience to write her
story. She writes with eloquence and humor about things that would make
any other person simply weep with fear and frustration. Megan Timothy is
a true storyteller and brings us right to the brink of our own sense of
mortality as she reveals the layers of her own despair, anger, fear, and
ultimately triumph.
Corn Field
Available - March 1, 2010
$21.00
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As The Pink House closed, Julie Summers was just beginning to accept the love of a good man, Paul Franklin. Corn Field takes us to her next challenge when life takes a sudden left turn. Julie is thrown into resolving issues for which she never thought she'd have to be prepared. Not only do her plans with Paul head into uncharted territory, Julie now learns what “letting go” truly means. From there, Julie gains new insight into how relationships evolve as another man, Barry Whiteside, enters her life and she settles down into being together in ways she had not anticipated. Julie becomes an important source of support for Barry’s family as she applies what she learned during her mother’s last months of life to her new family’s painful situation.
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12,000 Miles for Hope's Sake
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$26.00
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Megan Timothy can only be described as “intrepid”. Almost immediately after her first book, Let Me Die Laughing!, was published, Megan got on a bicycle at Hemet Public Library and after a nice Bon Voyage gathering there, sped off on the first leg of her incredible 12,000-mile, 8-month journey around America. She traveled solo and had many amazing adventures and a few mishaps. Around the entire country Megan found people to be kind, generous, and intensely interested in what she has to say on the subject of recovering from brain injury. Her message of holding on to hope, keeping a sense of humor, and never giving up the struggle to improve inspired many survivors of brain injury and their caregivers to keep going on their own journeys through life. This new book from Megan Timothy chronicles that spectacular bike ride she made in 2006 and delivers her “message” through the many stories she tells here of “life on the road”.
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