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The Pink House

Written by Nancy Layton

$18.00

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!

Written by Megan Timothy

$12.00

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

Written by Nancy Layton

Available - March 1, 2010

$21.00

Julie Summers gets one of those horrid middle-of-the-night calls informing her that her fiancé, Paul Franklin, has been seriously injured in a car crash. He had traveled back to Iowa to close out his personal affairs, planning to return to Redondo Beach, California, to marry Julie and settle into his new life with her. When she gets to the hospital, Julie finds Paul still in a coma. He regains consciousness and seems to be rallying, causing Julie and Paul’s family to rejoice. Death has the last word, however.

Not yet a bride, Julie becomes a pseudo-widow and begins dealing with grief, once again. In The Pink House, Julie had to bury her mother, leaving far too many family secrets and questions unresolved for her comfort. Now, with Paul’s death, she’s thrown achingly into the preparations for Paul’s last rites and his parents’ ideas of how that should be. Julie finds the strength to stand firm and insists they honor Paul’s wishes, based on a casual conversation she and he had a few weeks prior to his trip back to Iowa.

Having raised her daughter, Kelly, by herself, Julie thought she’d never marry until she finally trusted herself to love Paul. Now, once again, she resigns herself to living her life alone. As she wades through the deep grief that engulfs her after returning to California, Julie resists her daughter’s and friend’s efforts to pull her back into active life. Just when she thinks she’s comfortable with her depression, she meets Barry Whiteside, a well-known science fiction writer, who quietly sets about changing Julie’s outlook on life.

	12,000 Miles for Hope's Sake Written by Megan Timothy
	$26.00
Open the pages of Megan’s new book and come along on this incredible bike ride around America. Her adventures and challenges and the wonderful people she met will have you laughing and crying and shaking your head in amazement.