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The Pink House

Written by Nancy Layton

Official publication date - May 16, 2005

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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.

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Let Me Die Laughing!

Written by Megan Timothy

Official publication date - February 15, 2006

$16.95 - limited quantities of signed copies available now!

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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.

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Corn Field

Written by Nancy Layton

We're expecting this book to publish in May, 2006.

Corn Field takes us to the next challenge Julie Summers has to face. Her life takes a sudden left turn and she's thrown, once again, into resolving issues for which she never thought she'd have to be prepared.