Wind, rain, wind, hail, wind, heat, wind – it’s amazing that a garden will grow anything resembling flowers or vegetables in this NE weather.  But, regardless of how it was beaten down in the recent storms it keeps coming back.  We could all take lessons in resiliency to keep on growing when things get tough!

Gracie Lynne Calloway was left in a coal bucket on a front porch in a small Alabama town as a baby.  She discovers on her twenty-fifth birthday that she is the kidnapped daughter of a late New England financier and heiress to a fortune.  When the tabloid press and her unwanted greedy relatives descend on her, she has to admit the quiet secure life she’s known and loved is gone for good.  As Gracie struggles to stabilize her world and come to terms with her new identity in this new novel called Salting Roses by Lorelle Marinello she learns that belonging is not about where you came from but who you are.

Author Sherryl Woods writes about Raylene Hammond in Honeysuckle Summer.  Raylene is thankful for her best friends, the Sweet Magnolias.
They’ve taken her in and shielded her from the world after her devastating marriage.  Then she meets sheriff’s deputy Carter Rollins.  Carter understands why Raylene is trapped inside.  He’s even tried to bring the outside world to her.  But with two kid sisters to raise, just how much time can he devote to this woman who’s stolen his heart?

The beautiful Victorian house that Amy Masterson decides to rent, fully furnished, is more than just a place to start over with her young daughter.  When Amy learns that the three-story home belonged to her great-grandmother, Eleanor Rucker, who Amy’s mother had been searching for until her recent death, she hopes she can find a window into the past her mother never found.  Judy Duarte writes a poignant story in The House On Sugar Plum Lane.

If your idea of a garden is ‘picking’ a good book, come in and CHECK IT OUT. . .