Penelope J Stokes
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
In a dusty attic, on Christmas Day 1929, four teenage girls write their plans for the future on slips of paper and then hide them in a cobalt blue bottle. Sixty-five years later, a television news reporter discovers the forgotten bottle and traces the wherabouts of the now elderly women.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Phoebe Lange has it all--a Master's Degree, an adoring fiance, and a future with unlimited possibilities--but something is missing. Orphaned at age five and raised by her grandmother, Phoebe longs for a past and a sense of connectedness, but it is not until she stumbles upon a scrapbook dating back to the 1920's that she discovers a terrible secret about her family's history which triggers an identity crisis. Phoebe becomes obsessed with the mysterious...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
"Thirty years ago, Grace Benedict and her college roommates - Liz, Tess, and lovely Lovey - made a solemn vow: to hold on to their friendship, to support one another, to keep in touch through a circle journal that would make the rounds among them. And they promised always to tell one another the truth." "For three decades that journal has been circulating, carrying stories of Liz's social justice activism in Atlanta and D.C.; of Tess's fulfilling...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Twenty-three years ago, beauty queen Peach Rondell left Mississippi and vowed never to return. Now she's back, divorced and heartbroken, trying to figure out how her life went so terribly wrong. To escape her mama's scrutinizing gaze, she spends her days in a little storefront diner called the Heartbreak Cafe, where, in the back booth, she scribbles away in her journal, waiting for enlightenment. Instead, Peach gets something even better: the unexpected...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Dell Haley's mama always told her there were two things a man couldn't get enough of: good cookin' and good lovin'. Dell has the cooking down pat -- the proof is in her fried apple pies. But she suspects her husband is getting more than his fair share of loving -- she just doesn't know where. And when he turns up dead, Dell's predictable life begins to crumble. Short on money and education, Dell turns to the one thing that has never let her down:...