Akron Public Library

Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day's breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother's death. When Josef Weber, am elderly man in Sage's grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can't, and they become companions. Everything changes...

Life is hard for Moll Flanders. As a teenager, Moll is seduced and marries young. When her husband dies a few years later, leaving Moll and her children without support, Moll embarks on a quest to find a man with money.