I pick up my album again, a favorite among many. This one shows the motley assortment of primates in my family tree, which would be a mesquite: a little scraggly, but Texas tough. After twenty-five years of marriage, Molly and Jim have little in common other than facing bankruptcy together. Unsure of her next move and with her prayers only hitting the ceiling, Molly travels back home to do a roots tour with her sisters. As the three women follow the trail of their ancestors through the small towns of Texas, they share family love stories from America's most romantic eras: westward expansion, the Roaring Twenties, and the rockin' fifties. These trips, spaced out over the years, become a source of inspiration and bonding for the women. As Molly continues to wrestle with the circumstances of life, she draws from these trips and the love stories that lasted a lifetime, but will it be enough to give her the strength of Mesquite?
Seventeen year old Chloe Bernard pressed her nose against the bowed screen and searched among the myriad leaves of the giant oak so close to her window she could climb out on that fat limb right beneath her and leave-if she dared. Were the baby cardinals still in their nest? Ah, Minou the fat gray cat hadn't eaten the tiny birds. Dear God, she prayed, Let them live to fly away..." LongShadows, a Southern Gothic novel filled with a psychological mystery, centers on Chloe Bernard, a seventeen year-old-girl who is trapped in her family's decayed and sinister antebellum mansion by horrors that her forefathers committed there for over a century. She doesn't understand why her Aunt Olympe won't allow her and her aunts LaLa, Maddy, and Cici to leave, but she's determined to escape. She must find out the secrets of the old house which she pieces together through stories related to her in the colorful voices of her aunts and their ancient servant, Princess.
World War II is raging, and seventeen-year-old Odyssey Magee waits anxiously for news about the fate of her two brothers. While they are fighting in Europe, she has her own battles against nature and evil in the form of a serial killer who has escaped the law and is hiding in the colorful Caprock Canyons close by her home in the Texas Panhandle. Odyssey finds out what she's made of when she takes on hair-raising dangers and learns about love, fighting to save her life and that of her beautiful cousin.
I pick up my album again, a favorite among many. This one shows the motley assortment of primates in my family tree, which would be a mesquite: a little scraggly, but Texas tough. After twenty-five years of marriage, Molly and Jim have little in common other than facing bankruptcy together. Unsure of her next move and with her prayers only hitting the ceiling, Molly travels back home to do a roots tour with her sisters. As the three women follow the trail of their ancestors through the small towns of Texas, they share family love stories from America's most romantic eras: westward expansion, the Roaring Twenties, and the rockin' fifties. These trips, spaced out over the years, become a source of inspiration and bonding for the women. As Molly continues to wrestle with the circumstances of life, she draws from these trips and the love stories that lasted a lifetime, but will it be enough to give her the strength of Mesquite?
World War II is raging, and seventeen-year-old Odyssey Magee waits anxiously for news about the fate of her two brothers. While they are fighting in Europe, she has her own battles against nature and evil in the form of a serial killer who has escaped the law and is hiding in the colorful Caprock Canyons close by her home in the Texas Panhandle. Odyssey finds out what she's made of when she takes on hair-raising dangers and learns about love, fighting to save her life and that of her beautiful cousin.
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