Take your niche and make it your asset! This is exactly what recently widowed Dottie Dolan does as she faces the challenge to create a new life for herself. Still new to the quaint Victorian town of Wycliff on South Puget Sound, she opens up a German deli on Main Street. While sharing her specialties with her customers, Dottie always has an open ear for their concerns and a helping hand when it comes to events. As her deli business is slowly thriving, Dottie finds herself in the emotional conflict between grieving for her late husband and falling in love again. And then the fund for the towns annual Victorian Christmas gets embezzled. The entire event is about to be canceled, leaving smaller stores in Wycliff, such as the deli, destitute. Will Dottie stay on top of this difficult situation? Can she save her deli and Victorian Christmas? And will her heart make the right decision?
Sometimes our real destination is hidden behind a bend in the road. Kitty Kittricks prospects look dim when she has to leave high school early because of a reading stress disorder. When Bonny Meadows from the declining Flower Bower in the quaint Victorian town of Wycliff on South Puget Sound employs her, Kitty senses that there might be more languages to learn than letters can spell. A real challenge is put to her when Bonny suffers a stroke. While Kitty is trying to turn the rudder of the Flower Bower around, she finds her heart entangled in conflict. Should she simply give up business and entrust her future to the charming and romantic lawyer Trevor Jones? Or does the quiet farmer Eli Hayes, with his mute little daughter, Holly, find a way to her heart?
When the plans for an oil refinery become a threat to the future of the quaint Victorian town of Wycliff on South Puget Sound, environmentalist Thora Byrd speaks up. Will she lose an old friend over her ideals of ecology above economy? Meanwhile, journalist Julie Dolan delves deeply into a story of illegal dumping in Wycliff Forest. But somebody who belongs to the past of Wycliff doesnt want to be in her newspapers spotlight and is ready to put everything on one card.
When German contemporary art gallery owner Anne Briest gets betrayed by her fianc, she travels to the British Channel Islands to forget. Yet she finds anything but peace of mind. How are an art fraud, a fake cholera grave, a Russian passport, and a German poem with a weird dedication interconnected? Who is LAnge Douce? And why is everybody acting in such a reserved way? Anne discovers a story of sacrifice and human passion that leads back to a part of WWII history known by few to this day.
Home from Home was first published as a weekly column in The Suburban Times in Lakewood, WA. The essays compare the author's former home, Germany, with her new one, the United States. From food to pastimes, nature, and holidays, Susanne Bacon describes what shapes a German US immigrant's everyday life. This book doesn't intend to be an advisory for people who plan to emigrate, though. Avoiding any controversial topics, the collection has turned out to be a love declaration to two nations that might be more similar to each other than you would believe.Susanne Bacon was born in Stuttgart, Germany, has a double Master's degree in literature and linguistics, and has been working as an author, journalist, and columnist for over 20 years. A naturalized US citizen, she lives with her husband in the South Puget Sound region in Washington State. You can contact her at www.facebook.com/susannebaconauthor.
When the plans for an oil refinery become a threat to the future of the quaint Victorian town of Wycliff on South Puget Sound, environmentalist Thora Byrd speaks up. Will she lose an old friend over her ideals of ecology above economy? Meanwhile, journalist Julie Dolan delves deeply into a story of illegal dumping in Wycliff Forest. But somebody who belongs to the past of Wycliff doesn't like to be in her newspaper's spotlight and is ready to put everything on one card.
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