Penelope Stokes
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Blue Bottle Club
$17.99Add to cartIn the wake of the depression of 1929, four friends gather in a cold, dusty attic on Christmas day to make a solemn pact. “Our dreams for the future,” they whisper, as they place tiny pieces of paper holding their life wishes into the blue, cabin-shaped bottle. Letitia dreams of marriage and children; Mary hopes to be a painter; Eleanor aspires to help those in need as a social worker; Adora longs to be a Broadway actress. Four girls, four dreams, and four futures sealed in a cobalt blue bottle. Sixty-five years later, local news reporter Brendan Delaney stumbles upon the bottle, discovering the most meaningful story of her career and possibly the meaning missing from her own life.
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Amethyst Heart (Reprinted)
$14.99Add to cartThe only possession Miss Amethyst Noble loves as much as the antique brooch she wears at her throat is Noble House–a symbol of freedom, faith, and a family history proudly and inextricably entwined with the history of a nation. For a hundred and forty years, Noble House has been a place of shelter, hope, and healing in Cambridge, Mississippi. A place of miracles. When she discovers her dissolute son has designs to sell the ancestral home out from under her, Miss Amethyst–ninety-three years old and as sharp as eve–isn’t about to let that legacy go. If her son is lost to her, there’s still her granddaughter. Little Am, who had once held such sweet promise, but the gentle, good-natured child has mutated in her teenage years into something else altogether. But whatever it takes, Little Am is going to know that the Noble family heritage is worth fighting for.
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Memory Book : A Novel
$14.99Add to cartPhoebe 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 ancestor, also named Phoebe Lange, whom she is convinced is the key to answering the questions that have plagued her. But the answers may not be what she has in mind.