Susan Meissner

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  To Mimis House We Go

  $17.99

  Join bestselling author Susan Meissner and other “Mimis” in this Christmas-season poem inspired by the traditional holiday traveling song “Over the River and Through the Woods.” Modern families find their way to grandmother’s house using a variety of vehicles to celebrate with Mimis, Omas, Gigis, and Nanas.

  This sweet Christmas story:

  *is for boys and girls 4 to 8 years old and grandmothers of all names and types;
  *explores the different modern modes of transport used to take Christmas journeys;
  *features rhyming text resembling traditional carols and folksongs; and
  *celebrates the unique ways families celebrate Christmas while showing the common threads of food, family, and love in them all.

  To Mimi’s House We Go combines the magic of Christmastime with sweet memories of time with Grandma in an adventurous romp through country and city, from coast to coast.

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  White Picket Fences

  $18.00

  When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands- in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm-and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a “normal” life, even though their own storybook lives are about to crumble.

  Seventeen-year-old Chase Janvier hasn’t seen his cousin in years, and other than a vague curiosity about her strange life, he doesn’t expect her arrival will affect him much-or interfere with his growing, disturbing interest in a long-ago house fire that plagues his dreams unbeknownst to anyone else.

  Tally and Chase bond as they interview two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project, and become startlingly aware that the whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, with the echoes of the past, and with the realization that ignoring tragic situations won’t make them go away.

  Will Tally’s presence blow apart their carefully-constructed world, knocking down the illusion of the white picket fence and reveal a hidden past that could destroy them all-or can she help them find the truth without losing each other?

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