Welcome to the first of the author updates this week with recent reviews for authors on the shelves.
The first review today is for the latest book from LIsette Brodey.. a story of family and relationships The Sum of our Sorrows.
About the book
In an idyllic suburb in Northern California, tragedy strikes the Sheppard family when Abby, the mother of three daughters and wife to Dalton, is killed in a car accident. Charlotte, the middle daughter, is in the car with her mother and survives without physical injury but remains deeply scarred on the inside.
Dalton tells Lily, his eldest daughter, that she must sacrifice long-awaited college plans and put her life on hold to take care of her sisters. Lily is torn between her devotion to family and an increasing need to find her place in the world — but how can she leave, knowing her family may crumble? Will her presence eventually cause more problems than it resolves?
The Sum of our Sorrows reveals how the aftermath of a family tragedy can precipitate sorrows never imagined. It is a tale of grief, hope, healing, coming-of-age, friendship, and survival. It is also a love story of two broken souls living through pain in search of better days and the renewal of one’s spirit.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: I write characters as I hear them speak to me. Some of these stories contain non-gratuitous expletives and sexual references. This book also contains some situations that may be triggering to some readers. If this is not to your liking, please don’t read this book. Thank you.
A recent review for the book
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A selection of books by Lisette Brodey
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The next author today is Claire Fullerton with a review for her novel Little Tea.
About the book.
Southern Culture … Old Friendships … Family Tragedy
One phone call from Renny to come home and “see about” the capricious Ava and Celia Wakefield decides to overlook her distressful past in the name of friendship.
For three reflective days at Renny’s lake house in Heber Springs, Arkansas, the three childhood friends reunite and examine life, love, marriage, and the ties that bind, even though Celia’s personal story has yet to be healed. When the past arrives at the lake house door in the form of her old boyfriend, Celia must revisit the life she’d tried to outrun.
As her idyllic coming of age alongside her best friend, Little Tea, on her family’s ancestral grounds in bucolic Como, Mississippi unfolds, Celia realizes there is no better place to accept her own story than in this circle of friends who have remained beside her throughout the years. Theirs is a friendship that can talk any life sorrow into a comic tragedy, and now that the racial divide in the Deep South has evolved, Celia wonders if friendship can triumph over history.
A recent review for the book
T. Bakken Friends
I knew in the first pages of Little Tea that Fullerton’s storytelling would transport me. Her descriptive passages about the humidity and verdant landscape are palpable. I knew I would feel at home in the female company of the three friends reunion on the lake. Fullerton weaves their past and present and deep understanding of one another together beautifully. What I didn’t know was that this story – of friendships, and first loves, and reliving the triumphs and tragedies of the past – would carry profound lessons on what it means to be happy, balanced, and open minded. Fullerton is a skilled linguist and philosopher – wrapped up in a fantastic storyteller. Little Tea is a gift I’m so glad I opened!
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Also by Claire Fullerton
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Delighted to welcome Tyler Edwards to the Cafe and Bookstore with his books and today I am featuring his latest release the dystopian, science fiction novel The Outlands
About the book
In the ruins of the world that was lies the city of Dios, a haven protected from the hostile environment known as The Outlands. Ruled by an oppressive Patriarch, the people of Dios are conditioned in fear. The smallest infraction could result in banishment to the Outlands, a fate worse than death.
With his make-shift family of “Undesirables”, Jett Lasting struggles to find his place in a world where drawing attention to yourself can get you killed. His very existence is considered a crime. To survive, he must avoid guards, beggar gangs, and an ever-growing tension that could drag the whole city into chaos.
Jett unwittingly becomes entwined in a plot to overthrow the government where his choices could lead to freedom or the death of everyone he’s ever known or cared about.
One of the recent reviews for the book
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Also by Tyler Edwards
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Thanks for visiting today and I hope you will be leaving with some books..thanks Sally.
A group of talented authors and it’s great to see Lisette Brodey among them. I very much enjoy her writing. She writes in a range of genres and her stories are sometimes heart breaking but also heartwarming and hopeful. She is an excellent author!
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Thank you Christa and for adding your recommendation for Lisette’s books.. I enjoyed Sum of Our Sorrows very much.. Have a good week.. hugs
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So kind of you, Sally! I look forward to reading your work too. And I’ve read several of Christa’s wonderful stories!
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Awesome books and reviewers, Sally. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks John and have a great week..hugsx
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Thank you so kindly, John. And thank you, Sally. For everything. You’ve been so wonderful.
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She is terrific for sure. 😊 Thanks, Lisette.
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Thank you, Sally. I always appreciate your spotlight on books and reviews. 💗
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Thanks Gwen.. have a lovely week ♥
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Sally is the best, isn’t she? 🙂
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Thanks Lisette..♥
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Great stories with amazing content. Let me put thme on my list, because i am around three week behind. Thank you for sharing, Sally! Enjoy a woderful Monday! Michael
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Thanks Michael.. hopefully you will get a good break soon to catch up on your reading..have a good week.. the sun is shining here today.. a miracle…hugs
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Sounds great, with the sun. I really think the sun has vacancy on the aisles. Here we can not see her. Thank you, will try to catch up asap. Have a beautiful day, Sally!
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You too Michael xx
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Thank you, Sally! xx
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A great line-up of books, authors, and reviews. Thanks for sharing, Sally. Hugs xx 🙂
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Thank you Harmony.. a lovely sunny day here so a good start to the week..xx
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I consider it a high honor to have Little Tea in this wonderful line up. Thank you, Sally! I know you once spent significant time in the American South, so I’m all the more pleased!
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Delighted to share Claire and lovely to see all those amazing reviews..hugsx
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Your book looks wonderful, Claire. And I love the cover!
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These are all three new authors to me. Thanks, Sally!
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Thanks Jan..hugsx
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Congrats to all for wonderful reviews. Loved Claire’s book ❤
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Thanks Debby and adding your recommendation for Little Tea…friends and sisterhood so important in life ♥♥
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We know it! ❤ xx
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Thanks for sharing these talented authors and their wonderful reviews. xx
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Thanks Trish..hugsxx
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