Viola Shipman
Author
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls--inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom--until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now approaching middle age, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens, struggles with their marriages, their children, their careers, and wondering who it is they see when they look in the mirror. Then Liz,...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Arriving in the lakeside town of Good Hart, Michigan, Becky Thatcher--just turned forty years old with little to show for it--encounters eighty-year-old Mary Jackson, who has almost given up hope that someone will come along to carry on her legacy as the owner of The Very Cherry General Store.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Desperate to reinvigorate her career, a Detroit mergers & acquisitions executive must convince her aging parents to sell their iconic Michigan Christmas store by the start of the New Year but when she reconnects with the magic of the store, her parents and the holidays, her misguided plan backfires.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Despite losing her parents in a tragic accident just before her fourteenth Christmas, Susan Norcross has had it better than most, with loving grandparents to raise her and a gang of quirky, devoted friends to support her. Now a successful bookstore owner in a tight-knit Michigan lakeside community, Susan is facing down forty--the same age as her mother when she died--and she can't help but see everything she hasn't achieved, including finding a love...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up in northern Michigan, Samantha "Sam" Mullins felt trapped on her family's orchard and pie shop, so she left with dreams of making her own mark in the world. But life as an overworked, undervalued sous chef at a reality star's New York bakery is not what Sam dreamed. When the chef embarrasses Sam, she quits and returns home. Unemployed, single, and defeated, she spends a summer working on her family's orchard cooking and baking alongside...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Memories of better times motivate a woman at a crossroads in her life to renovate a lakeside family cottage where she was most happy and where she discovers a cache of letters from the late nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her beloved, intensely private mother, Sutton Douglas, leaving the Ozarks behind, heads to a magical Michigan resort town where she hopes to find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only her mother's past but her own place in the world.