A Return to Galveston, Texas 2020 The Uncertain Season by Ann Howard Creel

“The Hurricane of 1900 devastated Galveston Island, but a storm of betrayal is still brewing.” https://www.amazon.com/Uncertain-Season-Ann-Howard-Creel/dp/147780904X

A Return to Galveston 2020 and The Uncertain Season

The Pandemic of 2020 will certainly rival the place in history of the Great Storm of 1900, that ravished the island of Galveston, Texas. Upon the reopening of the state of Texas, a short return visit to Galveston celebrating our 48th anniversary was scheduled. Since reading The Uncertain Season, I’ve wanted to retrace the steps of Grace, Etta, and The Girl. We returned to Ward 5 and the alleys where Grace and Ira ministered to the impoverished families; we chose The Schaefer Haus-a Bed & Breakfast in the East End Historic District-complete with the plaque that denotes it as a “survivor”-near where Grace and her family lived; we toured the Moody Mansion-completed in 1895 and also a “survivor’ of The Great Storm. We also walked the East End streets to marvel at the beautiful architecture, intricate designs and vibrant colors, while absorbing the fragrant aromas of the lush gardens. In Ann Howard Creel’s acknowledgments she mentions Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm as part of her historical reference. We thought the purchase of this book while in Galveston would be a fitting reminder of our trip. Just reading the back cover and perusing the text has me intrigued. Here’s a photo gallery of “A Return to Galveston 2020.”

**Freight Station in far end of the Alleys**

The Grateful Reader Review: by Dorothy Schwab

The Great Galveston hurricane, known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900, was the deadliest natural disaster in United States history,https://www.history.com/news/how-the-galveston-hurricane-of-1900-became-the-deadliest-u-s-natural-disaster

Overwhelming devastation to a city, its families, and the island itself; The Great Storm of 1900 that destroyed Galveston, Texas, is the setting for The Uncertain Season.

“Harry Gobinet knew something huge was blowing in, but even he didn’t foresee the magnitude of the storm coming their way. Still he saw enough to save them. “

An eleven year old girl and her friend, Harry, fight for their lives in a shrimp boat in Galveston Bay. Later, as they search for homes and family, the aftermath of the deadly storm of 140 mph winds engulfs the reader. Ann Howard Creel’s descriptions of the island devastation are recorded as she shares the storm’s impact on three women who find themselves in Galveston, 1903: the bold, but shamed Etta, from Nacogdoches, Texas; the privileged & engaged,but lonely Grace; and an elusive, mysterious islander known only as The Girl.

Amidst the building of the “modern engineering miracle,” known as the seawall, the author does a masterful job of weaving the gripping, coming of age of The Girl with the untimely unveiling of family secrets and betrayal, by both Etta and Grace. Adding the realizations of “living in a home where appearances were more important than the truth,” creates a compelling mystery. The upbringing, childhoods and parental influences of Etta, Grace, and The Girl, play an important role in individual reactions and emotional responses as each are battered about in the “personal storms of life.” Who survives the storms?

Powerful imagery, deep, emotional family situations involving trust, identity, regret, and forgiveness; the reader will “survive the storm,” but in the aftermath there will be that amazing feeling of freshness and beauty after a storm, along with the overwhelming relief and joy of new beginnings. Readers of The Uncertain Season will “be prepared” for the next storm. ***** GR

After first writing for children, Ann turned her attention to Historical Fiction. Her first novel for adults, THE MAGIC OF ORDINARY DAYS, was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie on CBS. Her recent titles have been Kindle bestsellers and include WHILE YOU WERE MINE, THE WHISKEY SEA, THE UNCERTAIN SEASON, and her latest, THE RIVER WIDOW.

She now writes full-time. Ann’s main characters are always strong women facing high-stakes situations and having to make life-changing decisions. Her historical settings have ranged from Victorian-era Galveston to World War II in New York City. Her next novel, MERCY ROAD, to be published in 2019, takes readers to World War I France. Besides writing, Ann loves old houses, new yoga routines, and all things cat.

The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

A completely encapsulating read! Whether readers have been long time Jane Austen fans or have never read Pride and Prejudice, new fans will be born. Readers will immediately have empathy for each of the fictional villagers that Natalie Jenner has , in just one season of life in Chawton, England, breathed love and life. From the Great House to the ha-ha fences, to the pocket size copy of Pride & Prejudice, readers will be ready to stroll the village lanes and take a ride on Adam’s hay wagon. Reading The Jane Austen Society will bring readers much joy and wisdom regarding love, forgiveness and always new possibilities laced with hope. This Grateful Reader awards five easily earned 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Bright Side of Going Dark by Kelly Harms

“Even casual users know how absurd and unrealistic social media can be—yet keep logging on day after day. Kelly Harms takes this dichotomy to new heights in a clever and unputdownable story of two women whose so-called online lives collide IRL. I laughed, I cried, I came away from the experience with a newfound appreciation for life—which is to say THE BRIGHT SIDE OF GOING DARK is everything I’d hope for in a Kelly Harms novel, and more. I loved every page.”

— Camille Pagán, bestselling author of I’m Fine and Neither Are You

The Grateful Reader Review by Dorothy Schwab

Throw your phone over a cliff? Could you do it-go dark, for even a day? Read The Bright Side of Going Dark for insights into that odd, almost indescribable feeling of no social media feedback; no text, no GPS, Google; actually being without a phone for several days. (It’s rather mind boggling that we all used to live this way-well, those of a certain age, anyway.) This is a story of self-discovery without a device for support; rather, actually speaking face to face, having conversations via voice rather than text-and living in real life (IRL) Kelly Harms shares such insights into “going dark”, that one wonders, did she manage it, even for a few days? Readers will appreciate the candid conversations between sisters, mothers, complete strangers and of course, all the so called, “friends.”

Why are those ‘likes” and “loves” from followers so important? Kelly Harms finds the humor but also the serious consequences of not being truthful and sharing real feelings and fears, with those we love. And then there’s the whole “virtual life” some find so intriguing. Main characters: Mia- a social media “influencer” on Pictey with thousands of followers and sponsors, posts thirty/day; Paige-employed by Pictey as part of the Standards Enforcement /Quality Assurance Team whose job it is to flag “obscene, dangerous, inflammatory, cyber-bullying or any way humans are awful to each other;” and Jessica, Paige’s half sister, who has attempted suicide. Each young woman has much to learn-about living IRL and about each other. Every page is a gem.

The self-reflection and shared wisdom in this book will impact – daily- what readers think about when the phone is picked up to check FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter.

Here’s the IN REAL LIFE take-a-way: A Wish from Mia:

“Long quiet walks where the wind is your podcast. Lost wanderings where your instincts are your GPS. Peaceful early mornings where you have your nose in a cup of coffee instead of an email inbox. Yoga with a friend, not an app. Family time with no “shares” and lots of sharing. Mental selfies in the flat, calm reflection of a mountain lake. Sponsorships of children and animals. Quiet summer evenings where the stars are your backlight. A phone that’s used for calling someone you love. Friends, I wish you joy. I wish you airplane mode.”

Mia would make a great friend-now that she’s learned so much. There truly is a “Bright Side of Going Dark.” Read it, and then try it.

All GREAT books by Kelly Harms http://kellyharms.com/

The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes

“The Giver of Stars is a 2019 historical fiction book by Jojo Moyes about pack horse librarians in a remote area of Kentucky. It is inspired by a real group of librarians who between 1935 and 1943 delivered books to some of the most remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains.”

“Jojo Moyes is a novelist and journalist. Her books include the bestsellers Me Before You, After You and Still Me, The Girl You Left Behind, The One Plus One and her short story collection Paris for One and Other Stories. Her novels have been translated into forty-six languages, have hit the number one spot in twelve countries and have sold over thirty-eight million copies worldwide.

Me Before You has now sold over fourteen million copies worldwide and was adapted into a major film starring Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke. Jojo lives in Essex.”

The Grateful Reader Review by Dorothy Schwab

“It’s women doing the riding. Delivering the books.” “Women?” “By themselves?” came a man’s voice. “Last time I looked, God gave ’em two arms and two legs, just like the men.” Margery O’Hare, in her “dark blue cotton coat and her unpolished boots,” had been working for weeks setting up the new library and Mrs. Brady had called a town meeting to explain the system and ask for more volunteers. Women, that is, to ride the routes up into the mountains to deliver books to the folks up in the hills. Mr. Guisler had offered his old milk barn to house the library, so all that was needed was “the support of right minded people!”

Alice Van Cleve, newly married and all the way from England, saw this as an opportunity to escape the day in-day out boredom of the house she was trapped in with her husband, Bennett, and his widowed father. The only escape from the overbearing opinions of her father-in -law and her mealy mouth husband was to attend hours of church and town meetings. So before she could think twice, Alice stood to volunteer her time as a pack horse librarian. Meeting Marge O’Hare was the best thing to happen to Alice-ever.

Lovers of books, history, friendship, and romance will be hooked from the very beginning of this tale that will have readers gripping the manes of mules, up from the hollers and into the hills of Kentucky and jostlin’ back down to the stuffy, courtroom of Baileyville. Among the hospitable folks of the Appalachians there are men to love and men to hate; all with good reason. The hardships of the Depression and the changing roles of women take center stage as fearful men reveal their true selves as they lose control of finances, the support of fellow workers in the mines, or the stability of meager crops and family homesteads ruined by floods.

The unbreakable bonds of friendship that grow between the women librarians; cross lines of class and color. Readers will rejoice in small steps of independence taken by five fellow librarians: Marge, Alice, Izzy, Beth, and Sophia. Their devotion to each other and the mission of the pack horse library is not to be taken lightly; lessons in relationships between women, men, neighbors, and civic duty are here for the taking. Readers may identify with “foreigner” Alice, be dependent on some sort of ‘brace’ like Izzy, or be subjected to gender or cultural discrimination like Beth and Sophia. The independent thinker, Margery, leads the librarians and readers to make bold self- examination of where allegiances are forged, how the pledge of support is maintained, and how to move forward when difficulties arise. Margery’s words, “There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth has gone and shifted under your feet. But there is always a way around.”

JoJo Moyes’ charismatic characters and descriptions of the Appalachian Mountains will be all readers need to devour this book cover to cover as quickly as possible; before the librarian rides up the trail to collect The Giver of Stars so someone else up the holler has a chance to read it.

The Giver of Stars by Amy Lowell

Hold your soul open for my welcoming.
Let the quiet of your spirit bathe me
With its clear and rippled coolness,
That, loose-limbed and weary, I find rest,
Outstretched upon your peace, as on a bed of ivory.
Let the flickering flame of your soul play all about me,
That into my limbs may come the keenness of fire,
The life and joy of tongues of flame,
And, going out from you, tightly strung and in tune,
I may rouse the blear-eyed world,
And pour into it the beauty which you have begotten.

The First Emma by Camille Di Maio

The First Emma is a moving story of love, hope, and murder that captures one woman’s journey to make her mark on history and another’s desire to preserve it.

The Grateful Reader Review by Dorothy Schwab

“There is much in life that is out of our control. The answer is not to give up and crumble. The answer is to find a way around it, no matter the difficulty. No matter how impossible the obstacles.” This was Emma Koehler’s outlook and reason for her miraculous success in steering the San Antonio Brewing company through the storms of Prohibition and the Great Depression, after the scandalous murder of her husband, Otto Koehler, in 1914.

Chug along with Camille Di Maio as she takes young, naive Mabel Hartley on the arduous train trip from Baltimore to San Antonio, Texas. Mabel has been hand picked by Emma Koehler from hundreds of applicants, to listen and record, first hand, Emma’s account of her ideas, successes and the details of Otto’s murder, as she lives out the last days of her life. The morning ‘memory” sessions are laced with 85 year old Emma’s stern demands, which over the days and weeks grow into motherly concerns and sage advice for Mable. As winter turns to spring, Mabel’s interest in the brewing company is sparked and the wall around her heart begins to crack. Camille Di Maio peeks the readers’ historical interests by interspersing the memories of Emma with actual newspaper accounts from around the country and the world: Otto Koehler’s funeral, the “other Emmas” testimony, jury selection, the pending murder trial, and outcomes. The accounting of Emma Koehler’s life story is told graciously and with great respect, for this remarkable woman and her heroic accomplishments are even more inspirational when readers discover the view is actually that of a widow in a wheelchair.

The First Emma is brimming with details of household names such as Anheuser Busch, Lone Star, and Pearl. The details of the San Antonio brewery’s process for making of beer, along with the purchase of recipes and mother yeast from Germany, will have readers reaching for a “cold one” while cheering for Pearl to survive Prohibition and the Great Depression. Readers, especially from Texas, will “cotton to the likes of” references to the Majestic Theater, the Menger Hotel, and the Alamo.

Emma Koehler and her Pearl Brewing Company emerged from Prohibition as one of the only brewing companies not to go out of business. Emma listened to advice of friends in the beer industry and diversified; changing production to ice, ice cream, and even dry cleaning- thus keeping all her employees.

Camille Di Maio has accomplished a Texas sized feat by combining an inspirational and empowering account of Emma Koehler’s Pearl Brewing company success with the murder trial of the century.

Five Stars: Big and Bright, Deep in the Heart of Texas! GR

Little Tea by Claire Fullerton

Release Day- May 1, 2020
Little Tea was a finalist in the Faulkner Society’s international William Wisdom Competition in the novel category

It is currently on the long list of the Chanticleer Review’s Somerset Awards.

The Grateful Reader Review by Dorothy Schwab

“There are some parts of your history your friends won’t let you outrun.”

Celia, Renny and Ava have been friends since they were thirteen years old growing up in Como, Mississippi. Now that they are “older” the realization is “we’re in it for life. Our dogged loyalty to each other is partially based on longevity. We’ve invested too much time in each other to turn back now.”

Celia has been asked to travel the long distance from California to a lake house in Arkansas, to spend a spontaneous three days with Renny and Ava, to help Ava figure ‘some things out.’ Celia has spent her adult life cultivating a safety zone far from her youth and the memories, but this is a rare request.

Celia’s lake house reunion with Renny and Ava confronting their adult issues and emotions, is as tangled as the Spanish moss in the oak trees lining the back roads of Como, Mississippi. Celia recounts their youthful escapades, laced with memories of her closest friend, Little Tea, and coming of age in the deep South during the 80’s. This era included the civil rights movement, feminism, and effects of the Vietnam War. The past is revealed through the eyes and heart of Celia, a devoted sister and daughter, whose own Wakefield family dynamics are inseparable from Little Tea Winfrey’s family, the “overseer and house help.” To add fuel to the fire, toss in two generations of Southern mothers, who were “born and loyal to Southern ways, which is to say the less you talked about something, the less real it became.” These Southern ways kept the family shutters closed on alcoholism, depression, the racial divide and even sexuality.

“Intuition is a double-edged sword when it threatens to reveal what it is you don’t want to admit.” Readers may cry or cringe at the racially charged situations Celia and Little Tea encounter and overcome. Readers who grew up in the South will come face to face with a way of life that one hopes is in the past, but may have to admit still exists at some level in some places. When not reflecting on personal beliefs and confronting uncomfortable social morays, readers will relish author Claire Fullerton’s intricate descriptions of the woods, the lanes, the lakes or front porches. Enthralled readers anxious to get a peek into Little Tea’s future will also personally experience the Southern seasons amidst the beauty, the heat and humidity!

Soak up some Southern history and charm as you read Little Tea by Claire Fullerton. Remember your manners and as Little Tea says, ” Go on with yourself.” GR

Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey

A Spring 2020 Okra Pick
Parade’s 20 Most Anticipated Books of Early 2020
SheKnows’ 10 of the Most Anticipated Books Coming in 2020
Mary Kay Andrews’ Reading Challenge Women’s Fiction Pick
Working Mother’s 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2020 for Working Moms

From “the next major voice in Southern fiction” (Elin Hilderbrand) and the bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series comes an odd-couple tale of friendship that asks just how much our past choices define our happiness.

Here “comes an odd-couple tale of friendship that asks just how much our past choices define our happiness. ”

The Grateful Reader Review: by Dorothy Schwab

Such a memorable time in our world and so many readers are having trouble concentrating – lamenting our “old” lives and the schedules that were so familiar to our hearts and digital “calendarized” brains. Here’s a chance to escape to the back porch of a stunning beach house with breathtaking views of waves, dunes, and sunsets; empty guest house included. This beautiful beachfront property belongs to Gray Howard, business owner and country club member. Her “lazy, soar on his wife’s coattails” husband has just left her for the company assistant the day after her mother’s funeral! Gray’s over-planned life is turned upside down. In the same town, Diana, aka “trailer trash orphan, has finally left her boy-friend of way too many years, been fired from her job in the photo lab at the local pharmacy, and is presently homeless; unless the Impala counts. These two gals from opposite worlds, but with so much in common, collide at the photo counter in the local drug store and thus begins the making of a very “odd couple.” Told in the alternating voice of Gray and Di, the two enter into a “symbiotic* ” friendship. Readers will surely find an emotional attachment to the servant heart of Di and come to appreciate the corporate, scheduled mind of Gray. A love story on several levels: mother/daughter, husband/wife, friend/friend. Readers will want to “sip ‘n savor” Feels Like Falling on every level.

The beaches are closed and in spite of SIP, readers can pack a tote for the backyard with lunch and a drink- tuck in a copy of Feels Like Falling -and experience a gratifying trip to the North Carolina shore.

* Symbiotic relationships are a special type of interaction between species. Sometimes beneficial, sometimes harmful, these relationships are essential to many organisms and ecosystems, and they provide a balance that can only be achieved by working together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRcVMV-gXP4&t=12s&authuser=0

Listen to Kristy tell how she was inspired to write this story of unusual friendship.

Hannah’s War by Jan Eliasberg

Award-winning filmmaker Jan Eliasberg’s Hannah’s War, for readers of The Nightingale and The Alice Network, is a thrilling historical debut about a female scientist working to develop the first atomic bomb during World War II, and the young military investigator determined to uncover her secret past. https://janeliasberg.com/hannahs-war-by-jan-eliasberg/

Author Jan Eliasberg sat down with Little, Brown editor Judy Clain to discuss Hannah’s War. Jan will be posting excerpts from their wide-ranging conversation about the book, Jan’s inspirations, her experiences in film and television, and her writing process. New clips will be posted regularly. https://janeliasberg.com/video-qa-series-with-jan-eliasberg/

The Grateful Reader Review by Dorothy Schwab

“What was the occasional indiscretion compared to the impending possibility of world peace on one hand or mass extinction on the other?” Jan Eliasberg’s intensely engrossing novel transports readers between Berlin, 1938, to Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1945. The suspense and secrecy surrounding the development of the atomic bomb, The Manhattan Project, keeps readers alert and ready to run for shelter. Brilliant “non-Aryan” female physicist, Hannah Weiss, has been exiled to New Mexico to lend her expertise to the mission of the research team of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Be the first to build a bomb. Major Jack Delaney, wounded in liberating Paris, arrives on a three day interrogation mission to catch the spy leaking encoded equations to Hitler’s scientists. Due to Hannah’s involvement with the infamous Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin ten years earlier, Jack, now a member of military intelligence, has decided that Hannah is the spy. Now to prove it.

Jan Eliasberg’s expert director’s eye creates a vision of intrigue and deception laced with lies; while covering the “blackboard of suspense” with the perfect equations for love to unfold and trust to develop. Is the love and trust merited, or is it all a masquerade? Readers will be trapped in Jan Eliasberg’s net until the last telegram is delivered. Five Atomic Stars! GR

Camp Clique by Eileen Moskowitz-Palma

Book #1 – the Popularity Pact Series-Publishing April 14, 2020

The Grateful Reader Review by Dorothy Schwab

Maisy and Bea, best friends since their preschool years, have grown up together. Maisy has spent her sixth grade year doing everything in her power to “hold her spot” in the M&M’s-the most popular girls’ group at school. During this same year Bea has become invisible and spent her days at school in complete silence; eating alone while reading a book, speaking to no one and no one speaking to her. It was if she “ceased to exist.” What happened to cause the split between these two best friends?

It’s the summer before seventh grade and Bea, an only child, is sad to leave her single mom, but excited as she heads off to Camp Amelia. She’ll join her BFF’s in the Sunflower Bunk, all in great anticipation of training to win the coveted trophy at the end of camp tournament; as the Sunflowers do every camp season. Maisy is unknowingly signed up by her dad for Camp Amelia -a high adventure camp for girls. Maisy’s mom is mysteriously not “in the picture.” Anxiety ridden and not athletic at all, Maisy cannot tolerate the thought of spending six whole weeks with a bunch of “losers.” The summer saga begins to unfold as Maisy and Bea end up on the same “ancient yellow bus” heading from Mapleton to Camp Amelia. Maisy is mortified. Mapleton School World and Camp Amelia World are colliding. When these two worlds collide, the Popularity Pact erupts.

Belonging- gaining status as an essential part of a group. This is a feeling understood by every age group, but it seems SO crucial to the “happiness” of Middle School girls. Striving to belong to a group begins at a young age- early elementary for most. Guiding young girls through this tangle of feelings is never so traumatic as in the Middle School years. Teachers at this level deserve so much respect and gratitude for helping girls cope and survive the “daily dilemmas” of seventh and eighth grade. Maisy and Bea are dealing with difficult family situations but aren’t comfortable sharing their inmost fears. But then, who is?

Eileen Moskowitz-Palma’s series, The Popularity Pact, brings a myriad of doubts and emotions to the surface for readers-young and old, alike. Adults may conjure fond memories or even disturbing emotions. “Camp Clique provides valuable lessons about friendship, identity, belonging, and the power of kindness.” Young girls will identify with Maisy, Bea, or one of the Sunflowers. In any case, Book #1, Camp Clique, will leave all campers ready to barge boldly into the halls of Mapleton Middle School to find out just exactly how Maisy and Bea uphold their end of the Popularity Pact. Campers will be clamoring to register for Book #2-School Squad-coming fall of 2020.

“When Eileen Moskowitz-Palma double majored in Elementary Education and English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she thought she would have to choose between a career as a writer or a teacher. It wasn’t until she was almost 40 that she realized she could do both.

Now, Eileen divides her time between writing middle grade novels and teaching Beginner Novel Writing and Writing for Children and Young Adults at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.

Eileen is a fitness enthusiast and lives a vegan-ish lifestyle unless you count the occasional bacon cheeseburger. She lives in Westchester, NY, with her college sweetheart husband Douglas, their daughter Molly, and their Wire Fox Terrier Oscar, who is one snaggle-tooth away from being a doggy model.”

The Lilac House by Barbara Josselsohn

An utterly uplifting feel-good summer romance (Lake Summers Book 1)

The Grateful Reader Review by Dorothy Schwab

Discover artistic beauty and creativity in a refreshing springtime novel that mends hearts and broken families during one short summer at a lake resort in the Adirondacks. Barbara Josselsohn’s The Lilac House will wrap the reader in the arms of grief, regret, and finally forgiveness and the realization that life does go on. Newly widowed, Anna is hiding in the shadows of grief and living her future by reliving the memories of her lost husband. Taking her children, Zac and Evie, to Lilac House, the enchanting two-story Colonial Greg had surprised her with for their first anniversary, seems to be the right thing to do the summer after Greg’s untimely death. Maybe they’d all return for one last time to say good-bye and then sell the house? Anna returns to the charming Main Street of Lake Summers, to find the business owners of the quaint downtown preparing for a busy summer of campers, seasonal visitors, and Fourth of July festivities.

Lilac Pointe, the dance shop on Main Street, is owned by Anna’s Aunt Hope. The beautiful dance studio also has the best shoe and leotard selection in the region, along with an accomplished choreographer and dance instructor; but is still struggling. Enter Aidan, a new consultant in town, and his teenage son, Liam. Aidan is full of ideas on how to improve business in the resort town of Lake Summers. Hope doesn’t trust “consultants” and is not interested; Anna is.

Trust is an issue for Hope and Anna. Trusting one’s own feelings and the decisions of others can be a challenge for so many. Readers can trust Barbara Josselsohn to guide Anna and Hope to discover all the options for this last visit to Lake Summers and Lilac House. The pirouettes, plies and recalling of the Lilac Variation from The Sleeping Beauty, along with the discoveries of Hope and Anna’s trust in each other, will keep readers “on pointe!”

For readers searching for hope and renewed faith in discovering new love, second chances, and that comfortable feeling of “finding home”- take a jaunt over to The Lilac House on Main Street. Stay awhile and bask in the glow of sunset on the lake. Savor a meal at Sogni di Lago while the tiny lights glitter in the trees. Then stroll down to the Smoothie Dudes for the new Lilac Pointe Smoothie! The Lilac House is a ***** “QuaranRead!” GR

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