Charlotte Vale Allen
1) Fresh air
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English
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Lucinda Hunter has been a virtual recluse in a Connecticut farmhouse for 27 years. Katanya Taylor is a nine-year old from Harlem who is staying with a host family for two weeks and meets Lucinda while admiring her garden. Lucinda's acquaintance with Katanya prompts the older woman to reexamine her life.
2) Grace notes
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English
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Early in her marriage, Grace Loring became the victim of her husband's unpredictable rages. Taking her infant daughter, Grace fled to the safety of her brother Gus's home in Vermont. Now, Grace is a successful author with her own web site. Accustomed to abused women writing to ask for advice, Grace is contacted by a troubled young woman named Stephanie Baine. When Stephanie's e-mails abruptly stop, Grace fears the worst. Then the e-mails resume, and...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Mattie Sylvester, widow of one of America's foremost artists, spends her days recalling her turbulent past. She hires Sarah Kidd as her personal secretary and a deep bond forms between them. They discover deeply buried truths about themselves and are able to break through the confining past and embrace the future.
12) Night magic
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, sensitive young woman falls in love with a brillant but emotionally scarred older man, gradually coaxing him from the darkness into which he has retreated.
16) Sudden moves
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Five years after a little girl lures a reclusive woman out of her isolation forcing her to once again embrace love, the events of September 11 forever change both of their lives in unexpected and dramatic ways.