Paulette Alden’s Unforgettable: Short Stories is a beautifully observed, wryly humorous, and profoundly moving collection that follows Miriam Batson, the protagonist of Alden’s earlier collection,Feeding the Eagles, into middle-age as she navigates her own aging, the life choices she’s made,and the loss of those she loves. Written from the heart but without sentimentality, the stories give shape and meaning to feelings and experiences common to many, especially women.
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When Paul Weber is approached by an intriguing widow to write a book about her “highly influential, but criminally obscure” husband, Alfred Tomas, Paul thinks Tomas will be his first step towards achieving literary glory. But the more he learns about Tomas, the more he begins to question the quiet family life he leads with his wife Sylvia and their young son Josh.
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For fifteen long years ex-rodeo star, Gage Cochran, has been adrift, traveling back and forth between central Texas and Mexico with his horse, Henry, searching for something that might ease the pain that he’s feeling, unaware that he’s been passing right by it all along. That all changes on one stormy day when he stops at a little village called, Rescue.
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A poignant and provocative romance about a remarkable leap of faith from New York Times bestselling author Sally Mandel.
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