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Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered. Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls. Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design.

Bridget Milligan has donned a uniform and joined the nursing services where she becomes intrigued with the miracles of modern medicine. She’s also torn between family loyalty, her new career and Lyndon O’Neill, the love of her life. Is it too impossible to hope that everything will come out right in the end? Phyllis Harvey is still serving in Malta where she sees the casualties of war first hand. Finally it seems like Phyllis is blessed with true in love, but fate can sometimes be a rocky road and nothing is that certain.

In 1883, a young, newly married Mercy Reynolds begins a personal journal, filling it with thoughts of her young family. She records her opinions on women's suffrage, historic events, small town gossip and life in general, never imagining she will also be documenting incredible loss as well. Her writings remind us of how America's pioneers lived in a world now largely forgotten.

When you've been to hell...new friends can bring you back. In this inspiring debut from Jill Hannah Anderson - Peyton Brooks, a newly-empty nester with a comatose marriage, loses her three best friends in a car crash, and reaches out to women in the to-hell-and-back club, hoping they’ll help resuscitate her life. Through the “Hell Club”, Peyton learns that it’s never too late to begin again. These been-there-felt-that women use their sense of humor, strength, and support to help pull her off the couch and back to living her life.

This is a story about one family's fight with a mentally ill mother and how as she gets further and further away from reality; how the family falls apart.

Denne fortælling om den kærligste og sværeste relation kommer omkring emner som familiers glansbilledhistorier om sig selv og fordomme over for andre, om halvskjulte alliancer i familien, om at give sin datter et godt selvværd med på vejen, om at skulle give omsorg til både sin store datter og sin ældre mor, om forventninger, skuffelser, konflikter, bekymringer, skyld og skam, og bag det hele ønsket om at skabe nære, givende relationer til vores mødre og døtre. En både stærk og rørende fortælling til mødre og døtre i alle aldre.

En fremmed kvinde på en bænk giver sig pludselig til at fortælle om, hvordan hun misrøgtede sin baby. Det unge par skal flytte, og ud af intet overvældes kvinden af tvivl, om hun egentlig skulle flytte med. Et lille øjeblik en almindelig dag udløser pludselig en ødelæggende jalousi. Disse realistiske noveller rammer med præcision de næsten umærkelige skift i forholdet mellem mennesker - de sorte huller der kan opstå i prøvede parforhold eller tilfældige møder.