false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172789722m/217436.jpg 217436 12 What do you do when everything you hold dear, everything you believe yourself to be, proves not to be true? Like Scarlett O'Hara, you go home, if not to Tara, then to the last place that you felt like you. Award-winning author Kristin Hannah makes her hardcover debut by taking readers to just such a place in <I>On Mystic Lake</I>. As her only child leaves to study abroad and her husband admits his love for a younger woman, Annie Colwater feels invisible. Having devoted herself to being the best wife and mother she could be for the last 20 years, Annie no longer knows who she is. She heads home to her father and to Mystic, Washington--where she grew up, where the dreams she barely remembers first blossomed, and where her first love, Nick Delacroix, still lives. Back in Mystic, Annie receives a healthy dose of perspective: Nick's wife has recently committed suicide, leaving Nick to find solace in the bottom of a Scotch bottle while his 6-year-old daughter, Izzie--who hasn't spoken since her mother's death--is doing her best to "disappear" just like Mommy. Annie volunteers to care for Izzie, since Nick cannot understand what his grieving daughter needs. And in the process, Annie recovers herself, the woman she thought gone forever, while Nick realizes that his future lies with Annie and Izzie. Just when the future starts to look bright for the three, Annie is faced with a devastating choice between the life she thought had left her behind, and a new beginning with Nick and Izzie, who helped to unearth her forgotten dreams. Kristin Hannah has produced a treasure of a book, one that will make you cry and will strike a chord in anyone who has ever had to pick up the pieces and start over. <I>--Alison Trinkle</I> 210517 book 1999 On Mystic Lake total:725|5:180|4:282|3:210|2:46|1:7| 725 2757 1176 99 4 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 14:48:20 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 14:53:15 -0700 2009
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed On Mystic Lake, but the many adjectives used made the book length longer than it had to be in my opinion. The story and plot wa...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 09:24:28 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 06:58:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Fri Dec 28 12:09:38 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 12:11:52 -0800 2007 Hannah, Kristen

Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for school abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie comes to the painful realization th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 11:40:23 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 11:45:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 11:27:01 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 09:04:58 -0700 2009 FABULOUS.
Loved every moment of this book!
Annie sends her only child off to Europe for the summer heads home and her hubby tells her there is someone else... so at 40 she doesn't know who she is or what to do... she heads back home to Washington State to st...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 12 06:31:27 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 06:35:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 08:37:18 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 05:56:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 22:03:14 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 22:06:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 06:35:32 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 06:40:04 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 21 09:59:37 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 10:00:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 13:23:40 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 15:37:08 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 06:48:52 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 06:27:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 14 15:41:29 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 15:44:03 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jan 28 18:47:45 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 18:50:52 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 08:55:49 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 08:56:45 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 11:02:28 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 05:46:49 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 16:11:06 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 08:44:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 19:21:57 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 08:01:35 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Nov 24 11:11:54 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 11:13:40 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 06:55:09 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 06:57:13 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=217436