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  <title><![CDATA[Things Left Unspoken: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>Jo-Lynn Hunter is at a crossroads in life when her great-aunt Stella insists that she return home to restore the old family house in sleepy Cottonwood, Georgia. Seeing the project as the perfect excuse for some therapeutic time away from her self-absorbed husband and his snobby Atlanta friends, Jo-Lynn longs to get her teeth into a noteworthy and satisfying project. But things are not what they seem, both in the house and within the complex history of her family. Was her great-grandfather the pillar of the community she thought he was? What is Aunt Stella hiding? And will Jo-Lynn's marriage survive the renovation? Jo-Lynn isn't sure she wants to know the truth--but sometimes the truth has a way of making itself known.    The past comes alive in this well-written and thoughtful novel full of secrets, drama, and family with a hint of Southern drawl.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jo-Lynn is returning home to escape her marriage that has gone flat with the excuse of being needed to restore a family home. Uncle Jim has died, Aunt Stella is moving in with her daughter and a developer wants to turn the home into a museum; only Jo-Lynn can do justice to the restoration. Along the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64529759">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lovely story about family relationships.<br/><br/>At odds with her husband and needing a break from work and her life, Jo-Lynn Hunter returns to her family's roots in Cottonwood, Georgia.  After her great-uncle's death, her great-aunt Stella asks for Jo-Lynn's help in restoring the family home. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63305409">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Things Left Unspoken by Eva Marie Everson is an enthralling book about family secrets. When Jo-Lynn's marriage starts to fall apart and her great-uncle Jim dies, she returns to her family home in Cottonwood, Georgia. Her great-aunt Stella informs her that she's selling the family home to be turned i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60789637">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My Comments: I really enjoyed this book. The characters were well-drawn and suffered from the foibles that make most of us human. It was interesting watching Jo-Lynn find that life hadn't always been perfect for the older generation, but that fact didn't make them less lovable. My only problem with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64166518">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jo-Lynn, an interior designer, goes back home to renovate the family home, leaving her husband for an indeterminate amount of time. While there she finds out things about her family that challenge what she thought she knew about some of her relatives. She also uses the time to decide what to do abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75920358">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was ok.  I liked the family history part of it and it made me more curious about secrets that might be in my family's past.  But I felt like the book dragged on for a long time and then just all of a sudden was over with and everything was resolved much to easily.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm having a hard time getting into this book, it seems to be on the chick-lit for old ladies side of things. Boring so far.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book I won on Good Reads.  The book takes place today with some flashbacks to help tell the story.  It takes place in Cottonwood, Georgia and deals with some family secrets.  A quick read that I appreciated after reading Pillars of the Earth, but the ending was a bit predictable.  ]]></body>
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