Jeremy is a science writer who loves to debunk pseudo-science and explain the paranormal. After a successful appearance on TV, he receives a letter ab...moreJeremy is a science writer who loves to debunk pseudo-science and explain the paranormal. After a successful appearance on TV, he receives a letter about ghosts who walk in a small-town Southern graveyard. He loads up some equipment and heads to Boone Creek. There he indeed sees the light. He finds the cemetery and along the way he also finds the girl, Lexie, who is the town librarian. In true Nicholas Sparks fashion, the mystery of old ghosts becomes a love story. Can the two find happiness when they come from such different backgrounds?(less)
Dinah is a world famous war correspondent who suffers from a terrible loss when her camera-man, lover is blown up in a car bomb. After suffering from...moreDinah is a world famous war correspondent who suffers from a terrible loss when her camera-man, lover is blown up in a car bomb. After suffering from depression and PTSD her boss wants her to take a break or vacation or move to another assignment but she quits instead and goes home to Charleston to find Bobby. They had had a "back-up plan" 10 years earlier but he is now engaged and his brother Cord wants to protect him. Things go from there. (less)
I got sucked into this story that follows Julie Holt from the East coast to New Orleans and Biloxi when she inherits the guardianship of a 5 year old...moreI got sucked into this story that follows Julie Holt from the East coast to New Orleans and Biloxi when she inherits the guardianship of a 5 year old orphan and 1/2 ownership of a grand house near the beach. When she gets to Mississippi she finds that the house was destroyed by Katrina and that her friend Monica has come from a family with quite a past and many buried secrets. Julie doesn't know whether to stay or go. (less)
This story is told from the point-of-view of a 7-year-old boy. Set in the Arkansas delta in the fall of 1952 his family are getting ready for the cott...moreThis story is told from the point-of-view of a 7-year-old boy. Set in the Arkansas delta in the fall of 1952 his family are getting ready for the cotton harvest. They hire a family of "hill people" and a crew of Mexican migrant workers. This book is truely a slice of American life with his hopes and dreams of a career as a baseball player for the Cardinals, his father and grandfather hoping for a good crop to pay off the loans, his grandmother worried about her other son who is in Korea and his mother hoping to escape the farm some day. The women are busy with their garden as they harvest and can so there will be food for the winter. The small town life follows convention with people going to town on Saturday afternoon to shop and gossip. The boys look forward to stopping at the general store for a tootsie roll and going to their afternoon cinema a having a coke-cola. Sundays find people going to one of the two churches in town, either the Meghodist or the Baptist. Then sometimes there is a picnic or a drive. When there is a baseball game, they sit on the front porch and listen to it on the radio. The hill people camp in the front yard (they should have gone back by the silo) and the Mexicans bunk down in the loft in the barn. The fall brings lots of changes and secrets to the boy's life. He sees a brutal fight, meets a pretty girl and hears about the neighbor's daughter who is having a baby out of wedlock. Grisham paints a picture of life as it was then. A very good read. (less)
Elizabeth checked herself into Cherry Hill psychatric hospital to come to terms with the dissapearance and probable death of her husband (he was lost...moreElizabeth checked herself into Cherry Hill psychatric hospital to come to terms with the dissapearance and probable death of her husband (he was lost at sea). In the meantime her brother has bought an old mansion for his law offices and a law-school classmate of his partner has helped her client escape from prison. Elizabeth's cousin is helping her solve the mystery of the old man who comes with the house. One of Elizabeth's fellow patients thinks the old man died in a car wrecl in 1953. The three stories come together in the end of the book.(less)
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