About the Author:
River Jordan is a critically acclaimed novelist and playwright whose unique mixture of southern and mystic writing has drawn comparisons to Sarah Addison Allen, Leif Enger, and Flannery O’Connor. Her previous works include The Messenger of Magnolia Street, lauded by Kirkus Reviews as “a beautifully written, atmospheric tale.†She speaks around the country and makes her home in Nashville.
About the Book:
Ever since her husband Joe died, Velma True’s world has been limited to what she can see while clinging to one of the multicolored threads tied to the porch railing of her home outside Echo, Florida.
When a mysterious stranger appears at her door on her birthday and presents Velma with a special gift, she is rattled by the object’s ability to take her into her memories–a place where Joe still lives, her son Rudy is still young, unaffected by the world’s hardness, and the beginning is closer than the end. As secrets old and new come to light, Velma wonders if it’s possible to be unmoored from the past’s deep roots and find a reason to hope again.
About the Author:
Allison Pittman spent seventeen years as a high school English teacher, and then shunned the advice of “experts,†quit her day job and set out to write novels that bring glory to God. She relishes inspiring other writers and leading the theater arts group at her church. She and her husband and three sons live in Universal City, Texas.
About the Book:
It’s 1905 and the Chicago Cubs are banking on superstar Donald “Dukeâ€
Dennison’s golden arm to help them win the pennant. Only one thing stands between Duke and an unprecedented ten thousand dollar contract:
alcohol.
That’s when sportswriter David Voyant whisks Duke to the one-horse town of Picksville, Missouri, so he can sober up in anonymity. He bides his time flirting with Ellie Jane Voyant, his unofficial chaperone, who would rather hide herself in the railway station ticket booth than face the echoes of childhood taunts.
Ned Clovis, the feed store clerk, has secretly loved Ellie Jane since childhood, but he loves baseball and the Duke almost as much–until he notices Ellie Jane may be succumbing to the star’s charm.
Then there’s Morris, a twelve-year-old Negro boy, whose only dream is to break away from Picksville. When Duke discovers his innate talent for throwing a baseball, Morris might just have found his way out.
Four individuals, each living in haunted isolation, each harboring a secret passion. Providence brings them together. Tragedy threatens to tear them apart. Will love be enough to bring them home?
Codicil:
I am just finishing Stealing Home and haven’t yet read Saints in Limbo but it is in the TBR. Search for other blogs featuring these titles using an author or title key word search online or check out the bookseller pages for more reviews. I will post reviews when I get the books read and the reviews written. Use the Title or Author names to read more about the books on the Publisher and author sites and to learn more about these authors.
When I first read about Saints in Limbo, I read the reviews wrong–my problem. Now I've reread them and Think it would be a great book. The Stealing Home upsets me only in the point that the sportswriter seems to be an enabler. Hopefully that will not be the case in the end. They both sound great.