Lettie's last home


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Coming Home


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The second in a series about how a young single mother, faced with the task of keeping an inn and winery going in Oregon wine country, becomes the matriarch of a family filled with love and unexpected surprises as the inn continues to grow into a well-known hotel. Families can be complicated… Camilla “Cami” Chandler comes home from France to take over the Chandler Hill Inn and Winery for her recently deceased grandmother, Lettie, as she’d always promised. Determined to succeed in this new venture, she finds herself in trouble from the beginning when she discovers most of her grandmother’s estate intended for maintaining the inn and its business expenses was lost in a Ponzi scheme. She forges ahead to provide her guests with wonderful experiences and to produce the best wines in Willamette Valley. After being ditched by her French boyfriend, she decides that being friends with Drew Farley is the safest way to proceed. He loves grape growing and winemaking as much as she does and isn’t looking for anything beyond friendship. When a bride planning a wedding at the inn tells Cami that she looks exactly like her best friend, life becomes even more complicated. Never having known even the name of her father, Cami searches for a connection and comes to realize how complicated love and family can be. A great read with a glass of wine! A love story of a family with heart… Be sure to read the other books in the series: Going Home and Home at Last. And check out Judith Keim’s other series – the Hartwell Women, The Beach House Hotel series, the Fat Fridays series, the Salty Key Inn series, the Chandler Hill Inn series, the Desert Sage Inn series, and the Seashell Cottage Books that readers are loving. Contemporary women's fiction, Contemporary Women's Romance, Friends Fiction, Family Saga, strong heroine, Finding love, Family Life Fiction, Mothers and Daughters Fiction, Friends fiction, Women's literary fiction, strong women face challenge, Oregon winery, Women's domestic life fiction, friends, country inn, hotel, vineyard, winery, sisters, surprise sister




Lettie


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There’s a run-down, abandoned farm in the middle of nowhere. It’s a place where people live in primitive conditions, far from civilization, and choose to experience the world differently than most. And why? Lettie knows. Lettie lives on a dry farm in a remote region of the West in the first half of the twentieth century. Her story, told from childhood through middle age, is one of a strong-willed woman facing constant challenges. She survives miles from the nearest neighbor and struggles through devastating personal experiences that have nothing to do with climate or location. Whether being stigmatized by nearby townspeople or tormented by horrors that may leave her a shell of a woman, Lettie strives to find a way. The way to hold her head high, make sense of life and find some kind of love isn’t easy, but it is what someone from such a place does to survive.




Writers by the River


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The Highland Summer Writing Conference (HSC), held each summer along the banks of the ancient New River at Radford University's Selu Conservancy, brings together and inspires writers as they participate in the communal art of creating and sharing. Over the years, many prestigious Appalachian authors have taught workshops to like-minded students, many of whom became published authors in their own right. This book, a celebration of the HSC, is a collection of reflective essays, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction contributed by 41 authors and student-authors who have taken part in the conference over a span of 43 years.







History of Ohio


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The Descendant


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The Descendant is Book One of a trilogy of novels based on the journey of one woman's rise from painful tragedy to divine love. Silent Partners and The Trinity, books two and three respectively, complete the trilogy of her journey to compassion, forgiveness and love.Ms. Chappelle hopes that her trilogy of novels will help others, who are trapped in sexual and domestic abusive situations to awaken and find the self love required to free themselves and future generations from the cycle of abuse.




Littell's Living Age


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