Passion, heartbreak, scandal and triumph. Abigail Adams endured it all. Their love affair was as modern as any today. Abigail bore John six children and struggled to raise, educate and launch them while he struggled to launch a career and a new nation. An uncommon partnership in any time. During the months and years apart, Abigail suffered the fears of any woman not only for her lover's safety but his fidelity, then drank in the passion of his homecomings. On her own with small children during the Revolution, she scraped together enough to pay the taxes only to have Congress renounce the currency, forcing her to start all over again from nothing. Though she was John's advisor and trusted partner -- she single-handedly ran the family farm, bought and sold land, invested the meager profits and bartered for their sons' school fees while he was away -- he ignored her when she demanded the right of women to vote. Proud of her lineage, she was faced with her family's shame. Worse, she was forced to watch helplessly as two of her children ended their lives in squalor on the eve of her 'Dearest Friend,' John's, greatest triumph. John and Abigail's lives and times -- like ours -- were tumultuous, demanding and uncertain. Abigail's concerns, particularly, are as modern as those of any woman today - retaining her own identity while sacrificing for her family, maintaining a loving, faithful marriage despite temptations to shatter it, raising children in the face of dangers and pitfalls, and finding the money to make it all work. A Love Like No Other is a timeless story of struggle, ambition, heartbreak and triumph, but most of all it's the story of an enduring love against all odds.

A Love Like No Other: Abigail and John Adams, A Modern Love Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Robson, Nancy Taylor

Historical

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In the river-born community of Ophelia, Virginia, on Chesapeake Bay, there are three religions: The Water, The Family, and The Land. For generations, this trinity has sustained a community of proud, independent people. But their way of life is dying. The fisheries are depleted. Third-generation waterman Jines Arley Evans clings to what little is left. His wife and son are long dead, his estranged daughter, Lily Rae, bitter at her father's emotional abandonment, far away. The family land and silent house, the workboat Jenny Rae, and the water, its rhythms, mysteries, and seasons are all that remain.
But when a stroke threatens to take even those remaining fragments of her father's world, Lily Rae must leave her life as a journalist in Portland, Maine and return home to care for Jines.
Thrown uncomfortably together, they must come to terms with each other and with their isolation from others. Maybe they can find common ground in an unlikely place, Jines's boat shed, where they once again try to build a traditional deadrise skiff together.
As Jines's powerful life contracts, Lily's expands. She begins to see the place and people she had left behind through new eyes, including Jamie Cockrell, her once best friend. Now divorced with a beautiful young daughter, Jamie yearns for what few other young men of Ophelia still want--a chance, like Jines, to run his own boat and work on the water. Lily is falling in love, not only with Jamie and his daughter but with her home. Yet in the end, she has to make the hardest decision she has ever faced.

Still Water Bending

Clarke, Wendy Mitman

Romance

Ok Now What?: A Caregiver's Guide to What Matters

Collins, Sue

Parenting & Relationships

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Eight-year-old Charles Thomas has a mission: He’s lookin' to find Jesus on Johnsontown, a tiny, fast-eroding Chesapeake island that’s home to 400-plus souls. He’s been hearing about Jesus forever, but it wasn’t until that Visitin' Preacher came to the New Believers’ Sunday School on Father’s Day that Charles Thomas thought if he might could find Him right there on the island, just the way that Visitin' Preacher said, that Jesus could fix up his broke arm and maybe even bring back his father. 
Inspired by intimate knowledge of the people on isolated Tangier Island, VA, Fortenbaugh has conceived a tale of the innocence and sustaining power of hope despite the challenges that the people of Johnsontown face— discouragement and the failing economics of the rural working class, wresting a living from a beleaguered Bay, the loss of regional micro-dialects, traditions, and the cultures they reflect, all colored by conflicts of race, class, and identity. These challenges have been a part of our nation from its beginnings, yet all are surging in these turbulent times of tremendous change and the inevitable backlash that always accompanies such change. 
“I feel,” author Pete Fortenbaugh says, “that Johnsontown is a perfect petri dish to explore the complex dynamics of small community life in the face of an ever-changing world.” 
The rich cast of characters is fully realized, from kind, steady Uncle Furry, who relies on The Lord to guide him and is convinced that climate change is bunk, to Calhoon Greenhawk and his sometime girlfriend Marsha, who is called ‘whore’ by the island's church women as casually as hanging out laundry, to black Mr. Abe Johnson, the island’s librarian and only accountant, whose grown son, Rodney, has the mind of a five-year-old. 
Charles Thomas’s more personal struggle to find Jesus and apply to Him for specific cures for what ails his own life is poignant, funny, wry and ultimately a parable for our times.

The Monday After Father's Day: Revelations: A Parable

Fortenbaugh, Pete

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