Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America, will haunt Helen for the rest of her life.

More than anything, Eddie wants a bicycle for Christmas, but his grandfather shows him the magic there can be in a simple gift made with love.

New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. It was the Twins' debut season; the country had a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited often and took many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank was forced to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. Forty years later, he tells the story of discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.

It is 1982 and Madeleine Hanna, an English major, is writing her senior thesis on the marriage plot at the heart of the greatest English novels. Her life is complicated by two men, a recent acquaintance and an old friend. Over the next year events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school.

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Ten years after ending her friendship with Sonia, Cameron sets out to find her former friend and fulfill the final wish of her lover, delivering a mysterious package to Sonia that may help the women rebuild their friendship.

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