Beginners WelcomeThe acclaimed author of Where the Watermelons Grow is back with a story perfect for fans of Lynda Mullaly Hunt and Ali Benjamin, about finding friendship after a tragic loss. Its been eighty three days since Annie Lees daddy died, but she still sees reminders of him everywhere. His record player mysteriously plays his favorite songs, theres shaving cream in the sink every morning, and the TV keeps flipping to the Duke basketball games he loved. She

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In Bloodlines

Franny and Jillian

she stumbles across a decade-old murder

when it becomes a tool to silence the innocent

as elsewhere in her fiction

perhaps unemployable

spent the past seventy years teaching the classics of literature to American

The spellbinding conclusion in the critically acclaimed Thickety series

and classes

they surprise everyone (especially themselves) by realizing that they might have more in common than they ever imagined

insanely funny