LeClaire, Anne D

The author discusses her practice of spending entire days with total silence, and provides guidance on silent meditation to become more aware of the surrounding world and achieve a feeling of inner peace.

Years after a terrible rift separates twins Libby and Sam, the pair is forced to come to terms with the event that drove them apart when Libby discovers that she needs a kidney transplant.

In the small town of Eden, Virginia, Glamour Day at the Klip-N-Kurl beauty parlor may be sixteen-year-old Tallie Brock's ticket to movie stardom, even as she tries to figure out what went wrong on her secretive mother's similar attempt at fame four years earlier.

Rose Nelson, having retreated from life after the death of her teenaged son five years earlier, is drawn out of her self-imposed exile when young mother Opal Gates moves in next door with her five-year-old, Zack.