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Tara just wants to be loved. But life makes other plans. Will she take another chance on her first love or realize that self-esteem comes from within? Looking back, Tara Carter wonders if what followed her first kiss was a warning of things to come. At the young age of ten, her heart broke when her best friend Trey moved 1,500 miles away. Crossing paths five years later, the two teens exchange beautiful letters that cement their love. They embark on an idealized relationship, despite trauma and heartbreak on both sides, only to be forced apart shortly after. Tara enters college and is forced to confront the ugly side of life, losing contact with her first love. As time marches on, she yearns to know what could have been … until fate presents her with one last opportunity twenty years later. Will she take it? If you like courageous women, raw emotions, and real-life issues, then you'll love Tasche Laine's slice-of-life tale-a moving fictional memoir based on a true story.

“Glorious for reading aloud.” —New York Times In the village of Liver-and-Onions, there was a Potato Face Blind Man who used to play an accordion on the corner near the post office. The sometime narrator of these tales, he transports readers and listeners to Rootabaga Country, where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, the pigs wear bibs, and the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind, looking like a little hat that you could wear on the end of your thumb. Carl Sandburg, the beloved folk chronicler and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, invented these stories for his own daughters. Populated by corn fairies, circus performers, and such memorable characters as Poker Face the Baboon, Hot Dog the Tiger, and Gimme the Ax, Rootabaga Country is built with the homespun poetry of the American frontier. The stories' inspired nonsense-loaded with rhythm, humor, and tongue-twisting names-fires the imagination and pulls at the heartstrings.

“Maggie Mae Gallagher writes with warmth and a wonderfully compelling voice—I loved The Fixer Upper!” —Heather Graham, New York Times bestselling author Abby Callier is more in love with Shakespearean heroes than any real man, and she's beginning to wonder if there is life for her outside the pages of a book. It doesn't help that her esteemed parents tend to view her as they would one of their science experiments gone wrong. On the eve of finishing her dissertation, she escapes her staid existence to live in the house she inherited from her Great Aunt Evie in the small town of Echo Springs, Colorado. Because, let's face it, when a woman starts comparing her life to horror films, it might be time for a break. Sheriff Nate Barnes believes in law and order and carefully building the life you want. In his spare time, he has been remodeling his house in the hope that one day it will be filled with the family he makes. But Nate doesn't like drama or complications and tends to avoid them at all costs. And yet, when Miss Abigail Callier, his newest neighbor, beans him with a nine iron, he can't help but wonder if she might just be the complication he's been searching for all along. It doesn't hurt that he's discovered a journal hidden away by the previous tenant, and decides to use Old Man Turner's advice to romance Abby into his life. Abby never expected her next-door neighbor, the newly dubbed Sheriff Stud Muffin, to be just the distraction her world needed. The problem is she doesn't know whether she should make Echo Springs her home, or if this town is just a stopover point in her life's trajectory. And she doesn't want to tell Nate that she might not be sticking around-even though she should, because it's the right thing to do, the honest thing-because then all the scintillatingly hot kisses with the Sheriff will come to an abrupt halt. Did she mention that he's a really great kisser?