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Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist. His request, now, to see her again stirs up ghosts she's kept...

A collection of nearly thirty contemporary short stories centered on the theme of adoption.

Little Elena lives in Guatemala, where she helps her mother do cooking and housework while her father is away working on the plantation. While helping her mother, she also tries to improve her reading.

Sisters Lark and Clef practice sleight, an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. The sisters are now estranged but are brought together at the request of a sleight troupe director named West who seeks their unique talents. After a mass murder shocks the country, West uses this event as inspiration for their piece and the performance has devastating consequences.

The Light Breaking Through is a poignant and evocative novel that explores the intertwined lives of Claire Winslow and Jack Calder, whose bond is as deep and enduring as the tides shaping their Key West home. Raised in the close-knit Conch community, they build lives rooted in art, marked by loss, and sustained by a fierce love for the island and for each other. As the pull of separate destinies grows, they must confront whether love can survive the...

Nellie and her mother pick berries all summer in order to make enough money so that Nellie can get a coat to wear to school in the winter.

Tristan's twin Robbie is a young hockey star, but after Robbie comes out as gay, a suicide scare forces Robbie and Tristan into a shared bedroom for Robbie's own safety. As Tristan tries to find success as a musical theatre performer, he gets caught up in Robbie's secrets, pressure, and anxiety, and Tristan must choose between pursuing his own path or supporting his troubled twin.

Tough, independent, single, childless, and loving it, Kat is a professional poker player. However, when her best friend commits suicide, Kat is left temporary guardian of her ten-year-old son, David. The days pass, and Kat realizes that all her money doesn't mean much without someone to share it with.

Eight-year-old Stella volunteers to watch best friend Evie's dog, Bella, for a few days. Diaster strikes when Bella gets loose and runs away, and Stella must find her before Evie returns.

High school freshman Lily pours her heart out in letters to her hero, dead movie star John Wayne, in which she tells him about the death of her beloved stepfather, her mother's abusive boyfriends, her fears that her father is gay, getting the lead in the high school play, and her burgeoning romance with a classmate who reminds her of Mr. Wayne.