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When her friend backs out of an eagle-watching trip on Skagit River, Sarah Tierney decides to go ahead, solo. The evening before the rafting trip, Sarah meets a young homeless woman in an abandoned church who reminds her of her deceased sister, Marilu. The next day, she encounters the girl again, but this time, the girl is as dead as Marilu.

The...

This historical fiction novel follows Nell as she grows up in a small Georgia town in the 1940s and 1950s. Her family is both poor and dysfunctional as Nell seeks to find what she wants in life.

She searches for worthiness and belonging, trying to find comfort in friends and even in God, but without success. It is a moving account of one girl’s...