by Marsha Qualey (2004)
When serious worrier Brady Callahan meets vivacious Sally Cooper, daughter of a wealthy Minnesota family, they develop a close friendship that helps they both grow and survive during the turbulent Vietnam War era.
Peter Dimock
Hundreds of novels have explored the war in Vietnam. This is the first to explore the world of the architects of that war, and it cuts terribly close to home. Dimock brilliantly exposes the pained heart of a single family and offers a vision of what their way of life still costs us all. His book raises with startling freshness ancient yet urgent questions about relations between image, word, and act.
Stella Pevsner and Fay Tang
Recalls the events in a North Vietnamese village that forever changed the lives of the youngest daughter of a prosperous trader and her family.
Robin Mayhall
Upon moving to small-town Texas part-way into her junior year of high school, Serena sees parallels between the novel her class is studying, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the two men in her life: boyfriend Lance, the quarterback, and outsider Cam.
Deborah Raney
"The Whitmans are adding grandchildren to their family, but middle daughter, Danae, is childless. Though Danae is ready to consider adoption, her husband will not discuss it. Volunteering at a women's shelter is teaching Danae to live her life with gratitude, but then heart-wrenching events on Thanksgiving weekend threatens turmoil for the entire Whitman clan"--