A tale told in alternating voices traces the efforts of an estranged millionaire father and the daughter he abandoned 17 years earlier to reconcile and write his memoir.

Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all, and her adventurous spirit, seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets the school's auditorium ablaze. Ginny's best friend Gray Marsden's father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze. While many in the town believe a notoriously...

A tribute to classic film and true romance, this is the story of a 31-year-old caf manager and an 11-year-old who is searching for her father--and the unexpected ways in which their lives are forever changed by chance.

On the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes meets an elderly woman named Edith Herron. During the course of a single conversation, Edith gives Clare the courage to do what she should have done months earlier: break off her engagement to her charmingýet overly possessivef́ianc©♭. Three weeks later, Clare learns that Edith has diedánd has given her another gift. Nestled in crepe myrtle and hydrangea and perched at the marshy edge of a bay in a...