Join us at the Crooked Tree Arts Theater on Thursday July 21st at 5:30 pm with author Wade Rouse celebrating his new books "Magic Season" and "The Edge of Summer". Please RSVP by emailing or calling us with your name, email adress and the number of people in your party.
Email: books@mcleanandeakin.com
Phone: 231.347.1180
We're looking forward to seeing everyone there!
Preorder your copy of Viola Shipman's The Edge of Summer, available 7.12. Signed bookplates will be available while supplies last.
About The Edge of Summer:
Traumatized by the sudden death of her mother--a quiet, loving, overprotective seamstress called Miss Mabel who sacrificed everything for her daughter’s education but rarely spoke of her own family—Sutton Douglas makes the impulsive decision to pack up and start over in the Michigan resort town where she believes she’ll find answers to the lifelong questions she’s had about her mother’s past.
Recalling her mother’s sewing notions that were her childhood toys, Sutton buys a box of buttons at an estate sale from Bonnie Lyons, the town’s matriarch and a recent widow, who she becomes convinced—via the buttons she discovers and clues from her mother’s past—is the grandmother she never knew. As Sutton becomes a friend and confidante to Bonnie after her husband’s death, she begins to uncover the secrets about her family that Miss Mabel so carefully hid, and about the role she unwittingly played in it all: her grandparents, wealthy factory owners, ashamed and furious about their daughter’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sent Miss Mabel away to deliver the baby and give it up for adoption; instead, her mother escaped to a tiny Ozarks town where she raised her daughter in secrecy.
Bestselling author Viola Shipman delights with this captivating summertime escape set along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, where a woman searches for clues to her secretive mother's past
Bestselling author Wade Rouse finds solace with his dying father through their shared love of baseball in this poignant, illuminating memoir of family and forgiveness.
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Summer Cottage
In her inimitable style, Viola Shipman explores the unlikely relationship between two very different women brought together by the pain of war, but bonded by hope, purpose...and flowers.
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Summer Cottage
"Like a true friendship, The Clover Girls is a novel you will forever savor and treasure." --Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author
A USA Today Bestseller
"Every now and then a new voice in fiction arrives to completely charm, entertain and remind us what matters. Viola Shipman is that voice and The Summer Cottage is that absolutely irresistible and necessary novel." -- New York Times Bestselling Author Dorothea Benton Frank
"Filled with cherished memories and treasured recipes, The Recipe Box is a touching tribute to the women and food that unite us and connect our past to the present." —Richard Paul Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“A graceful, moving, emotionally impactful read.” —Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in The Rain
"Saugatuck, MI, springs to life in this nostalgic, gentle story of lifelong love along with the emotional support and care that families and friends can provide. " —Library Journal
