Pieces of Home is my latest book about my home. Unlike my works of fiction, this book is a journey through my house and home decor. It’s not another design book telling you what to do and not to do. Nor is it a book showing rooms and gardens that are way beyond what you could ever attempt to replicate. It is just my journey trying to find my style. I introduce you to my decor influences and point out how each one has touched my life and my home. It is a fun and inviting book that hopefully will help to inspire, entertain and motivate you to believe in your own sense of style or point you in the direction of finding your own.
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With only a week before Christmas, Nicholas Garrett is second-guessing everything he has ever done as he looks for someone to blame for his present situation. Just two weeks prior, he and his wife Hope were filled with excitement and joy awaiting the birth of their twins. During the delivery, Hope’s blood pressure unexpectedly spikes and causes Hope to go into a seizure. As the surgeons struggle to stabilize her and deliver the twins safely, Nick is removed from the operating room. Unable to help the woman he loves, Nick is desperate to understand why she remains in a coma.
Unable to see his twins without his wife by his side, he questions his faith. Coming from a home that had an absent Jewish father and a struggling Catholic mother, his brother is the only family that remains. As Nick attempts to figure out what he believes in, he reflects on his life and imagines the worst. Pressed for time with a heartbreaking decision to make, Nick continues to hold on to hope.
In The Eighth Summer, the Mitchell family has shared their lovely Cape Cod style fixer-upper in Nantucket with their best friends. Amy and Tommy and their baby Gracie have hosted 7 years of casual breakfasts, outdoor dinners, and long nights of reminiscing over cold beers, sing a longs and talks on the porch.
On this, the eighth year, as the strongest of friends are days away from reuniting, one of their own is tragically killed in a motorcycle accident. As Tommy and Amy gather their friends and prepare for Mark’s funeral, they each confess secrets, expose lies, and finally face the demons that have been dormant for so long.
Through their heartbreak and pain the secrets that surface as they unite in the place that held so many joyous memories may harm the ties that bind them forever. It is with the deepest of interventions, in-depth soul searching and stripping of each individual’s pride that this group can come together again.
When Peter Michaels, the forty-two-year-old rising star of Boston’s architectural world, stumbles upon an old shoebox of mementos from his first sweetheart, he is thrown into a tailspin that could cost him his upcoming marriage, his career, and even the love of his life. It’s 1985, and Peter is bidding on the greatest architectural project of his career, just weeks shy of his wedding to Boston’s most ambitious socialite.
And yet he is still secretly tormented by memories of Maddy Marsden, the young woman he loved passionately twenty years earlier. Maddy and her family mysteriously disappeared years ago. Although he is unable to forget her, Peter has moved on with his life—until the shoebox resurfaces, and he realizes that his feelings for his current fiancée can’t possibly compare to his feelings for the soul mate he loved and lost so long ago.
Under deadline pressure from his career-changing project and caught up in the whirlwind of his domineering fiancée’s wedding plans, Peter is finally able, through the latest 1980s technology, to locate Maddy, now a teacher in Colorado. He flies to Denver, where he is shocked to learn the reason for her long-ago disappearance and soon finds himself forced to make the one choice he never thought he could make.
