Jo-Ann Mapson
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Preparing for the birth of an unexpected baby, forty-one-year-old Santa Fe newlywed Glory Vigil spends time with her adopted college-age daughter, Juniper, who has fallen in love and who is haunted by memories of a sister who disappeared years earlier.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years of estrangement, two sisters reconnect on their parents' ranch in New Mexico. One is a widow with grown children, the other a career woman. The latter rekindles a romance with a high-school sweetheart by whom she had an abortion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Glory Solomon, a young widow, holds tight to her memories while she struggles to hold on to her Central California farm. She makes ends meet by hosting weddings in the chapel her husband had built under their two-hundred-year-old white oak tree, known locally as Solomon's Oak.Fourteen-year-old Juniper McGuire is the lone survivor of a family decimated by her sister's disappearance. She arrives on Glory's doorstep, pierced, tattooed, angry, and homeless....
5) Hank & Chloe
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
"'Chloe Morgan is a thirty-year-old part-time waitress, small-time horse trainer, and full-time thoroughly toughened Western woman living in a corner of the dwindling canyonlands of Southern California, ' and then, at a sunrise funeral, she meets Henry Oliver, a professor of folklore"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Horsewoman Chloe arrives at Hank's cabin in Arizona to announce she is pregnant and they resume their romance. The baby is delivered by Junior Whitebear, a handsome Indian and Chloe falls in love with him, concluding she is not destined to be a one-man woman. By the author of Hank and Chloe.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The impact of four-year-old Spencer's death has rocked the Carpenter family. For Lainie, the loss of her son is unbearable, and now both her marriage and her very sanity are threatened. Her guitar-obsessed, slacker brother Russell isn't doing very well either, and his own love relationship is rapidly coming undone. Then there's Bop, her fierce and crusty 80-year-old grandfather. When he falls in love with a retired stripper, their earthy romance touches...
10) Blue rodeo
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Those who do not remember family history are condemned to repeat it...Haunted by a failed marriage, a resentful son left deaf by a bout of meningitis, and the slow death of her artistic aspirations, Margaret Yearwood takes refuge in Blue Dog, New Mexico. There, in the shadow of Shiprock Mountain, and in the unlikely arms of Owen Garrett, she finds the courage to love again, and to be loved. And she comes to realize that even the most primal wounds...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Skye Elliot is given a choice after her car accident--jail or rehab--and her ex-husband, a bull rider who introduced her to the party scene, gets custody of their four-year-old daughter Gracie. It takes Skye eight months to get clean, but the day she is released, she has one plan: to be a good mother--better, at least, than Skye's own selfish mother and absent dad. Owen Garret hasn't seen his daughter in ten years. He, too, needs to make amends....