The Stories We Carry
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A small-town bookstore owner finds herself at odds with a newcomer bent on disrupting her quiet life in this Southern womens fiction novel by award-winning author Robin W. Pearson.
Glory Pryor has carved out a life for herself in Gilmore, North Carolina, cultivating a community around her bookstore, By the Book. While her business is a success, she carries the weight of stories of her own shes never told anyone. She holds out hope that one day her estranged brother will turn up on her doorstep so she can finally learn where hes been all these years. Glorys husband Eli thinks she has her arms wrapped too tightly around the could-have-beens, and that its time for them to let go of the store as they head into their retirement years. Glory has different opinions on thatshes not ready to give up the dream shes built just yet. Then Adelle Simonette shows up with her young son, Bennett, and Glorys carefully controlled life begins to crumble.
Newly widowed Adelle Simonette is a single mother trying to find her footing and navigate parenting her young son. Lost in her grief, one thing shes certain of is that she needs to confront Glory Pryor and everybody who knows her because the womans been living a lie. Adelle thinks its high time Glory made things right. But Adelles finding it hard to tell the truth . . . and there will be no going back once she does.
In the wake of deeply personal grief and loss, two women reckon with a lifetime of silence and secrets to find a path forward toward healing, hope, and restoration.
Glory Pryor has carved out a life for herself in Gilmore, North Carolina, cultivating a community around her bookstore, By the Book. While her business is a success, she carries the weight of stories of her own shes never told anyone. She holds out hope that one day her estranged brother will turn up on her doorstep so she can finally learn where hes been all these years. Glorys husband Eli thinks she has her arms wrapped too tightly around the could-have-beens, and that its time for them to let go of the store as they head into their retirement years. Glory has different opinions on thatshes not ready to give up the dream shes built just yet. Then Adelle Simonette shows up with her young son, Bennett, and Glorys carefully controlled life begins to crumble.
Newly widowed Adelle Simonette is a single mother trying to find her footing and navigate parenting her young son. Lost in her grief, one thing shes certain of is that she needs to confront Glory Pryor and everybody who knows her because the womans been living a lie. Adelle thinks its high time Glory made things right. But Adelles finding it hard to tell the truth . . . and there will be no going back once she does.
In the wake of deeply personal grief and loss, two women reckon with a lifetime of silence and secrets to find a path forward toward healing, hope, and restoration.
- Contemporary womens fiction for fans of Denise Hunter, Vanessa Miller, Rachel Hauck, and Rhonda McKnight
- A small-town Southern saga that features bookish heroines and themes of family, forgiveness, and reconciliation
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
A small-town bookstore owner finds herself at odds with a newcomer bent on disrupting her quiet life in this Southern womens fiction novel by award-winning author Robin W. Pearson.
Glory Pryor has carved out a life for herself in Gilmore, North Carolina, cultivating a community around her bookstore, By the Book. While her business is a success, she carries the weight of stories of her own shes never told anyone. She holds out hope that one day her estranged brother will turn up on her doorstep so she can finally learn where hes been all these years. Glorys husband Eli thinks she has her arms wrapped too tightly around the could-have-beens, and that its time for them to let go of the store as they head into their retirement years. Glory has different opinions on thatshes not ready to give up the dream shes built just yet. Then Adelle Simonette shows up with her young son, Bennett, and Glorys carefully controlled life begins to crumble.
Newly widowed Adelle Simonette is a single mother trying to find her footing and navigate parenting her young son. Lost in her grief, one thing shes certain of is that she needs to confront Glory Pryor and everybody who knows her because the womans been living a lie. Adelle thinks its high time Glory made things right. But Adelles finding it hard to tell the truth . . . and there will be no going back once she does.
In the wake of deeply personal grief and loss, two women reckon with a lifetime of silence and secrets to find a path forward toward healing, hope, and restoration.
Glory Pryor has carved out a life for herself in Gilmore, North Carolina, cultivating a community around her bookstore, By the Book. While her business is a success, she carries the weight of stories of her own shes never told anyone. She holds out hope that one day her estranged brother will turn up on her doorstep so she can finally learn where hes been all these years. Glorys husband Eli thinks she has her arms wrapped too tightly around the could-have-beens, and that its time for them to let go of the store as they head into their retirement years. Glory has different opinions on thatshes not ready to give up the dream shes built just yet. Then Adelle Simonette shows up with her young son, Bennett, and Glorys carefully controlled life begins to crumble.
Newly widowed Adelle Simonette is a single mother trying to find her footing and navigate parenting her young son. Lost in her grief, one thing shes certain of is that she needs to confront Glory Pryor and everybody who knows her because the womans been living a lie. Adelle thinks its high time Glory made things right. But Adelles finding it hard to tell the truth . . . and there will be no going back once she does.
In the wake of deeply personal grief and loss, two women reckon with a lifetime of silence and secrets to find a path forward toward healing, hope, and restoration.
- Contemporary womens fiction for fans of Denise Hunter, Vanessa Miller, Rachel Hauck, and Rhonda McKnight
- A small-town Southern saga that features bookish heroines and themes of family, forgiveness, and reconciliation
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
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A small-town bookstore owner finds herself at odds with a newcomer bent on disrupting her quiet life in this Southern womens fiction novel by award-winning author Robin W. Pearson.
Glory Pryor has carved out a life for herself in Gilmore, North Carolina, cultivating a community around her bookstore, By the Book. While her business is a success, she carries the weight of stories of her own shes never told anyone. She holds out hope that one day her estranged brother will turn up on her doorstep so she can finally learn where hes been all these years. Glorys husband Eli thinks she has her arms wrapped too tightly around the could-have-beens, and that its time for them to let go of the store as they head into their retirement years. Glory has different opinions on thatshes not ready to give up the dream shes built just yet. Then Adelle Simonette shows up with her young son, Bennett, and Glorys carefully controlled life begins to crumble.
Newly widowed Adelle Simonette is a single mother trying to find her footing and navigate parenting her young son. Lost in her grief, one thing shes certain of is that she needs to confront Glory Pryor and everybody who knows her because the womans been living a lie. Adelle thinks its high time Glory made things right. But Adelles finding it hard to tell the truth . . . and there will be no going back once she does.
In the wake of deeply personal grief and loss, two women reckon with a lifetime of silence and secrets to find a path forward toward healing, hope, and restoration.
Glory Pryor has carved out a life for herself in Gilmore, North Carolina, cultivating a community around her bookstore, By the Book. While her business is a success, she carries the weight of stories of her own shes never told anyone. She holds out hope that one day her estranged brother will turn up on her doorstep so she can finally learn where hes been all these years. Glorys husband Eli thinks she has her arms wrapped too tightly around the could-have-beens, and that its time for them to let go of the store as they head into their retirement years. Glory has different opinions on thatshes not ready to give up the dream shes built just yet. Then Adelle Simonette shows up with her young son, Bennett, and Glorys carefully controlled life begins to crumble.
Newly widowed Adelle Simonette is a single mother trying to find her footing and navigate parenting her young son. Lost in her grief, one thing shes certain of is that she needs to confront Glory Pryor and everybody who knows her because the womans been living a lie. Adelle thinks its high time Glory made things right. But Adelles finding it hard to tell the truth . . . and there will be no going back once she does.
In the wake of deeply personal grief and loss, two women reckon with a lifetime of silence and secrets to find a path forward toward healing, hope, and restoration.
- Contemporary womens fiction for fans of Denise Hunter, Vanessa Miller, Rachel Hauck, and Rhonda McKnight
- A small-town Southern saga that features bookish heroines and themes of family, forgiveness, and reconciliation
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs