A tumultuous novel about America's loss of innocence in the late Sixties. Turner Raines is Mr Heartbreak. Everybody leaves him. They walk out, they run away... they die. When his oldest friend Mel Kissing dies with an ice pick through his skull, Raines picks up the thread and sets out to ask 'who?' and 'why?' But this is America in 1969 and one death is just a drop in the ocean. The USA is about to land a man on the moon and the Vietnam War is ripping the country to pieces, setting sons against fathers, fathers against sons. The Woodstock festival is in full swing and Norman Mailer is standing as candidate for Mayor of New York. Against this backdrop, Raines' questions take him back to the childhood home he left in Texas, back to the battered remains of his youth... and as his memory unravels, America unravels with it.

From New York Times bestselling author Melissa Storm comes this acclaimed series of sweet and wholesome small-town love stories with the community church at its center… A widower, a Sunday school teacher, and the seven-year-old determined to bring them together... When cancer claimed his beloved wife far too soon, Liam James stopped living and started settling. Now, thanks to the still small light left in his world, his life is about to expand in ways he can't fathom. This tender and emotional romance from a New York Times bestselling author follows a sweet seven-year-old as she works hard to fulfill her mother's dying wish for the family she had to leave behind. Could Liam's young daughter really be the answer to the prayer he hadn’t dared to speak? *** Keywords: clean & wholesome romance, clean and wholesome, inspirational women’s fiction, contemporary women’s fiction, sweet romance, christian romance, fiction for women, clean fiction, opposites attract romance, book club recommendations, animal fiction, wholesome new adult fiction, women’s saga, wholesome new adult, family life, clean small town romance, fresh start romance, small town romance, faith hope love, sweet western contemporary romance, heartwarming strangers to lovers relationship, contemporary womens fiction set in Texas, meet cute, just kisses, friendship romance Perfect for readers of Fern Michaels, Debbie Macomber, Cathryn Brown, Katie Winters, Rachel Hanna, Grace Meyers, Jessie Gussman, Sage Parker, Susan Mallery, Hanna Hart, Carolyn Brown, Natalie Dean, Meredith Summers, B.E. Baker, Ann Omasta, Carolyne Aarsen, Christy Barritt, and Hayley Summers.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as "backward" or "repressive" and offers a window into the ways black gay men negotiate their identities, build community, maintain friendship networks, and find sexual and life partners--often in spaces and activities that appear to be antigay. Ultimately, Sweet Tea validates the lives of these black gay men and reinforces the role of storytelling in both African American and southern cultures.