Jencey's Writer's Corner

  Karen White released her book That Last Carolina Summer last year.  Karen is known for her many writing projects, which means multiple book releases sometimes in one year.  This book centers around one family, a mother and her two daughters—a choice made within a family that had devastating consequences for those affected. Also, if you like birds, you will learn a lot from this book.    Synopsis: “As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creek near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams, and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, Addie, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast, as far from her family as possible. Now, years later, she is summoned back to South Carolina, to help Addie care for their ailing mother. As Phoebe’s return lures her back into deep-rooted tensions and conflicts, she is drawn to Celeste, whose granddaughter went missing year...

  Which side would you choose if your family were in danger?  Could you betray people you knew if it meant safety for your family?  Would the price be high enough that you could justify your actions?  These questions and more will be answered in Code Name Sapphire, a World War II novel by Pam Jenoff.  Synopsis:  “1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind. Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network led by a mysterious woman named Micheline and her enigmatic brother Matteo. But when a grave mistake causes Lily’s family to be arrested and slated for deporta...