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When Susanna Solomon turned fourteen, her father told her that he was going to Paris to be alone. She believed him. Instead, he went to be with his mistress, an event that changed the trajectory of her family's life forever. When he returned, her mother confronted him, and he lied to her. Fed up and in despair, she took her own life.Fifty years later and long after he was gone, Solomon felt an urge to see where her father had gone.The result is Paris Beckons, her collection of vignettes told in the voice of our narrator, Nina, who sets out to follow in her father's footsteps in Paris. When she returned to places where she had been with her parents, Nina finds her mother standing beside her while holding her hand on the quai, and her father criticizing her everywhere they went. Confronting them gave her a chance to heal, and she returned home transformed.Evocative and personal, heart-wrenching and illuminating, these short stories reveal what lies beneath our deepest fears and memories and will appeal, especially, to adult children with pasts that refuse to remain buried."Evocative and personal, heart-wrenching and illuminating, Susanna Solomon's Paris Beckons showcases 34 stories revealing what lies beneath our deepest fears and memories. Poignant and for those with pasts that refuse to remain buried.">"Often heart-rending, sometimes surreal, but always intriguing, Solomon's Paris Beckons transports the reader to amazing places in and around Paris and in and around the human heart.">"Susanna Solomon's fantastical musings reveal a clandestine Paris of temptation, imagination, and unease-ghostly "Shakespeare & Company," time-bending "The Clock," Twilight-Zone-esque "The Teddy Bear," and Oscar-Wilde-reminiscent "Hello, Human." Other tales derail the mind's comfort zones-risky soul-searching in "Among My Own Kind," braving Parisian streets as a first-time motorcyclist in "Julia," and communing with a Musée D'Orsay sculpture that thinks outside the box in "The Dancer." Deft, whimsical, with the hovering shadow of a domineering father, these stories rank among Solomon's best.-J. Macon King, Mill Valley Literary Review, author of Circus of the Sun and Drinking with a Dead Cat.

When Riley finds her grandmother dead, she knows her world is about to collapse. Determined to find the father she knows only by an address, Riley and Mia take off on a journey with so many twists and turns Riley begins to doubt they'll ever find a real home. She ignores the question that keeps popping into her mind-if they do find her father, will he even want them? Or will he send them away?

At long last, Riley and Mia have reached the place they've been dreaming about: Riley's father's ranch. After a warm welcome, the girls settle in, happy and relieved. Then things start to go horribly wrong. Ranch life is harsher than Riley expects, she never gets to spend time with her father, and their new grandmother doesn't seem to like them. Then a mystery boy appears to haunt her dreams and Riley starts to wonder if this new family is really going to work out. After all, they still don't know if the courts are going to allow Mia to be adopted by Riley's new family.What will happen if the courts say no?Come along as Riley and Mia struggle through more surprising twists and turns to discover if they have finally found their forever family!

From the Amazon best-selling author Jacci Turner comes the second book in The Finding Home Series. In "Bending Willow" we meet Riley and Mia who are orphaned and in search of a father who doesn't know they exist. They cross two states while avoiding the Amber Alert and find a family happy to receive them. But now... Riley and Mia suffer crushing disappointment when they learn they won't be able to go live with their father...yet. Staying at Nana's farm seems like a wonderful solution until they learn they have to go to school and Riley receives another heart-rending shock. Join Riley and Mia in their continued adventure as they face new challenges, make new friends, and get downright stretched!