Donna J Burr
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From the beginning, the DeHaven's first child was a quiet little girl; ordinary, like any other girl.With the exception of her mother, few people recognized her potential.Frequently being labelled a liar by her favorite cousin and a mischief- maker aunt, did not help her situation.In the aftermath of World War II, and encouraged by her mother to read anything and everything, Maddie began reading her parents' encyclopedia-from A to Z. Born on a U.S....
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Widowed, the elderly woman from an immigrant family, has sold her old house in Albany, New York and moved to a retirement home. Her daughter is tasked with a final check of the empty house. Hidden until that day, a disconcerting find, obviously from World War Two, sparks the daughter's overactive imagination. Once back in her own home in Louisville, Kentucky, the widow's daughter begins investigating the tangled history of her mother's past. Old family...
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What provokes one child down a dangerous path, while her cousin takes a less tortuous direction in life? A mere six months apart in age, the girls were born near the end of World War Two, when a war tragedy set the stage for Ginger Drake's calamitous life. Ginger's 'sister at heart', cousin Glory Clayborne, has all she can do to protect the incorrigible Ginger from herself, to say nothing of the many evils lying in wait.