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Meet Ellie, a little girl who loves the outdoors and adores her older brother, Charlie. But this year, she longs to grow her first garden. Join Ellie when she encounters a startling visitor who teaches her the secret of seed, plant, harvest. Award-winning writer, Sandy Hill, created a delightful and captivating book for her favorite audience, children ages six to nine. She authored nine other children's books. Christian beliefs inspired Seed, Plant, Harvest. Profits from her books are donated to keep all children safe. Along with her husband, Gene, they wrote Parents, Technology, Lawmakers, Let's Keep Children Safe on the Internet

Perfect for book clubs, this is the story of two strong women at odds with each other. Delia O'Toole is determined to escape the nursing home that has become her prison. So when her lifelong enemy, Ruthann, begs her to return to their hometown in North Carolina, Delia realizes it's time to confront Ruthann and the events that changed their lives forever. It's time to deal with "the accident." Going home means remembering those long-ago days when Delia and Ruthann were poverty-stricken girls working in the cotton mill. It also means remembering the impulsive decision Delia made as a teen, a decision that led to tragedy. Delia escaped the mill, while Ruthann, as brilliant as Delia, remained behind. As time went on, their lives intertwined in unexpected, sometimes painful, even fatal, ways. When Delia finally returns to her childhood home, she is stunned by what Ruthann reveals and faces a wrenching decision. And both women must decide whether they can forgive betrayal and the life-altering accident that almost destroyed them. Tangled Threads," vetted for accuracy by an expert on early mill villages, moves between the 1890s and the 1950s, bringing those times richly to life. Along the way, it explores the limits of forgiveness and the difficult choices that await us at the end of life. Book club discussion questions provided. Also by Sandy Hill, a sequel, "Kate & Delia;" "Bonds of Courage," "The Blue Car," "The Friends of Flat Flora," and mysteries "Deadline for Death," "An Ice Day to Die, "A Dying Wind, and "Shadow Dance."

When thirty-something editor Erin Markham finds her reporter dead in the pressroom of her Charlotte, NC, newspaper, all heck breaks loose in this traditional mystery. Erin is convinced it's murder. Her quest to find the killer leads her straight into danger. Along the way, she must cope with a family secret buried for years, a secret that threatens her most precious relationships. Written by a former newspaper editor, "Deadline for Death" offers a realistic look inside a big-city newsroom. Other cozy mysteries by Sandy Hill: "An Ice Day to Die," "A Dying Wind" and "Shadow Dance."

The sun shines brightly in a cloudless sky on the day that a blue car pulls up to young Sarah's home. Two men, aided by her father, hustle her mother away without a word, leaving a stunned Sarah staring after them. Thus begins Sarah's journey into a world of secrets, a world of great responsibility and little guidance. Along the way, "The Blue Car," set in western North Carolina in 1952, explores when to keep a promise and when to break it, and whether people can really change. Book club discussion questions included. Sandy Hill is also the author of historical novels "Tangled Threads," "Kate & Delia," and "The Blue Car" and mysteries "Deadline for Death," "An Ice Day to Die," and "A Dying Wind."

When Delia O'Toole, now an aging music teacher, left the North Carolina mill village where she grew up, she thought she had left her troubled past behind. But her new friendship with young Kate, a college student from their hometown and granddaughter of Delia's childhood enemy, changes all that. Kate is injured in an auto accident that threatens to destroy her dreams. So when Delia is called back home because a loved one is near death, Kate goes with her. Once there, Delia fears that a tragic secret that she had hoped to hide will come to light, a secret that could threaten one of her most precious relationships and raise accusations of murder. Meanwhile, threat of a strike at the cotton mill turns neighbors against neighbors and sparks violence. How much strain can a friendship take and survive? And can you really start over, no matter how late in life? Kate and Delia struggle to resolve old issues in this sequel to "Tangled Threads." Also by Sandy Hill: Historical novels "Bonds of Courage" and "The Blue Car," and mysteries "Deadline for Death," "An Ice Day to Die," and "A Dying Wind."