Sandra Harper's career is finished; her son is dead; she has had majory surgery for cancer.  Everything seems out of kilter.  Nothing is right with her world.  She decides on a whim to go on a journey to the sun-filled lands of the Mediterranean-to places that have no memories.  Her traveling companion is a woman she barely knows.  As they travel during Ramadan, through Morocco and Tunisia, Harper begins to change as she faces unique adventures and daily challenges.  One of the hurdles she encounters results in her spending overnight in a Bedouin tent deep in the Tunisian Sahara.  Later, in Spain, she joins two friends in a hilarious stay in a rural village.   In the end, this journey to unfamiliar places transforms her. TRAVELING THE SUN is written with spirit and eloquence.  Ever focused on the details of places and characters, Sandra Harper reflects with clarity and compassion on others' lives and her own.  Weaving together an insightful glimmer of Muslim and Spanish life with her own moving journey of healing and change, she provides the reader with a book that opens the windows to a wondrous world of hope in chaotic times.

Traveling the Sun: A Healing Journey In Morocco, Tunisia and Spain

Travel

Harper, Sandra

Africa

Hawthorne Publishing

Magpie's Tearoom is a cozy haven in bustling L.A. -- a place for luncheons, baby showers, or simply hanging out. Its owner, British expat Margaret Moore, relishes tradition...but between a frustrated chef preoccupied with her neglectful producer girlfriend and the tearoom's waitstaff -- a talented but desperate TV star who hasn't acted since Detective Buck Love went off the air, and a twenty-something ingénue who'll do anything to get the part -- her grandmother's scones begin to feel irrelevant. When the critic from Tea Talk announces she is crossing the pond to visit, Margaret attempts to marshal her staff. But, being of the thespian variety, they all want to be doing something else. Yet despite the high personal drama at hand, the customers still demand their perfectly steeped tea and cucumber sandwiches.... As Margaret battles pilot season and produce-coordinator malfunctions, she begins to lose her will to live...in L.A. But can her L.A. neighborhood do without her tearoom? In this delightful debut novel with delicious recipes thrown in, Sandra Harper creates a hilarious world where Earl Grey and watercress make a meal, buttering the scones may get you scolded, and nobody does eggs anymore. Warm up the kettle and pull up a seat -- you don't want to miss High Tea!

High Tea

Literature & Fiction

United States

GALLERY BOOKS

The best holiday traditions are meant to be broken. It's only December 1, and Vanessa Clayton has been dreading Christmas since she spotted tinseled trees at her local mall in September. Thankfully, she and her husband, JT, can't afford to drag their twin boys across the country to New England for the annual celebration at her stuffy sister-in-law Patience's home. Not that Vanessa has prepared a proper Christmas for her family in years, and she has less time than ever since she agreed to consult on the script of a local play. Her older sister, Thea, is no help -- she'd rather make art and flirt with surfers than babysit her nine-year-old nephews. Then Patience drops a holiday stress bomb: Her family will come to California instead. In between "baking" cinnamon rolls for the school potluck and overbearing Patience testing her patience, Vanessa can't stop thinking about the difficult but charming playwright at work. Meanwhile, Patience's teenage daughter, Libby, obsesses over a college boy she has met by the pool, and Thea searches desperately for the meaning of Christmas -- for her latest installation, of course. As their holiday plans go comically awry, these four women discover the true spirit of the season is hidden in every festive surprise.

Over the Holidays: A Novel

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