July the Seventh

McCorkle, Jill

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

The Cheerleader

A collection of quirky short stories follows the fortunes of a woman who throws funerals for people before they are dead and a music store employee who cannot accept that vinyl is dead, among others. Reprint.

Final Vinyl Days (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Literary

Ballantine Books

Virginia Suzanne Ballard is going home to Saxapaw, North Carolina to think things through during a difficult pregnancy. While Virginia is laid up, unable to move or risk losing her baby, she is tended by three generations of marvelous women. But as guilty secrets are revealed, half-hidden truths confessed, and wonderful memories and stories shared, Virginia realizes that while there are parts of the past you can love, you have to leave room in your heart for what's new . . .

Tending to Virginia

Fawcett

Ferris Beach

Kate Burns has heard of the magical Ferris Beach all her life, but it's always seemed like an unreachable dream for her, trapped with her demanding mother and eccentric father. But then Misty moves to town, from Ferris Beach, no less. She and her family are everything Kate wants to be -- daring, outrageous, and fun. The two girls grow up together, sharing secrets until a fateful Fourth of July when Kate discovers that life's little surprises can't always be ignored and that the hard parts don't get better, just easier to live with . . .

Modern stories for modern times, CRASH DIET is at once brilliant and bitter, happy and heartbreaking. In eleven stories, acclaimed novelist Jill McCorkle tells the varied tales of today's southern women, the lives they end up leading, and the loves that distract them. Sandra knows that the best revenge is her ex-husband's credit card; Ruthie is stuck owning a motel that the highway has bypassed; Anna is a widow who goes to airports and looks in on other people's lives; Bunny waits eagerly for her absent sister's postcards for advice on how to live. Stuck in the slow lane, gunning their motors, they are women living the real life, hoping things will get better, but surprised when they occasionally do. "Displays the same wit and ironic compassion that gained so many fans for her novels." -- The New York Times Book Review

Crash Diet: Stories

"Whimsically entertaining and dramatically compelling."--The Boston GlobeKate Burns has heard of the magic of Ferris Beach all her life. Kate needs to believe in a little wonder. Shy and self-conscious, she lives with her distant, demanding mother and eccentric father.Then Misty moves to town, from Ferris Beach, no less. She is everything Kate wants to be: daring, outrageous, and fun. The two girls grow up together, sharing secrets about everything--until one fateful Fourth of July when their lives change forever. . . . "One of the best in the new generation of Southern writers . . . McCorkle hits all the right notes."--Atlanta Journal & Constitution

United States

Tending To Virginia

"A profound picture of the legacies of families, one that will stay in the reader's mind." --The Memphis Commercial Appeal Virginia Suzanne Ballard is going home to Saxapaw, North Carolina, to sort things out--and to have the people she loves best help her through a difficult pregnancy. The reunion is bittersweet. For as three generations of marvelous women tend to Virginia, long-held secrets are revealed, half-hidden truths confessed, and precious wisdom gained--of letting go and moving on. . . . "Celebrates human connection, not the sort of passionate and exotic connection that all these women imagine, fear and desire, so much as the steady comfort of the familiar, the known, the reliable, which is perhaps synonymous with family." --Atlanta Journal &amp; Constitution

Contemporary

"Invigorating . . . Savagely effective . . . Displays the same wit and ironic compassion that gained so many fans for her novels." --The New York Times Book Review Modern stories for modern times, Crash Diet is at once brilliant and bitter, happy and heartbreaking. In eleven stories, acclaimed novelist Jill McCorkle tells the varied tales of today's southern women, the lives they end up leading, and the loves that distract them. Sandra knows that the best revenge is her ex-husband's credit card; Ruthie is stuck owning a motel that the highway has bypassed; Anna is a widow who goes to airports and looks in on other people's lives; Bunny waits eagerly for her absent sister's postcards for advice on how to live. Stuck in the slow lane, gunning their motors, they are women living the real life, hoping things will get better, but surprised when they occasionally do.

"DELIGHTFUL CHARACTERS, LIVELY DIALOGUE AND GOOD STORYTELLING." --The Washington Post Energetic, voluptuous, and well past sixty, Queen Mary Purdy opens a smoke-enders clinic in the resort town of Fulton, North Carolina. Her unorthodox approach (aroma therapy? Massage?) provides much grist for the rumor mill. But Quee's new venture is the least of the many scandals brewing in Fulton: a happily married woman entrusts her illicit secrets to a dead letter file; a mad-as-hell property owner seeks revenge for his recently-submerged investment; a radio talk show host longs to hit the big time, by any means. Quee knows these folks need help with more than their nicotine fits, and their troubles are all tied to that resilient little muscle known as the heart. . . . "Has the elements of a mystery, a comedy and a small town soap opera. In fact, it's all three and more, a book about loss and recovery, grief and resolution, meddling and responsibility." --San Francisco Chronicle

Carolina Moon (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

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July the Seventh

The Cheerleader

Final Vinyl Days (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Tending to Virginia

Ferris Beach

Crash Diet: Stories

Ferris Beach

Tending to Virginia

Crash Diet: Stories

Carolina Moon (Ballantine Reader's Circle)