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Lorna Landvik
Whoever said nothing ever happens in small towns just didn’t know White Falls, Minnesota, and Dick Lindstrom, an ace salesman and family man–who at heart is a cabaret star. Now…
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Patty’s husband disappears days before the birth of their daughter and Patty’s sister Harriet is wooed and won by Avel before tragedy blights her happiness too. So Patty Jane opens…
From the acclaimed author of the bestselling Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons comes this irresistible, hugely satisfying tale as funny, heartbreaking, and unpredictable as laughter itself.
The women of Freesia Court have come together at life’s table, fully convinced that there is nothing that good coffee, delectable deserts and a strong shoulder can’t fix. The five…
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Devera and BiDi, were voted ‘Least Changed’ at their twentieth high school reunion - a label neither one finds very appealing. For each craves a change in her life: Devera…
Escaping to Tall Pine from an abusive husband, Lee answered the ‘What am I going to do with my life?’ question by opening the cafe. Among the regulars is Lee’s…
A novel about a lonely girl who finds solace in artistic pursuits. She was abandoned by her mother, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates. This is a…
A collection of thoughts and feelings dedicated to answering life’s big questions.
Reluctantly agreeing to take care of her nephew, Rich, a thirteen-year-old boy with Down syndrome, while her sister and her husband take a vacation, Broadway actress Geneva Jordan finds her…
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Now in paperback–Landvik’s insightful, highly entertaining novels, in which a dreary bus accident in rainy North Dakota during the Great Depression proves to be the beginning of a marvelous life-transforming…
A mild-mannered actuary, Fletcher Weschel lives at the crossroads of Bland and Humdrum–or so he thinks until a cosmic contest catapults him into the fantasy world he made up as…
Best to Laugh follows Lorna Landvik’s latest irresistible character, Candy Pekkala, from Minnesota to Hollywood as she pursues her dream of becoming a comedian. Herself a comic performer, Landvik taps…
When Haze Evans first appeared in the small-town newspaper, she earned fans by writing a story about her bachelor uncle who brought a Queen of the Rodeo to Thanksgiving dinner…
With her trademark wit and warmth, Lorna Landvik follows Nora Rolvaag (the do-or-die-trying daughter of Patty Jane) and a cast of characters between city and wooded retreat, Minnesota and Norway…
In the small town of Granite Creek, Minnesota, Haze Evans suffers a stroke at the age of 89 and slips into a coma. Haze is a local legend, having written…
A funny, heartwarming story about a feisty group of women who shake, spice, and heat things up with a recipe book for romance, from the bestselling author of Angry Housewives…
From the initial formation of The Freesia Court Book Club and over the course of the next thirty years, five women in small-town Minnesota share the events, triumphs, tragedies, hardships…
Centering around a Minneapolis beauty parlor that also functions as a women’s support group, this novel explores the loves, losses, hopes, and victories experienced by Patty Jane and Harriet, two…
A book about making new beginnings out of old endings, Once in a Blue Moon Lodge invites readers to check in, set down their baggage, and spend time with the…