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Published on Sunday, Mar 09, 2008
Cuyahoga Falls author Karen J. Hasley's 2006 debut novel Lily's Sister demonstrated her gift for well-defined characters and exemplary fundamentals, and her followup, Waiting for Hope, proves the first book's success was no fluke.
It's also no surprise that Hasley has chosen Wyoming as a home base for her heroines. The territory offered the vote to women in 1869; Wyoming was ready to turn down statehood unless suffrage came along with the deal. What better place for Hope Birdwell, a young San Franciscan who needs to make a new life for herself?
Hope has a painful family history, and when she inherits a homestead in Laramie, she figures she can leave the past buried. She's thrilled with her modest new place and the hearty welcome she gets from the townspeople — including the handsome son of a neighboring ranch family. But one man knows her secret, and now Hope has to decide how much she'll do to protect it.
This isn't a novel full of plot twists; like Lily's Sister, it's just a first-rate Western romance. Hasley promises four more in her Laramie Series. Waiting for Hope (289 pages, softcover) costs $12.95 from http://www.outskirtspress.com.
In need of an editor
The ''woman'' in the title of Here Lies the Heart of a Woman in Need by Wadsworth author Tia R. Thomas is not the narrator, Francesca, but her mother, Shantel. Francesca begins her recollections as a 16-year-old Chicago prostitute who meets a big-spending Dominican. Raffi sends Francesca on a Pretty Woman-style shopping spree, promising her an education and exotic vacations.
But Francesca is skeptical of the source of Raffi's money, and as the evidence builds up, she tries to escape him to reconnect with her family. The plot is rousing and, finally, inspirational, but the text is marred by copy errors, and there is one scene between Raffi and another person that Francesca, talking in the first person, could not know about.
Here Lies the Heart of a Woman in Need (162 pages, softcover) is $19.95 from http://www.publishamerica.com.
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Footnotes
• At 7 p.m. Monday, Debra Johanyak will visit Sumner on Ridgewood, 970 Sumner Parkway, to discuss her book Behind the Veil: An American Woman's Memoir of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis. Johanyak is a professor of English at the University of Akron's Wayne College. Call 330-664-1289 for reservations.
• Stow author Charlotte J. Markey will sign her autobiography Journey to Freedom: A Young Girl's Story of World War II and Communism, Revolution and Escape and the Power of Faith to Overcome from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Laurel Lake Retirement Community, 200 Laurel Lake Drive, Hudson. The Learned Owl Book Shop is providing the books for sale.
• Food journalist Judy Bart Kancigor will discuss and sign Cooking Jewish: 532 Great Recipes From the Rabinowitz Family on Wednesday at Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Legacy Village in Lyndhurst. On Thursday, Pulitzer Prize-nominated Cleveland author Mary Doria Russell (A Thread of Grace) will sign her new novel, Dreamers of the Day, set backstage at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference. Both appearances are at 7 p.m.
• Munroe Falls resident Scott Curtis will sign Mommy's Choice from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Borders, 335 Howe Ave., Cuyahoga Falls.
— Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal
Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 or lsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com.
Cuyahoga Falls author Karen J. Hasley's 2006 debut novel Lily's Sister demonstrated her gift for well-defined characters and exemplary fundamentals, and her followup, Waiting for Hope, proves the first book's success was no fluke.
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