Can a stack of letters provide clues to an age-old conflict and a doorway to a new family? For the last three years, Julia De Luca has juggled her successful interior design business with caring for her elderly mother. Following her mother’s death, Julia finds old letters from distant relatives in Italy. They remind her of visits she and her mother made when Julia was a child. Could these letters hold the answer to why their trips to Italy ended abruptly when she was ten years old? These people whose names she’s forgotten are the only family Julia has left on earth. How can she reconnect with them after so many years? Would it be crazy to try? Her compelling desire to locate her distant family leads Julia on an impulsive trip to Florence, Italy. Along with savoring the sights and flavors of Florence, Julia discovers that families can be messy, that it’s not too late to fall in love, and that there’s more to Julia De Luca than she ever knew.
Seven-year-old Julia longs to have a sister whom she can play and share silly moments with. But all she's left to play with are her dolls and toys. While silently wishing to have someone to seesaw with in the park, Julia was approached by a little girl named Tammy and invited her to be a playmate. Instantly, Julia and Tammy became the best of friends. Julia didn't only get to have a playmate but found a sister in Tammy.
“A beautiful, next-level, parent-friendly cookbook that will have a prime position on my counter for a long time to come.” —Jennifer Garner Julia Turshen has always been cooking. As a kid, she skipped the Easy-Bake Oven and went straight to the real thing. Throughout her life, cooking has remained a constant, and as fans of her popular books know, Julia’s approach to food is about so much more than putting dinner on the table—it is about love, community, connection, and nourishment of the body and soul. In Simply Julia, readers will find 110 foolproof recipes for more nutritious takes on the simple, comforting meals Julia cooks most often. With practical chapters such as weeknight go-tos, make-ahead mains, vegan one-pot meals, chicken recipes, easy baked goods, and more, Simply Julia provides endlessly satisfying options comprised of accessible and affordable ingredients. Think dishes like Stewed Chicken with Sour Cream + Chive Dumplings, Hasselback Carrots with Smoked Paprika, and Lemon Ricotta Cupcakes—the kind of flavorful yet unfussy food everyone wants to make at home. In addition to her tried-and-true recipes, readers will find Julia’s signature elements—her “Seven Lists” (Seven Things I Learned from Being a Private Chef that Make Home Cooking Easier; Seven Ways to Use Leftover Buttermilk; Seven Ways to Use Leftover Egg Whites or Egg Yolks), menu suggestions, and helpful adaptations for dietary needs, along with personal essays and photos and gorgeous food photography. Like Melissa Clark’s Dinner or Ina Garten’s Modern Comfort Food, Simply Julia is sure to become an instant classic, the kind of cookbook that will inspire home cooks to create great meals for years to come.
A vibrant, edgy, fresh new YA voice for fans of More Happy Than Not and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, packed with interior graffiti. Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award! When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a “mainstream” school in the suburbs, where she’s treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy himself could convince her to give that up. Out in the ’burbs, Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off—and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war. Told with wit and grit by debut author Whitney Gardner, who also provides gorgeous interior illustrations of Julia’s graffiti tags, You’re Welcome, Universe introduces audiences to a one-of-a-kind protagonist who is unabashedly herself no matter what life throws in her way. "[A] spectacular debut...a moving, beautifully written contemporary novel full of quirky art and complicated friendships...this book is a gift to be thankful for."—BookRiot
Author Marissa Thompson has had writer’s block since her husband died almost two years earlier. Her three closest friends are a comfort. Despite this, things are getting urgent as her career hangs by a thread, and repairs on her historic home mount up. Prodded by desperation, Marissa heads to Wilmington, North Carolina for a Civil War research trip. She hopes for inspiration but receives support from a surprising source, a feisty character from her last novel. Jarrod Lambert has already lost his wife. He’s always been close with his only daughter, a college student, but she seems to be slipping further away from him. In an effort to reconnect with her, he makes an impulsive trip to see her in Wilmington. Through an accident, Marissa and Jarrod meet and discover common ground. Will it be enough to overcome the obstacles standing between them?
"Petal Power is written in reflection of Julia Atkinson-Dunn's own adventure as a beginner gardener, sharing a fun selection of flowering plants that can be grown in her homeland of New Zealand. It's the friendly volume she wished she could have got her hands on while still sussing out her perennials from her annuals. In addition to 12 plant profiles tested and photographed in her own garden, the book helpfully demystifies garden lingo and offers ideas for homegrown seasonal arrangements. The result is an invaluable guide, encouraging new gardeners to experiment further with confidence"--Back cover.
In A Second Chance Series, you’ll meet Marissa, Julia, Sydney, and Eden, four college friends who, twenty-five years later, renew their friendships as they find themselves empty nesters and single again. You’ll love getting to know these women as a group and individually, as you follow each one in her own book. You’ll join each woman in her challenges, triumphs, love stories, and even secrets. Marissa Rewritten (A Novella: Book 1) Author Marissa Thompson has had writer’s block since her husband died almost two years earlier. Both her career and her historic Raleigh home hang by a thread. Prodded by desperation, she heads to Wilmington, North Carolina for a Civil War research trip, hoping for inspiration for a new historical series. Everything begins as planned until she encounters a man with common ground and a quest of his own. Julia Redesigned (Second Chance Series Book 2) Following the death of her mother, Julia De Luca discovers decades-old letters from distant relatives in Italy—the only family she has left on earth. Could the letters hold clues to why those relationships ended abruptly when she was ten years old? She longs to reconnect with her family, but how can she after nearly four decades? Her compelling desire to locate them leads Julia on an impulsive trip to Florence, Italy. There she discovers love and the challenges of a renewed Italian family. Sydney Rewound (Second Chance Series Book 3) Sydney Bennett is a frazzled high-school teacher and a single parent of a teenager. Her life is anything but calm, but one ordinary day, an unexpected incident triggers the memory of a past secret even her closest girlfriends don’t know. Her quest for closure leads her back to her hometown for the summer. She never expects to run into the man who broke her teenage heart decades earlier, nor the power of grace and new beginnings. Eden Redefined (Second Chance Series Book 4) Eden Godfrey has been a widow too long. Or so her friends tell her. Her brief stint with online dating didn’t end so well. Eden turns her attention to a more pressing objective. Having sold the family business, she wants to find a bigger story where she can help people in need. To accomplish this, she returns to college to complete her degree. Along with stumbling across the man she regretted pushing away, she discovers a suspicious scheme that threatens to derail her dreams once again. Get all 4 books in one eBook, the whole series!
Rendered famous as the only survivor of a serial killer twenty years earlier, Tessa discovers clues that the wrong person was convicted and that the true killer is preparing to finish what he started.
English version of Julia Woning's new book "PanPastel Workshop" is now available. This book covers many of the basic techniques for using PanPastel Colors. If you are new to PanPastel Colors, or are interested in discovering new ways to use the medium, this is a great way to learn many of the techniques that are possible.
