Nowhere But Home
Bestselling author Liza Palmer carries readers to North Star, Texas, in the amusing and poignant Nowhere But Home.After Queenie Wake is dismissed from her restaurant job, she returns to North Star to cook meals for death row inmates.Hopeful that the bad memories of her late mother and promiscuous...
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Bestselling author Liza Palmer carries readers to North Star, Texas, in the amusing and poignant Nowhere But Home.After Queenie Wake is dismissed from her restaurant job, she returns to North Star to cook meals for death row inmates.Hopeful that the bad memories of her late mother and promiscuous sister (now the mother of the captain of the high school football team) have been forgotten by the locals, Queenie discovers that some people can’t be forgotten—heartbreaker Everett Coburn—her old high-school sweetheart.When secrets from the past emerge, will Queenie be able to stick by her family or will she leave home again?Liz Palmer’s Nowhere But Home is a funny and touching story of food, football, and fooling around.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062007476 (0062007475)
Publish date: April 2nd 2013
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Food And Drink,
Food,
Adult Fiction,
Realistic Fiction,
American,
Romance,
Adult,
Family,
Contemporary,
Southern,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Mostly I pick which book to read next based on cover alone. When I first buy the book I skim the blurb to see if it's in the ballpark of something I'd like and to make sure it's got nothing in it that would turn me off. After sitting on my kindle or bookshelves for eons I've usually long forgotten...
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4.5 Stars. I admit it. I can be a snob. So when I first heard that this took place in Texas, I thought red neck country. I'm embarassed to admit it. But it's important for you to know that I went in thinking easy read with simple characters. Wow, when I'm wrong, I'm wrong. These characters are ...
Nowhere But Home is the quintessential comfort read and I devoured it in one sitting on this rainy afternoon. Liza Palmer is an author I've had my eye on for awhile but I never seem to have caught hold of her books. As such, when I saw both this and Seeing Me Naked on the shelves of my library earli...