Suzanne Strempek Shea

Lily Wilk of Massachusetts, a poor artist who makes a living by painting fire hydrants, gets her first big break with an unusual commission. A rich woman wants a group portrait of her family based not on a sitting, but on photos of its members at their best. By the author of Selling the Lite of Heaven.

A Polish American family in Massachusetts adopts a niece from Poland and the result is a family crisis. Donna, the accordion-playing, polka-dancing American daughter becomes resentful of the attention lavished on her Polish cousin. The story is narrated by Donna with dry and biting humor. By the author of Selling the Lite of Heaven.

"Rosie Pilch's lifelong job as a bank teller is lost in the recession, and her subsequent depression ends only when a friend elopes, moves and leaves Rosie her palm-reading business at Orchard Mall, once a groundbreaking shopping experience touted as "Main Street Recreated," now a sluggish "dead mall" in its last months of existence before the wrecking ball arrives. Knowing nothing about palm reading, but needing to leave her house, Rosie becomes...

In the latest novel from the award-winning author of Around Again, an American takes an unexpected trip to Ireland and finds the woman she was meant to become.
Newly unemployed, Sophie White has nothing better to do when her recently widowed best friend, Gina, invites her along on a much-needed, postcrisis getaway. When, after only one day in Ireland, Gina decides she should do her grieving back at home, she urges Sophie to remain...