Kitty Burns Florey
Author
Publisher
Broken Moon Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
In New York, a woman hears someone call the name of a man who died in a car crash 20 years earlier. She tracks him down and enters into a relationship, all the time wondering if the balding real estate dealer is the same as the actor who was the love of her youth. By the author of Duet.
Author
Publisher
Seaview/Putnam
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Rosie Mortimer, celebrity gardener with a successful TV show, has a pleasantly uneventful life with her undemanding beau. Her gay son and his partner live nearby. When her estranged daughter, Susannah, product of a fractured family, returns to Rosie's Connecticut town with her husband, a former priest, to open a restaurant, the tense relationships among these three build to a near-tragedy. Rosie is forced to face the mistakes and failures that have...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Aimless and guilt-ridden, [Margaret Neal] decides to get away from the East Coast altogether. For the money to buy a ticket to California she appeals to her aunt Nell Kerwin. ... When Nell replies to Margaret's plea, she encloses a gift-an odd but cherished souvenir ..."--Jacket.
4) Solos
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Emily Lime and her equally palindromic dog, Otto, live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (zip code 11211), in a warm community of friends and fellow artists. Her life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Marcus, a dog-walker and fellow Scrabble nut, whose father is Emily's shady ex-husband who wants the lovable Emily dead. A mystery unravels, a valuable lost cache of paintings is found, and Emily's life changes in ways she could not have anticipated....
Author
Publisher
Melville House Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Steeped in the Palmer Method of handwriting she learned in Catholic school, Kitty Burns Florey is a self-confessed "penmanship nut" who loves the act of taking pen to paper. So when she discovered that some schools today forego handwriting drills in favor of teaching something called keyboarding, she was shocked." "The idea that such a vital, simple, and frequently beautiful skill could be lost to future generations inspired her to investigate the...
