SUSAN CRANDALL

From the national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes a moving coming-of-age tale set in the tumultuous sixties that harkens to both Ordinary Grace and The Secret Life of Bees.Tallulah Jamess parents volatile relationship, erratic behavior, and hands-off approach to child rearing set tongues to wagging in their staid Mississippi town, complicating her already uncertain life. She takes the responsibility of shielding her familys reputation and raising her younger twin siblings onto her youthful shoulders. If not for the emotional constants of her older brother, Griff, and her old guard Southern grandmother, she would be lost. When betrayal and death arrive hand in hand, she takes to the road, headed to what turns out to be the not-so-promised land of Southern California. The dysfunction of her childhood still echoes throughout her scattered family, sending her brother on a disastrous path and drawing her home again. There she uncovers the secrets and lies that set her family on the road to destruction.

From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing road trip.Whistling past the graveyard. Thats what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear...In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmothers Mississippi home. Starlas destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really isas she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.

In this richly drawn story of love, loss, and redemption (Wendy Wax, USA TODAY bestselling author), an unlikely trio on an exhilarating adventure high above the American Midwest of the 1920sfrom the bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard. They are barnstormersthe daredevil fliers whose airborne acrobatics are a thrilling spectacle crisscrossing the American Heartland skies. Rising above each of their circumstances in their own flying circus are Cora Rose Haviland, a privileged young woman left penniless when her fathers fortune is lost; Charles Gil Gilchrist, a World War I pilot whose traumatic past fuels his death-defying stunts; and eighteen-year-old Henry Schuler, the son of a German immigrant farmer, on the run from shocking accusations. Each holds secrets that could destroy their makeshift family. And, on their adrenaline-charged journey of self-discovery, one of them must pay the price.The Flying Circus is Susan Crandall at her besta colorful, rich and historical tale of the early years of flight. Heroes and villains and an achingly sweet romance will pull at the readers heart long after the last page is turned (Karen White, New York Times bestselling author).

From the founding editor of "MORE" magazine comes an inspiring and useful look at how yesterdays Baby Boomers are becoming todays adventurous midlife pioneers.