Download or read book A Magnolia Homecoming written by Anne-Marie Meyer and published by Anne-Marie Meyer. This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★★★ "A powerful story about love, strength, family, and friendship." -- Reviewer I’m ready to start living for me. I wasn’t ready to face my past... I wasn’t ready to face him. Clementine I’m just attempting to adjust to my new normal. With Archer moved out and Dad gone, I’ve never been this alone or this lost. On the spur of the moment, I decide to put in a bid on a vacant space next to the hardware store with the idea of opening a dance studio. If everyone is living their dream, why can’t I? Little did I know, Jake, my ex-boyfriend becomes my only competition. He’s back and once again, messing up my plans. Problem is, no matter how much I try to push him away, he doesn’t seem to want to go anywhere. Shari My marriage isn’t as perfect as everyone thinks it is. Sure, I have the perfect house with the white picket fence. The expected, 2.5 children who are perfectly imperfect. But something is going on with Craig. I can feel it. Smell it on his shirt when he comes home. Thankfully, my baby brother Jake is back home and looking to make Magnolia his permanent residence. Even though I don’t have to say anything, he seems to understand just what I need. Because my life is so close to breaking, and the last thing I need is to be alone. A Magnolia Homecoming with capture you from page one. It’s a story full of second chances, laughter, tears, and swoon-worthy romance. Don’t pass up this wonderful story! Grab your copy TODAY! Keywords: strong heroine, slow burn romance, contemporary romance, romance books, second chance romance, love after loss, womens fiction, clean romance, book series, small town romance, completed series, restoring inn, divorcee, starting over, new move in, grandmother, new friendships, bookclub, broken hero, forgiveness, second chance at love, wholesome romance, sweet romance, middle aged women, women over thirty, single woman fiction, best friends brother, family saga, family relationships, overcoming obstacles, cinnamon roll heroes

Download or read book Magnolia at Midnight written by Anne-Marie Meyer and published by Anne-Marie Meyer. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★★★ "The ending was just the beginning for these ladies." --Reviewer I have so many walls built up around my heart, and I’m not sure I have the strength to break them down. Welcome to Magnolia Victoria I’m no longer mayor, a sentiment that I’m still trying to get used to saying. After the inauguration of the new mayor, I’m pretty sure that I’ve has reached bottom--until my parents inform me that they are selling their house in Magnolia and I have a week to find a new place to live. Enter Maggie. Even though she poses the job opening as a desperate need for help at the inn, I decide to take it as a temporary job until I can get on my feet. After all, I’m a Holt and Holt's don't need handouts. They also don't need the sexy chef that doesn't seem to want to leave me alone and is breaking down all the walls that I’ve put up. Fiona I know that something is wrong with my mom and the coffee shop. Ever since I moved back to Magnolia with my son, I’ve sensed that something was off. It wasn't until I discovered the eviction notice that I realized just how bad things had gotten. After a pow-wow with the Red Stiletto ladies, Shari convinces me to drive to Nashville in search of my son’s father and the child support he's never sent. Things go from bad to worse once we get there. Dave's not interested in helping and being in the city I once called home is dredging up a ton of old memories. Now I’m worried I don't have the strength to stand my ground and protect my son. Magnolia at Midnight will capture you from page one. It will show you the power of friendship and the strength you have inside. Grab your copy today. Keywords: strong heroine, slow burn romance, contemporary romance, romance books, second chance romance, love after loss, womens fiction, clean romance, book series, small town romance, completed series, restoring inn, divorcee, starting over, new move in, grandmother, new friendships, bookclub, broken hero, forgiveness, second chance at love, wholesome romance, sweet romance, middle aged women, women over thirty, single woman fiction, best friends brother, family saga, family relationships, overcoming obstacles, cinnamon roll heroes

Download or read book The Magnolia Inn written by Anne-Marie Meyer and published by Anne-Marie Meyer. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***A USA Today Bestselling Book!*** ★★★★★"A beautiful story of brokenness, forgiveness, and second chances."" -- Reviewer If my mother thought that restoring the run down family inn would break me, she was wrong. The hardest part of falling in love with the small town of Magnolia and my grumpy handyman is knowing at some point, I'm going to have to sell the inn and leave. Maggie My ex-husband left me for my best friend. I’m 36, unemployed, and about to be evicted. My only option is to ask my estranged mother for help. She offers me a deal: fix up the run down family inn on the small island of Magnolia and any of the proceeds I can make off the sale, will be mine to invest. Determined to start believing in myself, I roll into town with an unhealthy amount of optimism. The only person who is going to stop me, is me. That is, until I meet my grumpy handyman. He has more walls built up around his heart than the three story inn I’m restoring, but I’m determined to break them down. Even if he’s determined to stop me. Clementine I meant to leave Magnolia at some point in my life. With a full ride scholarship to Juilliard, my dream was to dance. But Dad got sick and I needed to stay to run the local hardware store. Plus, there’s no way I can rely on my older brother, Archer, who can’t outrun the ghosts of his past. When Maggie blows into town, I can’t help but feel inspired by her desire to reinvent herself and when she asks for the local handyman, it becomes the perfect opportunity to provide Archer with purpose and perhaps, a little bit of sunshine. As our friendship grows, I realize just how much I needed a sisterhood. And when I catch Archer smiling, I realize that he needed Maggie as well. I just hope that when the time comes to sell the inn, Maggie fights to stay, because I’m not sure we could handle the heartbreak if she leaves. The Magnolia Inn will capture you from page one. It is a story chock full of friendship, laughter, and swoon-worthy romance. Don’t pass up this wonderful story. Grab your copy TODAY! Keywords: strong heroine, slow burn romance, contemporary romance, romance books, second chance romance, love after loss, womens fiction, clean romance, book series, small town romance, completed series, restoring inn, divorcee, starting over, new move in, grandmother, new friendships, bookclub, broken hero, forgiveness, second chance at love, wholesome romance, sweet romance, middle aged women, women over thirty, single woman fiction, best friends brother

Download or read book A Magnolia Friendship written by Anne-Marie Meyer and published by Anne-Marie Meyer. This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★★★ "I love everything about this series, the town, the newly discovered love, but mostly the new and enduring friendships." --Reviewer I thought when Craig walked out on me, that was it. I was never going to find love again… I was wrong. Welcome to Magnolia Shari I have discovered that being a single mom is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. With my job, strained relationship with Tag, and trying to keep my household from falling apart, I barely has time for myself, much less dating. One night and out of an act of sheer stupidity, I allow Fiona, the new, young move-in, to convince the bookclub to go to a bar across the bridge. I didn't expect to find a guy who is easy to talk to. I didn't expect that he would quickly become my friend. And I didn't expect him to be the little brother of the town's know-it-all mayor. Victoria I’ve lived my entire life portraying perfection. As the daughter of a senator and the mayor of Magnolia, everything I do has to be precise and calculated. I thought everything was going my way, until my campaign manager informs me that the city doesn't feel connected to me. And suddenly, my re-election is on the line. In order to turn the residents back into my favor, I have to fix the one thing I’ve never been able to conquer—my personality. A Magnolia Friendship with capture you from page one. It’s a story full of unexpected friendships, laughter, tears, and swoon-worthy romance. Don’t pass up this wonderful story! Grab your copy TODAY! Keywords: strong heroine, slow burn romance, contemporary romance, romance books, second chance romance, love after loss, womens fiction, clean romance, book series, small town romance, completed series, restoring inn, divorcee, starting over, new move in, grandmother, new friendships, bookclub, broken hero, forgiveness, second chance at love, wholesome romance, sweet romance, middle aged women, women over thirty, single woman fiction, best friends brother

Download or read book Home in Carolina written by Sherryl Woods and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series! From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods There’s no place like home, especially if it’s Serenity, South Carolina. For Annie Sullivan, though, the homecoming is bittersweet. She’d always envisioned a life there with her childhood best friend, Tyler Townsend. But Ty’s betrayal has cost her the family and the future they’d once planned. For Ty, losing Annie was heartbreaking. Still, he can’t imagine life without the three-year-old son whose mother left him for Ty to raise. Ty wants it all—Annie, his child and the future he’d dreamed about—and he’s back home in Serenity to fight for it. But getting Annie to forgive and forget may be the hardest challenge he’s ever faced. With the stakes so high, this is one game he can’t afford to lose. Read the Sweet Magnolias Series by Sherryl Woods: Book One: Stealing Home Book Two: A Slice of Heaven Book Three: Feels Like Family Book Four: Welcome to Serenity Book Five: Home in Carolina Book Six: Sweet Tea at Sunrise Book Seven: Honeysuckle Summer Book Eight: Midnight Promises Book Nine: Catching Fireflies Book Ten: Where Azaleas Bloom Book Eleven: Swan Point Bonus: The Sweet Magnolias Cookbook

Download or read book A Magnolia Adventure written by Anne-Marie Meyer and published by Anne-Marie Meyer. This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★★★ "A fun read and as all the others, you don’t want it to end. You won’t be disappointed." --Reviewer I wanted to forget my feelings for my brother's best friend, but when he shows up on my doorstep, I can't find the strength to turn him away. Welcome to Magnolia Naomi I’m ready to start my life with Walker on Harmony Island. The best thing for me to do, is to forget Magnolia and especially, Colten. I’m determined to pick up again where I left off-- even if that means forcing myself to ignore the things about Walker I can't explain. When Walker comes home and announces that he has another month trip on the oil rig, panic sets in. That is, until Colten shows up. Not wanting to shoo him away, I allows him to stay. What started out as an innocent visit is suddenly making me feel extremely confused. If Walker is the man that I’m destined to be with, why can't I stop thinking about Colten? Penny I’m ecstatic that Spencer has finally decided to reconcile with his daughters. So, we pack our bags and head to a small island town off the coast of North Carolina. Harmony Island is sweet and quaint and reminds me of Magnolia. However, once we get there, Spencer starts to pulls away. Our vacation turns dark and suddenly, Spencer wants nothing to do with me. I know he's dealing with his wife's death and estranged daughters and I’m trying to be patient, but nothing I do seems to appease Spencer. Especially when I mistakenly run into Abigail, Spencer’s youngest, and we hit it off. My intentions were innocent, but my execution was lacking. When Spencer discovers that I’ve gone behind his back, he tells me to leave. I want to stay and fight but Spencer is making it impossible to do so. If you love romances to curl your toes and small towns that make you want to move there, you'll love A Magnolia Adventure. Grab your copy today! Keywords: strong heroine, slow burn romance, contemporary romance, romance books, second chance romance, love after loss, womens fiction, clean romance, book series, small town romance, completed series, restoring inn, divorcee, starting over, new move in, grandmother, new friendships, bookclub, broken hero, forgiveness, second chance at love, wholesome romance, sweet romance, middle aged women, women over thirty, single woman fiction, best friends brother, family saga, family relationships, overcoming obstacles, cinnamon roll heroes, broken hero, older woman younger guy, grumpy sunshine, brothers best friend

Download or read book The Homecoming of Samuel Lake written by Jenny Wingfield and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café.

Download or read book A Magnolia Kiss written by Anne-Marie Meyer and published by Anne-Marie Meyer. This book was released on with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Rivals. A Proposed Bet. One Unforgettable Kiss I'm just trying to survive. The gelato shop my grandmother left me is struggling and I can't help but feel like a failure for letting things get this bad. When the annual fishing tournament starts up in Magnolia, I'm determined to win. My plan is perfect, until my rival shows up. Not only is he back in our hometown, but he's set up his fishing gear right next to me. Despite my efforts to ignore him, I can't help but be roped into his ridiculous proposition. If I win, he'll leave and never come back. And if I lose? A single kiss. Dive into this sweet, small town novella that is part of the Red Stiletto Book Club series. It can be read alone or between The Magnolia Inn and A Magnolia Homecoming for maximum enjoyment! Keywords: strong heroine, slow burn romance, contemporary romance, romance books, second chance romance, love after loss, womens fiction, clean romance, book series, small town romance, completed series, restoring inn, divorcee, starting over, new move in, grandmother, new friendships, bookclub, broken hero, forgiveness, second chance at love, wholesome romance, sweet romance, middle aged women, women over thirty, single woman fiction, best friends brother, family saga, family relationships, overcoming obstacles, cinnamon roll heroes, broken hero, older woman younger guy, grumpy sunshine

Download or read book A Magnolia Wedding written by Anne-Marie Meyer and published by Anne-Marie Meyer. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★★★ "The series just keeps building and bringing new characters and places into it, yet they're woven seamlessly into the existing landscape." -- Reviewer. All I wanted from Jackson was a job, but I got something more. I just hope that I'm enough of a reason for him to stay. Welcome to Magnolia Penny My life is falling apart. With my job on the line, I'm forced to return to the one place I swore I would never go back to: Magnolia. Now faced with my crumbling relationship with my daughter, it's up to me to attempt to rebuild what I broke so long ago. Wedding plans would be perfect for us to reconnect over--except they're not. Especially when I feel as if I am more of a nuisance than a help. That only feeds into my fears that my daughter will never want me in her life. My heart wants me to stay, but my head tells me to leave. Fiona I'm waiting for my court date to come around. In the meantime, I'm determined to find a job to help out my mother's struggling coffee shop. As luck would have it, Maggie knows of a recluse on the far end of the island who is looking for a housekeeper slash chef. Even though I'm not the greatest homemaker, I decide to give it a shot. Until I meet Jackson. He's dark. He's broody. And he has a secret that I can't quite figure out. As much as I want to walk away from him, I soon discover that there is more to him than meets the eye. He may want me to leave, but I'm determined to stay. If you love reading about a mother and daughter who find healing and a brooding hero who is more than he appears on the surface, you will love A Magnolia Wedding. Grab your copy today! Keywords: strong heroine, slow burn romance, contemporary romance, romance books, second chance romance, love after loss, womens fiction, clean romance, book series, small town romance, completed series, restoring inn, divorcee, starting over, new move in, grandmother, new friendships, bookclub, broken hero, forgiveness, second chance at love, wholesome romance, sweet romance, middle aged women, women over thirty, single woman fiction, best friends brother, family saga, family relationships, overcoming obstacles, cinnamon roll heroes, broken hero, older woman younger guy, grumpy sunshine

Download or read book A Magnolia Christmas written by Anne-Marie Meyer and published by Anne-Marie Meyer. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★★★ "I loved this series and hate to see it end!" --Amazon Reviewer Welcome to Magnolia Maggie It's Christmas time in Magnolia and I’m determined to mend the fissure between Spencer and Penny. So I come up with a plan: create a Christmas extravaganza for them to participate in. After all, who couldn’t fall in love during the Christmas holiday? Plus, focusing on someone else helps keep me from thinking about my own heartbreaks. All the women of the Red Stiletto book club join in to help. Some have found their happily ever afters. Some have hiccups of their own. Abigail I join in with Maggie’s plan and discover just what’s I’m missing at home. The women of magnolia have something I don’t have, a sisterhood and I’m left feeling determined to find a tribe of my own. Christmas holds a lot of magic, but is it enough to heal broken hearts and broken dreams? Enjoy the final book in the Red Stiletto Bookclub Series. Grab your copy today! Keywords: strong heroine, slow burn romance, contemporary romance, romance books, second chance romance, love after loss, womens fiction, clean romance, book series, small town romance, completed series, restoring inn, divorcee, starting over, new move in, grandmother, new friendships, bookclub, broken hero, forgiveness, second chance at love, wholesome romance, sweet romance, middle aged women, women over thirty, single woman fiction, best friends brother, family saga, family relationships, overcoming obstacles, cinnamon roll heroes, broken hero, older woman younger guy, grumpy sunshine, holiday romance, coming home for the holidays, christmas

Download or read book Curtain Call for Murder written by Denise Grover Swank and published by DGS. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth and final book in the USA Today bestselling Magnolia Steele Mystery series. Magnolia Steele has nothing left to lose. Her once-beloved father has been unmasked as a criminal, her mother is dead, and her two closest allies—her boyfriend and her sister-in-law—have broken her trust. Worse, the serial killer who has tormented her since her return to Franklin has escalated his behavior. Everyone around her encourages her to run away or hide, but Magnolia is determined to stand her ground. She intends to identify the serial killer herself, even if she has to burn every last bridge to do it. Her one lead is the apparent link between her father and the murders. Unsure of whom to trust, she forms a temporary alliance with a detective who’s on the outs with the Franklin police force. Together, they dig into the past for clues, but Magnolia doesn’t limit herself to secondary sources. Her father is still in town, very intent on a reunion, and her brother might finally be ready to talk about their shared past… As the situation escalates, Magnolia discovers that she has inherited her mother’s steel backbone. It will help her distinguish friend from foe, and it might just be her best hope for surviving her curtain call.

Download or read book The Magnolia Sword written by Sherry Thomas and published by Sherry Thomas. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHINA, 484 A.D. A Warrior in Disguise All her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated decades earlier, and avenge her father, who was paralyzed in his own duel. Then a messenger from the Emperor arrives, demanding that all families send one soldier to fight the Rouran invaders in the north. Mulan’s father cannot go. Her brother is just a child. So she ties up her hair, takes up her sword, and joins the army as a man. A War for a Dynasty Thanks to her martial arts skills, Mulan is chosen for an elite team under the command of the princeling—the royal duke’s son, who is also the handsomest man she’s ever seen. But the princeling has secrets of his own, which explode into Mulan’s life and shake up everything she knows. As they cross the Great Wall to face the enemy beyond, Mulan and the princeling must find a way to unwind their past, unmask a traitor, and uncover the plans for the Rouran invasion…before it’s too late. Inspired by wuxia martial-arts dramas as well as the centuries-old ballad of Mulan, The Magnolia Sword is a thrilling, romantic, and sharp-edged novel that lives up to its beloved heroine.

Download or read book When the Emperor Was Divine written by Julie Otsuka and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times. On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.

Download or read book A Magnolia Move in written by Anne-Marie Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Magnolia. Penny is settling in on Magnolia Island. As the new owner of Magnolia Daily, she's determined to make the most of her new investment. Nothing is going to get in her way. That is, until her rental floods and she's forced to find another place. Wanting to allow her daughter her own autonomy, Penny discovers there is a room for rent. Everything seems perfect until she realizes that it's in the home of Spencer--the quiet, brooding mechanic at Clementine's hardware store. But, it shouldn't be a problem, she has her paper to run. Love isn't on her mind... until it is. Naomi is fairly certain her life couldn't get any lower. After a car accident that leaves her in a wheel chair with a broken hip and leg, Jackson forces her to move in with him. Even though she's a grown woman, she's at the mercy of her big brother. This wasn't the life she had planned for herself. Determined that Magnolia is just a stop on the road to healing, she keeps to herself despite the fact that the Red Stiletto Book Club seems to be everywhere. They are a nice group of women but Naomi has a secret she wants to keep a secret. No matter how insistent these women are or how lonely she feels, Magnolia isn't her home. And it never will be. - Cover.

Download or read book Sparring Partners written by John Grisham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America’s favorite storyteller has several surprises in store. “Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the courtroom. He’s called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again—until now. Now Mack is back, and he’s leaning on his old pals, Jake and Harry Rex, to help him return. His homecoming does not go as planned. In “Strawberry Moon,” we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. His lawyers can’t save him, the courts slam the door, and the governor says no to a last-minute request for clemency. As the clock winds down, Cody has one final request. The “Sparring Partners” are the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison. Kirk and Rusty loathe each other, and speak to each other only when necessary. As the firm disintegrates, the resulting fiasco falls into the lap of Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust. Can she save the Malloys, or does she take a stand for the first time in her career and try to save herself? By turns suspenseful, hilarious, powerful, and moving, these are three of the greatest stories John Grisham has ever told. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

Download or read book Homegoing written by Yaa Gyasi and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION • Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.

Download or read book Pilgrimage to Dollywood written by Helen Morales and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A star par excellence, Dolly Parton is one of country music’s most likable personalities. Even a hard-rocking punk or orchestral aesthete can’t help cracking a smile or singing along with songs like “Jolene” and “9 to 5.” More than a mere singer or actress, Parton is a true cultural phenomenon, immediately recognizable and beloved for her talent, tinkling laugh, and steel magnolia spirit. She is also the only female star to have her own themed amusement park: Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Every year thousands of fans flock to Dollywood to celebrate the icon, and Helen Morales is one of those fans. In Pilgrimage to Dollywood, Morales sets out to discover Parton’s Tennessee. Her travels begin at the top celebrity pilgrimage site of Elvis Presley’s Graceland, then take her to Loretta Lynn’s ranch in Hurricane Mills; the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville; to Sevierville, Gatlinburg, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; and finally to Pigeon Forge, home of the “Dolly Homecoming Parade,” featuring the star herself as grand marshall. Morales’s adventure allows her to compare the imaginary Tennessee of Parton’s lyrics with the real Tennessee where the singer grew up, looking at essential connections between country music, the land, and a way of life. It’s also a personal pilgrimage for Morales. Accompanied by her partner, Tony, and their nine-year-old daughter, Athena (who respectively prefer Mozart and Miley Cyrus), Morales, a recent transplant from England, seeks to understand America and American values through the celebrity sites and attractions of Tennessee. This celebration of Dolly and Americana is for anyone with an old country soul who relies on music to help understand the world, and it is guaranteed to make a Dolly Parton fan of anyone who has not yet fallen for her music or charisma.