Bøger af Trudy J Morgan-Cole

Where do you go when you don't know where to go? What do you get when you have no idea what you want? Megan Cross is having a quarter-life crisis. She's always been the good girl - good student, good daughter, good girlfriend right up until she got dumped. Now she's twenty-three, flunking out of grad school, and has no idea what she wants to do next. It's the perfect time to take a road trip. Megan leaves St. John's, Newfoundland, with her friends Andrew and Jonathan, heading for California. Andrew can't wait to rush headlong into the next adventure; Jonathan would prefer not to leave his desk chair if he can help it, never mind leaving the country. As for Megan, she's just hoping to figure out where to go next -- and maybe find love along the way.

Jeff Evans never believed that your life flashes in front of your eyes right before you die. But now, with a tractor-trailer heading towards his car on the wrong side of the highway, he realizes there might be something to that idea after all.His memory rewinds to the summer he was fourteen, hanging out at church camp with four close friends. Twenty-five years later, those four friends are living wildly diverse lives. From a rat-infested downtown boarding house filled with drunks and addicts, to a picture-perfect Christian family that hides a dark secret: Dave, Liz, Julie and Katie are in such different places, it's hard to imagine what could ever bring them together again - except a tragedy.They grew up in a world where God was in control and the rules were straightforward. But the conservative church that provided a firm foundation for some turned out to be a constricting cage for others. All that connects them now are the friendships they formed in their teens - friendships that still have the power to change their lives. In the wake of Jeff's accident, each of his friends is forced to re-examine their past and how it led them to where they are today. It might too late to save Jeff - but can Dave, Julie, Liz, and Katie still save themselves?

This dramatic conclusion to a trilogy foregrounds the experiences of women settlers in North America as they grapple with notions of homeland, colonization, and sense of belonging.A Company of Rogues completes the Cupids trilogy, moving the action back to the New Found Land seven years after John Guy's colonists first settled Cupids Cove. After their wanderings across the ocean, Ned and Nancy are united-but will the shores of New Found Land provide a permanent home? Kathryn and Nicholas Guy join the effort to found a second colony at Bristol's Hope, but their work is threatened by a shadowy enemy who holds a dangerous power over Kathryn. And a newcomer to the colony, the Wampanoag traveller Tisquantum, settles among the English colonists, challenging their beliefs about the New World they have come to settle and the people who call it home.

Colonists come face to face with Indigenous Americans, enslaved Africans, and pirates as they struggle to build a life in North America. Such Miracles and Mischiefs, the second book in the Cupids trilogy, adventures across the first three English colonies in the Americas--Newfoundland, Virginia, and Bermuda--and highlights women's colonial experience. After pirates attack the Guy family's plantation near Cupids, Nancy Ellis needs all her ingenuity to survive in the hands of lawless men. Ned Perry crosses the ocean to find her, while Nancy's employer and friend, Kathryn Guy, must rebuild a home on the harsh shores of the New Found Land.

"In 1610, John Guy established a small colony in Cupids, Newfoundland, on the very edge of a world unknown to Europeans. Two years later, he brought a shipment of supplies to his all-male settlement: 70 goats, 10 heifers, 2 bulls, and 16 women. [This novel] tells the story of some of these nameless women by tracing the journeys of three young people--Ned Perry, Nancy Ellis, and Kathryn Gale--who leave Bristol, England, for a life in the struggling community"--Provided by publisher.

For decades, the Holloways have operated a convenience store in the working-class neighborhood of Rabbittown in St. John's, and every customer has a story. In a vibrant, contemporary family saga, filled with idiosyncratic characters, Trudy Morgan-Cole tells the tale of three generations of Holloway women--Ellen, Audrey, and Rachel--their loves and their livelihood in times of great change. Most Anything You Please captures the spirit of a community and the women who hold it together, revealing the bonds that break and the ties that bind.