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Secrets of Worry Dolls will make you laugh, cry, and, in the end, leave you completely spellbound. It is easily one of my favorite books of the year!”
-Kristy Woodson Harvey, best-selling author of Dear Carolina and
Lies and Other Acts of Love
NOMINEE FOR THE INDIES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD (FICTION-MULTICULTURAL)
NOMINEE FOR THE IBPA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD (FICTION-COVER DESIGN)
“[A] story of redemption and rebirth in the midst of loss. Author Impellizzeri creates a haunting story of the past that can bind and the courage to break free.”-Booklist
“Secrets of Worry Dolls finds its way to an earned ending true to its characters, and to the world events that exact influence on them. Impellizzeri does well with the
small details that make her characters feel like real people. This is a strong and memorable work of fiction.” -Foreword Reviews (*Editor’s Pick*)
“Complex layers…fast-paced…a novel of grief, love, and truth.” –Kirkus Reviews
“Spanning decades and continents, Secrets of Worry Dolls is a heartbreaking story about the ripple effect of our choices and the sometimes tragic consequence of survival. Mari and Lu will capture your imagination and your heart, and with Impellizzeri’s signature magical touch, keep you
flipping pages well into the night.”
–Kate Moretti, New York Times best-selling author of The Vanishing Year
“A truly original book – told with grace and style. Lu and Mari are vivid characters whose intertwining stories will move and surprise you.” –Sarah Pekkanen, Internationally best-selling author of The Opposite of Me
“In Secrets of Worry Dolls, masterful storyteller Amy Impellizzeri interweaves the tales of Mari and Lu to create an unforgettable, tender portrayal of mother – daughter relationships, love, and hope.” –Cynthia Swanson, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of The Bookseller: A Novel
“With heart, humor and her signature touch of magic, Amy Impellizzeri brings to life
the tale of a mother and daughter each facing all together extraordinary circumstances. Secrets of Worry Dolls will make you laugh, cry, and, in the end, leave you completely spellbound. It is easily
one of my favorite books of the year!”
--Kristy Woodson Harvey, best-selling author of Dear Carolina and
Lies and Other Acts of Love
“Amy Impellizzeri’s Secrets of Worry Dolls is a vivid and powerful story, infused with a lot of heart and pluck. Told in alternating perspectives—mother Mari and daughter Lu—we’re swept away by this tale of self-discovery, which explores the role of fate, the power of secrets, and ultimately, the importance of forgiveness. It’s a story that won’t let you go, even after that last page is turned. I loved this book.” – Karma Brown, bestselling author of Come Away With Me and The Choices We Make
“Tender, touching, and engagingly layered, Secrets of Worry Dolls paints a nuanced portrait of one family’s struggle to deal with loss. Amy Impellizzeri clearly knows her way around the human heart.” --Camille Pagan, bestselling author of Life and Other Near-Death Experiences
“In Secrets of Worry Dolls, Mari and Lu, mother and daughter, are separated by an abyss created by misgivings, long-held secrets and tragedies almost too great to bear. Every daughter will recognize the pull of self-discovery and every mother will feel the tension between who she must be as a parent and who she is destined to be as an autonomous person. Stirring, intricate and full of surprises, this story will propel readers forward through the twists of fortune in the lives of these two women, torn apart yet forever linked, not simply by fate and blood, but by true compassion–and a sprinkling of magic.” –Sonja Yoerg, author of House Broken and Middle of Somewhere
“Exquisite and heartrending . . . Be warned: Secrets Of Worry Dolls will sweep you into an irresistible current of heartbreak that stretches from the Semuc Champey pools of Guatemala to the fictional town of Rock Harbor, New York; a current in which those who don’t drown learn that being a survivor is the cruelest chance of all.” –Scott Wilbanks, award-winning author of The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster
“Secrets of Worry Dolls, much like the mother-daughter relationship at the heart of the novel, explores themes of past and present, home and away, hope and loss, in a masterful way that kept me thinking about and rooting for characters Mari and Lu long after I’d read the last page.” –Susan Gloss, author of Vintage
“From New York to Guatemala, from modern day to decades past, from truth to secrets and back again, Secrets of Worry Dolls tells two compelling stories at once. A plane crash starts the story off and forgiveness and truth ends it. In between you’ll grow to love Lu and Mari and wish for your very own Worry Doll.” – Cathy Lamb, author of The Language of Sisters
Lemongrass Hope, about love, time travel, and what lasts, is haunting, mesmerizing and unforgettable.”
-Caroline Leavitt, New York Times Best-Selling Author
2014 INDIEFAB BOOK OF THE YEAR BRONZE WINNER (ROMANCE)
2014 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST (ROMANCE)
2015 READERS’ FAVORITE BRONZE WINNER (WOMEN’S FICTION)
#1 REVIEWED BOOK IN 2014 – THE LITERARY CONNOISSEUR
“Lemongrass Hope is that fine and fresh thing – a truly new story …. Amy Impellizzeri is a bold and tender writer, who makes the impossible feel not only real, but strangely familiar.”
-Jacquelyn Mitchard,
New York Times #1 Best-Selling Author
“A layered, bittersweet romance that questions consequences and explores second chances.”
-Kirkus Reviews
“Lemongrass Hope, about love, time travel, and what lasts, is haunting, mesmerizing and unforgettable.”
-Caroline Leavitt,
New York Times Best-Selling Author
“Those looking for magical realism won’t have far to go, as Amy Impellizzeri’s Lemongrass Hope (Wyatt-MacKenzie, Oct.) is already earning a spot on many to-read lists. With Jacquelyn Mitchard singling it out as a fresh new story, this debut explores love through time-bending layers and ordinary connections.”
-Library Journal
“What a GREAT story … [Amy Impellizzeri] really honed in on a primal longing in this modern-day world that I think is deep within many of us.”
-Amanda Mininger, Author, Touch
“Amy Impellizzeri has crafted a heartbreaking story of choices. Compelling, thought-provoking, and filled with enchantment, Lemongrass Hope takes you through magical waters, and leaves you wondering about your own second chances.”
-Karen Brown, Author, The Longings of Wayward Girls
2014 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST (ROMANCE)
2015 READERS’ FAVORITE BRONZE WINNER (WOMEN’S FICTION)
#1 REVIEWED BOOK IN 2014 – THE LITERARY CONNOISSEUR
“Lemongrass Hope is that fine and fresh thing – a truly new story …. Amy Impellizzeri is a bold and tender writer, who makes the impossible feel not only real, but strangely familiar.”
-Jacquelyn Mitchard,
New York Times #1 Best-Selling Author
“A layered, bittersweet romance that questions consequences and explores second chances.”
-Kirkus Reviews
“Lemongrass Hope, about love, time travel, and what lasts, is haunting, mesmerizing and unforgettable.”
-Caroline Leavitt,
New York Times Best-Selling Author
“Those looking for magical realism won’t have far to go, as Amy Impellizzeri’s Lemongrass Hope (Wyatt-MacKenzie, Oct.) is already earning a spot on many to-read lists. With Jacquelyn Mitchard singling it out as a fresh new story, this debut explores love through time-bending layers and ordinary connections.”
-Library Journal
“What a GREAT story … [Amy Impellizzeri] really honed in on a primal longing in this modern-day world that I think is deep within many of us.”
-Amanda Mininger, Author, Touch
“Amy Impellizzeri has crafted a heartbreaking story of choices. Compelling, thought-provoking, and filled with enchantment, Lemongrass Hope takes you through magical waters, and leaves you wondering about your own second chances.”
-Karen Brown, Author, The Longings of Wayward Girls
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Can someone be addicted to social media? Thea is. At least that’s why she’s in rehab. But the counselor has a secret that may top—or topple—Thea’s…
Will, a recovering heroin addict-turned-counselor for whom truth
is a championed element to recovery, has a dark secret—shared with no one outside of his anonymous AA meetings. Over twenty years ago, after an ultimatum from his pregnant ex-wife, Will was forced to assume a new identity and to fake his own death to get out from under his dealer and user-friends once and for all.
Now Will is counseling Thea, a young woman who has been diagnosed with a pathological addiction to creating fake social media identities, and who founded a start-up company (“Alibis”) that created false internet identities for clients, many with suspect pasts. Thea’s addiction has landed her in rehab as a condition of her parole—after a plea bargain cut short a court case that would have put both Thea and Alibis on trial for a very high-profile crime.
As Will counsels Thea, the past is on a collision course with the present.
Both Will’s, and his young client’s, fast-held secrets start to unravel...
and reveal, at long last,
the truth about Thea.