Mainstream / Literary
by Dianna Dann
Lenore Hawn lives in a cocoon, surrounded by her hoard.When her young neighbor, Hannah, agrees to help her find something lost in the piles of junk she’s crammed into every free space of her house, she thinks she might finally be able to release the guilt and shame that has tormented her all these years. The last thing seventeen-year-old Hannah wants is to dig through mounds of stinky trash in Mrs. Hawn’s house. But for that kind of money...it’ll be worth it. And what the old lady doesn’t know can’t hurt her. After all, she’s already dying... Two women. Two secrets. One road to redemption.
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by Dianna Dann
It was always Magnolia; Only Magnolia would do. A love story for the fractured and broken... Bobby Jack Beaumont has been forgetting for as long as Magnolia has known him. It was easy to let him do it--nobody wanted to remember those things. Now he's out in the scrub by the railroad tracks, lost and empty. He's forgotten all of it--everything. Even Magnolia. If she reminds him, if she tells it just so...they can fix the past and he'll come home again. But not every bad thing can be fixed by telling a different story.
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by Dianna Dann
A haunting coming-of-age story of depression, alcoholism, suicide, and hope...spiced with a touch of wit.
"Camelia...isn't here."
"What would Camelia think about that?"
I wanted to tell Dr. Crazy that I couldn't be bothered with what Camelia would think, or want, or do. But every time I practiced the speech I crawled further inside what was left of my wilted, frayed cocoon and tried to block out the light. I'd betrayed her. I'd betrayed us both.
April MacMillan is drunk, standing on the roof of Three River Terrace seven stories up, ready to jump to her death, when she remembers Camelia.
Will the truth about Camelia save her? Or will it lead her back to the roof?
Dianna Dann "has taken the reader on a ride through that inner world, a richly detailed one that stays with the reader long after the book is done."
-- Judge, 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
Nov 5, 2014
"Camelia has stolen my heart...one of the best books I've ever read."
-- The Literary Connoisseur
Oct 22, 2013