East Texas, 1916 In the great mansions of Houston Avenue, Howbutker, live the town's founding families: Toliver, Warwick and DuMont. Over generations they have settled their differences by exchanging roses: a red rose to ask for forgiveness and a white rose to accept. But when precocious teenager Ma[...]

Devoted readers of Leila Meacham will devour this long, juicy page-turner. TUMBLEWEEDS is the story of three young friends-the saint, the sinner, and the angel-growing up together in the sort of small Texas Panhandle town that lives and dies by its Friday night football games. A fateful event casts [...]

One hundred fifty years of Roses' Tolivers, Warwicks, and DuMonts We begin in the antebellum South on Plantation Alley in South Carolina, where Silas Toliver, deprived of his inheritance, joins up with his best friend Jeremy Warwick to plan a wagon train expedition to the "black waxy" promise of a [...]

Nostalginen sukuromaani tulvillaan etelävaltioiden ajatonta viehätystä. Mukaansatempaava kertomus intohimosta, katumuksesta, anteeksiannosta ja palavasta rakkaudesta, jota traagisimmatkaan vastoinkäymiset eivät kykene sammuttamaan.Mary Toliver DuMont on elänyt 85 vuotta Itä-Texasissa omistaut[...]