From his abusive, alcoholic father to the townspeople who treat him as if hes cut from the same cloth, to the insecurities that fill his own head, nothing Alec ever does is good enough.
"e;The Gift of the Magi"e; is a short story, about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
After losing her parents in a fatal accident, Marin must step at once into their shoes: her mothers to take care of her brother, John; her fathers to run the advertising agency he founded.
When quiet graduate student Becky Chandler dresses up as an elderly woman to research her thesis, she finds herself more outgoing and talkative, especially with her newfound friend, Myrtle Watson.
Beth Bridgewater, a German American, finds herself in a nightmare as World War II erupts-a war in which she takes no side, for she is a Quaker pacifist.
New York Pastor Clint Winwood is still trying to recover from tragedy after losing his wife and young children in a murder/suicide when Reverend Hickory Peck invites him to rural Alabama.
As a young woman in rural Jamaica, Dupree struggles to maintain a home for herself and the ailing aunt who is raising her after she was abandoned by her teenage mother.
