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If you are looking for poignant, serious, often edgy novels, short stories and conversations about some of the toughest issues facing the world today, you’ve found your place. Feel free to browse, comment and help us learn.
Alice’s latest novel The Life That She Wanted

Being a mother isn’t easy, especially when you never wanted to be one.
Nora became a wife and mother at age eighteen, long before she planned.
Now she finds that fulfilling society’s expectations in a rapidly changing world is much more difficult than she ever anticipated.
After losing a friend to domestic violence, Nora helps start a shelter to protect other women, and she struggles to balance her passionate activism with her duties as a parent.
As she deals with constant guilt and confusion from conflicting priorities, Nora discovers the solace and support that only good friends can provide.
They add the love and balance that she needs after her marriage ends.
When her daughter gives birth to a baby girl, Nora becomes a grandmother and finds more joy and wonder than she ever dreamed possible.
Alice collaborated with her granddaughter, Greta, on Trapped in a Tablet, a middle-grade novel.

While searching through her grandma’s dusty attic, Dinah finds herself uncovering a mystery. Locked away inside a tablet is ten-year-old Lonnie, who is dying to break free. Teaming up with her BFF Lily, Dinah dives into a thrilling mission to reboot Lonnie’s life. Along the way, the trio uncovers epic lessons about friendship, forgiveness, and what family really means. Will they crack the code to set Lonnie free?
Alice also collaborated with her granddaughter, Genevieve on a Young Adult novel, Nana Was a Bootlegger

Seventeen-year-old Ellie thought her biggest problems were her best friend moving away and the looming chemistry test, until an afternoon at her grandmother’s house led her to discover a long-lost journal.
Through a sudden twist of fate, Ellie is pulled through a mysterious rip in the time-space continuum and dropped into a smoky speakeasy in 1924 run by her great-great-grandmother, Nancy. In her new reality, Ellie must navigate a threatening world of gangsters, bootleggers, and family truths where not everyone is who they appear to be.
As the lines between past and present begin to fracture, will Ellie be able to save Nancy and find her way home?
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