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A seemingly ordinary 14-year-old boy discovers he has the ability to talk with animals and they with him. It is not at all like Dr. Doolittle. Hamish learns he is a Speaker, one in a centuries-long tradition of rare individuals who have the ability to talk with animals, and who emerge when the world is confronted by extraordinary crises. But Hamish doesn’t know what crisis he has been called to address, and not even the animals he speaks to have the answers for him. Speaker is a coming-of-age story about overcoming grief and letting go.

Davy Wallace is a talented, troubled artist struggling to overcome a traumatic childhood as he steps into the void of life after college. Eventually, he finds compassion in the form of a local high school teacher Rob Walsh, who is grieving his own deep loss. Together, Davy and Rob find their way toward healing, in this coming-of-age novel set in North Carolina.

What do you do when your once charmed life falls to pieces? Karsen Woods's life seems charmed, from her hunkalicious boyfriend to her picture-perfect Midwestern roots. Away at college, even the necklace she wears serves as a constant connection home - a family tradition created when her grandfather handmade each immediate relative an interlinking charm. Each piece crafted in the shape of a puzzle piece, each one interlinking perfectly together.