Lydia's Party

Lydia's Party
Author: Margaret Hawkins
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2014-01-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101635444

An exquisite and profound tale for fans of Anne Tyler and Anna Quindlen Glowingly reviewed everywhere from O, The Oprah Magazine and Good Housekeeping to sites across the blogosphere, Lydia’s Party sparks “a-ha” moments and heartfelt conversations about friendship, regrets, and ambitions. Margaret Hawkins’s earlier books, all published by small presses, have gained her a devoted following, but this gem of a novel will introduce her to the wider audience she deserves. Lydia is hosting her “Bleak Midwinter Bash,” a late Christmas party that has become an annual tradition. Her guests—six friends who bonded twenty years ago over art, dogs, and their budding careers and romances—think they know everything about one another, but tonight Lydia prepares to shock them with a devastating announcement.

Lydia's Journey

Lydia's Journey
Author: Katherine Covell
Publisher: Somewhat Grumpy Press Inc.
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2023-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1738799816

Ten-year-old Lydia's life is upended in 1915 when soldiers storm her village at the start of the Armenian Genocide. Separated from her parents and younger brother, Lydia is marched from her home in Zeitun, through the desert, and into Syria. She's sold into slavery, and endures years of captivity. When her orphanage arranges her marriage, she emigrates to England, only to find herself in London during the World War II bombing. Inspired by family history and supported by extensive research, Lydia' story is a harrowing but ultimately reassuring story of resilience, faith, and survival.

Lydia's Hope

Lydia's Hope
Author: Marta Perry
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593198344

An Amish woman is shocked when she learns of the siblings she never knew existed in the first Lost Sisters of Pleasant Valley novel. With no memory of her birth parents, or the tragic accident that took their lives, Lydia Beachy has always been grateful for the aunt and uncle who took her in and raised her as their own. Now a married woman with two sons, Lydia finds her life turned upside down when she discovers that she has two younger sisters: Susanna, who was adopted by an Amish family in another community, and Chloe, who was raised by their grandmother among the Englisch. Angry and confused, Lydia first seeks out Susanna but stops short of telling her the truth. To track down Chloe, she enlists the help of a neighbor who has spent some years in the Englisch world. Meanwhile, Lydia’s husband, Adam, is keeping a secret of his own. Lydia yearns to be united with the sisters she has never known, but will revealing herself to them tear their lives apart...or enrich them beyond all imagining?

Lydia's Charm

Lydia's Charm
Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1634092988

Visit Amish Country during the fall as Lydia King attempts to make Charm, Ohio, feel like home after losing her husband. But is her heart ready to open back up to love when gifts appear on her porch from a mystery source? Could it be from the widowed father of four energetic boys, or is it from the man who has rejected romance to be his family’s caregiver? Find the answers in this signature edition of a beloved title from a New York Times bestselling author that includes history of the Amish of Charm, recipes, photos, and a bookmark.

Lydia's Awakening

Lydia's Awakening
Author: Suzanne Muir
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2024-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Leaning against the white pillar of the office building, she sees the woman standing near the far end of the long porch. Lydia has seen her before, and these frequent sightings are becoming a concern to her. The woman never approaches, just stares. During Lydia's twenty-six years of life, there has been doubt and puzzlement that has filtered in her private life for as long as she can remember. Her parents always seemed to have guarded looks, then would quickly look away. What was wrong? And now there seems to be a woman following her. Questions that pop into Lydia's head never get a solid answer. As a child, Lydia had happenings within the structure of her parents' lives. She just tried to accept them as they were and not cause trouble. She knew that she could always trust her dad but never had that same secure feeling about her mother. A child accepts family problems as just being the normal for them. Up until recently, Lydia has tried not to dwell on the strange feelings or questions within her mind, about the tension, just hoping it does not involve her. But a hint of uncomfortable doubt or uneasiness lingers. In America, we are made up of mixtures of diversities of culture and ways of life. Breeding and background rarely rears its ugly head as we become adults. Finding our own roots and knowing from whom we are descended is often just a passing interest. Such knowledge can be enlightening at times or can be a little fearful. Lydia comes face-to-face with a prejudice attitude, forcing her to see the damage that can be inflicted on another human being. Will she have to dig deep into her own beginnings for her own peace of mind?

Lydia's Life

Lydia's Life
Author: Ida Nelle Daily Hollaway
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 677
Release: 2006-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1597819271

Lydia's Child

Lydia's Child
Author: Kirychenko Valentine
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1618971212

This is the amazing true story of the struggle and survival of the author's family, caught up in the upheavals of World War I, the Russian revolution, Communist rule, and World War II.Valentine Kirychenko's mother, Lydia, and Lydia's family were sent to Siberia at the start of WWI. While returning home after the war ended, eight-year-old Lydia and her two sisters become separated from their mother, Louiza. The girls grow up in the chaos of the Stalin regime, facing oppression, starvation, with death always threatening. During WWII, Lydia and her husband, Ivan, struggle to protect the family during the German occupation. Lydia finally finds her mother and they became reunited. But then the family is taken to Germany to work as slave labor in the munitions factories, enduring unrelenting bombing raids until the factory is destroyed. They manage to find jobs in a village, finally safe until the war's end. After four years in a refugee camp post-war, Ivan moves his loved ones to Australia, beginning a new life far from war-ravaged Europe. Here they grow and prosper in a safe and happy environment. Even when ordinary people are buffeted by forces beyond their control, they can do extraordinary things.

Lydia’s Blue Rolls-Royce

Lydia’s Blue Rolls-Royce
Author: Dennis F. Killeen
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2022-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 166982585X

Lydia was just trying to get her wealthy husband to stop cheating on her, when he upped and threw her out into the streets of Miami. She grabbed clothes, a hidden stash of money, her pistol and took off in her Blue Rolls Royce. The Rolls was a gift from her husband before they were married, but he wanted it back – at all costs. Lydia hid the Blue Rolls Royce at a farm in north Florida where she and her friends stashed the spoils of a caper many years ago. She then played hide and seek with the PI firm her husband hired to find her and the Rolls Royce. Lincoln Hightower was sitting on the beach on Marco Island when his penchant for attractive, rich women focused on a blond, svelte Lydia walking off the beach to the resort hotel where he was staying. Little did he realize that engaging this blond was going to change his life.