Cathy Lamb Books In Order

Cedar Key Books In Publication Order

  1. Spinning Forward (By:Terri DuLong) (2009)
  2. Casting About (By:Terri DuLong) (2010)
  3. Holiday Magic (With: Fern Michaels,Mary Carter,Terri DuLong) (2010)
  4. Sunrise on Cedar Key (By:Terri DuLong) (2011)
  5. Postcards from Cedar Key (By:Terri DuLong) (2012)
  6. Secrets on Cedar Key (By:Terri DuLong) (2013)
  7. Farewell to Cedar Key (By:Terri DuLong) (2014)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Julia’s Chocolates (2007)
  2. The Last Time I Was Me (2008)
  3. Henry’s Sisters (2009)
  4. Such a Pretty Face (2010)
  5. The First Day of the Rest of My Life (2011)
  6. A Different Kind of Normal (2012)
  7. If You Could See What I See (2013)
  8. What I Remember Most (2014)
  9. My Very Best Friend (2015)
  10. The Language of Sisters (2016)
  11. No Place I’d Rather Be (2017)
  12. The Man She Married (2018)
  13. All About Evie (2019)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. A Very Merry Christmas (2016)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Comfort and Joy (2007)
  2. Almost Home (2009)
  3. Holiday Magic (2010)
  4. You’re Still the One (2013)

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Cathy Lamb Books Overview

Spinning Forward (By:Terri DuLong)

Sydney Webster’s comfortable New England life comes crashing down when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her penniless and evicted. She had no idea about his huge gambling debts, and is getting no sympathy from her hurt and angry twenty something daughter. With nowhere else to turn, Sydney takes shelter at a college friend’s B&B in Cedar key, Florida, where she begins to form a plan. As Syd turns her talent at spinning wool and knitting into a retail venture, other doors begin to open. She steps into the embrace of a community rich with love, laughter, friendship…
and secrets. And soon she faces a choice: spin a safety net, or spin forward and never look back. Entertaining and heart warming, this superb debut will win readers over with its real life challenges and quirky and compelling characters.

Casting About (By:Terri DuLong)

In this beautifully crafted and uplifting novel, the author of the acclaimed Spinning Forward welcomes readers back to the lush Florida island of Cedar Key, where the vibrant shades of hibiscus and azaleas are the perfect backdrop to a colorful, quirky community…
In the four years since Monica Brooks moved to Cedar Key, she’s found a home, a husband, and now a business to love. Taking over her mother’s bustling knitting shop is a welcome challenge, but Monica’s exciting plans are waylaid by unexpected news. Her husband’s ex wife has been deemed an unfit mother, and custody of their eight year old daughter, Clarissa, is to be transferred to Adam. Going straight from honeymoon to motherhood especially when she’s unsure she wants children leaves the normally even keeled Monica doubting herself at every turn. Yet in a place like Cedar Key, nobody goes it alone. With help from friends and relatives, Monica, Clarissa, and Adam begin to forge a close knit family of their own one that will need to be strong enough to withstand all the surprises set to unravel…
Praise for Spinning Forward ‘Poignant, absorbing, humorous…
a debut that tugs at the heart.’ Sophia Nash, author of A Dangerous Beauty ‘Captures the essence of what often lies in each of our hearts. Don’t miss it!’ J.L. Miles, author of Cold Rock River ‘Like a lazy island summer…
a story of secrets and loss, friendship and recovery, and rediscovered love.’ Laura Castoro, author of Love on the Line

Holiday Magic (With: Fern Michaels,Mary Carter,Terri DuLong)

Mistletoe, magic, twinkling lights, and stolen kisses…
Experience all the wonders of the holiday season with these four irresistible stories…
‘Holiday Magic’ by Fern MichaelsSki shop manager Stephanie Marshall is counting on a holiday bonus so she can put a down payment on a home for herself and her daughters. But her handsome boss, Eddie O’Brien, has his own Christmas wish one that could lead to a lifetime of loving…
‘A Very Merry Christmas’ by Cathy LambMeredith Ghirlandaio’s to do list is already overflowing, between keeping her B&B afloat, directing the town’s holiday concert, and trying to avoid rancher Logan Taylor. Doesn’t he know Meredith’s through with men even rugged, alpha, drop dead gorgeous men? Then again, some vows were meant to be broken…
‘A Very Maui Christmas’ by Mary CarterTara Lane has the perfect plan to avoid another hellish family holiday fly to Maui. Too bad her family decided to follow suit. But a laid back handyman is about to prove you don’t need snow to have a sparkling, sexy Christmas…
‘A Cedar Key Christmas’ by Terri DuLong Single mom Josie Sullivan is proud of her young daughter, Orli, for helping local fisherman Mr. Al restore his crumbling home. And when Mr. Al’s nephew, Ben, pays a visit, Josie realizes just how much Christmas magic one good deed can bring…

Julia’s Chocolates

From the moment Julia Bennett leaves her abusive Boston fiance at the altar and her ugly wedding dress hanging from a tree in South Dakota, she knows she’s driving away from the old Julia, but what she’s driving toward is as messy and undefined as her own wounded soul. The old Julia dug her way out of a tortured, trailer park childhood with a monster of a mother. The new Julia will be found at her Aunt Lydia’s rambling, hundred year old farmhouse outside Golden, Oregon. There, among uppity chickens and toilet bowl planters, Julia is welcomed by an eccentric, warm, and often wise clan of women, including a psychic, a minister’s unhappy wife, an abused mother of four, and Aunt Lydia herself a woman who is as fierce and independent as they come. Meeting once a week for drinks and the baring of souls, it becomes clear that every woman holds secrets that keep her from happiness. But what will it take for them to brave becoming their true selves? For Julia, it’s chocolate. All her life, baking has been her therapy and her refuge, a way to heal wounds and make friends. Nobody anywhere makes chocolates as good as Julia’s, and now, chocolate just might change her life and bring her love when she least expects it. But it can’t keep her safe. As Julia gradually opens her heart to new life, new friendships, and a new man, the past is catching up to her. And this time, she will not be able to run but will have to face it head on.

The Last Time I Was Me

I wrapped up my grandmother’s tea cup collection and my mother’s china, then grabbed a violin I’d hidden way back in my closet that made me cry, a gold necklace with a dolphin that my father gave me two weeks before he died of a heart attack when I was twelve and, at midnight, with that moon as bright as the blazes, I left Chicago. When Jeanne Stewart stops at The Opera Man’s Cafe in Weltana, Oregon, to eat pancakes for the first time in twelve years, she has no idea she’s also about to order up a whole new future. It’s been barely a week since she succumbed to a spectacularly public nervous breakdown in front of hundreds of the nation’s most important advertising and PR people. Jeanne certainly had her reasons her mother’s recent death, the discovery that her boyfriend had been sleeping with a dozen other women, and the assault charges that resulted when Jeanne retaliated in a creative way against him, involving condoms and peanut oil.

Now, en route to her brother’s house in Portland, Jeanne impulsively decides to spend some time in picturesque Weltana. Staying at a B&B run by the eccentric, endearing Rosvita, she meets a circle of quirky new friends at her court ordered Anger Management clas*ses. Like Jeanne, all of them are trying to become better, braver versions of themselves. Yet the most surprising discoveries are still to come a good man who steadily makes his way into her heart and a dilapidated house that with love and care might be transformed into something wholly her own, just like the new life she is slowly building, piece by piece.

As heartfelt as it is hilarious, The Last Time I Was Me is a warm, wise novel about breaking down, opening up, and finally letting go of everything we thought we should be, in order to claim the life that has been waiting all along.

Henry’s Sisters

Cathy Lamb, the acclaimed author of Julia’s Chocolates and The Last Time I Was Me, delivers her most heartwarming novel to date as three sisters reunite during a family crisis.
Ever since the Bommarito sisters were little girls, their mother, River, has written them a letter on pink paper when she has something especially important to impart. And this time, the message is urgent and impossible to ignore River requires open heart surgery, and Isabelle and her sisters are needed at home to run the family bakery and take care of their brother and ailing grandmother.

Isabelle has worked hard to leave Trillium River, Oregon, behind as she travels the globe taking award winning photographs. It’s not that Isabelle hates her family. On the contrary, she and her sisters Cecilia, an outspoken kindergarten teacher, and Janie, a bestselling author, share a deep, loving bond. And all of them adore their brother, Henry, whose disabilities haven’t stopped him from helping out at the bakery and bringing good cheer to everyone in town.

But going home again has a way of forcing open the secrets and hurts that the Bommaritos would rather keep tightly closed Isabelle’s fleeting and too frequent relationships, Janie’s obsessive compulsive disorder, and Cecilia’s self destructive streak and grief over her husband’s death. Working together to look after Henry and save their flagging bakery, Isabelle and her sisters begin to find answers to questions they never knew existed, unexpected ways to salve the wounds of their childhoods, and the courage to grasp surprising new chances at happiness.

Poignant, funny, and as irresistible as one of the Bommarito sisters’ delicious giant cupcakes, Henry’s Sisters is a novel about family and forgiveness, about mothers and daughters, and about gaining the wisdom to look ahead while still holding tight to everything that matters most.

Such a Pretty Face

In this warm, funny, thoroughly candid novel, acclaimed author Cathy Lamb introduces an unforgettable hero*ine who’s half the woman she used to be, and about to find herself for the first time…
Two years and 170 pounds ago, Stevie Barrett was wheeled into an operating room for surgery that most likely saved her life. Since that day, a new Stevie has emerged, one who walks without wheezing, plants a garden for self therapy, and builds and paints fantastical wooden chairs. At thirty five, Stevie is the one thing she never thought she’d be: thin. But for everything that’s changed, some things remain the same. Stevie’s shyness refuses to melt away. She still can’t look her neighbours’ gorgeous great nephew in the eye. The Portland law office where she works remains utterly dysfunctional, as does her family the aunt, uncle, and cousins who took her in when she was a child. To top it off, her once supportive best friend clearly resents her weight loss. By far the biggest challenge in Stevie’s new life lies in figuring out how to define her new self. Collaborating with her cousins to plan her aunt and uncle’s problematic fortieth anniversary party, Stevie starts to find some surprising answers about who she is, who she wants to be, and how the old Stevie evolved in the first place. And with each revelation, she realizes the most important part of her transformation may not be what she’s lost, but the courage and confidence she’s gathering, day by day.

The First Day of the Rest of My Life

In this deeply moving and wonderfully insightful novel, acclaimed author Cathy Lamb explores what can happen when one woman decides to reclaim her past and her future no matter where they lead…
Madeline O’Shea tells people what to do with their lives. A renowned life coach, she inspires thousands of women through her thriving practice exuding enviable confidence along with her stylish suits and sleek hair. But her confidence, just like her fashionable demeanor, is all a front. For decades, Madeline has lived in fear of her traumatic past becoming public. Now a reporter is reinvestigating the notorious crime that put Madeline’s mother behind bars, threatening to destroy her elaborate facade. Only Madeline’s sister, Annie, and their frail grandparents know about her childhood but lately Madeline has reason to wonder if her grandparents also have a history they’ve been keeping from her. As the demons of the past swirl around her, a childhood friend with a gentle heart is urging Madeline to have faith in him and in herself. And as she allows her resistance to thaw, the pain she expects pales in comparison to the surprises headed straight to her door. With one bold, unprecedented move, Madeline O Shea may just wake up out of the sadness and guilt that have kept her sleepwalking through life for so long and discover that the worst thing that can happen is sometimes the very thing we desperately need. The First Day of the Rest of My Life is an eloquent and triumphant tale of a fierce act of love, a family’s legacy, and one woman’s awakening to her own power with no secrets…
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Comfort and Joy

Curl up by the Yuletide with these heartwarming stories that add a touch of wonder to your holidays Comfort and Joy by Fern Michaels. Ever since Angie Bradford took over her mother’s gift wrap business in the Eagle Department Store, she and handsome store chief Josh Eagle have been at odds. When Josh threatens to give up on the business and move to London, and a devastating storm may destroy their Christmas season, Angie never expects help to come in the form of a holiday miracle

Almost Home

Whale Island by Cathy Lamb Family secrets and imposing friends are making Chalese feel like an outsider in her very own home on beautiful Whale Island. But it’s only when a shocking revelation makes her feel truly lost that she opens her heart to the possibilities the past offers including a chance at love with the last man she expected Queen of Hearts by Judy Duarte Her high school reunion is coming up, and advice columnist Jenn Kramer couldn t be dreading it more until she lays eyes on Marcos. Jenn hardly noticed him when they were kids, but now he s all grown up and how deliciously he s changed The Honeymoon House by Mary Carter It doesn t get more romantic than Andy Beck s cottage on Martha s Vineyard. But love is the last thing on his mind he just wants to get the cottage ready for his best friend s honeymoon. At least that s the plan, until he finds the gorgeous Maid of Honor ransacking his house in the most irresistible way The Marrying Kind by 1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber High school sweethearts Katie and Jason haven t seen each other in ten years and now she s walked back into his life. With one look, the love they shared comes flooding back only now the odds seem stacked against them. But when something s meant to be, all bets are off

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