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If you love second chances and new beginnings in the second half of life, visit these two heartwarming stories from Sunshine Bay.

If Steve Earle weren't a living, breathing person, he'd be a character in a blues song -- a raucous ballad about a gifted rebel who drank too much, lost most of his women in a blizzard of crack and cocaine addiction, and always came out on the wrong side of the law. Somewhere in the midst of all this, he also managed to weld rock to country, the Beatles to Springsteen, and bluegrass to punk, establishing himself among the most thoroughly original and politically astute musicians of his generation. Granted unrestricted access to Steve and his family and friends, Lauren St John has given us...

Lauren Cox Escoto uses her own cross-cultural experiences in the United States and Mexico to bring this heartwarming debut novel to life. A moving tale of the search for love and family across two cultures, A Sister's Prayer explores the common bonds of human nature that unite all people.

When Dulce was a little girl in rural Mexico, her favorite brother, Manolo, ran away, never to be seen again. Now Dulce is old and frail, but she can't get Manolo out of her thoughts. Hoping against hope, her grandson Enrique takes up the quest to find his grandmother's missing brother in time....

A thrilling adventure classic-in-the-making

The night Martine Allen turns eleven years old is the night her life changes completely. Martine's parents are killed in a fire, so she must leave her home to live on an African wildlife reserve with a grandmother she never even knew she had. When Martine arrives, she hears tales of a mythical animal living there?a white giraffe. They say no one has ever seen the animal, but it does leave behind footprints. Her grandmother insists that the white giraffe is just...

In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing river. The house has been the scene of a horrific attack by guerrillas, and when Lauren's family settles there, a chain of events is set in motion that will change her life irrevocably.

Rainbow's End captures the overwhelming beauty and extraordinary danger of...