Bücher von Mary Keating

Set in the 1950s in the hills of Bradford, Pennsylvania, It's A Girl! weaves together the delights and heartaches a girl faces in the family and the town where she grew up. Reading It's A Girl! will take you back to lingering, tender-hearted memories that everyone knows in childhood. But in Bradford, Pennsylvania, the stories seem to never fade. Is it because Bradford was such a rich town? Oil was discovered in the 1870s but oil derricks were still in back yards in the 1950s. The rich oil producers seemed to give the town a glow and in this glow the trees seemed to be greener and the sky a brighter blue. The ever-present derricks and oil men almost altered a child's understanding of the world.

It's summer at the famous Chautauqua Institution in southwestern New York. Chautauqua is about to open its Main Gate to 100,000 visitors who enjoy plays, operas, lectures, symphonies and the "Chautauqua Experience."This real-life setting on Chautauqua Lake welcomes Maggie Michaels Wood, a third-generation Chautauquan, in what the Chinese call one's most important year: sixty. There is Paul Rains, a handsome singer performing in South Pacific at the famous Amphitheater. There is the concert itself, performed by singers of diversity within the Zeitgeist of America. Maggie and Paul: two different backgrounds, two different lives attracted to each other after hours at the Backstage Cafe.Chautauqua After Hours weaves a spellbinding story into a vibrant mosaic of a time, a place, and a summer giving birth to moments of love and sadness that will endure forever.