Böcker av Debbie Boucher

Otherwise Occupied is a love story set in Trinidad and Tobago during World War II. Change was brewing before the war, and with its end, the dual-island nation was on its way to independence from British colonialism and American occupation. It is a story that continues to unfold today, and it involves the acceptance of people regardless of race, creed, or color.

A Struggling Writer Finds Inspiration in Family History... Deborah's career is at a dead end. After a splashy debut with her first novel, she's languished as a freelancer, her potential unfulfilled. But the death of an elderly aunt provides unexpected source material, as she and her family discover journals and letters that bring to life a colorful and shocking past. The Aunties is a novel within a novel-the story of Deborah's quest to fictionalize her unexpected legacy. Along the way, she learns more about Marian, her strong-willed grandmother determined to break out of poverty, whose proto-feminism succumbs to the lure of an unwise romance. Her daughters, Deborah's beloved aunties, reap the harvest of their mother's mistake as they travel their own journeys. From Gilded Age America to World War II, from plain farm life to high society, from America's heartland to wild and colorful Brazil, The Aunties is a story of family love and loyalty through adversity.

Dan Mora, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia, is missing. Will Jamie Morgan find him before it is too late? Oblivia introduces the reader to Dan Mora and Jamie Morgan, Peace Corps volunteers in Bolivia. At a crossroad in their lives, they discover the power of making a difference. Yet when Dan disappears, and Jamie is given the task of finding him, she discovers that nothing is ever as it seems in a country she and Dan have grown to love, a place they call Oblivia.

It''s March 15, 1975, and Rosa Rodriguez has just given birth to a premature baby girl, Angelica. Desperate to escape the abusive husband whose beating brought on early labor, Rosa flees Los Angeles to live with her cousin Silvia in San Francisco, but not before conducting a search through the hospital for her daughter''s gemela del alma, the child born the same day and time as Angelica. Rosa, an astrologer, believes this child''s life will mirror Angelica''s, and when she casts her daughter''s chart, she is convinced she must find Angelica''s cosmic twin because their destinies are complicated. Eighteen years later, it''s June, 1993, and Stephanie Bengochea and Jazmín Valdez, best friends since age five, share everything: the same birthday, March 15, 1975, the same appearance, and the same best male friend, Pedro Garcia. After Jaz and Steph graduate from high school, they leave their hometown of Pleasant Valley to attend different colleges, only to discover their paths inexplicably parallel one another''s. Yet when both become pregnant the night of their twentieth birthday, free will takes over. Jaz decides to keep her child when her college boyfriend, Martin Donahue, the third, proposes, while Steph breaks up with hers after aborting their child. Steph moves home to help with her family''s restaurant because her mother is injured, and when she marries Pedro it shatters Jaz and Steph''s sense of sisterhood and pushes the once inseparable friends apart. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Rosa believes her prayers are answered when she meets Jaz. Thanks to a friend in the SFPD, Rosa knows a young woman named Stephanie Bengochea shares Angelica''s birthday, so imagine her surprise when she discovers the young mother across the street is Steph''s friend and shares Steph''s birthday. Beware the Ides of March, Rosa decides, as she trades daycare with Jaz in exchange for organization of her computer-based business astrology firm called Millennial Fears. The Y2K has the superstitious dotcom crowd in San Francisco logging on for advice, and while Jaz and Rosa refuse to succumb to the dread that plagues their customers, they learn that life can''t be plotted out, that the tension between belief and superstition, faith and knowledge, friendship and love, are what will allow them to discover what their destinies should be.