Italian Charm (I Love My Dach)

Cats are great companions. They are a constant source of inspiration and entertainment, and a joy to live with. Cats don't start fights, they don't yell at you and they don't stop talking to you for no reason. They don't take up too much room on the bed (unless you have more than a dozen). And they never, never tell you that you're gaining weight and better watch what you eat (they expect you to return the favor on this one). There are the issues of hairballs and mouse parts-but those we'll set aside...

Celebrated Appalachian folk singer Sheila Kay Adams distinguishes an otherwise tired Civil War love story with the tragic ballads and backwoods rhythm passed down through generations of her family in her first novel, My Old True Love. Hackley and Larkin are rivalrous cousins raised as brothers in the North Carolina mountains and bred on the songs of their ancestors. Predictably, they both fall for Mary, a singular Appalachian beauty. Hackley soon wins her affections and marries, only to be whisked...