Lisa Wingate's Books
Jul.06.2010
http://www.lisawingate.com Lisa Wingate's exciting new book, "Beyond Summer" TV interview with Sharon Colson, KAMU-TV. New York Times Bestseller, Sandra Dallas says, "Beyond Summer is beyond good. It's great!"
Excerpts From chapter 1:"Beyond Summer" Chapter 1
Tam Lambert
It's strange, the things you look past in a normal day--the big...
Jul.07.2009
the Summer Kitchen by Lisa Wingate
Excerpts from "The Summer Kitchen" Chapter 1
Sandra Kaye Darden
Part of you says, It’s just a house. It’s wood, and brick, and stone, nails and tar paper, weathered red shingles, a few of which are missing now. It’s only a ramshackle old place that was never anything fancy. With luck, developers will buy it and wait for...
Feb.09.2009
Word Gets Around by Lisa Wingate
Excerpts from Chapter 1 Lauren Eldridge
They say you can’t go home again, but the truth is, if you’re a small-town Texas girl, you can never really leave. The town travels with you like an extra layer of skin—something flamboyant and tight-fitting. Even though you may hide it beneath the trappings of sophistication, it’s right there under your...
Jul.01.2008
A Month of Summer by Lisa Wingate
"Life is a journey by train. Outside the window, the scenery is rushing by. If you look away even for an instance, something passes uncaptured. Far in the future, when you leaf through the photo album of memory, your finger, aged and crooked, will rub lightly over that empty space and you'll wonder, what might have been there. In your...
Feb.08.2008
Talk of the Town by Lisa Wingate
Hollywood Learns
You Don't Mess With Daily, Texas
Best known for her blockbuster novel Tending Roses-now in its tenth printing-bestselling author Lisa Wingate pens another fresh, charming, and playful novel. In Talk of the Town, a high-powered Hollywood professional comes to small-town Texas, and the resulting culture clash makes for an entertaining...
Jul.07.2007
A Thousand Voices by Lisa Wingate
Once trapped in a world of poverty and neglect, Dell Jordan knows she was lucky. Adopted at thirteen, she was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. Now that she's twenty, her future is expanding in exciting new directions-a year abroad with a traveling symphony, a scholarship to Juilliard, a reunion with her adopted...
Jun.27.2006
Drenched in Light by Lisa Wingate
Once a gifted ballet dancer, Julia Castell buckled under the demands of a professional dance career, and has landed with a thud in an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school. Living back home with her parents and feeling lost, she is afraid she'll never soar again ... until the day young Dell Jordan is sent to...
Nov.01.2005
Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner by Lisa Wingate
Welcome to the big Lizard Bottoms, home of the famed Lover's Oak, where matrimony is a local industry, where you can get hitched, book a float trip down the river, or both. Not exactly an ideal vacation destination for a play-it-safe paleontologist who hs sworn off romance. But Lindsey Attwood isn't on vacation. She's here on a...
Jan.04.2005
the Language of Sycamores by Lisa Wingate Sometimes you have to take a trip off the map to discover where your heart lives. "There are years that ask questions and years that answer..."
Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of life- herself in a high-pressure job, ignoring the emotional distance in her marriage, avoiding memories of a sudden...
Sep.07.2004
Lone Star Cafe by Lisa Wingate
Laura Draper is having the worst day of her life. By noon, her career as a magazine editor, her relationship with a well-known photojournalist, and her very sanity are all in doubt. She finds herself marooned at a crossroads in Nowhere Texas, wondering which way to turn...
What's a girl to do? Certainly not allow herself to be lured into the...
Sep.02.2003
Texas Cooking by Lisa Wingate What seemed like a road to nowhere might be leading her straight home...
No one is more surprised than Colleen Collins when she's offered a job writing fluffy magazine articles about rural Texas cooking. The big-city investigative reporter knows nothing about goats, prickly pears, or peafowl, and to make matters worse, she cant even cook. But thanks...
May.06.2003
Good Hope Road by Lisa Wingate
"Lisa Wingate is a glorious storyteller ....
Small-town life is painted with scope and detail in the capable hands of a writer who understands longing, grief, and the landscape of a woman's heart. You will love this story."-ADRIANA TRIGIANI, Author of the Big Stone Gap Trilogy
IN A TIME OF CRISIS, TWO WOMEN COME TOGETHER ...
AND SET OFF...
Feb.04.2003
Tending Roses By Lisa Wingate
"The best times in my life, the times that have passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild." The lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. That's what Kate Bowman learns when she moves temporarily-with her husband and baby son-to her grandmother's Missouri farm. The family has given Kate the job...
About Lisa
Hometown: Texas
About Me and My Books:
I write mainstream fiction for both Penguin Putnam and Bethany House. My first book, Tending Roses came out in 2001, followed by Good Hope Road, The Language of Sycamores, Drenched in Light, A Thousand Voices, Texas...