Jill McCorkle Books

Modern stories for modern times, CRASH DIET is at once brilliant and bitter, happy and heartbreaking. In eleven stories, acclaimed novelist Jill McCorkle tells the varied tales of today's southern women, the lives they end up leading, and the loves that distract them. Sandra knows that the best revenge is her ex-husband's credit card; Ruthie is stuck owning a motel that the highway has bypassed; Anna is a widow who goes to airports and looks in on other people's lives; Bunny waits eagerly for her absent sister's postcards for advice on how to live. Stuck in the slow lane, gunning their motors, they are women living the real life, hoping things will get better, but surprised when they occasionally do. "Displays the same wit and ironic compassion that gained so many fans for her novels." -- The New York Times Book Review

Cake Decorating with the Kids: Get messy in the kitchen with 30 gorgeous, easy-to-follow contemporary cake decorating projects to make at home with the kids. Children of all ages will love to get involved and take charge of spreading the fillings and toppings, rolling out fondant icing, cutting shapes and making sugar decorations to help create delicious sweet treats, from cupcakes and cookies to cake pops, whoopie pies and tiered party cake ideas. Cake decorating is a fun, exciting craft for children and each recipe includes tasks for younger and older kids. The cake designs are perfect for school events, birthday cakes for children, parties, or simply rainy day fun in the kitchen, but as they are so professional-looking they are would also suitable for adult parties as well! Includes essential safety information for working with children in the kitchen, as well as storage, transportation and presentation advice, perfect for children's parties! You will also find yummy cake recipes and all the basic cake decorating techniques you need to know to create the projects. Comes with lay-flat binding to keep the book open when your hands are covered in flour!

Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both--suddenly, tragically-- lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they'd lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they've retired to North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries--perhaps revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know. Meanwhile, Frank has become obsessed with what might have been left behind at the house he lived in as a boy on the outskirts of town, where a young single mother, Shelley, is just trying to raise her son with some sense of normalcy. Frank's repeated visits to Shelley's house begin to trigger memories of her own family, memories that she'd hoped to keep buried. Because, after all, not all parents are ones you wish to remember.Hieroglyphics reveals the difficulty of ever really knowing the intentions and dreams and secrets of the people who raised you. In her deeply layered and masterful novel, Jill McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother, and what it means to be a child piecing together the world around us, a child learning to make sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory

Beloved author Jill McCorkle delivers a collection of masterful stories that are as complex as novels-deeply perceptive, funny, and tragic in equal measure-about crimes large and small.