Linda Cardillo: 5 books

The bonds they share with their children are intricate, fiercely protected and often tested by the vagaries of modern life. This engaging collection celebrates those relationships-lost, found, newly forged, made stronger by a boundless and relentless love. A Mother's Heart features three special...

"Innisfree binds us.” A new generation attempts to define where home is. Book Three in Linda Cardillo’s award-winning First Light series Young widow Elizabeth Innocenti journeys from her home in Italy with her fourteen-year-old son to seek solace and peace at Innisfree,...

Papa says "No Christmas tree this year," because the family is going to be away from home visiting grandparents. Mama is frazzled because the family has just moved into a new house in a foreign country and she needs to find the dishes, not the Christmas ornaments. But ten-year-old Jack...

Above a crumbling sea wall at the isolated northern tip of Chappaquiddick Island sits a weathered cottage that gives shelter to Mae Keaney, who returns to the island at the beginning of World War II determined to distance herself from a past filled with pain and regret. Fiercely independent, she defies...

Innisfree—the wild and isolated land on Chappaquiddick Island where Josiah Monroe grew up—was the only place where he felt he belonged.  And now it was gone.   When his parents make the painful decision to sell the land—the symbol of his mixed Wampanoag and Irish heritage—Josiah...