Authors:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  Vaite -> van der Kwast -> Vann -> Vetere   Richard Vetere The Writer's Afterlife Three Rooms Press, 2014 (2014) Softcover, e-Book When 44 year old writer Tom Chillo dies, he is sent to an afterlife where those who have not achieved greatness linger, hoping that the living world will realize how wonderful their work actually was; he is allowed one more week of life to attempt to change his reputation. (RW)   James Villas Dancing In The Lowcountry Kensington, 2008 (2008) Softcover Set in the warm, lush, beauty of South Carolina, the story centers on Ella Dubose, a mid-seventies Southern lady of days gone by. (JB)    Penny Vincenzi Sheer Abandon Broadway, 2008 (2007) Hardcover, Softcover, CD, e-Book Three young women meet en route to Thailand; one of them abandons a newborn at Heathrow airport on her return - 15 years later, we catch up on their lives and on that of the child, Kate, who seeks her biological parents. (HW)    Kaavya Viswanathan How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life Little, Brown & Co., 2006 (2006) Hardcover, CD The hilarious account of Opal Mehta's unusual struggles to get into Harvard University. (KS)    Patricia Volk To My Dearest Friends Knopf, 2007 (2007) Hardcover, e-Book Two very different 60-year-old women form an unlikely friendship, brought together by their mutual best friend's death from cancer. (LW)