Ludmilla Bollow: 2 books

Christmas is eagerly awaited by Lulu, a young girl living in a small Wisconsin town during the Great Depression. Anticipation is transformed into anxiety when Daddy loses his job, doubts about Santa flicker, and that Shirley Temple doll seems further away than ever. Mama reveals her own brutal Christmas...

Phillipe, an eminent physician isolated in his world of science and Yana, a free-spirited gypsy, defy their basic beliefs and succumb to passions of deep love, bringing them to the brink of personal and professional destruction as they see a world beyond their rigid views.