Minnie’s Antique & Curiosity Shoppe

When you least expect it, life can turn upside down With a suitcase in each hand, Liza Murphy stares at the display window that touts Minnie's Antique and Curiosity Shoppe. After growing up in the back of a secondhand store-where her graduation reception was advertised to the public, Liza swore she'd never return. But twenty-three-year-old Liza has lost all sense of direction after her divorce. Her mother, Minnie, a product of the hippie era, now resides in an antique store, her eccentricity known to all in the small Midwestern town. To Liza's chagrin, she's once again living in a store. When a toddler is abandoned among the antiques, Liza takes in the child she calls Sweetie, hoping the young woman who left her will return. Liza soon finds her priorities change. She falls in love with the child and refuses to report Sweetie to the authorities. When the young woman who abandoned the child returns a year later, Liza is forced to make a decision-give up Sweetie or go on the run.

A school librarian for twenty-one years, Lucinda Stein enjoyed sharing her love of reading with students. Her books have been finalists for the Colorado Book Award and the WILLA Literary Award. Her short story, ＂Sulfur Springs,＂ won the 2011 LAURA Short Fiction Award judged by Pam Houston. Minnie’s Antique & Curiosity Shoppe is an outcome of the author’s love for anything vintage, along with fond memories of her hometown. In her spare time, she stalks antique stores for treasures and enjoys hiking with her husband, Rob, and their shelter-rescue dog, Opie.