01888cam a2200325 i 4500 292236292 TxAuBib 20170510120000.0 170504s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781477819715 1477819711 (OCoLC)962548347 TxAuBib rda Hyde, Catherine Ryan, 1955- Allie and Bea : a novel / Catherine Ryan Hyde. Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, 2017. 342 p. ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes book club questions. Bklst 04/15/2017. Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After falling for a telephone scam, she loses everything and is forced to abandon her trailer. With only two-thirds of a tank in her old van, she heads toward the Pacific Ocean with her cat - on a mission to reclaim whats rightfully hers, even if it means making others pay for what she lost.When fifteen-year-old Allies parents are jailed for tax fraud, she's sent to a group home. But when her life is threatened by another resident, she knows she has to get out. She escapes only to find she has nowhere to go - until fate throws Allie in Bea's path. Reluctant to trust each other, much less become friends, the two warily make their way up the Pacific Coast. Yet as their hearts open to friendship and love from the strangers they meet on their journey, they find the courage to forge their own unique family - and begin to see an imperfect world with new eyes. 20170510. Widows Fiction. Runaway teenagers Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Pacific Coast (Alaska) Fiction. TXDRI