Books by Paula Appleby

Common Ground has been open one full year and is proving to be a successful and popular coffee shop. A group of misfits have become the cornerstone to Josie's success, which in turn, affords them opportunities to regain lost confidences.Josie keeps a journal in an effort to recall memories, but her journal reveals memories can often be very elusive. She discovers in her entries that looking toward the future is often tied to events of the past. Going home brings memories; and those memories, in turn, bring us right back home again.Home is the source of everything: hope, faith, struggles, security, sadness, and blessings. Home is family and where memories and futures are built.It is a place of love.It can be life's ultimate destination.Everyone searches for a home.But sometimes, home chooses you.

As Josie begins the summer before college with the dream of working at a coffee shop to save money and learn the business, she quickly realizes what she learns outside, around the dumpster, will become the foundation for her own coffee shop. Told through a journal of her lessons from a group of misfits society normally turns a blind eye to, Josie learns that common ground is not just a connection, but a philosophy of how to let your inner voice be your guide.