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Highlights
- Julie Travers and her family moved from Cincinnati to Nashville in the 1960s to allow her father to accept a job as Financial Manager at a local bank.
- Author(s): Annell St Charles
- 250 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Women
- Series Name: Georgia Ayres
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About the Book
In the 1970s, the banking industry in Nashville, Tennessee comes under scrutiny by the FDIC and none other than J. Edgar Hoover when a series of illegal activities is uncovered.Book Synopsis
Julie Travers and her family moved from Cincinnati to Nashville in the 1960s to allow her father to accept a job as Financial Manager at a local bank. Upon graduation from high school, Julie is hired by the same bank as a teller. Once there, she meets the Branch Manager who becomes her close friend and eventual love interest. When her father appears to be involved in illegal activities that have caught the attention of the FDIC and FBI, she enlists his help to prove her father's innocence.
As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that the crimes are not confined to Nashville but reach much further into the Southeast. Just when she is about to give up hope of seeing her father expunged of any criminal involvement, an anonymous tip allows the local police to uncover the details of who is truly involved in the string of crimes.
The Choices We Make is a story about the importance of listening to our inner voice when we are faced with making decisions that will shape our lives, realizing we have control over those decisions, and recognizing that the choices we make now will define, not only our present, but our future as well.
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The Choices We Make by Annell St. Charles is a Georgia Ayers story and is set in the 1960s and 1970s. Julie Travers doesn't really like change so it's hard for her to cope when her family moves to Nashville after her father gets a new job at a local bank. Choosing to visit the bank for school careers day, she meets Harry, the Branch Manager, and, a few months later, is taken on as a bank teller. She and Harry grow closer but it soon comes to light that her father might be involved in something illegal. Julie doesn't believe he is guilty but the FBO and FDIC are watching him. Getting Harry to help, Julie sets out to clear her father but it becomes clear that the crimes reach far further afield than Nashville...
The Choices we Make by Annell St. Charles is not just a coming of age novel. It's about learning to listen to our inner voices, learning to make the right decisions and learning that we control the decisions; its not down to anyone else. I couldn't put this book down once I started it. It's a thorough novel, following Julie as she comes to terms with a new life and puts the past behind her. The plot is very clever; you might think that it's just a story about a girl growing up but the plot starts right at the beginning, weaving its way through the story and everything you read is totally relevant to it. The characters are wonderful, really well developed, real people that you truly get to know throughout the story. And it's full of historical facts too which just add to the reality surrounding it. Great story, I really enjoyed it.
Anne-Marie Reynolds, Readers Favorite LLC