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Get the Summary of David Sedaris's HappyGoLucky in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "HappyGoLucky" by David Sedaris is a collection of personal anecdotes exploring family, aging, societal norms, and the human condition. Sedaris recounts visiting his sister Lisa and their trip to a firing range, reflecting on American gun culture. He discusses his father's decline and the peculiarities of life at an assisted living...
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Every parent knows that raising siblings can be both a heartwarming and challenging experience. From the heartwarming first interactions to navigating rivalries, how can we ensure that the bonds formed between our children last a lifetime?
Friendly Family: A Parent's Guide for Nurturing Positive Sibling Relationships offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate dynamics of sibling relationships. Delve into the historical perspectives of sibling...
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Pre-order the FINAL instalment in the bestselling Tobacco Girls series!
It has finally happened! The war is over and Europe rejoices.
May 1945 – VE Day
After battling against the odds, the three friends are uncertain of their futures.
Maisie Miles must wait on tenterhooks for Japan to surrender and for poor Sid to return home. Will they still be sweethearts and have a future together? But tragedy strikes when Maisie's lodger Carole dies leaving...
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Navigating Siblinghood: Unlock the Secrets to Lifelong Bonds
Every parent knows that raising siblings can be both a heartwarming and challenging experience. From the heartwarming first interactions to navigating rivalries, how can we ensure that the bonds formed between our children last a lifetime?
Friendly Family: A Parent's Guide for Nurturing Positive Sibling Relationships offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate dynamics of sibling relationships....
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Over many years Suzanne journaled notes of her memories. A few years ago, she found three different journals with similar stories. Last year Suzanne was encouraged by Karen Harper to write a book. While writing about her life on the farm, she recalled many other family stories, told to her by her dad and other family members. Suzanne's goal was to write down family information and pass it on to her immediate family; second cousins and nieces and nephews....
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The effects of the Great Depression, pressed between two World Wars, made me, D. J., as well as my family, reflect upon feelings toward men's conflicts and leadership of world nations. I detested wars and all things causing them. On a garden plot one hot summer morning in 1948, while weeding around tender sprouts, my father told me, his eleven-year-old son, about his friend, a victim of war who had joined the US Army in 1917. He wanted to fight the...
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What they have left are the shoes, the
suits and the photos. Now Dominic pushes to keep promises made to his
father. His sister, Diallo, grapples to reconcile memories and recall
her mother's ways. Standing with them is a colourful band of
friends and neighbours. Life comes at the twins with the shocks we
feel are just not supposed to happen – banditry, betrayal, loss. It
is up to them to reclaim their stories.
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Judith and Kali have left behind their hidden world in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. With Paul by her side, Judith faces adjusting to life on the "outside." It's a whole new world to still mute Kali, who finds that she loves hamburgers and fries, and learns what it's like to have a friend her age. Paul's parents take them in, and the girls are comforted by being part of a family again. The girls experience a constant stream of new experiences as they...
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"A captivating new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers. After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her...
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She learned at a young age that love and heartache walk hand-in-hand.
Ambitious twenty-three-year-old law student Gemma Ellsworth seems to have it all. Living her best life in New York City, no one would guess that beneath her polished surface, she's riddled with anxiety and guilt.
Raised by a loving Mom and Grandmother, Gemma and her twin spent their childhood running barefoot through the golden fields of rural Indiana until one fateful night left...
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The Market Lads And Me. A Memoir."A tale of fun and fear,and love and beer.""Joy and pain,and sunshine and rain."The Market Lads And Me is a humorous story of gritty realism and a fond recollections of a week in the 1980s in the life of an ordinary everyday working-class barrow boy employed at a wholesale fruit & vegetable market in Wigan,near Liverpool, England.Authors Note: The Market Lads and Me is my fond recollections and happy memories of a...
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"Intricate and affecting, Kasdan's debut finds hope in the saddest of stories."
-Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW
What happens to sibling relationships when your older sister, the budding poet you loved and admired as a child, falls prey to severe mental illness? When Deborah Kasdan's sister returns from a gap year in Israel, she dazzles friends and family with her sophistication and beauty. In three years, however, Rachel is committed to a psychiatric...
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Beverley Brewer is with her husband Jack at their cottage, unwinding after his chemo treatments for Stage 4 lung cancer. Her father has had a fall and needs attention. Driving to her father's home they find younger sister, Jacquelin, hanging in the den, the suicide note reading, “tell anyone I ever loved...”
So begins Bev's odyssey of looking back over a life spent as Big Sister to a sibling intent on self-harm. Alcohol, unsuitable lovers, false...
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Debbie and Judy are twins-but Judy was born with cerebral palsy, and Debbie was not. Despite the severity of Judy's brain damage, her parents chose to keep her at home with her three siblings, and ultimately Judy lived at home with them well into adulthood. Even after her father died, she continued to stay with her mother, her care augmented by a succession of home attendants-until, that is, her doctor told Debbie that Judy's care at home was wanting...
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What God Said is a guiding work to those who are new to the body of Christ and those who are well-established. Each chapter delves into the stages and nuances of life that each Bible follower has the ability to mature in as they intentionally put into practice the principles God has set in place. Every line is backed by a referenced scripture so that the reader may have the confidence to live a life declared by the word of God. The end result of reading...
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For fans of Practical Magic and Gilmore Girls, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic is a debut novel that explores the shields we build around our hearts to retain our own magic. Sadie Revelare has always believed that the curse of four heartbreaks that accompanies her magic would be worth the price. But when her grandmother is diagnosed with cancer with only weeks to live, and her first heartbreak, Jake McNealy, returns to town after...
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