Letters to My Daughter

Letters to My Daughter
Author: Lea Redmond
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781452153827

Write Now. Read Later. Treasure Forever. Whether your daughter is still at home or out on her own, fill these twelve promted letters with precious memories and hopes for a bright future. Each letter begins with a unique prompt like: I love being your parent because... My wishes for you are... I am proud of you because... This keepsake book of twelve prompted letters offers parents a unique way to send love, support, and advice to a daughter of any age. Each letter has a space to write when it was sealed and when it should be opened (will it be tomorrow or in 20 years?). Seal letters with the included stickers before giving this time capsule to your daughter!

Tiny Beautiful Things

Tiny Beautiful Things
Author: Cheryl Strayed
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307949338

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu Original series • The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.

Sweetbitter

Sweetbitter
Author: Stephanie Danler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2016-06-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780749163

‘A fantastic read – think Girls meets Kitchen Confidential’ Stylist ‘An adrenalised love song’ Mail on Sunday 'A stunning debut novel’ Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City *AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A USA TODAY BESTSELLER | AN INDIE BESTSELLER* Tess is the 22-year-old narrator of this stunning first novel. Moving to New York, a place at the centre of the universe, from a place that feels like ‘nowhere to live’, she lands a job at a renowned Union Square restaurant and begins to navigate the chaotic and punishing life of a waiter, on and off duty. As her appetites awaken – not just for food and wine but also for knowledge and friendship – Tess becomes helplessly drawn into a dark, alluring love triangle. Sweetbitter is a novel of the senses. Of taste and hunger, of love and desire, and the wisdom that comes from our experiences, both sweet and bitter.

Where's Stephanie?

Where's Stephanie?
Author: Lenora Livingston
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Adoption
ISBN: 9781511737418

Where's Stephanie? Is a faith-filled story about a grandmother placing clues in unlikely places, hoping her granddaughter, who was placed for adoption, will one day follow the clues and find her. When her granddaughter Stephanie was born, Anna Weber got to hold her before saying goodbye. Longing to see her granddaughter again, she places clues in unlikely places, including a letter in Stephanie's Social Services file, hoping that one day, by some miracle, Stephanie will follow the clues and find her. Based on actual events, this inspirational novel follows Anna on a long journey about loss, separation, and the power of family love. Realizing others are facing similar situations, Livingston provides readers with a list of adoption groups that can help in search for surrendered family members.

Surrounded by Water

Surrounded by Water
Author: Stephanie Butland
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448154626

'An immensely powerful, and ultimately uplifting, debut novel' Katie Fforde 'Heartbreaking, insightful, gripping and beautifully crafted' Jane Wenham Jones Dear Mike, I can’t believe that it’s true. You wouldn’t do this to me. You promised. Elizabeth knows that her husband is kind and good and that he loves her unconditionally. She knows she hasn’t been herself lately but that, even so, they are happy. But Elizabeth’s world is turned upside down when Mike dies in a tragic drowning accident. Suddenly everything Elizabeth knows about her husband is thrown into doubt. Why would he sacrifice his own life, knowing he’d never see his wife again? And what exactly was he doing at the lake that night? Elizabeth knows that writing to Mike won’t bring him back, but she needs to talk to him now more than ever . . . How much can you ever know about the people you love? Originally published in hardback as Surrounded by Water

Stray

Stray
Author: Stephanie Danler
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101911875

From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. After selling her first novel--a dream she'd worked long and hard for--Stephanie Danler knew she should be happy. Instead, she found herself driven to face the difficult past she'd left behind a decade ago: a mother disabled by years of alcoholism, further handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm; a father who abandoned the family when she was three, now a meth addict in and out of recovery. After years in New York City she's pulled home to Southern California by forces she doesn't totally understand, haunted by questions of legacy and trauma. Here, she works toward answers, uncovering hard truths about her parents and herself as she explores whether it's possible to change the course of her history. Stray is a moving, sometimes devastating, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the landscapes of damage and survival.

Everybody Rise

Everybody Rise
Author: Stephanie Clifford
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-08-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466889128

A sparkling debut that is “full of ambition and grit” (Emma Straub), Stephanie Clifford's Everybody Rise is a story about identity and loss, and how sometimes we have to lose everything to find our way back to who we really are. “Finally, a novel that admits ‘making it’ isn't just a makeover away.” -Vanity Fair Twenty-six-year-old Evelyn Beegan intended to free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto New York’s stately Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she lands a job at a social-network startup aimed at the elite, she has no choice but to infiltrate their world. Soon she finds herself navigating the promised land of Adirondack camps, Hamptons beach houses, and, of course, the island of Manhattan itself. Intoxicated by the wealth, access, and influence of her new set, Evelyn can’t help but try to pass as old money herself. But when the lies become more tangled, she grasps with increasing desperation as the ground beneath her begins to give way. Chosen as one of Summer's Best Books by People Magazine Featured in Time Magazine's Summer Reading Entertainment Weekly's Summer Must List Good Housekeeping Beach Reads Feature

Guiding the Gifted Child

Guiding the Gifted Child
Author: James T. Webb
Publisher: Gifted Unlimited
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1982
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This book seeks to increase the awareness by parents, teachers, and clinicians of the often overlooked unique emotional needs of gifted children.

Know Your Worth

Know Your Worth
Author: Stephanie Solomon
Publisher: Bookbaby
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781543944402

Penny is sad because she's been told that her namesake coin, being worth only one cent, isn't worth enough to buy anything. But when she finds a penny on the ground, things begin to change. She starts to have good luck, and her heart grows bigger and more kind. Is the lucky penny the source of all the good things in Penelope's life? Or was it there all along? With vivid illustration and sing-song prose, #knowyourworth will teach children how to discover their worth and give them the courage to follow their dreams!

Letter to My Daughter

Letter to My Daughter
Author: George Bishop
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345515994

A fight, ended by a slap, sends Elizabeth out the door of her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday. Her mother, Laura, is left to fret and worry—and remember. Wracked with guilt as she awaits Liz’s return, Laura begins a letter to her daughter, hoping to convey “everything I’ve always meant to tell you but never have.” In her painfully candid confession, Laura shares memories of her own troubled adolescence in rural Louisiana, her bittersweet relationship with a boy she loved despite her parents’ disapproval, and a personal tragedy that she can never forget. An absorbing and affirming debut, Letter to My Daughter is a heartwrenching novel of mothers, daughters, and the lessons we all learn when we come of age.