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Memories of Drop City: The first hippie commune of the 1960's and the Summer of Love
John Curl
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Memories of Drop City follows a group of people and their radical movement, in the Southwest and on both coasts, in a decade that shaped the rest of the century.
"John Curl's characters in Memories of Drop City aspire to be '100 years' ahead of the rest of us, but Curl shows, through his highly crafted and brilliant novelistic memoir, that they often succumb to the same social flaws as the rest of us. This might be the most balanced memoir or novel yet published about the Sixties."
Ishmael Reed, National Book Award nominee
"With this compelling evocation and portrayal of breathing people, John Curl unpacks the boxed lunch myth of America's alternative lifestyle Sixties, and restores the day to day flavor of a deeply fabled era still key to understanding the way we live (and don't live) now."
Al Young, poet laureate of California
"Memories of Drop City is an extraordinary book which brings the Sixties back to life in vivid detail and conveys the spirit of the Sixties better than almost anything else I've read."
Gerald Nicosia, author of Memory Babe
"Memories of Drop City brings vibrantly to light the flower children who returned to the land seeking peace and by that act were committing revolution. John Curl captures the idealism of a generation and their demonstrations against war in a revolution with a smile.."
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Newspaper columnist, writer and NPR commentator Patricia Raybon admits that she hated whites for years. She even tried unsuccessfully to whip up a similar rage in her parents. But anger got her nowhere. Eventually, in the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi, she found an alternative: forgiveness. The first part of the book is a series of essays on the life experiences of herself and her father, and the racial history of the country; it ends with "Letter to My First White Friend," a grateful acknowledgment of a white girl at her mostly white high school. In part two of the book, further essays explore the process of moving beyond hate, and the new world it has opened up for Raybon.
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Couldn't Read This Book Fast Enough!!.......2005-11-28
I couldn't put this book down!! I love her writing style. Easy to read, easy to get into, but not easy to put down. I liked the sharing of other people's lives and struggles that she included such as Ghandi and Martin Luther King. I must admit, I have a few other pages to read before I'm finished, but I want to buy a copy for several of my friends for a Kwanzaa gift, so came online to order. This is a good book for anybody to read. And I strongly recommend it to any 'haters'. Hopefully your viewpoint will change too!
My First White Friend: Confession on Race,Love & Forgiveness.......2005-08-06
I brought this book because I couldnot put her other book. This book is interesting because it deals with issues in my own life.
It lends it self to a therapy session everytime you pickup the book. I am not Afro- American but I am Hispanic and have dealt with alot of the same issue that Pat has. But not to the extend she has. She has a way of writing that by the time you finish the chapter you have really gotten to the core of the matter being spoken about.
I will continue to look for books by this author she is great!
great understanding of race relations.......2002-03-25
My first white friend tells the life of Patricia Raybon, an African American women growing up in Colorado. Through her life, she felt on the outside because of her race and did not fully trust Caucassions and held a lot of hostility towards them. However, as she grows and matures, Raybon begins to become friends with a white women in high school. Through her life, she is faced with challenges dealing with her race like people questioning her credential when she teachs college. Through her life, Raybon is able to reflect and come with a better understanding of race relations. She begins to realize that the racial hostility she had can be overcome and that we can all get along.
This book is a great book to read regardless of your race or experiences with other races. We can all gain from a book like this.
Excellent book for anyone needing to forgive.......2002-01-02
At first, I wasn't sure I wanted to read this book because of the title. But, I had an occasion to interview the author so I decided I should read the book before I went. I found the book to be exceptional in both the writing and keeping my interest.
This book also helped me in some of my own healing because I related to so many challenges that Patricia speaks about that were directly related to her family. The book was about forgiveness and how one woman decided it was time to move on with her life.
Because I work with women regularly who are attempting to do the same, I will recommend this book to many.
Diana Hart, MA, Career and Life Coach, Hart to Heart Communications, Inc.
You HAVE to read this book. Have to........2000-12-17
I've belatedly begun studying African-American culture and history, and stumbled across this marvelous book. It's not a fast read, because you savor her language--each phrase, each paragraph is rich. But it is a compelling, raw, and honest look at race relations in America, and a very well-written book with beautiful, poignant prose. It should be on _everyone's_ required reading list. I'll try to explain why I feel this way, as this book moved me very deeply.
As a white but "color-blind" American, I feel my life has been vastly enriched by reading this book. I feel I understand so much better what it means to be Black in America from reading Ms. Raybon's words and her heart-wrenching life experiences. I never quite understood racial hatred, posessing none of my own, and through her eyes I began to comprehend the pain many individuals go through every day in this country. I was so unaware, so oblivious to this. My lack of awareness has been a crime. I will never again look at life the same way as I did before reading this book, and for that I am extremely grateful.
As an author myself, and a critical reader, I don't hand out such high praise easily. This book is an absolute must-read for _all_ Americans. Her theme of forgiveness is truly the only way to heal the terrible scars of not only the evils of racism but all human wounds. I would like to thank Ms. Raybon for having the courage to publish this book, and encourage everyone, of all backgrounds, to read it.
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This memoir from Marion Winik, a commentator for National Public Radio and the author of Telling, a collection of autobiographical essays, begins in 1983 with Winik, just 24, anesthetizing herself after a break-up via vodka and a mixture of hard drugs. Though strong-willed, she seems to lack strength of character. She flounders from one mistake to the next, offering wise observations, but never attempting to thwart her streak of self-destruction. Her marriage to a gay man with HIV sets the course for change--she kicks her addictions and ultimately assists in her ravaged husband's suicide. Through an HIV wives support group, as well as through altercations with her in-laws, she comes to learn how strong she really is.
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From National Public Radio commentator Marion Winik, author of Telling, comes a memoir of breathtaking candor--an affecting yet rigorously unsentimental story of the extraordinary passion between a straight woman and a gay man. "Decidedly unfaint-hearted."--The New York Times Book Review.
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Amazing Story of What Love Can Do.......2004-05-31
Yes, the two main people in this memoir are self-indulgent, but there is one, and only one, thread that holds them together: Love. It cannot be sexual attraction, because one is gay and one is straight. And the thread of love holds and holds and holds and finally snaps. Marion Winik's writing held me from the first chapter to the last and never snapped.
I wouldn't say it was perfect...........2004-04-28
but it definitely got my noodle going. And Rebecca LOVED it. and when she loves something, she REALLY loves it. Physically. Emotionally. Biblically. Like the other day she was at ChuckY Cheeses scoping out the hot guys, and some hot young stud was reading First Comes Love, and she got all over him like white on michael. It was scandalous, to say the least. EMBARRASSING! Slap me, I'm in heaven. I'm an asain protestute. Well, i gotta go, talk to you when I come to visit in thanksgiving. Love, Mom.
Sad.......2002-12-24
First Comes Love epitomizes the 90's era of self-indulgent memoirs over? (and please, let it be over) This is basically a book about someone who makes one bad, selfish decision after another, wreaking havoc on the lives of those around her and then, rather than hanging her head in shame, deciding that it makes her so interesting that she ought to write about it and share it with the world. In fact, it sometimes seems as if the whole point of many of her actions is to have something outrageous to write about. One can't help but feel sorry for her sons, though. Did she ever stop for a moment and think of the effect on them of reading about her incredibly dysfunctional life?
This book is very, very sad.
No Longer a Fan.......2002-07-04
I'm sorry. I'm aware of all the favorable comments regarding this book, and no one should question Marion Winik's writing abilities -- "First Comes Love" is a well crafted book -- but, being that it is a memoir, I must confess that I no longer like or respect her as a person. This is not a love story -- it is an expose of a woman who decides she is going to have what she wants, regardless of anyone else's needs. Neither do I see her as someone I should admire for courage or long suffering. Sure, she finally decides to care for him as he dies. That is the least that she should do, as far as I'm concerned. She robbed him if the rest of his life.
First Comes Love.......2002-06-19
I'm disgusted I ever bought this book and would love to have my money back (someone in my book club chose it). All nine members of my book club HATED this book and found Marion Winik's actions/addictions disgusting. She offers no explanation for her self-absorbed, destructive behavior. I promptly gave it away after I read it (not to the library...doesn't belong in a respectable institution like that). Her actions that are documented in this "memoir" are despicable and could have had life-threatening ramifications on innocent children. Do not waste your money or your time.
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- Interesting blend of the personal and political life of Eleanor Roosevelt
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With Love, Aunt Eleanor: Stories from My Life with the First Lady of the World
Eleanor Roosevelt II
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Eleanor Roosevelt’s niece celebrates the life and personality of her inimitable, groundbreaking aunt in this definitive collection of anecdotes and photographs. Previously unpublished, firsthand accounts, such as the time Roosevelt served hot dogs to the king and queen of England and how she learned to dive at the age of 60, reveal the exuberance and spontaneity with which she lived. Her niece details Roosevelt’s entire life, from her awkward girlhood to the busy schedule she kept until her death in 1962. More than 180 duotones and handwritten notes complete this intimate portrait of the celebrated First Lady’s life.
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Interesting blend of the personal and political life of Eleanor Roosevelt.......2005-12-13
Here is an interesting and inspiring book that blends the personal and political life of Eleanor Roosevelt, from her niece and namesake, a person who knew her better than virtually anyone alive today. Filled with lots of vintage photos and personal stories.
With Love, Aunt Eleanor.......2005-02-01
Highly Recommended To Any Person Who Has Interest In Eleanor Roosevelt. Author Gives A Personal Look At Her Aunt & Namesake.
Many Interesting Photos
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"The Sparkling-Eyed Boy is so full of color and light and life." -- Brad Land, author of Goat The theme of summer love, in Amy Benson's hands, grows up: The Sparkling-Eyed Boy searches out the fault lines of adult nostalgia and desire. The achingly intense adolescent summer days that Amy Benson and the sparkling-eyed boy spend together on the remote shores of the St. Mary's River of Michigan's Upper Peninsula are at the complex emotional center of The Sparkling-Eyed Boy. For her, summers meant returning from her home in Detroit to a three-month idyll on much-loved family land, owned for generations, and to a heady culture of teasing, testing local boys. For him, this land is the place he was born, where he'll later find work, marry, and stay: and she was the one he had loved. "Can you pinpoint that moment? When you made a choice before you even knew that choosing was possible, or the terrifying nature of choices?" The Sparkling-Eyed Boy, with its heart-stoppingly erotic -- and yet wholly imagined -- scenes of illicit love, its searching riffs on love as possession, love as pain, reads like a friend's deepest secrets, shared. "The Sparkling-Eyed Boy is so full of color and light and life. This is truth of the most profound sort; truth revealed in the artful and lyrical sensibility of Benson's words and memory. She is dancing with us: not leading, but simply asking us to watch her move and take what we will. Benson shows us here what the memoir can and should do destroy and resurrect itself over and over. Benson is doing exactly that." Brad Land, author of Goat "The great pleasure and triumph of this memoir is Amy Benson's ability to make the familiar new again as she explores the country of first love. Over and over I found myself surprised by the unexpected twists and turns, peaks and abysses, of her journey. And also by her lovely, fiercely intelligent prose." Margot Livesey, author of Criminals
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My "best of all".......2007-10-12
Someone recently asked me my favorite book of all time, and i said this one!! I know, that may sound "shallow," as in why didnt i choose some classic, something much longer, or a much 'harder read.' This book just moved me, stayed with me, and has the largest amount of wonderful quotes that i refer back to time and time again. I guess i'm a romantic, but i love the style of writing, and i also had a summer home 'at the shore,' and can SO relate. I keep this book to re-read, and have given copies to friends. I think every woman who has loved a man, needs to read it. Treat yourself!!
There are good things here for you.......2004-09-13
It is maybe surprising, considering the comparatively few people that live above the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan, that there have been a bunch of books by younger writers in the last few years about and from Michigan's Upper Peninsula (mostly poetry--see Catie Rosemurgy, Cynie Cory, Jonathan Johnson, and Beth Roberts, for starters). This is--as far as I know--the only recent memoir about the place, and it's more a sort of extended meditation than a memoir proper. Still, it is lovely and engrossing. She's conscious of herself as a tourist (both of the place and of the boy, and of her own memories, even), and this is a tour I think you'll want to take with her. Be aware that it does take some liberties with the form (it's absolutely lyrical and likely nearly poetry at times, as the reviews above allude to--and it's not exactly a memoir of things that happened), but this book is rich and good and well worth your time.
amazing book.......2004-06-28
"The Sparkling-eyed Boy" inhabits the same reserved space in my
personal text-map as Billy Collins' poetry. Or imagine David Eggars
in his more lyrical moments. Benson manages to take plain language
and do wonderfully beautiful things with it. This is from the end,
describing life/personhood/existence:
"That is my problem: I have been looking shard by shard, but stand
back and I will have the whole, fluid mosaic. But I'm afraid there
is no perspective from which we can view every angle of a moment, a
year, a life, or the life of another. And there is no answer if I
have to answer the question myself."
Yikes! This hits exactly right! When I am at a loss for words, the
best I can do is quote from people much more skilled with language.
Benson has given me a lot to say. :-)
This is a 'small' but big book, read it carefully. This is not to
say that it's difficult to read, more that the prose has subtle
but significant power. Maybe my sense of this comes with particular
resonances with my own life -- I also recall midwestern lake summers --
but Benson makes these personal memories relevant in a way that should
intersect with anyone reading her book. It's most worthy of the
Katharine Nason Prize. I'm really looking forward to reading
Benson's future work.
A lyrical and dazzling book.......2004-06-20
This is truly a wonderful book. Each of its sections is a lyrical essay on place, time, the burden of choice and the elusive nature of personal identity. Not a page goes by without a line or two of startling beauty and truth. Also, for someone who has experienced the part of America where lakes are seas and forests stretch north to the Artic Circle, reading "The Sparkling-eyed Boy" was a bittersweet reminder of that dazzling land.
smart, sad, strange.......2004-06-08
This is a beautiful book. It's much different from Ted Conover's books (he selected it for a prize), which are terrific but more journalistic. SEB is a very personal story, told through a series of chapters or essays (and occasional fantasies) that don't necessarily follow one to the other. While I wouldn't necessarily say that this is an "experimental" book, it's definitely playing with the "normal" way of writing a memoir. After awhile you understand that a larger story is unfolding, but that it's about much more than just Benson's first love. It's about a place and time that has become mythical for her as she's grown up and away from the people and places that formed her. It makes me think of my own brief summers at the Jersey Shore, a place I haven't been back to in years but that I still remember in a strangely sad, hazy way as having been important. It seems like a particularly American story to me, where class and mobility and property and wealth and education are all tangled up and it's difficult to know where you fit in or where you'll end up or why. A complex, lovely book.
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Love at First Sight: A Lifetime of Sailing on Galveston Bay
J. Howard Williams
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As I sit at my computer surrounded by pictures of “Rebel” and “Blue Lady” recording memories of my sailing life, I know just how lucky I have been. Had I been just a few years earlier in arriving on this earth, I would have missed the chance of a middle class working stiff to own such boats. Only one generation earlier had no opportunity to own and sail the boats I have known.
Author J. Howard Williams experienced a variety of jobs in his lifetime, from a CPA to a marina manager to a boat salesman. But through it all, his heart has belonged to sailing.
Journey with Williams through a lifetime of sailing adventures in Love at First Sight. On his sailboats Sooner, Sooner II, Rebel, Rebel II, and Blue Lady, he sailed well over 100,000 good and bad miles. On the water of Galveston Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas and the Atlantic coast from 1950 to 1990, Williams experienced and now shares a lifetime of joy for and fascination with the world of sailing.
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Always Trust a Sailor.......2005-05-30
Having known the author for nearly a lifetime I was surprised at the drama and clarity of the writing, from technical sailing terms to spontaneous exclamation.I am glad love is in the title for only a mariner in love with the sea could write as the author has. Something haunting about the book. Couldn't put it down for one thing. But then there was the sea and the adventure of ships and those who love them.
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Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney (The Cutting Edge : Lesbian Life and Literature)
Natalie C. Barney
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- He loved deeply
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First Loves: a Memoir
Ted Solotaroff
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Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir
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"Meets the very high standard set by Alfred Kazin's Starting Out in the Thirties for describing a young man's intellectual coming-of-age with nuanced honesty and genuine emotion."-Kirkus Reviews
First Loves tells of a life driven by the twin lusts of romantic love and writing. A legendary editor and literary critic, Ted Solotaroff takes the reader over the rocky course of his education and rebellion in the '50s and through an early marriage that commutes between heaven and hell.
Ted Solotaroff's first memoir, Truth Comes in Blows (1998), won the PEN Martha Albrand Award. An associate editor of Commentary and the editor of Bookweek, he founded the influential literary journal New American Review, later American Review, and was a senior editor at HarperCollins.
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He loved deeply.......2004-08-06
Ted Solotaroff loved deeply, otherwise he wouldn't have spent so many years married to the madwoman Lynn, whose portrait is etched at the heart of this unsentimental memoir of a decent man, married to a terrible, neurotic woman. She had some literary pretensios herself, but did little but kvetch at him while he labored hard to help create--not only create but define--what was in the 1950s a totally new literary field--important American writing was for the first time predominantly Jewish. His great friend, Philip Roth, continues to write great novels, while some of the other fellows of the period have been forgotten save in memoirs by their friends, like this one.
But, it was a trenchant time in American writing, and one which will not soon be forgotten, even if some of the magic names seem to dwindle away even as he writes about them, all over, anew. Meanwhile Lynn goes from bad to worse, even as Solotaroff gives her at least the virtue of being extremely sexy and alluring. At times we can see why he stuck it out with her. His father, on the other hand, was a pig. There should be more books like this one, books in which we can see a literary movement being born 9and the machinery required to make one happen).
Chicago's Classical Period.......2004-03-28
If you know the South Side, Hyde Park and the University of Chicago, and yearn for the days of the high 1950s - beatniks, bongo drums, struggling writers, waitresses, starving grad students - this book will sate your appetite. It beautifully recreates a lost world - so lost that it has almost been forgotten. Alternately tough, lyrical, and mother-ridden, Solotaroff is a wonderful writer.
Its Not Easy Being an Intellectual.......2003-11-18
If you worked as a waiter in the Catskills you are going to love
this book. Even if you haven't you're still going to be intrigued
by Ted Solotaroff's journey towards what I might call "certified
smarts". How many of us come out of the big cities, public libraries and dysfunctional families? Somewhere there is a life of the mind that will pay the bills. Meanwhile we're stuck in a dining room wearing a funny outfit and serving food to the paying customers.
Mr. Solotaroff tells us what his journey has been like, honestly, forthrightlightly and sometimes too graphically but
always entertainingly.
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From the time they met in 1950, through the 1990's, Ronald Reagan wrote letters to his wife, Nancy. In this beautiful book, those extraordinary letters are woven into a moving portrait of a long and loving marriage as Nancy Reagan shares not only the letters but also her reflections on them, and on the life that she and Ronald Reagan shared, from courtship, young marriage, and the White House years on through to her life today.
No matter what else was going on in his life or where he was - traveling to make movies or for G.E., in the California governor's office, at the White House, or on Air Force One, and sometimes even from across the room - Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and feelings and to stay in touch. Through letters and reflections, the characters, personalities, and private lives of a president and his first lady are revealed. Nancy Reagan comments on the letters and writes with love and insight about her husband and the many phases of their life together.
The author's proceeds from the book will go to The Alzheimer's Foundation and to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation for the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California.
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No matter what else was going on in his life or where he was--travelling to make movies for G.E., in the California governor's office, at the White House, or on Air Force One, and sometimes even from across the room--Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and feelings, and to stay in touch. Through letters and reflections, the characters, personalities, and private lives of a president and his first lady are revealed. Nancy Reagan comments on the letters and writes with love and insight about her husband and the many phases of their life together
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Inspirational and Touching.......2007-08-17
This book was truly touching to say the least!!!!! It blew my mind away. The simple fact is, in these times, it is a RARE commodity to see a truly LOVING and LONG LASTING relationship!!!
This book truly inspired me! Nancy and Ronald both loved each other genuinely and God Bless her for sharing something so personal and private to the world!!
If only we could all be loved this way.......2007-05-27
I loved reading this book! Afterwards I gave it to my mom to read. The love between Nancy and Ronald will leave you breathless. As their lives move on Ronald always still writes to his love Nancy. Maybe he knew he would leave her one day and wanted her to have a reminder of the man he was.....beautiful letters.....from a beautiful man!
Thank You.......2007-04-03
What a great book to read. I knew there were some men out there that could be so open about their feelings. Lucky you Mrs. Regan.
Ronnie Loves Nancy.......2007-02-13
The book was everything that I had hoped it would be. The warmth and intimacy of their relationship shone through in these wonderful, personal,
heartwarming letters. In todays world, where expressions of love and tenderness are frowned upon by many, this book shines through like a
beacon in the darkness. It exposes the beauty and tenderness of true love between these two exceptional human beings. It shows how a truly sincere marital relationship can endure and thrive even in these times. Thank you Mrs. Reagan for allowing us to enter into the beautiful world of yours and the Presidents. Your book can will certainly help all married couples who read it to strengthen their own relationships.
Beautiful Love Story.......2006-11-19
Regardless of your political ideologies this book will warm your heart. It is an easy read, but one you will cherish, and always keep near your bedside. At a time when the divorce rate is so high, and many families are so miserable it's wonderful to look at a President who cherished his wife, and a wife who truly felt cherished. In a society where everything is sexualized, it's nice to stop and read about something with so much depth, intensity and commitment. Beautiful...
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Life, Love and Asparagus: First the Pain-Then comes Peace
Marilyn M. Hardigree
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One could expect an only child to be much loved and even spoiled. I didn't feel either of these growing up. Even though as a child I was loved by some special people, it was the love of my mother that I dearly wanted. I have never even seen a picture of my father and finally met my mother at about the age of seven. I soon learned she wasn't a loving person. This story is about a lifelong search for love and acceptance. God frequently put the right people in my path who showed me love. I am glad that I found that love is all around and I didn't need to wait for my mother's love. I would not write this until after my mother had been deceased a few years. I was afraid of her into my 40s and older. I have been widowed twice, once at the age of 29 with my four children between the ages 3 to10, and again when I lost my husband Les in 2001 after 29 years. I have had a troubled life, but I feel so blessed. My children are all loving children and Les was the most wonderful man in my life.
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- My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
- My Time: Making the Most of the Bonus Decades After 50
- Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow
- Night (Oprah's Book Club)
- Night (Oprah's Book Club)
- Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
- One Last Time: A Psychic Medium Speaks to Those We Have Loved and Lost
- Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind The List
- Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind The List
- Owen & Mzee: The True Story Of A Remarkable Friendship
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