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This story is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a penetrating look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who hated anything to do with domesticity. The Walls children learned to...
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"From the bestselling author of Lulu's Café Sophia Prescott is still mending from the embarrassment of a highly publicized divorce from a pro football player, and the now-single mother is back in Sunset Cove, surrounded by the supporting love of her family and the Sand Queens. Sophia doesn't think there's any hope for starting over until an unexpected trip to the pediatrician's office gives her a second chance after all.Dr. Weston Sawyer knows all...
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Summary Bundle: Memoir & Discovery: Includes Summary of The Glass Castle & Summary of The Hidden Life of Trees
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"You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." - Jeannette Walls
The story gets interesting when Jeannette could not stand living with her parents anymore. It was...
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You'll love joining in the adventures of The Glass Castle, brand-new from Trisha White Priebe and Jerry Jenkins, where the setting from The Chronicles of Narnia Meets the action from Alice in Wonderland. The king is growing old and is concerned about who will replace him. His new wife wants to produce an heir to the throne. The only problem? The king's first wife gave birth to a son, and no one knows for sure what happened to him. Rumors swirl...
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"The Glass Castle" has won several literary awards including Christopher Award, The Books for Better Living Award, and The American Library Associations' Alex Award.
The detailed description very efficiently finds its way in the hearts and minds of the readers. This true account of the author's life is not only very interesting and entertaining, but also highly didactic and inspiring.
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The girl had been lying dead all night. There'd been a terrible struggle, but in the end, the woman had lost her life to the jagged top of a cologne bottle-her jugular vein severed. Suspicious immediately falls on Richard Lane, who'd planned to meet the deceased at seven o'clock, just before she died. But is Richard really the killer? Only criminal psychologist Dr. Adam Castle can unravel the perplexing mystery. An edge-of-the seat thriller torn from...
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Summary of Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle chronicles all the heartbreak, deprivation, humor, and love of her childhood in The Glass Castle, a memoir of growing up dirt-poor on a cross-country odyssey with her charismatic, but alcoholic, father and her codependent mother.
Jeannette began thinking of her childhood after spotting her mother, Rose Mary, rummaging through trash in New York City.
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With their greatest foe seemingly defeated, Inuyasha and his friends return to normal lives. But their short period of peace is once again shattered as a new enemy begins to emerge. Kaguya, the self-proclaimed Princess from the Moon of legend, plots to plunge the world into a perpetual night of the full moon. Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo must once again unite to face a new threat.
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls - Book Summary - Abbey Beathan
(Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book.)
The story of Jeannette Walls, a woman who had to escape from her family in order to achieve true happiness.
Jeannette Walls definitely lived with an unconventional family. It was a double edged sword. On one hand, her parents were talented and smart, but on the other one, they were also dysfunctional people who slowly but surely,...
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Return to the charming Ocean Breeze novels with #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods in this complete collection of emotionally satisfying stories.
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In a trade-off she's lived to regret, Emily Castle left home years ago to become an interior designer.
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In a trade-off she's lived to regret, Emily Castle left home years ago to become an interior designer.
For Boone Dorsett, losing Emily left his heart shattered, but another woman was waiting in the wings. Now a widower...
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This book summary and analysis is created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version. Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle is a memoir of unbreakable spirit and salvation: an account of the life of a dysfunctional yet oddly vivacious family. When sober, Jeannette's father was...