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"It's 1967, and for young Richard it's a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his brother, Mark, is killed in Vietnam; his father loses his job and moves the family to Utah; and his parents separate. When Richard is run down by bullies at his new school, he meets Mr. Foster, an elderly neighbor who chases off the bullies. Richard becomes fast friends with the man who inspires Richard's love for books and whose dog becomes...
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1996.
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Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor"--Center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became his best friend. In "A Christmas Memory,"...
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[2011]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Virginia and her brother are never allowed to pick first from the donation boxes at church because their father is the priest, and she is heartbroken when another girl gets the beautiful coat that she covets. Based on the author's memories of life on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
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This volume includes three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory," in addition to his bestselling novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's, the popular story of Holly Golightly--"a cross between Lolita and Auntie Mame" (Time).
"A Christmas Memory"--This is a story of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a childlike woman in her sixties, with enormous love and friendship between them.
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Tales from Grace Chapel Inn volume 48
Pub. Date
2011
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"As the three Howard sisters gather around the fire on Christmas Eve, they reminisce about their favorite Christmas memories" --Publisher description.
19) Hallmark 3-Movie Collection: Our Italian Christmas Memories/Long Lost Christmas/We Need a Little Chr
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2023
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Our Italian Christmas Memories: The Colucci siblings, to jog the memory of their grandfather who is struggling with dementia, set out to recreate their late grandmother's legendary pasta sauce. Long Lost Christmas: Interior designer Hayley plans to surprise her recently widowed mother Patricia with the perfect holiday present: the extended family she knows her mom yearns for. We Need A Little Christmas: Julie is juggling being a single mother to a...
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