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Escape into a search for peace, love, and music of the '70s with this saga of hope and healing.
As the 1970s dawn in Virginia, newly- orphaned, grieving guitarist Cal Leonardowski is ready to end it all when he hears Hendrix will play at the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival. He delays the devastating thought for a rock and roll respite.
There, he meets also-grieving, Beatles-loving, adventurous eighteen-year-old Nainsi, from County Dublin, who wants to do what her late Ma never got to: build her own music career in America. Yet love changes everything, as does an exploding world, and just as she chooses between family, religion, country, and her own dreams, Cal makes a rash, drunken choice of his own. It becomes his deepest regret. What happened all those years ago? There's much more to the story, like with WWII widow Gert with a little secret of her own--and an inquisitive Rhiannon.
Spanning the 1970s and 1980s, told amid a historic backdrop of conflicts, with an ode to the legendary artists and singer-songwriters of 1970s yesteryear, this novel that Kirkus Reviews called "heartfelt"--a part coming-of-age, part regrets of middle age saga-- is more than a story about a secret. YESTERDAY’S SONG explores recovery from loss, the definition of family, the necessity of love, and the nature of forgiveness and redemption.
Maybe it’s never too late for the enduring, healing, and connecting power of timeless tunes to find your voice and reunite you with others…if you can just get back to the heart of it all.
What if hope were right under our--ears? #
Readers, it's ready for your book club with questions and a fun, diverse, 1970s playlist, with one-hit wonders and legendary musicians, showing everyone has a voice. This novel asks: What becomes of the broken-hearted? How can you mend a broken heart? Where do broken hearts go? How to save a life? Hear this fictitious family's story and playlist to find out!
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Dog's Life
This collection of stories celebrates the unconditional love and companionship our dogs provide, and the many joys of pet parenthood.
Treat yourself to 101 heartwarming, amusing, and inspirational stories about all the ages and stages of our best friends and faithful companions, from puppyhood to the senior years. You’ll see your own dog with new eyes and understanding through these one-of-a-kind stories about:
- getting your new bundle of furry love
- adventures with your exuberant puppy
- living through your dog’s amusing (and challenging) “teenage” years
- amazing stories of canine courage, companionship, and compassion
- settling down with your senior dog
- enjoying the bittersweet senior years
- saying goodbye in a positive way and recovering from loss
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times Won't Last But Tough People Will
Tough times won’t last but tough people will. These 101 empowering stories of resilience, positive thinking, and overcoming obstacles will help you find your own path through life’s challenges.
You are tougher than you think, and your inner reserves of strength are just waiting for you to call on them. This powerful collection of revealing, personal stories will help you handle whatever arises in your life, whether it’s financial challenges, health issues, relationship troubles, loss and grieving, natural disasters, or any of the other ways in which life sometimes goes off track. The courageous people in these pages are the role models who show us what is possible. Prepare to be inspired! You’ll find the 101 stories in this book broken into chapters entitled:
• The New Normal
• Count Your Blessings
• Find Your Inner Strength
• It Takes a Village
• Coping with COVID
• Attitude & Perspective
• Moving Forward
• Meet the New You
• Face Your Fears
• Loss, Grieving, and Healing
Chocolate for a Teen's Soul: Life Changing Stories for Young Women About Growing Wise and Strong
Rich, enticing, and delectable as a luscious box of chocolates, this collection offers 55 tales of life and love as a teenager. From teens of every age, including women who remember what it was like, come stories of first love, first jobs, best friends, heartbreak, hope, innocence, and the real world.
Poignant, funny, and powerful, these stories tell it like it is. From the recollection of a first kiss to tales of self-consciousness about a changing body, from painful struggles with parents and grandparents to the joy of abiding family love, teens will see themselves in these pages and find comfort in knowing that they are not alone.