HELP YOUR GRANDPA SHARE HIS LIFE AND MEMORIES WITH THIS JOURNAL PROMPT BOOK This book contains 101 journal prompts for your grandpa to write in his special memories and thoughts. Help your grandfather document his journey as he shares his legacy with the family. Your grandpa surely has many rich experiences to tell, and this book will be cherished by future generations to come as they read about your grandpa. The guided questions are the perfect way to get your grandpa sharing what he knows best -- himself! Questions range from childhood, marriage, career, and adulthood and being a grandparent. Sample questions include: How would people who knew you in high school describe you? What do you remember most about your teenage years? What was the funniest practical joke you ever played on someone? What advice would you give your 20-year-old self? And 97 more! This 6"x9" book also includes: Large font for easy question reading. Wide-spaced lines to help with neatness and writing. Extra pages for those questions that may need. more space. High-quality paper. A glossy cover to protect against smudges, fingerprints and small spills. Get this Grandpa, Tell Me Your Story book today to help your grandpa document those important memories and thoughts that will be cherished for years to come.
HELP GRANDMA SHARE HER LIFE AND MEMORIES WITH THIS JOURNAL PROMPT BOOK This book contains 101 journal prompts for your grandma to write in her special memories and thoughts. Help your grandmother document her journey as she shares her legacy with the family. Your grandma surely has many rich experiences to tell, and this book will be cherished by future generations to come as they read about your grandmother. The guided questions are the perfect way to get your grandma sharing what she knows best -- herself! Questions range from childhood, marriage, career, adulthood and grandparenting. Sample questions include: How would people who knew you in high school describe you? What do you remember most about your teenage years? Are there any funny or unusual things you remember your children doing? What advice would you give your 20-year-old self? And 97 more! This 6"x9" book also includes: Large font for easy question reading. Wide-spaced lines to help with neatness and writing. Extra pages for those questions that may need. more space. High-quality paper. A glossy cover to protect against smudges, fingerprints and small spills. Get this Grandma, Tell Me Your Story book today to help grandma document those important memories and thoughts that will be cherished for years to come.
HELP DAD SHARE HIS LIFE AND MEMORIES WITH THIS JOURNAL PROMPT BOOK This book contains 101 journal prompts for your dad to write in his special memories and thoughts. Help your father document his journey as he shares his legacy with the family. Your dad surely has many rich experiences to tell, and this book will be cherished by future generations to come as they read about your father. The guided questions are the perfect way to get your dad sharing what he knows best -- himself! Questions range from childhood, marriage, career, adulthood and grandparenting. Sample questions include: How would people who knew you in high school describe you? What do you remember most about your teenage years? Are there any funny or unusual things you remember your children doing? What advice would you give your 20-year-old self? And 97 more! This 6"x9" book also includes: Large font for easy question reading. Wide-spaced lines to help with neatness and writing. Extra pages for those questions that may need. more space. High-quality paper. A glossy cover to protect against smudges, fingerprints and small spills. Get this Dad, Tell Me Your Story book today to help dad document those important memories and thoughts that will be cherished for years to come.
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.
An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees. May turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature. The bees became a guiding force in May’s life, teaching her about family and community, loyalty and survival and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. Part memoir, part beekeeping odyssey, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places, and how a tiny, little-understood insect could save a life.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal • An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction • ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction • Wall Street Journal’s Best Novel of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Slate Best Book of the Year • A Christian Science Monitor Top 15 Fiction Book of the Year • A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year • A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year • A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year • A New York Post Best Book of the Year iBooks Novel of the Year • An Amazon Editors' Top 20 Book of the Year • #1 Indie Next Pick • #1 Amazon Spotlight Pick • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A BookPage Top Fiction Pick of the Month • An Indie Next Bestseller "This book is beautiful.” — A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover review Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.
Stonewall Book Award winner. “Konigsberg weaves together a masterful tale of uncovering the past, finding wisdom, and accepting others as well as oneself.” —School Library Journal (starred review) Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children’s/Young Adult A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection Carson Smith is resigned to spending his summer in Billings, Montana, helping his mom take care of his father, a dying alcoholic he doesn’t really know. Then he meets Aisha Stinson, a beautiful girl who has run away from her difficult family, and discovers a secret regarding his grandfather, who disappeared without warning or explanation decades before. Together, Carson and Aisha embark on an epic road trip to try and save Carson’s dad, restore his fragmented family, and discover the “Porcupine of Truth” in all of their lives. “Words like ‘brilliant’ are so overused when praising novels—so I won’t use that word. I’ll just think it.” —Benjamin Alire Sáenz, author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe “Undeniably human and unforgettably wise, this book is a gift for us all.” —Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle “Konigsberg . . . crafts fascinating, multidimensional teen and adult characters. A friendship between a straight boy and a lesbian is relatively rare in YA fiction and is, accordingly, exceedingly welcome.” —Booklist (starred review) “The story tackles questions about religion, family, and intimacy with depth and grace . . . Equal parts funny and profound.” —Kirkus Reviews
