Past Perfect is a story of love and loss, prejudice and resolution, as well as the search for selfhood. Prompted by a brush with mortality, her children approaching adulthood and the relationship with her husband being tested, Sue Spencer embarks on a search for meaning in her life-for a better sense of who she might be. Her quest takes her to to Akaroa, to France and back, tracing her genealogy.
Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up.
Compiled for the first time, here are all of Newbery Award– winning author Richard Peck’s previously published short stories and two brand-new ones.
Flawlessly crafted, witty and suspenseful, Past Perfect is classic Susan Isaacs in top form.
Perfect is the story of one girl’s attempt to cope with loss, define true friendship, and figure out the difference between appearances and reality.
And what will she do as now comes crashing down around her? Perfect for fans of Far From the Tree, this is the story of one teen's search for herself amid the confusion of a shattered past and a future far from all she planned.
And as soon as the words had left my lips, he leaned in and kissed me. ... For months, I had been unable to confront head-on the reality that Ezra would never kiss me again, and Iwould never feel that way again, that it was really and ...
Looks at the difficulty of overcoming a perfectionist attitude, explains what perfectionism is and where it originates, and describes steps that parents and families can take to eliminate the trait.
A middle-aged Israeli engineer travels to Europe in the hope of finding a new meaning for his life
... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. —“A Temple of the Holy Ghost,” Flannery O'Connor Contents Foreword by Rachel Swenson Balducci ......................................ix Introduction: Fear in.
When her life on her family's vineyard is shattered by her mother's death, Camille finds herself at the mercy of a cold-hearted stepfamily at the same time she bonds with her stepmother's mother and a friend from her childhood.