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Too Close to Home

Linwood Barclay

7.7 (7 Ratings) Rate It

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Promise Falls isn’t the kind of community where a family is shot to death in their own home. But...

Death by Water

Kenzaburo Oe and Deborah Boliver Boehm

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For the first time in his long life, Nobel-laureate Kogito Choko is suffering from writer's block....

Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Mar 25, 2022

How did Julie Connor, Author's children's picture book THE BABY WITH THREE FAMILIES, TWO COUNTRIES, AND ONE PROMISE: AN INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION STORY come to be? Learn about the interesting story behind it in a fascinating guest post on my blog, and enter the #giveaway for a chance to win a signed copy of the book - 3 winners!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2022/03/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-baby-with.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
The Baby with Three Families, Two Countries, and One Promise is a children’s book designed to be read by parents to a child adopted from a foreign country. The story is first recounted from the perspective of the parents in the USA, who are very sad not to be able to have a child. The perspective then switches to that of the biological mother, who realizes that she does not have the wherewithal to raise a child. She makes the difficult decision to give up her baby. Next readers learn about a foreign adoption agency, to which the biological mother surrenders her child. The adoption agency identifies foster parents to take care of the baby temporarily. The foster parents give the baby a temporary name.

The parents in the USA begin researching international adoption possibilities and connect with the foreign adoption agency. The parents begin the adoption process and have to go to a school to learn how to be adoptive parents. When the foreign adoption agency matches the USA parents with the baby, the USA parents fly to the foreign country, where they meet the baby and the foster parents at the adoption agency. They find out that the temporary name given to the baby by his foster parents is one of the names they have selected for the baby. Their last requirement in the foreign country is to secure a visa for the baby from the U.S. Embassy.

With the baby’s visa in hand, the parents and baby return to the United States, where they are joyously greeted by their dog, their friends, and the baby’s new grandparents. When the parents tuck their baby in at night, they tell him his story—that he has three families, two countries, and a promise for the future to visit the country of his birth when he is older.

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The Pearl

John Steinbeck

7.9 (9 Ratings) Rate It

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Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf...

Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Shell Collector in Books

Aug 27, 2017

The Shell Collector

Hugh Howey | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry

5.0

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Promising but ultimately disappointing

I've loved some of Hugh Howey's other works and I had high hopes for his take on a romantic novel, but sadly this was pretty disappointing. It had promise, with an interesting plot based around a romance taking place in a near future where the sea levels have risen and shells are becoming extinct. Howey writes very well and I can't fault him for that, I just felt he concentrated too much on the predictable romance side than developing the scientific future aspect. The characters too were nothing special, and the whole book just felt very rushed.