Janet Roberts
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“Seven Thin Dimes” takes readers to the heart of what family means, and the value of the things in life that money cannot buy. Select memories of Janet Roberts' childhood visits to her grandmother's house in McDonald, Pennsylvania, are captured here in this engaging, thoughtful memoir. A collection of essays, it was originally written as a gift to the author's family following the death of her grandmother, Esther Masquelier, and was never intended...
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"My sister cleans her bedroom
In twenty seconds flat.
She sweeps the dirt into a pile
Then underneath the mat."
A selection of comic verse on such subjects as fraught relationships, untrustworthy professionals, quirky pets and even quirkier family members.
Nothing too dark or serious here, just a set of cleverly written, instantly quotable epigrams, along with a handful of longer poems that combine humour with insight. Truly, the perfect book to leave...
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'Elise Delcroix was coming home after eleven years for the recognition and retribution she knew she deserved.' Elise Delcroix left the small town she grew up in eleven years earlier, angry, hurt, and vowing never to return. As a child she'd felt entitled to the best of her father's love and attention, resenting his favoritism toward her half-sister and half-brother. Only her immigrant grandfather had showered her with the devotion she felt she needed....
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Are some wounds impossible to recover from?
While studying abroad in Ireland, American graduate student Dina makes the heart-wrenching choice to give up her daughter for adoption. The grief and trauma of her desperate loss follow her back to America where, as she works to put her life back together with the help of her sister, she ultimately seeks love and comfort in all the wrong places creating even more turmoil for herself. When Dina is diagnosed...
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The Afterlife: in the Tribunal of the Dead, the recently deceased Glaikit, an incorrigible cheat in life, is about to be sentenced to a new and very tedious form of existence by Judge Prudence Drinkwater. The sudden appearance of the chariot-driving hero Sleekit allows Glaikit to cheat her fate one more time, before she changes her mind yet again, reincarnating as the surprisingly spry 70-year-old Australian Merci, married to an American ex-marine...