Jennie Nash
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
What were my kids born to do? That is the question I hope to help them answer. And because reading is the thing I love most, it's only natural for me to hope it will become something they love, too...The trouble is that reading is a particularly slippery passion to want to pass along because it's a skill most parents would agree their children have to master, to one degree or another.
--from Raising a Reader
Can passion be passed along from parent...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"A photo of her sons. A doormat from Target. Twenty-three tubs of fabric. Somehow it comforts Lily to list the things she lost when a wildfire engulfed the Santa Barbara avocado ranch she shared with her husband, Tom. He didn't make it out either. His last act was to save her grandmother's lace from the flames?an heirloom she has never been able to take scissors to, that she was saving for someday. As she negotiates her way through her grief, mourning...