Twelve-year old Billy Kent's life couldn't be any better. On Christmas Eve his family was about to leave for the vacation of a lifetime. Then disaster struck. Their house caught fire and burned to the ground. The fire destroyed everything, including all the Christmas presents. But things were about to get even worse.Billy's dad forgot to pay the fire insurance on the house. The real truth was that Billy's Dad lost his job and couldn't pay all the bills. He didn't want to spoil the ...

Marcy Darwin's two-year old son suffers a massive seizure and dies. With her son's death, she begins having nightmares about her past. The only way she has a chance to save her sanity and her marriage is to return to face the life she left behind years earlier. Confronting her past relationships and demons will thrust her headlong into honoring a death pact promise of a childhood friend.But there are secrets which will cause Marcy to question the faithfulness of those she loves. Sh...

In this helpful and heartfelt book, Doris Christopher shows families how to honor and celebrate one of our most beloved traditions: togetherness around the family table. An American entrepreneur, who is also an enterprising American mom, Christopher serves up a blend of inspiration and practical advice, revealing the ways dozens of others have transformed their tables into vehicles for strengthening family life. Book jacket.

At Berkshire Hathaway, we like companies that are easy to understand. Doris Christopher’s “keep it simple” approach has a lot to teach anyone who is reaching for the American Dream. Frankly, if I can’t understand a company’s business, I figure their customers must have a pretty hard time figuring it out, too.I would challenge anyone on Wall Street to take $3,000 and do what Doris Christopher has done: build a business from scratch into a world-class organization. But follow the sim...

At Berkshire Hathaway, we like companies that are easy to understand. Doris Christopher’s “keep it simple” approach has a lot to teach anyone who is reaching for the American Dream. Frankly, if I can’t understand a company’s business, I figure their customers must have a pretty hard time figuring it out, too.I would challenge anyone on Wall Street to take $3,000 and do what Doris Christopher has done: build a business from scratch into a world-class organization. But follow the sim...

The Pampered Chef is Doris Christopher’s extraordinary account of how she turned an innovative concept and $3,000 investment into a business with annual sales approaching the billion-dollar mark. It is packed with real-life lessons and inspiring insights for small-business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs.In 1980 Doris Christopher, a former home economist and teacher, was itching to get back into the workforce after an eight-year hiatus as a stay-at-home mom. Drawing on h...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLDDiscover how to become the joyous, confident woman you were meant to be.Do you ever suspect that everyone else has life figured out and you don't have a clue? If so, Rachel Hollis has something to tell you: that's a lie.If you have ever said any of these things to yourself . . .Something else will make me happy.I'm not a good mom....

"This novel was a thrilling read with many twists and turns. Just when you think you have the book figured out the story changes. I loved the surprises in this story!" The Road to RomanceDylan Sanders is attending a wedding in the mountains when his trip takes a terrible turn. A former lover appears out of nowhere, demands a private conversation, and lures him into the woods, then leaves him there, drugged and disoriented. The next morning, the woman has d...

** Fair warning: This is a true story of sexual abuse, drugs, rape, betrayal and triumph ****Warning:This book contains crude language and is not for the faint of heart**As I sat down to write this story about my life, I had to think a long time about how to start my story.I learned early that you cannot substitute water for milk on cereal so when there was no milk in the house, I just ate it dry.Dad was pretty cranky just as a general rule. He’d come home f...

A bestselling summer read as heartbreaking as ***The Lovely Bones***and as gripping as Jenny Downham's Before I Die.**Now a major Netflix movie starring Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, Logan Miller, Kian Lawley*****'Gossip Girl meets Groundhog Day' Grazia'Tender, funny and raw' Marie Claire'A clever, funny, insightful and utterly addict...

Take two men, one woman, three children. Stir in one best friend and her fiancé doctor. Whisk one best friend's niece, her two rock star boyfriends, and add a grizzled old octogenarian diner owner with a naughty mouth and her eighty-something boyfriend who loves every minute of her.Put them all in a campground in northern Maine where the owners' daughter has two special men of her own. Bake for 400 pages.It's Always Complicated is the sprawling saga of how Laura, Mike and D...

Last year, Molly Barlow did something terrible.Then, her mother wrote a book about it.And so everyone in their tiny hometown found out that Molly cheated on her childhood sweetheart, the love of her life, her best friend with his brother.After spending senior year at a boarding school in the middle of nowhere, Molly now has ninety-nine days to endure back in her hometown before she can escape to college.Ninety-nine days of being the most hated perso...