04196cam a2200913 4500 591264130 TxAuBib 20220525120000.0 ||||||s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781588362551 1588362558 B000FA64WS Amazon b2e334f6-a649-43ab-b106-337b21a0020e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 19372 OverDrive (Product ID) 136820 136820 136820 TxAuBib Quindlen, Anna. Blessings [Libby] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2002. family. relationships. 21st century. literary fiction. War. relationship. Historical. family life. romance. parents. sisters. parenting. contemporary fiction. baby. Fiction. brothers. mothers. novels. Saga. marriage. love. Coming of age. American. family secrets. Death. families. Drama. Adoption. Divorce. Modern. redemption. grief. Abandonment. Mothers and daughters. literature. fiction books. realistic fiction. Abandoned Baby. foundlings. relationship books. abandoned babies. realistic fiction books. books fiction. maine gifts. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2283kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:This powerful new novel by the bestselling author of Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life begins when a teenage couple drives up, late at night, headlights out, to Blessings, the estate owned by Lydia Blessing. They leave a box and drive away, and in this instant, the world of Blessings is changed forever. Richly written, deeply moving, beautifully crafted, Blessings tells the story of Skip Cuddy, caretaker of the estate, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him. The secrets of the past, how they affect the decisions and lives of people in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community—these are at the center of this wonderful novel of love, redemption, and personal change by the writer about whom The Washington Post Book World said, “Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family.”. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/B2E/334/F6/BlessingsANovel9781588362551.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B2E334F6-A649-43AB-B106-337B21A0020E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/B2E/334/F6/BlessingsANovel9781588362551.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B2E334F6-A649-43AB-B106-337B21A0020E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/B2E/334/F6/BlessingsANovel9781588362551.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B2E334F6-A649-43AB-B106-337B21A0020E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)