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Heidi - By Johanna SpyriUnabridged Audio Book On 9 Audio Cds Heidi, The Complete Unabridged Audio Book on 9 standard audio cds ( playable in any cd player & fully digitally remastered ), is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather s care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a children s book in 1880 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri.Plot SummaryHeidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Mayenfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 6-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on the alm.This has earned him the nickname Alm-Öhi ( Alp-grandfather in the Graubünden dialect). He at first resents Heidi s arrival, but the girl manages to penetrate his harsh exterior and subsequently has a delightful stay with him and her best friend, young Peter the goat-herd.Dete returns 3 years later to bring Heidi to Frankfurt as a companion of a 12-year-old invalid girl named Clara Sesemann. Heidi spends a year with Clara, clashing repeatedly with the Sesemanns strict housekeeper Miss Rottenmeier and becoming more and more homesick.Her one diversion is learning to read and write, motivated by her desire to go home and read to Peter s blind grandmother. Heidi s increasingly failing health and several instances of sleepwalking (it is implied that s ...
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Hanging Up by Delia Ephron
Every family has a few hang-ups...
Warm, emotional and sassy - it s like catching up with a girlfriend ELLE
Eve spends her life on the telepone, talking to her sisters, and especially to her father, who, after a life of alcoholism, manic depression, constant telephoning, and intermittent affection, is finally, to everyone s relief, dying. Frightened of death, and a wreck about her own ageing, Eve must look to her past to find out whe really is...to the Mozell family history of three sisters who, after their mother left, had to raise not only themselves, but their father too.
All the family emotions are there - the sibling rivalry, the sadness, the mental illness, the laughter. Vogue
Delia Ephron is blessed with the driest of wits, the tenderest of hearts. Armistead Maupin
This book is in good used condition, no spine creasing. A few small scratches on the cover - very faint.
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