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Shelf Life

Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Book store

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

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Shelf Life

Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Book store

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

Suzanne Shea has always loved a good book-and she's written five of them, all acclaimed. In the course of her ten-year career, she's done a good bit of touring, including readings and drop-ins at literally hundreds of bookstores. She never visited one that wasn't memorable. Two years ago, while recovering from radiation therapy, Shea heard from a friend who was looking for help at her bookstore. Shea volunteered, seeing it as nothing more than a way to get out of her pajamas and back into the world. But over next twelve months, from St. Patrick's Day through Poetry Month, graduation/Father's Day/summer reading/Christmas and back again to those shamrock displays, Shea lived and breathed books in a place she says sells'ideas, stories, encouragement, answers, solace, validation, the basic ammunition for daily life.' Her work was briefly interrupted by an author tour that took her to other great bookstores. Descriptions of these and her memories of book-lined rooms reaching all the way back to childhood visits to the Bookmobile are scattered throughout this charming, humorous, and engrossing account of reading and rejuvenation. For anyone who loves books, and especially for anyone who has fallen under the spell of a special bookstore, Shelf Life will be required reading.

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Beacon Press

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0807072591

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9780807072592

Selling the Lite of Heaven

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

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Selling the Lite of Heaven

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

Advertising to sell her engagement ring after being left at the altar by a man who decided to enter the clergy instead, a young woman meets Randy, a recently engaged prospective buyer who keeps coming back to see her.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439122067

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9781439122068

Songs from a Lead-Lined Room

Notes--High and Low--from My Journey through Breast Cancer and Radiation

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

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Songs from a Lead-Lined Room

Notes--High and Low--from My Journey through Breast Cancer and Radiation

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

Songs from a Lead-Lined Room is a unique and remarkable book rooted in truth and raw experience, and the first memoir to focus on the personal experience of radiation treatment. As with Shea's best-selling fiction, her sharp and insightful wit and her reporter's eye for the most telling and sometimes quirky details inform every page. She shares what she learns about the process of her treatment, her bouts of despair, indignity, and fear, as well as the faux pas, the innocent blunders, and the compassion and caring of her family, friends, and fellow patients

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216

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Beacon Press

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080707215X

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9780807072158

Lily of the Valley

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

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Lily of the Valley

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

Lily Wilk always knew she was destined to be an artist -- ever since she pulled a drawing kit from a grab bag on her tenth birthday. Now Lily's work is always in demand around her small Massachusetts town, where she makes her living painting fire hydrants, lettering diplomas, and applying "Gulls" and "Buoys" to restaurant bathroom doors. But when supermarket heiress Mary Ziemba commissions her to paint a family portrait, Lily senses her lifelong dream of creating a memorable masterpiece is finally within her grasp. What she discovers, however, is that dreams often take their own unexpected twists...and with each small and gentle brush stroke she applies to Mary Ziemba's painting, Lily learns more than she ever imagined about the meaning of friendship, family, and love. With a gift for creating fiction that is "rich with an unusual sweetness" (USA Today) and filled with wry humor, bestselling author Suzanne Strempek Shea delivers a poignant and unforgettable work of art in Lily of the Valley.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439122253

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Around Again

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Around Again

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

When Robyn Panek is summoned by her ailing uncle Pal to operate his pony ring for one final season on his Massachusetts farm, her years away form the vacation spot of her youth seem an unbridgeable gap. But she is pulled by forces stronger than memory to piece together the events of that last childhood summer -- when a dark mystery swirled about her friend Lucy Dragon. They called her crazy, and Robyn must at last uncover the truth about Lucy's sudden disappearance -- and make peace with her own first love, Frankie. Now the future of Pal's six ponies, who circle the ring five times for a dollar a ride, is as uncertain as Robyn's own, as she confronts the past she ran from so long ago.

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1439122318

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Lily of the Valley

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Sundays in America

A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

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Sundays in America

A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith

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A spirited, spiritual pilgrimage to different Christian churches for a year of Sundays-from storefronts to mega-churches, from Massachusetts to Maui When Pope John Paul II died, Suzanne Strempek Shea, who had turned away from the Catholic Church of her childhood, recognized in his mourners a faith-filled passion that she wanted to recapture. She set out on a yearlong to visit a different church every Sunday for a year-a journey that would take her through the broad spectrum of contemporary Christianity lived in this country, from her New England home to the West Coast, the Deep South, the Midwest, and even to Hawaii. Beginning with a rousing Baptist Easter service in Harlem, including a sing-along at the Cowboy Church in Colorado's Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame and a multimedia experience at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church, the largest church in the country, Shea approaches each congregation with the curiosity of a newcomer and with respect for each unique expression of faith. Sundays in America weaves the threads of Christianity in America into a vibrant tapestry, an essential guide for those seeking a new house for their worship, as well as a colorful road trip for the armchair explorer.

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Beacon Press

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0807072249

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9780807072240

Songs from a Lead-Lined Room

Notes--High and Low--from My Journey through Breast Cancer and Radiation

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Notes--High and Low--from My Journey through Breast Cancer and Radiation

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Shelf Life

Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Book store

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

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Selling the Lite of Heaven

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1439122067

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Hoopi Shoopi Donna

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Hoopi Shoopi Donna

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Growing up in a small New England town, 14 year-old Donna Milewski had all she needed: a grandmother, Babci, whose fragrant cooking filled their home...her mother, Helen, who lovingly stitched outfits...and Adam, the most wonderful father a daughter could imagine, who dreamed she could one day lead an all-girl polka band. Then came Betty, a tiny and adorable five-year-old, sent from Poland by Adam's destitute brother. Bringing with her only a rubber doll's leg and her old-world charm, Betty became the little sister Donna never had -- and a threat to her father's love. During a long and painful rift, a dance of betrayal and hurt, Donna must look to her beloved polka music for the key to healing.

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1451602677

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Sundays in America

A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith

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A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith

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When Pope John Paul II died, Suzanne Strempek Shea, who had not been an active member of a church community for some years, recognized in his mourners a faith-filled passion that she longed to recapture in her own life. So she set out on a pilgrimage to visit a different church every Sunday for one year-a journey that would take her through the broad spectrum of contemporary Protestant Christianity practiced in this country. From a rousing Easter Baptist service in Harlem, to Colorado's Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame for a sing-along at the Cowboy Church; from a roofless Episcopal church in Hawaii, to a storefront African orthodox church where jazz legend John Coltrane is considered a bona fide saint; from the largest church in the country to a small-town church packed for a Sunday school class taught by Jimmy Carter, Shea toured more than thirty states in search of the meaning of Christian faith to the many who practice it. The result, Sundays in America, is an essential guide for those seeking a new house for their worship as well as a colorful road trip for the armchair explorer.

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0807072257

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Around Again

By: Suzanne Strempek Shea

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Make a Wish But Not for Money

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Make a Wish But Not for Money

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Includes an interview with the author and reading group discussion questions.

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0991427564

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Book's by Suzanne Strempek Shea

Shelf Life

Shelf Life

Selling the Lite of Heaven

Selling the Lite of Heaven

Songs from a Lead-Lined Room

Songs from a Lead-Lined Room

Lily of the Valley

Lily of the Valley

Around Again

Around Again

Lily of the Valley

Lily of the Valley

Sundays in America

Sundays in America

Songs from a Lead-Lined Room

Songs from a Lead-Lined Room

Shelf Life

Shelf Life

Selling the Lite of Heaven

Selling the Lite of Heaven

Hoopi Shoopi Donna

Hoopi Shoopi Donna

Sundays in America

Sundays in America

Around Again

Around Again

Make a Wish But Not for Money

Make a Wish But Not for Money

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