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Katherine Center

Författare till Things You Save in a Fire

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Katherine Center is a New York Times bestselling author. She started wrting in elementary school with her focus being on poems, essays, and stories. She won a creative writing scholarship in high school, and then went on to major in creative writing at Vassar College, where she won the Vassar visa mer College Fiction Prize. At 22, she won a fellowship to the University of Houston¿s Creative Writing Program and moved home to Texas. She struggled for a decade with her writing before she wrote her first novel, The Bright Side of Disaster, which hit the bestseller lists. Katherine's writing reflects her belief that joy is as important as sorrow. Her stories are all about finding ways to savor life's moments of grace. Her other title's include: How to Walk Away, Husband, and Happiness for Beginners. Her work has appeared in People, USA Today, Vanity Fair and Redbook. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Katherine Center

Things You Save in a Fire (2019) 1,100 exemplar
The Bodyguard (2022) 1,017 exemplar
How to Walk Away (2018) 996 exemplar
What You Wish For (2020) 531 exemplar
The Bright Side of Disaster (2007) 412 exemplar
Happiness for Beginners (2015) 386 exemplar
Everyone Is Beautiful (2009) 369 exemplar
Hello Stranger (2023) 363 exemplar
The Lost Husband (2013) 260 exemplar
Get Lucky (2010) 221 exemplar
The Rom-Commers: A Novel (2024) 19 exemplar
Milion nowych chwil (2019) 1 exemplar

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Reader's Digest Select Editions 2020 v07 #375 (2020) — Författare — 1 exemplar

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Center, Katherine Pannill
Födelsedag
1972-03-04
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Bostadsorter
Houston, Texas, USA
Utbildning
Vassar College
University of Houston
Yrken
writer

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Hannah Brooks has a unique job that most people would never suspect. She is an executive protection agent aka elite bodyguard. So, she wasn't surprised when she was assigned to protect a famous actor, Jack Stapleton from a stalker while he is in Texas visiting his family. She soon finds herself pretending to be his girlfriend to avoid worrying his mother who is receiving treatment for cancer. What could possibly go wrong when you are pretending to date someone? This is an enjoyable, fun read for those who enjoy romantic comedies.

Thank you NetGalley and St Martin's Press for sending this book for review
consideration. All opinions are my own.
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marquis784 | 64 andra recensioner | Mar 12, 2024 |
Sadie Montgomery is a struggling portrait artist who lives in the "extra space" of a store owned by her best friend's parents' store. Susan has been her best friend since college and appreciates the assistance as she lost the financial support of her father, Richard Montgomery, a respected cardiothoracic surgeon, when she refused to go to medical school. He discouraged her from pursuing art as an occupation like her mother who died prematurely from a brain tumor. Her relationship with her father became further strained after he married a woman named Lucinda whose daughter, Parker, coincidentally, bullied Sadie through high school. The last person Sadie wanted to seek help from would be her father until a terrible accident occurs just before the deadline of the North American Portrait Society competition where she is a finalist with a substantial financial award.

Unfortunately, Sadie has a seizure while crossing the street where Joe saves her from being struck by a car. Sadie wakes up in the hospital unable to see faces. She is extremely confused as to what happened to her. Testing revealed she had a rare brain cavernoma tumor resulting in "temporary" facial blindness. She is panicked given that her financial well-being is solely dependent on her ability to see faces and is desperate to finish her project for the portrait competition. With the help of friends and eventually her father she discovers a way to "see" so that she might be able to return to her art. It wouldn't be a romantic comedy without the confusion of Sadie's attraction to her dog Peanuts' vet. Her obsession has her bringing the dog to the doctor more often than needed until she is persuaded to meet up with the man who saved her in the street after her accident. She feels incredibly vulnerable mistaking people as she cannot clearly see anyone's face, including Parker who finds this an opportune time to embarrass and humiliate her. Sadie finds a way to humor herself through all these missteps and discovers that sometimes you can "see" better without your vision.

Thank you to St Martin's Press and NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this novel. My opinions are voluntary and unbiased.
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marquis784 | 36 andra recensioner | Mar 5, 2024 |
#thingsyousavebook

First off, thank you to St. Martin's Press for sending me the ARC of this book. I had not heard of this author nor read any of her other books and now I will be adding her to my list!

This book is about Cassie Hanwell, a firefighter in Austin, Texas. The book starts with her and her fellow Austin firefighters at an awards banquet where she is receiving an award. When they announce the person who will be giving her award to her, she has a bit of an anxiety attack because it brings back a moment as a teenager with this person that she had suppressed because it was so horrible.

After she receives her award, she ends up going to visit her mom in Boston and finding a job as a firefighter in a town north of Boston. She finds it very difficult to fit in with the all-male squad she joins. Her first day there, a firefighter rookie starts and he comes from a long line of firefighters in his family. She can't compete with that, but she has to.

This book is about life, love, forgiveness, acceptance and courage.
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Cathie_Dyer | 102 andra recensioner | Feb 29, 2024 |
I received this ebook from NetGalley. The book publishes in July 2020.

This book takes place in Galveston, Texas. It is about the story of Sam (Samantha) Casey, the librarian at Kempner School. The school is run (and was founded) by Max and Babette Kempner. When someone in the school community passes away, they find themselves with a new principal, Duncan Carpenter. Duncan and Sam worked with each other years before. She had feelings for him but it was not mutual. Sam was thrilled to learn that Duncan would be their new principal because he was fun, goofy and she thought he would be a good fit. He changed a lot from when they worked together - even going so far as not remembering her. He makes several changes at the school that do not go over well resulting in a bit of animosity between Sam and Duncan.

This book is about joy and finding joy, feeling joy, experiencing joy. I did not like this book as much as Things You Save in a Fire. This book seemed a bit overdone and I found myself skipping over some of the dialogue.
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Cathie_Dyer | 63 andra recensioner | Feb 29, 2024 |

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ISBN
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