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The Gift | 
 enlarge | Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Rating:  81 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 038531292X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385312929
Publication Date: June 1, 1994
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Condition: NEW/As New; Type: USED 208 PAGES. Steel deviates sharply from her usual romance formula in this tender if sometimes sappy story about bad things happening to good people. It's 1952, and the Whittakers are the perfect happy family. But when five-year-old Annie dies of meningitis the day after Christmas, their lives fall apart. Teenager Tommy begins frequenting a diner where he meets 16-year-old waitress Maribeth Robertson, who's pregnant and has been thrown out of her home. The two lonely adolescents slowly fall in love; Tommy offers to marry Maribeth, but she refuses, claiming that they are too young to be parents; she plans to give the child up for adoption. Meanwhile, Tommy's parents have drifted far apart, but the fear that their son may soon be a father temporarily reunites them. Eventually, the Whittakers, parents and son, help Maribeth to cope with her pregnancy and her family's rejection, while she helps them accept the death of their beloved Annie. Reading more like a novella
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Product Description
On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget.
The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house. And on a tree-lined street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold. And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged with purpose. A happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death. A loving marriage starts to unravel. And a stranger arrives a young woman who will touch many lives before she moves on. She and a young man will meet and fall in love. Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family's dreams. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them.
The Gift, Danielle Steel's thirty-third best-selling work, is a magical story told with stunning simplicity and power. It reveals a relationship so moving it will take your breath away. And it tells a haunting and beautiful truth about the unpredictability and the wonder of life.
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 Fabulous Book December 16, 2008
C. J. Diehl (Pennsylvania)
This is a wonderful tearjerking story. I will be recommending to all my friends.. Paperback is in great condition.
different ages would love THE GIFT of the story! July 5, 2008
M. D. Guzman (Baltimore, MD)
I was only 11y/o when I read the book.It's also the first D.Steel's book that I read!Im already 26 y/o and some of the lines still lingers in my mind.."Some people aren't meant to live in our lives forever...some just passes by to give us a GIFT."..etc. My sister also read it and she also love it.On some days, we would still talk about Maribeth and her story! That's how the movie striked me! It's a simple, short story but you'll definitely love it!
Amazing!! June 28, 2007
Patience Gray (Valparaiso, Indiana)
This is the ONLY Danielle Steel book I have ever gotten into. It's a real tearjerker, and I have read it 5 times and I can read it another 5 times, it's that good!!!
 Amazing! April 8, 2007
Shantelle Maxwell (Lost in the City, USA)
Danielle Steel is simply Brilliant! I sincerely recommend this novel to anyone who has ever lost someone they love!
Great book!! June 16, 2006
Kelli Nelson (Bay Area, CA)
My mom told me about this book so i decided to give it a chance since I am not a big fan of romance novels. I read this book in a couple days and when I got to the end I cried for a long time. I have told everyone I know to read this book. They all tell me how much they loved it and how it made them cry also. I would recommend this book to everyone.
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