Days That End In Y

Clarissa tries to find her happily-ever-after in this clever, heartfelt follow-up to Love Is a Four-Letter Word! One summer. That's all the time it takes to set your world spinning -- or so Clarissa learns. Feeling abandoned by Mattie (camp), Benji (drama school), and even Michael (babysitting), Clarissa feels even more alone when her mother tells her she's marrying Doug. This announcement gets Clarissa thinking about her father, and her search for answers leads to her stumbling upon information about the secret teenage life of her mother, and more importantly, about Bill, her absentee father. Things get complicated when she spots a man who looks a lot like Bill. Approaching him winds up revealing a whole world of surprises that threaten to shake her image of her mother forever. Will Clarissa be able to move beyond the past and take part in Annie's vision of the future? Happily ever after has never seemed so impossible.

About the Book Cancer Only Sucks on Days That End In Y is a combination of a memoir of our exploits battling this disease and a manual for friends and families who find themselves thrust into the wonderful (NOT) world of cancer. This touching and often hilarious story combines flashbacks from journal entries and advice on how to tackle The Monster. Whether you, a family member, friend or neighbor has a child who is facing a life-threatening illness, this book can serve as your insiders look into how one navigates those treacherous waters.

Loose Screws is a collection of sixty-nine amusing, often touching, anecdotes from the life of a Bronx boy who has lived and traveled throughout the world. The author, Gerry Tortorelli, is a retired business executive, who immigrated to Switzerland in his thirties with his young family. With stints in England and Canada and frequent visits to the family roots in Italy, his stories explore many cultures. Whether it be the story of how his sister celebrates Christmas in The Twelve Weeks of Advent, or how German words can be misinterpreted in English in A Good Fahrt.and a Douche, the anecdotes have a personal touch with which the reader can connect. A 22-year-old grudge is settled in the story Toothpaste, Mayonnaise, and Big Ben while fundraising for a new church in Canada is detailed in A Pregnant Nun and a Chicken at Mass. Not far away from any story, is Gerrys wife (the Queen), his daughters (the Princesses), and his serf sons-in-law. Loose Screws is a unique view of a life through the eyes of the one who lived it, a kid from the Bronx.

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