Win a copy of Sandra Kring’s new novel, A Life of Bright Ideas
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A secret tore best friends Evelyn “Button” Peters and Winnalee Malone apart. Now, nearly a decade later, a secret brings them back together.
Nine years ago Button and Winnalee began recording observations in their Book of Bright Ideas, a tome they believed would solve the mystery of how to live a mistake-free life. Now it’s 1970, a time of peace, love, war, and personal heartbreak. Button’s mother is dead and her grieving father has all but abandoned his children. Quiet, thoughtful Button has traded college for a sewing job in her mother’s bridal shop to help her Aunt Verdella raise her whirlwind six-year-old brother. In Button’s free time, she writes letters to the boy she loved from afar through high school, hoping he will come to love her as more than a friend.
Then, like that magical Wisconsin summer of ’61, Button is greeted with the wild, gusty arrival of Winnalee. Now a beautiful flower child, Winnalee is everything Button is not. She’s been to Woodstock and enjoys “free love,” but their steadfast bond of friendship is tested as Button begins to notice the cracks in Winnalee’s carefree façade. And then Winnalee’s mother arrives with a surprise that Button never sees coming, and the fiery determination to put things right in both families once and for all.
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Love your work…. <3
Words are like art to me & Sandra Kring is an artist. Personally an electronic devise will Never replace a hard cover book in my hands <3 Also must add that reading is the best past time.
Sincerely,
Amanda
LOVE Sandra Kring! And this book looks like a great read.
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fingers crossed I win:)
Love this author!
I start everyday with Sandra’s words of wisdom and it really makes a diffrence. I can’t wait to read this book!
As a person that is not an avid reader, I am astounded that I cannot seem to put down Sandra’s book Carry Me Home. To grab and keep my attention and cause me to want to continue reading is just about a miracle! Thank you Sandra for the inspiring works you have written! Can’t wait to read more of your books!
Love your work wait to read, if not now with win, summer book club
Love Sandra’s insight, and her wisdom just resonates with me during this stage in my life.
Love what I have got to read from this book <3
Love Sandra’s Facebook posts,would love,love,love to read this book!
I was introduced to Sandra on facebook…Love the inspiration and wisdom she imparts…
Thanks for doing this!
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Your amazing & an inspiration@!
I love reading your FB posts of positive thinking and life directing thoughts. I find myself reflecting on your posts and finding so many ways to apply them to my life or to find encouragement for that day! I am thrilled to be looking forward to your new book….sounds exciting! Thank you for your gift of reaching others through your words!
will find a way to have your first book…Carry Me Home…
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A god given talent to be able to inspire those of us that thought they were to “far gone.” She definitely brightens my future with a new attitude
I am so sorryI missed the contest but I think I will have to get this book. I can certainly relate to this story becaused I have moved several times. er 2-5-2012