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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

Get ready to be transported to a simpler time and place, where the rolling fields of a farm hold untold possibilities. Sarah never imagined that a question to her grandmother would lead her on a quest. But when her grandma reveals the existence of a long-lost book written by her father about his adventures on the farm as a child, Sarah decides to find it. As she reads through the pages, she experiences his childhood through his own words and discovers the boy who became her father. Feel the joy, laughter, and innocence of youth in this nostalgic read—That’s How It Was.

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

A slyly funny and heart-warming tribute to childhood before technology. . . .

Childhood adventures on the family farm come alive in That’s How It Was.

On the last day of a family trip to grandma’s house, Sarah discovers a bit of family treasure – her dad’s letter diaries from many years ago. Through his musings on animals, faith, and career choices, readers join ten-year-old Randy Ray on a journey of exploration and discovery as he contemplates whimsical and not-so-whimsical career choices.

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Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight by Sean Coons

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Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight by Sean Coons

Hope hates her body. She always has. The fact that she’s a graphic artist who manipulates images of women’s bodies for a living only makes matters worse.

Hope’s teenage niece, Lana, has a physique Photoshop can’t touch. But in her dance world, finesse in motion requires mastery of body, which, for Lana, spirals into obsession.

Looking into the mirror, Hope and Lana have in mind a continually altering ideal of beauty defined always as thinner than they are in the moment.

Hope turns to her preternaturally trim friend, Lilith, for help. Comedy ensues as Hope mimics Lilith’s alpha female style, storming through life “solving” her problems and losing weight—that is until her new inauthentic persona leads to catastrophe. At her lowest, Hope meets Joy, a quirky mentor offering ancient truths of physical health and spiritual peace that will change Hope’s and Lana’s lives forever.