{"title":"Monica Wood","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-one-in-a-million-boy","title":"The One-In-A-Million Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Nautilus Award and the New England Society Book Award, Monica Wood's \u003ci\u003eThe One-in-a-Million Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is the incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house—a tale of intergenerational friendship that touches each member of the boy's unmoored family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. 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Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixty-one-year-old woman named Lorraine Daigle…\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this emotional book club fiction, Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn’t yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland—Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman—their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Book\u003c\/i\u003e is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about forgiveness, letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives. 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