02340cam a2200385 4500 69259928 TxAuBib 20101025120000.0 100612t20102004||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780345520807 0345520807 (OCoLC)419796793 TxAuBib Hannah, Kristin. The things we do for love : a novel / Kristin Hannah. Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2010. ©2004. 418 p. ; 21 cm. Random House reader's circle Reprint with new reader's guide. Previously published: New York : Ballantine Books, 2004. Includes preview of "Summer Island" [p.401-418]. Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria's heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family's restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie's fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman. Angie hires Lauren Ribido because she sees something special in the seventeen-year-old. They quickly form a deep bond, and when Lauren is abandoned by her mother, Angie offers the girl a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. Together, these two women-one who longs for a child and the other who longs for a mother's love-will be tested in ways that neither could have imagined. A poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love. 20160912. Restaurants Fiction. Divorced women Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Restaurateurs Fiction. Aging parents Fiction. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Random House reader's circle. TXDRI