by Susan Stachler with Laura Stachler ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 6, 2018
A sweet story of a strong-willed mother-daughter combo team who stood up to cancer and created a thriving business in the...
A mother-and-daughter team build a cookie business after battling cancer.
As a senior in college, 22-year-old Susan Stachler was looking forward to graduating and starting a career. Meanwhile, her mother, Laura, wanted to start a dessert bakery. Then Susan, whose father had battled cancer, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the same cancer that took the life of her namesake aunt. Suddenly, Susan was thrust into the world of chemotherapy and a debilitating sickness beyond anything she could have imagined. Fortunately, her parents, particularly her mother, were with her every step of the way. As she healed from treatment, Laura hired her to work for her baking cookies, especially the gingersnaps that had helped ease her nausea during chemo. As more people began to discover the delicious cookies, Laura decided to narrow her focus and launched Susansnaps, at Atlanta-based company offering “the ultimate gourmet gingersnap cookie.” In a garage that they transformed into a bakery, Susan and Laura produced thousands of the cookies to be sold at food shows, farmers markets, online, and through retail shops. Eventually, local and then national news sites discovered them, helping to propel the company into the spotlight. Stachler's first-person perspective tells the story of how she fought cancer and won and of how she and her mother persevered through a variety of struggles, both physical and emotional, to create a successful business. Letters written by Laura to her dead sister give another viewpoint to this endearing, occasionally sappy tale of love, hope, and courage. Throughout, the devotion between mother and daughter is palpable. The Stachlers' unwavering dedication to their product is also apparent, which will convince readers that they deserve their success.
A sweet story of a strong-willed mother-daughter combo team who stood up to cancer and created a thriving business in the process.Pub Date: Feb. 6, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4926-3783-7
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Review Posted Online: Oct. 30, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 15, 2017
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by Elie Wiesel & translated by Marion Wiesel ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 16, 2006
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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Well-told and admonitory.
Young-rags-to-mature-riches memoir by broker and motivational speaker Gardner.
Born and raised in the Milwaukee ghetto, the author pulled himself up from considerable disadvantage. He was fatherless, and his adored mother wasn’t always around; once, as a child, he spied her at a family funeral accompanied by a prison guard. When beautiful, evanescent Moms was there, Chris also had to deal with Freddie “I ain’t your goddamn daddy!” Triplett, one of the meanest stepfathers in recent literature. Chris did “the dozens” with the homies, boosted a bit and in the course of youthful adventure was raped. His heroes were Miles Davis, James Brown and Muhammad Ali. Meanwhile, at the behest of Moms, he developed a fondness for reading. He joined the Navy and became a medic (preparing badass Marines for proctology), and a proficient lab technician. Moving up in San Francisco, married and then divorced, he sold medical supplies. He was recruited as a trainee at Dean Witter just around the time he became a homeless single father. All his belongings in a shopping cart, Gardner sometimes slept with his young son at the office (apparently undiscovered by the night cleaning crew). The two also frequently bedded down in a public restroom. After Gardner’s talents were finally appreciated by the firm of Bear Stearns, his American Dream became real. He got the cool duds, hot car and fine ladies so coveted from afar back in the day. He even had a meeting with Nelson Mandela. Through it all, he remained a prideful parent. His own no-daddy blues are gone now.
Well-told and admonitory.Pub Date: June 1, 2006
ISBN: 0-06-074486-3
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Amistad/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2006
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