Where The Heart Is (unabridged)

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Summary: Heart-Touching Book
Review: I absolutly loved "Where the Heart Is". Billie Letts is one of the most talented authors I have ever read. She truly knows how to bring a story to life. The story was so real I could imagine myself actually knowing Novalee. Her down to earth style is really unique. I have recommended this book to several friends.

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Summary: A moving tale of how people should treat each other
Review: This was a great book! I was a little skeptical at first, but the warmth of the characters and the way they opened up to each other was inspirational. It made me want to move out of L.A. and head for a small town, where I could find people like that!

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Summary: Letts Really Hits Home With This One!
Review: A Walker Percy Award Winner, this believable down-home tale will melt over your senses like warm butter over thick grits! Letts tells the story of a young pregnant girl who is left stranded by her boyfriend in a small town at Wal-Mart. She lives in the store until the night she gives birth to her baby in the middle of the Wal-Mart floor. When the secret of her living, sleeping, eating, and having a baby in Wal-Mart gets out, Novalee Nation becomes an instant headliner! The people in the town fall in love with this seventeen-year old girl and her miracle baby. What she finds in this town full of strangers who open up their hearts to her is a place she can call home. Novalee is full of life and positive spirit. She is determined and overcomes each obstacle thrown her way by never giving up. Through losing her boyfriend, losing her baby, losing her best friend, and losing her job, Novalee still marches on. This book can be read easily in one sitting, no complex words or lengthy paragraphs, just an unpredictable plot full of wonderfully descriptive narative and infectiously endearing characters. Where the Heart Is can be read, understood, and loved by the whole family!

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Summary: Letts Hits Really Hits Home With This One!
Review: From the first words of Billie Letts' Walker Percy Award Winning novel, I was hooked! Letts tell the story of a young pregnant girl named Novalee Nation who is left stranded by her boyfriend at a Wal- Mart in small town. Seventeen year old Novalee gives birth to Americus Nation in the same Wal-Mart with the help of the town librarian. She and Americus are taken in by a dear old lady by the name of Mother Husband. From this point on Billie Letts packs the book with excitement and makes the reader wonder what will happen next. Overcoming one obstacle after another, Novalee never gives up. Through losing her boyfriend, losing her baby, losing her best friend, and losing her job, Novalee still marches on. This book can be read easily and in one-sitting, no hard words or complex paragraphs, just an unpredictable plot full of wonderfully descriptive events carried out by the infectiously endearing Novalee Nation. Where the Heart Is can be read, understood, and loved by the whole family!

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Summary: A Walker Percy Award Winner
Review: From the first words of Billie Letts' Where the Heart Is, I was hooked. Letts tell the story of a young pregnant girl named Novalee Nation who is left stranded by her boyfriend at a Wal- Mart in small town. Seventeen year old Novalee gives birth to Americus Nation in the same Wal-Mart with the help of the town librarian. She and Americus are taken in by a dear old lady by the name of Mother Husband. From this point on Billie Letts packs the book with excitement and makes the reader wonder what will happen next. Overcoming one obstacle after another, Novalee never gives up. Through losing her boyfriend, losing her baby, losing her best friend, and losing her job, Novalee still marches on. This book can be read easily and in one-sitting, no hard words or complex paragraphs, just an unpredictable plot full of wonderfully descriptive events carried out by the infectiously endearing Novalee Nation. Where the Heart Is can be read, understood, and loved by the whole family!

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Summary: A heart touching novel
Review: After reading "Where the Heart is," I highly recommend this book to others. This was one of the most heart touching novels I have ever read. You follow along reading about a seventeen year old girl stranded at a Wal-Mart. She is pregnant with no where to turn, or so she thinks. This novel is about the courage of this young girl and how she grows to be an amazing women. She faces many struggles and overcomes her fears. This book will teach you about many real life problems. One of my favorite novels from the Opera Book Club, it will truly jerk a tear.

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Summary: Triumph of an unlikely 17-year-old heroine in small town
Review: It was a bit embarrassing to find myself crumbling to tears at the end of the book - good tears, though. The characters in this book come to life and you are wrapped up in the smallest gains that Novalee makes and the refreshing honesty and naivete she has. Her friends are the type of people you would normally think strange or perhaps avoid but always wonder about. This story in the heart of our nation makes even this Californian believe that there is diversity in the center of the country. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a heart and a need for sweet endings.

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Summary: Opening my eyes to a different world
Review: The entire book was a joy to read and it took me on a journey. I was hardly able to do anything else while I was traveling into the world of Novalee Nation, the main character. I learned of a different part of America in this book, not just the landscape, but the people and their motives. To move from the innocence of youth into frightening and sometime disheartening adulthood in one giant leap made me realize so much I have to look forward to and the things I have already experienced. In some books you tend to fall in love with the characters and this was a great example of that type of novel. Billie Letts did a great job on this book and I look forward to future endeavors from her.

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Summary: Nice story about how friends can be family
Review: I really liked the ways the book represented that friends can take the place of a family and actually become your family. Each relationship was unique and touching.

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Summary: BEST BOOK I EVER READ
Review: This was an amazing book! I got so involved in the plot and wanted it to go on forever. I only wished the book was longer because I wanted to know more about Novalee and Americus.