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#1 New York Times bestselling author and renowned radio and television host Glenn Beck delivers an instant Christmas classic about boyhood memories, wrenching life lessons, and the true meaning of the gifts we give to one another in love.
If you could change your life by reversing your biggest regrets, sorrows, and mistakes...would you?
When Eddie was twelve years old, all he wanted for Christmas was a bike. He knew money had been tight since his father died, but Eddie dreamed that somehow his mother would find a way to afford that dream bike.
What he got from her instead was a sweater. A stupid, handmade, ugly sweater that young Eddie left in a crumpled ball in the corner of his room.
Scarred deeply by the fateful events that transpired that day, Eddie begins a dark and painful journey toward manhood. It will take wrestling with himself, his faith, and his family--and the guidance of a mysterious neighbor named Russell--to help Eddie find his life's path and finally understand the significance of that simple gift his mother had crafted with love.
Author Notes
Glenn Beck was born on February 10, 1964 in Everett, Washington. He is a radio and television host, and conservative political commentator. His nationally-syndicated radio show, The Glenn Beck Program, airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks.
He has written numerous non-fiction books including An Inconvenient Book, Being George Washington, Control: Exposing the Truth about Guns, Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America, and Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America, and Addicted to outrage: How thinking like a recovering addict can heal the country. His fiction books include The Christmas Sweater, The Snow Angel, Agenda 21, The Overton Window, The Eye of Moloch and Agenda 21: Into the Shadows which made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015.. His title It IS about Islam also made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. The Immortal Nicholas was published in (2015. Liars became a New York Times bestseller in 2016.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Beck channels his softer side to offer a Christmas parable featuring 12-year old Eddie, whose hopes for a shiny new bicycle for Christmas are dashed when he finds an ugly, handmade sweater waiting for him under the tree. Eddie pitches a fit, dismaying his hardworking single mother-but will he regret his ingratitude when older? Naturally. There are no surprises in this contrived story, which is further doomed by Beck's ham-handed and histrionic reading. The maudlin material would have been better served by a seasoned narrator capable of conveying believability and evoking genuine feeling. A Threshold hardcover. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
New York Review of Books Review
FROM "TESTING THE ICE" THE TRUE GIFT A Christmas Story. By Patricia MacLachlan. Illustrated by Brian Floca. Atheneum. $12.99. (Ages 7 and up) On their annual visit to their grandparents' farm, a brother and sister are saddened to see the obviously lonely White Cow on her own in a pasture. (MacLachlan, the Newbery Medalwinning author of "Sarah, Plain and Tall," neatly begins the story from the cow's point of view.) How the brother uses his Christmas money to find White Cow some friends, and how his sister, the narrator, feels about that, shapes the affecting and almost dreamlike happy ending. THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS Illustrated by Gennady Spirin. Marshall Cavendish. $16.99. (Ages 4 to 8) Along with the verses of this durable carol, a note provides background: though some believe the song holds "hidden Christian meanings" (with the partridge as Jesus), on the surface the growing list of fantastic items makes more sense as a children's memory game (another theory). Either way, Spirin's opulent illustrations perfectly suit the French hens, milking maids and golden rings. THE CHRISTMAS SWEATER By Glenn Beck. Illustrated by Brandon Dorman. Aladdin/Mercury Radio Arts. $17.99. (Ages 4 to 7) It's Christmas Eve and a boy is dreaming of a shiny new bicycle. Instead he's told he'll get a sweater knitted by his mother, and is crestfallen; but with his parents standing by, in the end he gets both the sweater and the bike. Strangely, this book is adapted from Beck's novel of the same name, in which a widow dies in a car accident and her son overcomes his bitterness with the help of just the sweater. Along the way, a message seems to have gotten mixed. TESTING THE ICE A True Story About Jackie Robinson. By Sharon Robinson. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Scholastic. $16.99. (Ages 7 to 10) Jackie Robinson's daughter builds a charming story around a childhood memory: the time her father stepped out on their frozen pond to test the ice for the first skating of the season. You see friends and family waiting anxiously, since they know he can't swim. (Nelson's close-ups expertly provide suspense as the ice goes "Boom!" - but holds.) With the basics of his biography efficiently woven in, this is a lovely introduction to a baseball legend. THE TEEN VOGUE HANDBOOK An Insider's Guide to Careers in Fashion. Razorbill. $24.95. (Ages 12 and up) This book isn't quite what you expect: it's not about modeling or makeup, but a how-to for teenagers who are genuinely interested in fashion and want to know how the business works. True, the profiles of people like Marc Jacobs are inherently glamorous, but the advice of the designers, editors and other insiders is refreshingly practical for the just-starting-out. Here's the photographer Mario Testino on the ideal assistant: "humble, funny and well mannered," putting "no limit" on how much he or she is willing to work. Real-world advice for would-be fashion stars in tough times. FROM "THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS" ALEX RIDER Crocodile Tears. By Anthony Horowitz. Philomel/Penguin. $17.99. (Ages 10 and up) Alex Rider's eighth adventure is one of his most ingenious, and if suitably over the top for MI6's sole teenage spy, it puts him in a world adults might recognize, with high-rolling bad guys and charities that turn out to be scams (the apt subtitle also foreshadows a terrific scary scene alongside an infested African river). The highlight is an escape from atop a gigantic dam as the wall is bursting and bullets and spears are flying. You'll have to read to find out how. JULIE JUST
Library Journal Review
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