The wish : a novel / Nicholas Sparks.

By:

Sparks, Nicholas

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781538706152
1538706156

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Summary: A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.Summary: In 1996 everything changed Maggie Dawes. Living with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind. She meets Bryce Trickett, handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town, and introduces her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life. By 2019 Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this Christmas Maggie is struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier-- and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined. -- adapted from jacket.

Average rating: 4.0 (1 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Large Type Collection	Large Type Collection	LT SPA	Available		36748002518381

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the author of The Longest Ride and The Return comes a #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the enduring legacy of first love, and the decisions that haunt us forever.

1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she met Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce showed her how much there was to love about the wind-swept beach town--and introduced her to photography, a passion that would define the rest of her life.

By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him.

As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier--and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.

A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.

In 1996 everything changed Maggie Dawes. Living with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind. She meets Bryce Trickett, handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town, and introduces her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life. By 2019 Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this Christmas Maggie is struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier-- and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined. -- adapted from jacket.

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Booklist Review

Maggie Dawes is a successful travel photographer and free spirit who has traveled to scores of countries and every continent. But now, diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and given only months to live, she finds herself reexamining her life. Sparks doesn't sugarcoat cancer and its treatments. Readers will be able to feel the pain, uncertainty, and endless waiting that the disease entails as Maggie tries to find comfort and meaning in her last days. She bravely records Cancer Video, a series of programs, to confront her disease and alert her followers. The shows bring Mark, a kind young man studying theology, to her gallery to apply for a job. As the months pass, Mark and Maggie become close, and she begins to share her life story. The plot flashes back and forth between the weeks building up to Maggie's last Christmas in New York City and her teenage years when her parents sent her to Aunt Linda's home in the Outer Banks to hide an unwanted pregnancy. Aunt Linda, a former nun, had helped teens before, and at her home, Maggie finds the kindness and support her parents didn't provide. She also finds Byrce, a local teen on his way to West Point, who becomes Maggie's tutor and only friend and who introduces her to the magic of the camera. As the two stories finally become one, readers will be drawn into this gentle story of love, regrets, and redemption. Perennially best-selling Sparks has a ready audience, but anyone looking for a sweet story will be enchanted.