My father had died of a heart attack five years earlier, and I wanted to move closer to my mother so I could keep an eye on her, in case she needed anything. When I had started with the firm, the phone bill, along with the electric bill and office expenses, had been paid from the firm’s general receipts.

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I felt VanLiere really took the time to personalize each of the main characters and I could really feel for them. The book is basically A Christmas Carol without any of the badass ghosts. When a chance encounter brings the boy and the lawyer to the same department store check-out line, Robert learns something beautiful about the true meaning of Christmas. Doris had learned that it wasn’t the size or cost of a home that created kind, well-adjusted children, but the love and attention that filled that home. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Well I'll give it this much - the book is better than the song. Completely recommend! Eight year old Nathan has a beloved mother, Maggie, whom he is losing to cancer. Miracles come in all shapes and sizes, and at any time of the year, yet it's always the small, day-to-day ones ( the laughter of a child, or the heart-warming smile of a stranger) that are always the best. A chance meeting on Christmas Even brings Robert and Nathan together-he is shopping for a family he hardly knows and Nathan is shopping for a mother he is soon to lose. The character development (if you could call it that) of secondary characters serves little p. This was given to me as a gag gift, and (spoiler alert!) I had been at Mathers, Williams & Hurst for thirteen years. Really? I like books that inspire me to love my family more and to appreciate them and this book did exactly that.
But it just wasn't what I was looking for, so I think I might be being overly critical. She whispered a silent prayer for God to draw near and wrap the little boy in His arms.

The Christmas Shoes is a universal story of the deeper meaning of serendipity, a tale of our shared humanity, and of how a power greater than ourselves can shape, and even save, our lives. Most people have heard the song, but the book is even better! Compared with the boisterous natures of the twenty-five other eight-year-olds in her class, Nathan’s measured, serious disposition was, almost in a sad way, beyond his years. Donna VanLiere.

Somehow my position within the firm as “the associate who helped with bankruptcy cases” changed over the years to “our bankruptcy associate.” After I got over my initial disappointment and accepted that my dream of becoming a hotshot courtroom brawler was not going to play out (the bankruptcy cases that made it as far as the courtroom were invariably simple presentations of fact, never the in-your-face litigating tours de force I’d always dreamed of performing), I buried myself in the bankruptcy files to impress the partners.

What a great way to start off the holiday season. ;) But the story was great and it was a real heart felt book. It will remind you of what's really important in your life. “I’m thirty-eight years old. Somehow the gentle hug or extra playtime she’d given over the years to children who had lost a precious pet or extended family member seemed inadequate, even inappropriate. She's an in-demand conference speaker and gifted teacher and has 14 published books including four that have been adapted into movies. It reminded me a lot of the theme expressed in Jimmy Stewart's movie, It's a Wonderful Life. So naturally she recommended The Christmas Shoes.

Two couples find their lives transformed by a Christmas gift in VanLiere's debut novel, a gooey holiday parable that leaves no stone unturned in its pursuit of tear-jerking moments.
The Christmas Table: A Novel (Christmas Hope Book 11). After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. The Christmas Shoes (Christmas Hope Series #1, Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2020, Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2017, Donna has once again succeeded in bringing a tear to my eye and a smile to my heart. So much love showed through in the attitudes and generosity each character showed towards others. This was given to me as a gag gift, and (spoiler alert!)

Narrator Michael Prichard is a nationally acclaimed keynote speaker praised by the Wall Street Journal, CNN and Time for his ability to use humor to inspire and educate his audiences on communication skills. My wife Kate’s family lived only three hours away, so she couldn’t have been more pleased when I took the job.

The Christmas Shoes is my first book by Donna VanLiere. Read this for a readalong with Elizabeth from LizzieFayelovesbooks.

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