false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172111849m/139605.jpg 139605 3 After surviving a near-fatal accident, thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell faces a long road to recovery. She remembers little about the days she spent in and out of consciousness, save for one thing: She saw her beloved deceased uncle, Father Mike, the man who raised her in the rectory of his Maine church until she was nine, at which time she was abruptly sent away to boarding school. Was Father Mike an angel, a messenger from the beyond, or something more corporeal? Though her troubled marriage and her broken body need tending, Lizzy knows she must uncover the details of her accident–and delve deep into events of twenty years before, when whispers and accusations forced a good man to give up the only family he had. With deft insight into the snares of the human heart, Monica Wood has written an intimate and emotionally expansive novel full of understanding and hope. 2757149 2005 Any Bitter Thing: A Novel total:426|5:83|4:187|3:117|2:35|1:4| 426 1588 707 94 4 3 false false Thu Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 12:25:05 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 12:39:31 -0800 2008 1
I could not put it down my entire trip back to Utah.

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Lizzy is hit by a teenager who left her to die. Miraculously, she is re...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 14 14:38:34 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 18 14:21:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 15 17:41:25 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 17:45:08 -0800 2009 Amy and Isabelle - not in a bad way, but that sort of wistful, what the hell is happening, musing on friendship and relations between a parent and child tone to both books. This one turns to have a long-ago mystery embedded in i...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 14:53:01 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 20:50:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 21:05:02 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 21:07:28 -0800 2009
"The opposite of God is not Satan. The opposite of God is not evil. The opposite of God is absence."

This is a great book about a priest who gets custody of his niece when her parents die and this book looks at how abuse accusations lead to...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 17:03:07 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 10:58:32 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 04 19:36:42 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 19:40:52 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Feb 25 19:12:04 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 19:16:15 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jul 05 16:34:37 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 16:34:37 -0700 2009 It was also refreshing to read a story about a priest who didn't molest little children.]]> 3 0 false false Fri Dec 19 09:36:13 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 09:40:15 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 08:28:43 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 16:47:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 12:59:38 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 13:10:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 16 20:02:44 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 20:05:45 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Apr 23 08:00:24 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 08:01:51 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 12:57:54 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 13:16:34 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 13:06:19 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 12:25:47 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=139605