false 5132224 1 A beautifully written memoir of a family whose mother stores hope in a shoebox.<br><br>As a child, during the cold, dark winter days of the Second World War, the author found hidden beneath a floorboard in his mother’s bedroom closet a well-worn cardboard shoebox.<br><br>At the time he could make little sense of the ragtag things he found inside: cigarette packages, soup-can labels, handbills, calendars, paper bags, pie boxes — any scrap of paper upon which his mother could copy out, in her old-fashioned handwriting, what seemed to be no more than unrelated snippets of Scripture. <br><br>He knew only that the box, which he would later come to think of as the Shoebox Bible, had something to do with the fact that his father had run away from home. Many years would pass, and his mother would be on her deathbed before he would once again hold this treasure in his hands. And only then would he put together the pieces of the puzzle, and learn the complete truth.<br><br>Beautifully and lovingly told, <i>The Shoebox Bible</i> is a wonderful memoir of a precocious family who manage to live and love despite the absence of their father. <br><br>Interspersed with heartbreaking quotations from the Old and New Testaments, this sad, funny, and above all inspiring story will appeal to readers who fell in love with such inspirational books as <i>Tuesdays with Morrie</i> and <i>Mister God, This Is Anna</i>. 5199096 8 8 2006 The Shoebox Bible 0 0 16 0 0 0 false false Wed Nov 25 00:57:03 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:57:03 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 10:19:01 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 10:19:01 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 14:07:59 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:07:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 10:53:07 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 10:53:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 07 08:49:36 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 08:49:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 09 19:47:25 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 19:47:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 09 04:47:55 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 04:47:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 31 17:18:43 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 17:18:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 27 14:40:07 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 14:40:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 27 06:26:14 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 06:27:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 06 15:45:57 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 15:45:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 31 09:50:42 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 09:50:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 14 06:50:34 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 06:50:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 08 03:55:34 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 03:55:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 09 21:38:20 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 21:38:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 18 19:10:14 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 19:10:14 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5132224