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    Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
    Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
    Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
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    Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss

    Written by Jenna Bush Hager

    Narrated by Jenna Bush Hager

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    About this audiobook

    Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today show, shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandparents and the wisdom they passed on that has shaped her life.

    To the world, George and Barbara Bush were America’s powerful president and influ­ential first lady. To Jenna Bush Hager, they were her beloved Gampy and Ganny, who taught her about respect, humility, kindness, and living a life of passion and meaning—timeless lessons that continue to guide her.

    In Midland, Texas, Jenna’s maternal grandparents, Harold and Jenna Welch—Pa and Grammee—a home builder and homemaker, lived a quieter life outside the national spotlight. Yet their influence was no less indelible to their granddaughter. Throughout Jenna’s childhood and adolescence, the Welches taught her the name of every star in the sky, the way a dove uses her voice—teaching her to appreciate the beauty in the smallest things.

    Now the mother of three young children, Jenna pays homage to her grandparents in this collection of heartwarming, intimate personal essays. Filled with love, laughter, and unforgettable stories, Everything Beautiful in Its Time captures the joyous and bittersweet nature of life itself. Jenna reflects on the single year in which she and her family lost Barbara and George H. W. Bush, and Jenna Welch. With the light, self-deprecating charm of the bestselling Sisters First—cowritten with her twin sister, Barbara—Jenna reveals how they navigated this difficult period with grace, faith, and nostalgic humor, uplifted by their grandparents’ sage advice and incomparable spirits.

    In this moving book, Jenna remembers the past, cherishes the present, and prepares for the future—providing a wealth of anecdotes and lessons for her own children and all of us. Poignant and humorous, intimate and sincere, Everything Beautiful in Its Time is a warm and wonderful celebration of the enduring power of family and an exploration of the things that truly matter most.

    “As long as I’m alive, my grandparents will not be forgotten. . . . I hear their voices in the letters they sent me and in my memories. They offer comfort, support, and guidance, and I will listen to them always.”

    Editor's Note

    Intimate and funny…

    Jenna Bush Hager has an impressive resume: TODAY show cohost, founder of the #ReadWithJenna book club, and former first daughter and granddaughter. Now, she adds a moving memoir to her accomplishments. In “Everything Beautiful in Its Time,” Hager shares intimate — and often funny — stories about her loving grandparents, and how their wisdom and service helped shape her into the woman she is today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateSep 8, 2020
    ISBN9780062960665
    Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
    Author

    Jenna Bush Hager

    Jenna Bush Hager is the cohost of the fourth hour of the Today show with Hoda Kotb and the founder of the Today book club, Read with Jenna. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Everything Beautiful in Its Time and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling Ana’s Story and two children’s books—Our Great Big Backyard and Read All About It—which she wrote with her mother, Laura, as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Sisters First, written with her sister, Barbara, in both adult and children’s editions. She lives with her husband and three children in New York City.

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    • 4/5
      Perfectly decent autobiography covering all his career highlights, many of which I had forgotten - such as his time with The The or Modest Mouse. Marr was 23 when The Smith broke up which is astonishing. Plenty of namedropping, but he's mostly self-effacing and chuffed to have found himself where he is. Grateful for everything, but proud of the hard work he put in. It's a tough combination to pull off in an memoir, but I think he does it. Solidly entertaining, even if it has none of the flair of his main career.
    • 5/5
      It was a great read. I could not put it down

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    • 4/5
      Everything beautiful in it's time by Jenna Bush HagerLike the stories that go along with the status of being a celebrity because your relatives are presidents.The touching warm moments that happen to a regular person also hit home as the same things matter to us regular people and we trasure what we have.Life is a lot different but the same... I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
    • 4/5
      Beautiful memoir that made me cry a few times as Hagar reflects on her grandparents.