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More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local...

Preeti was barely six years old when doctors diagnosed her deteriorating vision as a condition due to optic atrophy. Those were difficult days but with the support and encouragement of her parents she learnt to get the best out of her disability. She looked for possibilities, focused on every positive she could dream of, always playing her best shot at facing challenges and failures with dignity and without shame.

The year: 2006. The setting: Littleton, Colorado. For 20 years, a New York Times best-selling author - a wealthy, globe-trotting entrepreneur - is on the loose. Who will snag him? Meet Barbara Lynn - a first-grade teacher by day, a divorced, single mom by night. This true love story chronicles the impossibly mismatched couple’s unlikely romance: Steve Vannoy lives in a mansion; Barb lives in a tract house built with garage sale money. Goodbye normal.