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An eleven-year-old Maurice is begging for change on a crowded street of New York City when Laura stops to take Maurice for lunch. It‘s based on a true story on how one act of kindness can change someone‘s life.

Unknowingly, I bought the young readers‘ edition as this was our book club selection at work. It makes you really believe that there are good people in the world and the change it can have a simple act of kindness

Coming from someone who typically reads cheesy romance novels, i LOVED this book.

A perfect choice for the holiday weekend - a true story full of hope, love, trust, and redemption. 🪡🪡🪡

#12Booksof2021 @Andrew65 #August
This is the NF story of a NY professional and a homeless little boy.
Honorable mention Four Lost Cities and The Dictionary of Lost Words

Laura looks back as she leaves work and sees a young boy who asks if she has any change. She not in the habit of giving to homeless, but something about this boy touches her. What transpires is a relationship that remains through many years. I highly recommend

This was such a heartwarming story! Never heard of it but grabbed it on audio from the library.

Such a beautiful and warm story!

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TODAY‘S PROMPT: HUMAN

AN INVISIBLE THREAD is a beautiful book. Have you read it?

“An Invisible Thread is the perfect title for this book. The book brought to the surface that we all have a connection to other human beings even though that connection may not be outwardly visible.”

https://silversolara.blogspot.com/2011/10/invisible-thread-by-laura-schroff.html

This was a lovely story! It gave me all the feels! It‘s amazing how two very different people can come together by chance and have such an impact on each other‘s lives. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is a beautifully woven story of two very different people (a childless woman and a neglected boy) who found each other and formed an unlikely friendship. This will put a smile on your face and tears in your eyes. It reaffirms for those of us who have walked a difficult path that not all deep bonds come from blood relationships. It is the perfect read to get you into the Christmas spirit.

A good story, although it wasn't what I expected.
#greatquotes
"I wanted happy, loving parents who danced waltzes in the living room. I wanted children of my own, desperately. We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn‘t happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what might have been pales against what we have."

A successful New York business woman's chance encounter with an 11 year old boy living a life of extreme poverty and deprivation becomes a powerful friendship that transforms both their lives. Nothing I write here could capture the essence of this book better than Catherine Ryan Hyde's words on the book's cover: "Complex and unswervingly honest, inspirational...this book is capable of restoring our faith in each other."

"It's something I call an invisible thread. It is, as the old Chinese proverb tells us, something that connects two people who are destined to meet, regardless of time and place and circumstance...It is, I believe, what brought Maurice and me to the same stretch of sidewalk in a vast, teeming city - just two people out of eight million, somehow connected, somehow meant to be friends.

An Invisible Thread is about an unusual friendship between two different people, but I think it's about much more than that. It had to do with two people who were destined to meet on the corner of 56th Street and Broadway. Every Monday, that mother got to know her son, and that son learned about his mother. And on those Mondays their hearts were sewn together with an invisible thread."

Although it appears the grown-up is saving the boy, they both save each other and form a beautiful friendship. #sos #whatawaytolive #pirateslife @CrowCAH

#subtitles An Invisible Thread The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
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#TBRtemptation post 4! This is a best-selling memoir that created a lot of buzz for its inspirational message. In 1980s NYC, Laura was a successful ad sales rep & Alex was an 11-year-old street panhandler. He asked for change, & she relented, again & again. They met up nearly every week for years, & their life-changing friendship has continued for 3 decades. One small gesture led to more & moved a nation. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

This book told the true story of how Laura, an advertising executive, and Marcus, an 11 year old street kid, met, became friends, and changed each other's lives. You hear the story of Marcus which is pretty upfront with the dire conditions he grew up in, but you also hear the back story of how Laura's life looked good from the outside, but contained a great deal of abuse from her father on the inside. It was a compelling story. Con't

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This is my current audio read. It's not gripping, but it is engaging.

Current #audiobook

"An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle. But it will never break.”

The power of the human connection. I just started this tonight and I'm hooked. Despite the strength that our past has, our futures can be stronger.

The power of the human connection. I just started this tonight and I'm hooked. Despite the strength that our past has, our futures can be stronger.