It’s been really crazy for me this week. So many school supplies and uniforms to shop. Having to change my summer routine into school time routine. I have so many schedules to keep up, I’m just glad I’m not working full time yet. My child in kindergarten is on half-day, so I make 3 rountrips to school. Carpool line is not long enough to really finish a decent chapter in a book, but on the other hand, I like getting out of the carpool line fast. Lots of crazy people in the line. Some would stop in the middle of the drop-off lane for no apparent reason than they’re finishing their mascara. How’s your week like?

Thank you so much for visiting my site. It’s a pleasure to read the comments for the story and the contest entries. Keep coming guys. If you didn’t win this time around, I’ll have many more books up for contest, one of these days, it’s going to be your turn.

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The Target: Love, Death and Airline Deregulation
by J. R. Hauptman
Paperback, 320 Pages
List Price: $19.98
Published in 2009
ISBN-10: 1-4363-0934-4

8. Robert Cunningham

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A Full House But Empty
by Angus Munro
Paperback, 268 Pages
List Price: $20.95
Published in 2007
ISBN-10: 0-595-43719-2

3. LuAnn Morgan

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A Better View of Paradise: A Novel
by Randy Sue Coburn
Hardcover, 368 Pages
List Price: $25.00
Published in 2009
ISBN-10: 0-345-49036-3
Publisher: Ballantine Books

This contest came with a very good story. So fun to read. So make sure to check it out here.

35. MJ

Tags: Angus Munro, J. R. Hauptman, Randy Sue Coburn

A Full House But Empty
by Angus Munro
Paperback, 268 Pages
List Price: $20.95
Published in 2007
ISBN-10: 0-595-43719-2

About the book:
Product Description
Filled with anecdotes, lessons learned, and an inspirational message for everyone, who believes that hard work breeds success, this moving autobiography shares the remarkable story of Angus Munro.

Munro is just three when he suffers from appendicitis and spends several weeks in a Vancouver hospital as his family struggles to survive the Great Depression. After finally arriving home, Munro asks his sister, “Where is Mummy?” and is promptly told his mother doesn’t live there anymore. It is this traumatic event that changes the course of Munro’s life forever. His father is suddenly a single parent while simultaneously turning into Munro’s mentor and hero. He teaches Munro the motto, “Always do the right thing,” while raising his children in an environment that is at the very least hectic, and more often completely chaotic.

Through a potpourri of chronological and heartfelt tales, Munro reveals how he learned to view incidents in life in terms of responsibility, recognition, personal conduct, and consideration for others. Despite dropping out of school at a young age, Munro perseveres, eventually attaining professional success.

Munro’s memoir is a wonderful tribute to his father’s legacy and the greatest lesson of all—Whatever you do, follow through.

*****Guest Post*****

The Great Depression Versus Today
By Angus Munro

As a follow-up to my published book, A Full House – But Empty, I have been requested to make a comparison of the Great Depression versus today. I must preface the fact that I was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1930. Thus, growing up in the depth of those difficult Depression years until WWII started for the then British Empire in 1939. When I was three years old my parents separated and my two sisters and I being solely raised by our father. My older sister was six years old and my younger sister was still an infant.

Needless to say, those were very difficult and painful trying years for our small family. My father could only obtain sporadic employment and mostly dependent on the Welfare Assistance Program. Fortunately, to assist my father, the Provincial Social Services provided two ladies, who took turns taking care of our daily housekeeping and the needs of we children. When I was seven (1937) our situation greatly improved in terms of having a more desirable environmentally home situation. We moved with another single father who had five children ranging in age from seven to sixteen.

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