
When I Found You
Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde
Narrator: Jeff Cummings
Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 10/08/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Women

Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde
Narrator: Jeff Cummings
Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 10/08/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Women
Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of thirty-three published books. Her bestselling 1999 novel, Pay It Forward, adapted into a major Warner Bros. motion picture, made the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults list and was translated into more than two dozen languages for distribution in more than thirty countries. Her novels Becoming Chloe and Jumpstart the World were included on the ALA’s Rainbow List; Jumpstart the World was also a finalist for two Lambda Literary Awards and won Rainbow Awards in two categories. The Language of Hoofbeats won a Rainbow Award. More than fifty of her short stories have been published in many journals, including the Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and the Sun, and in the anthologies Santa Barbara Stories and California Shorts, as well as the bestselling anthology Dog Is My Co-Pilot. Her short fiction received honorable mention in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, a second-place win for the Tobias Wolff Award, and nominations for Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Three have also been cited in Best American Short Stories. Hyde is the founder and former president of the Pay It Forward Foundation. As a professional public speaker, she has addressed the National Conference on Education, twice spoken at Cornell University, met with AmeriCorps members at the White House, and shared a dais with Bill Clinton. An avid equestrian, photographer, and traveler, she lives in California.
As a professional in the foster care, adoption and counseling field, I enjoyed the message this novel shares about committing 100% to a child regardless of how hard they push you, test you, infuriate or emotionally hurt you. Nathan was the type of surrogate parent every professional in my field look......more
Five tear-stained stars. This book had me blubbering like a baby at the end. Hyde writes characters that are flawed, yet so sympathetic, you can't help but love them and root for them. If you want a truly emotionally-resonant read, pick this one up.......more
When I Found You: a masterpiece of human emotion... Just read this short paragraph, let the words sink in, then close your eyes and visualize what you've read: "Nathan McCann stood in his dark kitchen, a good two hours before dawn. He flipped on the overhead light, halfway hoping to see the coffeemake......more
I loved this book, following the lives of young Nat, who was abandoned at birth, and his 'rescuer' Nathan. The story mostly follows the relationship between these two, it was interesting watching the building maturity of Nat, and the way he grows up, finding his way in the world and how he cares for......more
Qué bonita historia de amor, en definitiva una historia de un padre y un hijo, de un padre que no se rinde jamás, y es que a veces la familia se hace con el corazón, no con la sangre. Si bien el libro no está narrado de una forma maravillosa, si deja claro el mensaje del libro, a mi me dejo un bonito......more