A Walk to Remember

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever.... So begins Nicholas Sparks touching tale of Landon Carter, a teenage boy living in the small town of Beaufort, North Carolina, in the late 1950s. Landon is a typical teenager who just wants to have a fun senior year before heading off to college. The last thing he anticipated is Jamie Sullivan, the sweet, pious daughter of the towns Baptist minister. But on the evening of Beauforts annual Christmas pageant, Landon will undergo a change of heart that will forever alter the course of his life. In the months that follow, Landon discovers truths that it takes most people a lifetime to learntruths about the nature of beauty, the joy of giving, the pain of loss, and, most of all, the transformational power of love. Nicholas Sparks most recent novel, Message in a Bottle (Warner, 4/98), has nearly 700,000 hardcover copies in print and was on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list for 29 weeks and counting. The Warner paperback edition has reached #1 on the USA Today bestseller list, #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, and has 1.5 million copies in print. It is a major motion picture starring Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, and Paul Newman. A Main Selection of Doubleday Direct and The Literary Guild. Also available as a Time Warner AudioBook. Praise for Message in a Bottle: Engaging until the very end. ˜ The Edmonton Journal A heart-wrenching story with a powerful ending. ˜ The Lethbridge Herald