{"product_id":"9780440221319","title":"The Gift","description":"\u003ci\u003eOn a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into  a small midwestern town.  She doesn't intend to stay.  She is just passing through.   Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never  forget.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams,  and family was, very nearly, everything.  The place is a small midwestern town with  a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house.  And on a tree-lined  street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold.   And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged with purpose.  A happy home is  shattered by a child's senseless death.  A loving marriage starts to unravel.  And  a stranger arrives—a young woman who will touch many lives before she moves on.   She and a young man will meet and fall in love.  Their love, so innocent and full  of hope, helps to restore a family's dreams.  And all of their lives will be changed  forever by the precious gift she leaves them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/b\u003e, Danielle Steel's thirty-third  best-selling work, is a magical story told with stunning simplicity and power.  It  reveals a relationship so moving it will take your breath away.  And it tells a haunting  and beautiful truth about the unpredictability—and the wonder—of life.","brand":"Danielle Steel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":47884033425629,"sku":"9780440221319","price":4.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/6860\/1821\/files\/BNCImageAPI_17ff56a2-48dd-46eb-917e-e821449a5da8.jpg?v=1778020043","url":"https:\/\/thenextchaptergp.com\/products\/9780440221319","provider":"The Next Chapter  -  Books, Puzzles and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}