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Books : Alison's Gift: The Song of a Thousand Hearts OpeningIn association with Amazon.comby: Pat Hogan  List Price: $16.95 Price: $4.54 You Save: $12.41 (73%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9780966817706 ISBN: 0966817702 Label: Nosil a Publishing Manufacturer: Nosil a Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 150 Publication Date: February 21, 1999 Publisher: Nosil a Publishing Studio: Nosil a Publishing Sales Rank: 1520414 Related Items: Editorial Review: Product Description: Aison's Gift is the true story of Alison Sanders' life and death-a story that has touched all of America. This is Alison's story and how her life found its way into millions of homes. Alison's Gift is the triumph of love over life-ending experience. Along with Alison, meet real-life heroes who live through their greatest fears in a journey of loss, grief, and the rekindling of hope. This story chronicles Alison's life and death, her family's experience and her many legacies. Alison, a vibrant child, had a mission in life to help others. In unique ways, both seen and unseen, her purpose lives on. Her fearlessness, compassion, and leadership qualities transformed her community in life and have reverberated throughout the country in her death. Alison's life was cut short by an air bag in a low-speed automobile collision. Meet Alison's father: although emotionally scarred by his loss, he starts a one-man crusade, forcing the auto industry to adopt safer air bag systems for our children. Share a mother's impulse of love to create her own rituals in caring for her beloved daughter and forgo a conventional funeral. Come to the family's home, where hundreds of friends and relatives visit. Feel the love and support of a community as it encounters loss in its midst and comes to grips with a difficult good-bye. This story portrays the spirit of Alison's childhood dreams as they become reality and affect a community and a nation. Come visit a place in the heart where life and loss gently guide you in the ways of love. Meet Alison and be touched by her many gifts! Average Rating:
 Rating: - A book to read and pass around...Facing the unthinkable--the sudden death of a child--this thought lurks uncomfortably in the corners of my and every parent's mind. What is the big picture of life and death, destiny, the love and role of parent and child, family, and the friendship of others? Alison's Gift is the story of the sudden death of a child of a mother that could easily be in my own circle of friends. Beth Sanders, with the support of her friends and family, follows her own intuition about how to handle the physical, ... Read More Rating: - A Tune Nobody Will Ever ForgetAlison was a delightful and loving little girl who lost her life all too soon. Fortunately, Alison's mission, her song of peace, her vision of helping other people realize their potentials was her legacy. Although we paid the highest price with the loss of this wonderful, gifted, loving child, we did inherit her legacy. We love Alison. Rating:  - Courageous...This story is the tragic account of the completely unneccessary death of a young child because of an airbag. I often found myself crying as the author spelled out some of the details of the ordeal that he and his family lived through as a result of that car accident. I found myself crying both for them and for me (because I, too, have suffered loss because of an airbag). I think that this book was probably a tremendous avenue for the author to deal with his grief, and I applaud his courage for ... Read More Rating: - wonderfuly enlighteningi think mr. hogan has done a wonderful job in spinning alison's tale. a very good read! Rating: - A gripping account of tragedy turned triumph.Alison's Gift - The Song of a Thousand Hearts Opening - reads like a symphony, as the notes and chords tug at our heart-strings throughout the book, and as each "instrument" in the orchestra builds momentum adding layers of emotions and textures to an urgency . . . the urgency to unfold the true story of a child's life and death, and spiritual "resurrection". Alison's mother, Beth, embodies both the lioness mother protecting and fighting for her wounded young, and Mother Mary in Michelangelo's Pieta, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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