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A Secret Gift

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Shortly before Christmas 1933 in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, a small newspaper ad offered cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author’s grandfather, Sam Stone, was inspired to place this ad and help his fellow Cantonians as they prepared for the cruelest Christmas most of them would ever endure.
Moved by the stories of suffering and hope in the letters, which he discovered in a suitcase seventy-five years later, Ted Gup first sets out to unveil the lives behind them, searching for records and relatives to flesh out the family sagas hinted at in those letters. From these sources, Gup has re-created the impact that B. Virdot’s gift had on each family.
But as he uncovers the suffering and triumphs of dozens of strangers, Gup also learns that Sam Stone was far more complex than the lovable-retiree persona he’d always shown his grandson. Gup solves a singular family mystery even as he pulls away the veil of eight decades that separate us from the hardships that united America during the Depression.

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Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9780307578068
  • File size: 288192 KB
  • Release date: November 9, 2010
  • Duration: 10:00:23

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  • ISBN: 9780307578068
  • File size: 288226 KB
  • Release date: November 9, 2010
  • Duration: 10:00:23
  • Number of parts: 8

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Shortly before Christmas 1933 in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, a small newspaper ad offered cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author’s grandfather, Sam Stone, was inspired to place this ad and help his fellow Cantonians as they prepared for the cruelest Christmas most of them would ever endure.
Moved by the stories of suffering and hope in the letters, which he discovered in a suitcase seventy-five years later, Ted Gup first sets out to unveil the lives behind them, searching for records and relatives to flesh out the family sagas hinted at in those letters. From these sources, Gup has re-created the impact that B. Virdot’s gift had on each family.
But as he uncovers the suffering and triumphs of dozens of strangers, Gup also learns that Sam Stone was far more complex than the lovable-retiree persona he’d always shown his grandson. Gup solves a singular family mystery even as he pulls away the veil of eight decades that separate us from the hardships that united America during the Depression.

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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Books on Tape
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780307578068
    File size: 288192 KB
    Release date: November 9, 2010
    Duration: 10:00:23

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780307578068
    File size: 288226 KB
    Release date: November 9, 2010
    Duration: 10:00:23
    Number of parts: 8

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    OverDrive Listen audiobook
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    English
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