The Christmas Shoes

Unabridged
Author: Donna VanLiere
Narrator: Paul Michael
Genres: Children's, Fiction
Publisher: Audio Renaissance
Date: November 2002
Length: 3 hours
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Overview

Sometimes, the things that can change your life will cross your path in one instant-and then, in a fleeting moment, they're gone. But if you open your eyes, and watch carefully, you will believe....

Robert is a successful attorney who has everything in life-and nothing at all. Focused on professional achievement and material rewards, Robert is on the brink of losing his marriage. He has lost sight of his wife, Kate, their two daughters, and ultimately himself. Eight year old Nathan has a beloved mother, Maggie, whom he is losing to cancer. But Nathan and his family are building a simple yet full life, and struggling to hold onto every moment they have together. A chance meeting on Christmas Even brings Robert and Nathan together-he is shopping for a family he hardly knows and Nathan is shopping for a mother he is soon to lose. In this one encounter, their lives are forever altered as Robert learns an important lesson: sometimes the smallest things can make all the difference. The Christmas Shoes is a universal story of the deeper meaning of serendipity, a tale of our shared humanity, and of how a power greater than ourselves can shape, and even save, our lives.

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Excellent book!!

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Wow - I really liked it.

by Tami Whalen
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Excellent book!!

Written by Anonymous from Brookline, MA on July 26th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 5/5

I have to pause the audio almost every 10 minute because it was just too real for me. I lost my father when I was 24, and it was cancer. The Chrimtmas Shoes had taught me a lot, and I am going to buy the book for my sister and hope that could help her too.

Wow - I really liked it.

Written by Tami Whalen on January 19th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 4/5

My mother told me to read this book. I didn't want to because every year the song "The Christmas Shoes" comes on the air and it makes me mad. I've listened to the song over and over and really can't find a shred of compassion, decency or kindness in it. The fact that the little boy is not helped, at all by the sales person and only grudgingly by the guy behind him and only then after he pleads his story, is certainly less than charitable. But the book, from which the song was written, is nothing like that. This story made me stay in my car long after arriving at my destination, mostly because it took time to compose myself and control my overflowing emotions. I will now buy this book so I can read it every year along with my other holiday favorites.

Predictable, but touching story

Written by Anonymous on April 4th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 4/5

For music fans who are familiar with the song, the story is very predictable. However, it still made me cry, several times.

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Excellent book!!

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Wow - I really liked it.

by Tami Whalen
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Author Details

Author Details

VanLiere, Donna

"Dona VanLiere is an actress, speaker and award-nominated author who is best know for penning the New York Times bestseller, The Christmas Shoes. Donnas has been an emcee and dramatist for the Women of Faith Marriage Builders Conferences. She is also the author or the Sheltering Trees and They Walked with Him. She lives with her husband and daughter in Nashville, Tennessee."