This is a used paperback copy in Good condition. It shows some marks (initials) on cover, slight slanting, and creasing to spine. ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Synopses & Reviews - - Publisher Comments: "On 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. 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 arrivesa 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. The Gift, 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 unpredictabilityand the wonderof life." **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** I accept payment in the form of postal money orders and personal checks. personal checks must clear before book is mailed. P/h is $3.25 media mail USA and is a fixed cost. Delivery confirmation is $0.80 extra. Alaska and Hawaii extra. Insurance of $1.75 is optional, but encouraged in order to cover loss or damage in the mail. I combine postage with items from additional auctions. ask for details. *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** International p/h will be determined at the end of auction. international payment must be in the form of cash only - USD, Euros, GBP or Scandinavian krona. (ib#9)Thanks for looking!