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Happy to Be Here: Selected Facebook Posts
Written by Elizabeth Berg
Narrated by Elizabeth Berg
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
"Happy to be Here" is Berg's third collection of Facebook posts. Her first, "Make Someone Happy," was written in response to her many fans' requests that she put her posts together in a book that they could take on the plane, to the beach, or give to others. The book did indeed make people happy and so she followed up with a second book, "Still Happy." Her fans encouraged her to write still another one. The "Happy" books exemplify, as the Boston Globe wrote, Berg's "ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, the remarkable in the everyday."
Author
Elizabeth Berg
Elizabeth Berg is the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books, including the New York Times bestsellers True to Form, Never Change, Open House, The Story of Arthur Truluv, Night of Miracles, and The Confession Club. She lives outside of Chicago. Find out more at Elizabeth-Berg.net.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elizabeth Berg is one of my favorite authors and I just loved this book - sharing her wonderful insights and thoughts. Her ability to effortlessly create a scenario is what makes her writing so rich. She is salt-of-the-earth honest.