
Laura Schroff, New York Times bestselling author, An Invisible Thread Acts of kindness can create a legacy that lives on from generation to generation.

The beautiful story told in The 13th Gift reinforces how the most precious gifts at Christmas are when people give unconditional love and support and it proves how compassion and a kind heart can change lives. Greg Kincaid, author of the bestselling Christmas with Tucker and A Christmas Home Highly recommend it to all, but particularly to those that are dealing with recent losses and don’t’ know how or if they will ever find their way back. Joanne Smith deftly reconciles the difficult terrain that ranges between the Christmas we all want and the tragedies of life that sooner or later beset us all. I loved The 13th Gift-a truly heartfelt and intelligent book. Jason Wright, New York Times bestselling author of Christmas Jars THE 13TH GIFT is the kind of Christmas book whose message is much bigger than the holiday. This memoir is written from the heart and for the heart. Inspiring readers throughout the country and around the world this holiday season. The Good LifeĪ feel-good story guaranteed to move you. USA TodayĪ funny, knockout-moving new memoir.Read it, share it, pay it forward. The book's simple prose and profound message will fill even the Grinch-iest hearts with Christmas spirit while affirming the age-old adage, it really is the thought that counts. This sweet memoir miracle makes perfect holiday reading.” Joanne and her children were rediscovering one another, coming together, and As all these anonymous gifts piled up, something else was happening:

The next day, another present appeared and the next and the next and the

Strange thing occurred: A gift, but no gift giver, appeared by their frontĭoor.

Unexpectedly and the approach of the holiday served only as another reminder Just months before, her husband and their father had died “For Joanne Huist Smith and her three children, the year held no prospects This true story about the power of random acts of kindness will warm the heart, a beautiful reminder of the miracles of Christmas and the gift of family during the holiday season. But 12 days before Christmas, presents begin appearing on her doorstep with notes from their "True Friends." As the Smiths came together to solve the mystery of who the gifts were from, they began to thaw out from their grief and come together again as a family. For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.Īfter the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith had no idea how she would keep herself together and be strong for her three children-especially with the holiday season approaching.
