"All aboard!" Just don't get too comfy in The Memory Chair as She sets sail and flies off to the land of imagination-you have to hold on tight! This emotive, magical adventure-delightfully suspenseful and most educational-is sure to keep you snuggling time and time again with those you love. To those of all ages, the author adeptly imparts invaluable life lessons, such as loving others through practicing self-love and resourcefulness, cherishing relationships, being courageous, and healing sorrows. The Memory Chair, based on a true story, is indispensable for every parent, educator, and, especially, grandparent wanting to instill a love for reading and learning in children, for it is an enticing story about ... yes, stories! Stories in books-literature for young minds. With the turn of each page, this wonderfully winsome story will keep you on the "edge of its seat." The Memory Chair-unforgettable!

The Memory Chair explores the bonds of family, loss and the devastating, multigenerational effects of racism.

Simon, a young kitchen boy and magician's apprentice, finds his world torn apart by a civil war fueled by immortal enemies and the dark powers of sorcery.

“NinaSankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that remindsus of the most primal function of literature-to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves." —Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between Us Catalyzedby the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year savoring a greatbook every day, from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. In the tradition ofGretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project and Joan Dideon’sA Year of Magical Thinking, Nina Sankovitch’ssoul-baring and literary-minded memoir is a chronicle of loss,hope, and redemption. Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy andthrough her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim ourlives.

Simon, a young kitchen boy and magician's apprentice, finds his dreams of great deeds and heroic wars becoming an all too shocking reality in a terrifying civil war.