title: A How-to Book for Hard Times
author: Gillian Kirkpatrick
description: Gillian Kirkpatrick grew up in England during World War II and learned firsthand how to make do. She enjoys reading and knitting. Kirkpatrick has five children and lives in Tacoma, Washington.
zlib_text: HARD ROAD
  
  JOANNA BLAKE
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Joanna Blake
  All rights reserved.
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and
  retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
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  For my Bombshells. You guys keep me going. I love you to itty bitty BITS.
  An extra special shout out to Christina Cartner Youngren for running my amazing readers group
  Blakes Bombshells, keeping me going on the hard days, and for naming Parker!
  To my amazing editor Valorie Clifton, thank you. You have been there for me both professionally
  and personally and it means the world to me.
  This one is for you, ladies!
  Xoxox,
  Joanna
  
  CONTENTS
  Hard Road
  About this book
  Prologue
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  C