title: The Parent Soup Baby Name Finder : Real Advice from Real Parents Who Have Named Their Babies and Lived to Tell About It...
author:  Kate Hanley 
description: Although the subtitle of this baby-name book is <i>Real Advice from Real Parents Who Have Named their Babies and Lived to Tell About It</i>, the true value of the book is more traditional. It's a list, or rather a set of lists, and, although that's a crowded playing field, this book holds up well, offering highly detailed and multicultural food for thought. Take a small chunk from the letter <i>T</i> at random and you'll find, for example: Tawqeer (Arabic for honor); Tayib (Indic for delicate or good); Tayon (unknown meaning); Tayor (unknown meaning); Taysean (unknown meaning); Teague (Gaelic/Irish for poet); Tearle (Old English for serious, austere); Teclo (Greek for divine). The next name is Ted, but you get the point--nobody is going to look through this much information and complain that there must be more. A useful feature is the "Baby Name Finder" index, split into alphabetical headings such as "3 Syllables," "Ethnic-Swedish," and "Lakes and Rivers." The advice is restricted to a few dozen parental quotes under topic headings such as "How Do You Spell That?" and "Will My Child Be Teased Because of This Name?" but don't miss the last-page guide to some fascinating name resources online. <i>--Richard Farr</i>
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  Copyright © 2019 J.D. Light  
    
  Edited by Ann Attwood Editing and Proofreading Services
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
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  I couldn't believe I was actually about to do what I was about to do. Didn't
  people get warned all the time about stuff like that?
  
  
  I took a deep breath, starting the live video, the camera pointed at my hands
  as I picked up the wire and started shaving big chunks off the clay, going
  where the wire took me.
  
  
  Butterflies danced in my stomach as a heart fluttered up across the video feed
  and I knew my admirer was on, watching me.
  
  
  I knew his real name wasn't Salt Weeley. First of all, it was a ridiculous
  name and I liked to think a parent wouldn't do that to their child… unless
  they had celebrity parents. Second, I'd looked the name up about ten thousand
  times since the man first contacted me three weeks ago, and there wasn't one
  Salt Weeley that I had the ability to find.
  
  
  It didn't matte