title: A Walk to Remember (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))
author:  Nicholas Sparks 
description: ing author of &lt;i&gt;Message in a Bottle&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Notebook&lt;/i&gt; returns with a deeply moving tale of first love and its transformational powers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"When I was seventeen, my life changed forever"... So begins Nicholas Sparks' touching tale of Landon Carter, a teenage boy living in the small town of Beaufort, North Carolina in the late 1950s. Landon is a typical teenager who just wants to have a fun senior year before heading off to college. The last thing he anticipated is Jamie Sullivan, the sweet, pious daughter of the town's Baptist minister. But on the evening of Beaufort's annual Christmas pageant, Landon will undergo a change of heart that will forever alter the course of his life. In the months that follow, Landon discovers truths that it takes most people a lifetime to learn- truths about the nature of beauty, the joy of giving, the pain of loss, and, most of all, the transformational power of love.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nicholas Sparks' most recent novel, &lt;i&gt;Message
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  a Walk to Remember (1999)
  
  
  Sparks, Nicholas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  2010
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Walk To Remember
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nicholas Sparks
  
  
  
  
  
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  PROLOGUE:
  
  
  
  
  
  When I was seventeen, my life changed forever.
  
  
  I know that there are people who wonder about me when I say this. They look at
  me strangely as if trying to fathom what could have happened back then, though
  I seldom bother to explain. Because I've lived here for most of my life, I
  don't feel that I have to unless it's on my terms, and that would take more
  time than most people are willing to give me. My story can't be summed up in
  two or three sentences; it can't be packaged into something neat and simple
  that people would immediately understand. Despite the passage of forty years,
  the people still living here who knew me that year accept my lack of
  explanation without question. My story in some ways is their story because it
  was something that all of us lived through.
  
  
  It was I, howev