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Authors: Jacquelyn Mitchard
No Time to Wave Goodbye (31 page)
Even if he could have ducked and run to me, he wouldn’t have wanted a little kid to die alone.
J
ACQUELYN
M
ITCHARD
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of the first Oprah’s Book Club selection
The Deep End of the Ocean
and more than a dozen other books for both adults and children. A former syndicated columnist for the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
she is a contributing editor for
Parade,
and her work has appeared in
More, Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping,
and
Real Simple,
among other publications. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband and seven children.
No Time to Wave Goodbye
is a work of fiction. Names, characters,
places, and incidents are the products of the authors imagination or
are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales,
or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Excerpt from Second Nature copyright © 2011 by Jacquelyn Mitchard
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House,
an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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ANDOM
H
OUSE
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Mitchard, Jacquelyn.
No time to wave goodbye: a novel / Jacquelyn Mitchard.
p. cm.
This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming title Second Nature by Jacquelyn Mitchard. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-952-9
1. Missing persons—Fiction. 2. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.I7358N6 2009
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