Name: Statistically Speaking by Debbie Johnson
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From Debbie Johnson, the author of the Comfort Food Café series, comes an emotionally rich, laugh-out-loud funny novel about the journey of self-discovery, family reunions, and finding peace with your past. Statistically Speaking is The Amazing Grace Adams meets Bridget Jones.

When Gemma’s anxiety gets the best of her, she opens her sock drawer and starts counting. Lately, she’s been counting a lot of socks.
As a high school history teacher, Gemma Jones loves the certainty of the past–specific names, solid dates, proven statistics. Maybe that’s because her own past resembles a jumbled-up sock drawer, one where it’s impossible to find a match.
On paper, Gemma’s life is just like any other successful, single thirtysomething. Her students adore her. She lives in a cute beachside cottage next door to the world’s sweetest neighbor, Margie. And she’s definitely caught the eye of Karim, the resident hot PE teacher at her school. But every day of her life, she can’t get one thing out of her mind: the baby she gave up for adoption when Gemma was just sixteen years old.
This is the year that Baby–the only name Gemma has for her little girl–will turn eighteen. And it might be the year she actually meets her daughter face-to-face. Or maybe she already has. Katie, a new student who’s moved into the area, shares Gemma’s hair color (bright red) and build (long and lean). And BTW–totally random stat–she also shares the same birthday (October 3) as Baby. And they’re both about to turn eighteen. What are the odds? But Gemma and Katie’s mom are becoming good friends, and Gemma is concerned that their newly minted friendship will unravel fast if Katie is indeed Gemma’s birth daughter.

Gemma doesn’t know if this will be the year she finds Baby. But maybe, just maybe, it will be the year she finds herself–and finds peace with her life–past and present. And maybe that’s what truly counts.
(previously published as Forever Yours).

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File Name:statistically-speaking-by-debbie-johnson.epub
Original Title:Statistically Speaking
Creator:Debbie Johnson
Language:en-US
Identifier:9781400248070
Publisher:Harper Muse
Date:2024-12-03
File Size:894.343 KB

Table of Content

1. Dedication
2. Contents
3. Part 1: Then
4. Chapter 1: Ten Tiny Fingers, Ten Tiny Toes
5. Chapter 2: 1,656 Words and Way Too Many Feelings
6. Part 2: Now
7. Chapter 3: One Hundred Iron Men and One Black Cloud
8. Chapter 4: Two Engagements, Eighty-Two Students, and One Bringer of Joy
9. Chapter 5: Two Sad Women, Sixteen Truffles, and One Rather Magnificent Mr. Darcy
10. Chapter 6: Eighteen Downward Dogs and One Enormous Shock
11. Chapter 7: Ninety-Six Points in a Pub Quiz, Three Glasses of Dry White Wine, and One Unanswerable Question
12. Chapter 8: Twelve History Projects, Nineteen Hundred Babies, and One Cheat Code
13. Chapter 9: 999 Parts of the Tower of London and No New Answers
14. Chapter 10: Two Missing Baby Teeth and One Magic Cushion
15. Chapter 11: Twenty-Three Million Bricks and One Almighty Punch to the Gut
16. Chapter 12: Brandy Number Four, Chairs for Two, and One World-Class Kiss
17. Chapter 13: 112 Steps to a Difficult Conversation and One Angry Garden Gnome
18. Chapter 14: One Box Ticked, One Escape Plan Hatched
19. Chapter 15: Six Billion Dance Steps and Three Tired Women
20. Chapter 16: Two Secrets Shared
21. Chapter 17: Eighteen Years of Missing Her
22. Chapter 18: 221 Miles into the Past
23. Chapter 19: Sixteen Concrete Steps and Too Many Memories
24. Chapter 20: The Fifth-Ever Brandy and One Cunning Plan
25. Chapter 21: Twenty-One Days of Silence and 500 Meters of Swimming
26. Chapter 22: Eleven Unknown Numbers on a Mobile Phone Screen
27. Chapter 23: One Disagreement, Two Sorry People
28. Chapter 24: Four Wedgwood Plates and One Demented Parakeet
29. Chapter 25: One Candy Necklace and a Herd of Fluorescent Ponies
30. Chapter 26: One Missing Jacket
31. Chapter 27: King I-Love-You the First and a No to Norwich
32. Chapter 28: Sixteen Pairs of Sports Shoes and One Very Important Ping
33. Chapter 29: Two Cheeky Corgis, One Pep Talk, and Hammering It Out
34. Chapter 30: 1,217 Words and Exactly the Right Amount of Feelings
35. Chapter 31: Twenty-Eight Very Amused People and One Big Announcement
36. Chapter 32: Four Glasses of Bubbly, One Kool Gang, and My Own Three Witches
37. Chapter 33: One New Beginning
38. Discussion Questions
39. Acknowledgments
40. About the Author
41. Back Ad
42. Praise for Debbie Johnson
43. Also by Debbie Johnson
44. Copyright