This Busytown storybook is a great way to prepare little ones for their first day of school
Bette's odyssey will take her to some unexpected places
it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos
Marianne Celano
But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive
A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving - Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir Cressida Gaukroger This Busytown storybook is aBy: Virginia Eubanks Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026 08 11 A spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us. Only if you are a very able swimmer trained in open water rescue should you approach drowning victims . . . Reach with a rope or branch, rowout and offer the drowning person an oar. Do not get in the water. But also: No