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Gabrielle Union has written a book that is funny, sweet, sad, heartbreaking, and extremely difficult to set down. Through her stories she has shared her life in ways only your best friend would share with you. The title comes from the thought that she’s sitting down with the reader over a glass of wine and she looks at the server and says “We’re going to need more wine” because we have a lot to talk about. I highly recommend this book to everyone.

When you first meet Sheila Hamilton - the tall, thin, beautiful model-like woman who is an award-winning TV and radio personally with the handsome husband, beautiful daughter, adorable little dog - your first thought is "This woman has the perfect life, I want to be like her." And then I read her book and realized I am like her. We've both experienced the worst headache imaginable, the decline of a once loving husband to mental illness and eventual suicide. And that one event makes us a member of the same horrible club, sisters on the same winding bumpy road. Sheila has written a book that tells the truth about mental illness and suicide, the stigma that surrounds both, and rebuilding your life. It turns out that our husbands weren't too different from each other, they could have easily been friends, and died by suicide within months of each other. Sheila and I did not know each other but we were given membership to the same club by men we loved with our whole heart. In "All the Things We Never Knew" by Sheila Hamilton you'll find love, sadness, laughter, denial, and heartbreak. But most of all you'll be educated and given hope. At the end of each chapter she has included a page of statistics and information about mental illness, suicide, grief, and recovery. I have already recommended this book to several people and will continue for a long time.

A beautifully written story of two lonely widowed neighbors looking for companionship. The book has one of the best opening sentences ever and it captured my heart immediately. Within minutes I felt as though I knew Addie and Louis personally. I wanted to jump into the book and join their lives in Holt County.

A definite must for every Portlandian. And anyone who wishes they were.

I love this book! It's not often that a book elicits the emotions in me that this book did. The story of Eugene Allen, his service as butler to eight presidents and his relationship with his wife and son is a beautiful story. It was also interesting to read about the making of the movie based on Eugene's life working in the White House. I highly recommend reading "The Butler".

Undeniably the best book I've read in a long time. The characters were so real, I knew who was narrating each chapter without looking at the name at the beginning of that chapter. I've recommended The Help to several people and they all fell in love with it.