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When Harry Met Minnie by Martha Teichner
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When Harry Met Minnie

A True Story of Love and Friendship

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Narrator Martha Teichner
Length 8 hours 37 minutes
Language English
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*An Instant New York Times Bestseller!*

This program is read by the author.

A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner.

There are true fairy tales. Stories that exist because impossible-to-explain coincidences change everything. Except in real life, not all of them have conventional, happily-ever-after endings. When Harry Met Minnie is that kind of fairy tale, with the vibrant, romantic New York City backdrop of its namesake, the movie When Harry Met Sally, and the bittersweet wisdom of Tuesdays with Morrie.

Thereā€™s a special camaraderie among early-morning dog walkers. Gathering at dog runs in the park, or strolling through the farmer's market at Union Square before the bustling crowd appears, fellow pet owners become familiarā€“as do the personalities of their beloved animals. In this special space and time, a chance encounter with an old acquaintance changed Martha Teichnerā€™s world. As fate would have it, her friend knew someone who was dying of cancer, from exposure to toxins after 9/11, and desperate to find a home for her dog, Harry. He was a Bull Terrierā€”the same breed as Marthaā€™s dear Minnie. Would Martha consider giving Harry a safe, loving new home?

In short order, boy dog meets girl dog, the fairy tale part of this story. But there is so much more to this book. After Martha agrees to meet Harry and his owner Carol, what begins as a transaction involving a dog becomes a deep and meaningful friendship between two women with complicated lives and a love of Bull Terriers in common. Through the heartbreak and grief of Carolā€™s illness, the bond that develops changed Marthaā€™s life, Carolā€™s life, Minnieā€™s life, Harryā€™s life. As it changed Carolā€™s death as well.

In this rich and touching narrative, Martha considers the ways our stories are shaped by the people we meet, and the profound love we can find by opening our hearts to unexpected encounters.

A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books

Martha Teichner has been a correspondent for ā€œCBS Sunday Morningā€ since December 1993, where sheā€™s equally adept at covering major breaking national and international news stories as she is handling in-depth cultural and arts topics. Since joining CBS News in 1977, Teichner has earned multiple national awards for her original reporting, including thirteen Emmy Awards and five James Beard Foundation Awards. Teichner was also part of team coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which earned CBS News a 2014 duPont-Columbia Award. Teichner was born in Traverse City, Mich. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 with a bachelorā€™s degree in economics. She attended the University of Chicagoā€™s Graduate School of Business Administration. Teichner resides in New York City.

Martha Teichner has been a correspondent for ā€œCBS Sunday Morningā€ since December 1993, where sheā€™s equally adept at covering major breaking national and international news stories as she is handling in-depth cultural and arts topics. Since joining CBS News in 1977, Teichner has earned multiple national awards for her original reporting, including thirteen Emmy Awards and five James Beard Foundation Awards. Teichner was also part of team coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which earned CBS News a 2014 duPont-Columbia Award. Teichner was born in Traverse City, Mich. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 with a bachelorā€™s degree in economics. She attended the University of Chicagoā€™s Graduate School of Business Administration. Teichner resides in New York City.

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