![]() "Alexander creates a winning heroine in Meredith and likable characters in her kind friends. An optimistic, feel-good novel."- Kirkus Reviews
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![]() ![]() ![]() How Dad Met Mom: Abby's father Tom took an art class in order to impress a different girl.The DNA test doesn't uncover any relatives, though. Neither knows anything about their birth families. Leo was adopted from the Philippines, along with his sister Carla, when he was one and she was a baby. Gene Hunting: Connie and Abby originally signed up to get their DNA tested because Leo did.Dedication: "For Evan and Maddie and Lily, the stone-cold pack of dweebs I am grateful to be part of every day of my human life.". ![]() ![]() Character Tics: Leo has a habit of tilting his head to one side.Big Friendly Dog: Savvy's Labrador Rufus introduces himself to Abby by knocking her over and aggressively licking her face.And second, Leo also works at the camp, making Abby's crush on him impossible to ignore. First, she and Savvy can't stand each other. She and Savvy agree to meet at Camp Reynolds, where Savvy works as a junior counselor, so they can get to know each other and learn the secret behind Savvy's adoption. When sixteen-year-old Abby Day signs up for a DNA testing service, along with her two best friends Leo and Connie, she's shocked to discover that she has a full-blooded sister she never knew about: Savannah Tully, a glamorous influencer a year and a half older than herself. You Have a Match is a 2021 novel by Emma Lord. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author also notes the importance of this symbol among both the ancient Buddhists and Hindus. ![]() He shows various artifacts associated with the swastika, including spindle-whorls, coins, vases, and idols. ![]() Further, the author examines the role of the swastika in the extreme Orient (Japan, Korea, China, and Tibet), the classical Orient (Babylonia, Assyria, Chaldea, and Persia, Phenicia, Lycaonia, Armenia, Caucasus, and Asia Minor - including Troy and mentioning Schliemann), Africa (Egypt, Algeria, Ashantee), classical Occident (Mediterranean - Greece, Cyprus, Rhodes, Milos, and Thera), Europe (the Bronze Age, the Gallo-Roman period, the Anglo-Saxon period, and the swastika on ancient coins), the United States of America (in pre-Columbian times, among the North American Indians, and a "colonial patchwork"), Central America (Nicaragua, Yucatan, and Costa Rica), and South America (Brazil and Paraguay). He studies its origins in the ancient shapes of a cross and brings the comparison of different types of cross symbols, which later evolved in the swastika. ![]() The author of the work derives the origins of what we know as a swastika symbol from the earliest cultures. ![]() |