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Updated: 2:09 PM Jul 12, 2011
Dugard Memoir on Sale Tuesday
Jaycee Dugard's memoir arrived at local bookstores and around the country on Monday. But you won't be able to get your hands on it until Tuesday.
Posted: 9:14 PM Jul 11, 2011Reporter: Denise Wong Email Address: denise.wong@kolotv.com |
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Reno, NV - Jaycee Dugard's memoir arrived at local bookstores and around the country on Monday. But you won't be able to get your hands on it until Tuesday. That's the official release date. And despite the high interest in the book, there really won't be many copies available here in town.
Thirty copies of Jaycee Lee Dugard's memoir arrived at the Borders bookstore on South Virginia Street in Reno. While downtown, the owner of Sundance Books and Music is expecting 16 of them. About half are already spoken for.
"I suspect by the end of the week, they'll be gone," says Christine Kelly, owner of Sundance Books and Music.
People like JoJo Jewkes are eager to read more about Jaycee's ordeal after watching her emotional TV interview with Diane Sawyer Sunday night.
"The part that had me crying was the part when the mother said she never stopped looking," says Jewkes, a Reno resident. "The mother never gave up hope and that's when I started crying. When they found each other."
Reno's downtown library is expecting 5 copies. People have already put them on hold. Joyce Thomas, who works at the library, can't wait. She's already ordered her copy online. She says, as a mom with two daughters - one Jaycee's age - her family's routine changed when Jaycee was kidnapped so long ago.
"My daughters never walked to the bus stop, either one of them. Ever again," says Thomas. "You just didn't want to take your child out of your sight anymore once that happened."
She knows she's not the only parent who thought that. Nor the only one relieved to see Jaycee alive - so alive - and tough.
"It's awful, just to know that she was a little girl and had to endure all that," says Tosha Tau, a Reno resident.
"How strong she is!" says Jewkes, about Jaycee. "I think women can take a good look and feel her compassion and her love for self and we can all take that example from her."
Inspiration to take from a stolen life.
In addition to the Borders on South Virginia that has 30 copies of the book, its Meadowood Mall location will have 5 copies more. Barnes and Noble in Reno would not tell us how many copies its putting on sale on Tuesday, just saying they should have "plenty."
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I read Jaycee's book and I have to say she is the strongest young woman I have ever come to know. My daughter is her same age, and I am convinced Garrido chased my daugher on her bicycle in El Dorado Hills, CA, during that same year that Jaycee was taken. I felt sick reading this, but Jaycee taught me that there is always hope- and she is the shining star of hope. Bless her dear heart.

