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In And Always One More Time, Peggy Mandell, newly widowed, cannot conjure a future without her husband of more than forty years. The bed is half empty. Her body betrays her. Laughter is elusive. Filled with longing, chased by memory, Mandell begins to write letters to the man she loved, retracing their history together.


But when a tenderhearted college professor steps quietly into her life, when he listens, attentively, as Mandell reads her accumulating stack of letters out loud, she is forced to recalibrate her vision of life—what is still possible, what is still necessary, how much love one heart can hold.


A story of second chances and disarming self-disclosure that takes a wholly universal look at the ways in which we bring our pasts forward to keep becoming our best selves.


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"Margaret Mandell’s AND ALWAYS ONE MORE TIME is a warm, personable memoir of love, loss, and hope. With both its heartfelt epistolary style and friendly, clear reading reflecting the precise, embodied attention of the author’s lifelong yoga practice, Mandell’s text is a reminder that not only frailty and mortality, but also love, lust, and joy, are ever-present, natural components of the human condition."


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Mandell offers a heartfelt memoir about finding the courage to love again after devastating loss. ... A moving, insightful, and beautifully crafted story of losing one great love and finding another.


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Margaret Mandell’s AND ALWAYS ONE MORE TIME is a warm, personable memoir of love, loss, and hope. With both its heartfelt epistolary style and friendly, clear reading reflecting the precise, embodied attention of the author’s lifelong yoga practice, Mandell’s text is a reminder that not only frailty and mortality, but also love, lust, and joy, are ever-present, natural components of the human condition.

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Booklife Editor’s Pick



Mandell stuns with a riveting debut memoir chronicling her grief at the death of her husband, Herb—and her eventual rebirth into “a whole tree again inside and out, standing tall, for now.”

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"Through Mandell’s storytelling, readers are taken on a journey that is both heart-wrenching and heartwarming, leaving a lasting impact. AND ALWAYS ONE MORE TIME: A Memoir is a testament to the power of perseverance, love, and the beauty that can be found in life’s most challenging moments.”

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I laughed and I cried. And Always One More Time: A Memoir is a moving masterpiece about a second chance that reveals Margaret's feelings with such vividness that the readers could imagine the people, places and events as if they were right there with her.


Jules Mermelstein, Esq. Author

Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue

Columnist, Sidebar Magazine



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"For 20 years, Margaret shepherded hundreds of families with daughters through our doors. By the time a family decided to enroll, Margaret had already developed a profound knowledge of each child—her strengths, her gifts, her joys, and her quirks. And Margaret's poignant letters were often placed lovingly in scrapbooks, as she owns the uncanny ability to see a child’s journey play out through all three divisions.


Margaret also wrote such detailed and documented admissions and trend reports that many other schools asked to see her work and fashioned their models to ours. Her admissions annual report—in all its detailed glory—is something of a legend. She has also presented at many conferences and is recognized throughout the country as truly one of the best. Wherever I go, heads of school and directors of admissions laud Margaret."


Priscilla G. Sands, Ed.D. President, SCH Academy



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who is margaret mandell?



Darwin once wrote survival of the fittest means survival of the most adaptable...



My life story is one of adaptation to changing circumstances. I've been an entrepreneur, an independent school admissions director, a triathlete, and a certified yoga instructor. When my husband of many years passed away, I became a widow, a woman still in the midst of becoming.


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