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  <title><![CDATA[Candle in the Darkness (Refiners Fire #1)]]></title>
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  <default-description>Book 1 in the Refiner's Fire series. The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline's eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the risks and sacrifices her beliefs entail.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">11</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2002</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Candle in the Darkness (Refiners Fire #1)</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lynn Austin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Feb 19 20:12:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had read a Lynn Austin book a long time ago (pre-kids, anyway) and really liked it: Eve’s Daughters, it was called. A recent message-board conversation reminded me of this author and so at the next opportunity, I snatched this from the library.<br/><br/>Ooooh, I LOVE historical fiction! And so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8934563">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 10 09:06:37 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book in the library and I plan on reading the three part series.  I enjoyed this book and was excited to get back to it once I set it down.  I realized while reading it that it is primarly catgorized as Christian Fiction, but I didn't mind the references to the bible or religion. I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11727602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20792246">
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  <read_at>Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 23 09:21:59 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 21 07:02:00 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first book in this trilogy about the Civil War is definitely the weakest. It follows a daughter of the South who struggles to fight against slavery, having learned from her Christian faith to realize that racism is wrong. This could be the setup for an interesting story, as she is torn between h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20792246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70281471">
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 06 15:38:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 06 15:55:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Historical love story about slavery and the struggle to let God take the lead in our lives. It is hard to put down. Caroline Fletcher is a women that lived in the time of slavery in the late 1880's in Virginia. Her father owned slaves, but they treated Caroline as family and their loyalty was strong...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70281471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52063927">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 09 08:54:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 09 09:01:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I tend to be extremely wary of Christian fiction.  My personal views differ enough from these authors that their ranting and pulpit-pounding style just does me in within seconds!  So I have a personal habit of automatically determining not to read anything labeled religion or religious fiction...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52063927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51230669">
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 01 22:43:02 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 05 18:21:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Candle in the Darkness is a wonderful historical novel. The main character, Caroline, is a young Southern girl who lives with anti-slavery relatives after her mother dies and comes to believe slavery is wrong. She was a wonderful and very human character who came alive through her first-person narra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51230669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16284815">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has very strong Christian themes, which may bother certain people, but I really enjoyed it. The slave characters were strong and influential and the author really teaches Civil War history in an interesting way through the eyes of these characters. Sometimes I thought Caroline went a bit t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16284815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48972625">
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    <body><![CDATA[Good.  Civil War historical fiction.  Got a little dramatic at times (I think just trying to push the frail southern lady character).  Clean.    ]]></body>
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    <review id="41095413">
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 28 11:18:01 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 28 11:20:40 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't realize it was &quot;christian&quot; fiction as religion seems to be woven into the story in a very natural and believable way. This would be a lovely book for teenagers trying to understand the Civil War and the basic rights of humans. The story line is well tread but engaging enough to cont...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41095413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75577785">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Diehard fans of Civil War fiction]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story was good, but the main character, Caroline, was so incredibly irritating the book seemed to take forever to get through. <br/>It takes place in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, and the main character is Caroline, an abolitionist who is torn between her belief in freedom for slave...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75577785">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49666166">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the book and read it quickly but I just wasn't as captivated as I thought I would be. For a romance novel set during the civil war, the historical perspective was much more interesting than the romance, which felt undeveloped for me. The author did try very hard to highlight the moral conf...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49666166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25798041">
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing. Probably one of the best books I've read in quite awhile. It's the first of a 3-part series and I plan on reading them all. <br/><br/>Set in Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War, the story follows Caroline Fletcher, the privileged daughter of a wealthy slave owner. As Caroline grows up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25798041">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21475574">
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Caroline Fletcher has grown up with slaves-but her mammy, Tessie, is one of her best friends. She doesn't know how awful slavery is until one day when Tessie's son, Grady, is taken away to be sold. Even then, being a young girl, Caroline puts the incident out of her mind after a while and goes on li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21475574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20035555">
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I was reading this book, I was all ready to tell you how I enjoyed it, how I was captivated by the preface, engaged by the story and how I continue to be impressed with Lynn Austin's ability to write clever, intelligent, stories that are not formulaic. I was looking forward to the rest of the ser...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20035555">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52740368">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought all three of the books in this series were great.  I loved reading about the civil war from three very different perspectives (a southern woman, a northern woman, and slaves).  I thought by the third time going through the same events it would lose some of its appeal, but it didn't at all....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52740368">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36646968">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 31 14:51:10 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 03 06:51:26 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really good story about a girl during Civil War times that is conflicted between her love for family and her desire to help her slaves become free.  As far as the war was concerned, you knew the outcome, but it was suspenseful in what was going to happen to the main character.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36646968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42806273">
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this work of historical fiction.  The only complaint I have is that near the end I felt that it started to drag a bit around the war.  It became more of a history lesson than a real view into the lives of the characters that she so wonderfully builds.  I would have liked to read mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42806273">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Lynn Austin.  Her writing in this novel is superb.  The characters are deep and beautiful.  The setting is historical, which always draws me in.  I love the heroine in this story and the strength she finds even in her own weakness.  I couldn't put it down!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved it!  Some of the things that she did I don't know if I totally agree with but I can see she felt that she had to do them.  I loved the story and the history and I am excited to read the other books in this series]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great fictional history about families torn apart by the Civil War and all of the consequences, viewpoints, and emotions people went through. I loved the story and look forward to reading more from this author!]]></body>
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