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  <title><![CDATA[Embrace Me]]></title>
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  <default_description>A scarred woman immersed in the strange world of a traveling circus finds love of another kind.

Valentine endlessly listens to her mother's old copy of &quot;Embraceable You&quot; on an old phonograph, but her own life hardly begs for romance. Her deepening friendship with a quadriplegic woman offers a welcome, if frustrating, sense of dependence, but romantic love is nowhere in sight. Then along comes a dread-locked and scarred local with a hidden history and a compelling present. Will Valentine find the embrace she longs for?</default_description>
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  <original_title>Embrace Me</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lisa Samson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Embrace Me is the first book I’ve read by Christy Award winning author Lisa Samson. I can promise you one thing: it won’t be the last. This book touched me deeply with a beautiful story so skillfully told I found myself more than once stopping to read a passage again and again, savoring the word...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29686516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book in a strange way.  My sister had picked it up another book by this author at the library because she liked the looks of it, and my mom suggested I look for the author.  I read this book today while taking it easy and I enjoyed it very much.  It is not quite up to the standard of my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46374466">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some very brilliant parts and insights mixed in with some cliched predictable parts. About circus/sideshow freaks and how they mirror the Body of Christ.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't realize this was &quot;Christian&quot; lit.  when I picked it up...but it is a good story of forgivness....for others and yourself.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Oct 24 07:23:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[After loving The Passion of Mary Margaret, I was disappointed by Embrace Me so I went looking for other reviews to try to figure out why. It's because &quot;Samson then alternately fast-forwards and rewinds her story six years&quot;..... I have a difficult time with books that do multiple flashbacks...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75577689">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think my experiences of volunteering at the Ringling Museum led me to even get this book. Reading this novel made me think about the people in the old side-shows of the circus as real people-not freaks. I never even wondered how they got where they were or how they lived. It is cleverly written. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45954282">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really good book that shows how social misfits (members of a traveling freak-show) have real human feelings, relationships and capacity for enjoying life. At times intense, the book soon made me forget the &quot;handicaps&quot; or anomolies of these characters and care about or get angry at them on ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49350232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38886450">
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful, powerful, moving writing, and what I've come to expect from Lisa Samson's fiction:<br/>an unflinching look at what it means to be an apprentice of Jesus, especially when we are<br/>asked to love the unlovely for His sake.  Highly recommended.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that when I am desperate enough I will read anything. I had high hopes for this book, but I was disappointed. If I could give it less than 1 star I would. The plot was flat, the characters were one-dimensional, the setting was innocous. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For a Christian fiction book, this was quite good. It didn't feel as fluffy as other Christian fiction sometimes feels to me. The characters were deeper and less &quot;goody-two-shoes&quot; than other main characters in this genre. The premise of the book was very unique, which took some getting use...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68535143">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read in one day!!  Lisa kept me reading...in fact, she's making me a reader!!  Lisa has a way to &quot;teach&quot; through her stories.  I'm looking forward to the another one.]]></body>
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    <review id="66405695">
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    <body><![CDATA[Powerful read.  Outside of Mary Doria Russell's books (and they are pretty hard to beat), this is my favorite Christian fiction novel.]]></body>
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    <review id="49678821">
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    <body><![CDATA[a little slow in the beginning, but great book in the end.  if you can get to the middle, then you'll love it.  great twist.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book!  Really brings home the importance/difficulty of true forgiveness--both for the forgiver and the forgiven.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very different, but I was drawn in and wanted to know what happened to characters that I cared about.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even though I'm a devoted Lisa Samson disciple, I was at first reluctant to pick up this new novel.. I mean the main characters are freaks in a sideshow.  But one a trip to the library, there it was sitting on the new arrivals shelf, calling me. <br/>Surprise.... not at all what i expected. Great b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33228413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48017313">
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic book, could not get the characters out of my mind.]]></body>
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    <review id="19817926">
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 09 14:40:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably my favorite Lisa Samson book.  She's got some fascinating and unique characters here, each a wounded person in body or in spirit.  I love the way Samson embraces just about every variety of Christianity--she sees, like no other Christian author I know, the value in all the different...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19817926">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love the book but the ending was a little drab.]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 15 19:20:06 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has wonderful characters.  I didn't know this was a religious book because I broke the rule of not buying a book by it's cover.  I did, however, enjoy it greatly.  It got alittle preachy at the end - at least it was the characters being preachy to each other instead of preaching at me.  It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32614231">more...</a>]]></body>
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