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  <title><![CDATA[The Heavens Before (Genesis Trilogy)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Marginalized by society and mistreated by her own family, Annah befriends a young man she's never seen before. Shem is captivated by Annah's courage, and he risks everything to help her gain her freedom. Trusting in the Most High, Annah marries Shem and joins her strange new family in their solitary faith that will ultimately separate them from an ancient world of amazing beauty and appalling violence -- a world fast approaching the unimaginable catastrophe of the Great Flood. Out of this chaos, only eight people will survive. Their world is our world. Their future is our own.&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2004</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kacy Barnett-Gramckow]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have almost given up on fiction retellings of Biblical history as very rarely does an author actually stick to what the Bible states on the subject. Therefore, I was tremendously pleased to read this wonderfully, vividly written story. It stuck faithfully to the Biblically provided information.  T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38885114">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was fictionalised tale of Noah's family in the days during the building of the ark, life during the flood and life after the flood. It is told mainly from the point of view of the wife of one of Noah's sons, and the story starts showing her life in the settlement; a town where murder is nearly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39121129">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 28 12:28:59 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Heavens Before is the first book the Genesis Trilogy, a continuing story of the people and events beginning with the flood in the book of Genesis. And it draws you in from the first paragraph. I immediately connected Annah, the main character in the book. She seemed so fragile and yet had such a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34047318">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This 1st entry into the Genesis series is soooo good. It is a Biblical fiction novel. So much research and forethought must have gone into this book. Not only is it believable that it could have happened that way, but the love/romance interest in the book is incredibly sweet. Explores the Biblical t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76167827">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great fictional account of the time of the Flood in Genesis. Though most of this book was purely fictional, the Flood itself was real. The characters in this book were Noah and his family, the story told mostly from the perspective of Shem's wife - before and during her marriage to Shem. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31003888">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Slow to start....then, you become absorbed in the characters and this is a tremendous book of Noah and his times.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite of the trilogy.  A new way to think about the Bible.  Real people experienced these events--and I tend to read the Bible like a fairy story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Puts skin on characters from Genesis--Noah and his family.  It's written from the point of view of Noah's first daughter-in-law, who is somehow still good though she has grown up with evil all around her.  Some parts are not quite believable; for instance, some of the things this woman thinks seem a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63592652">more...</a>]]></body>
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