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May 28, 2013
Jody Hedlund – Christian Author Interviews
Welcome to Christian Author Interviews. Enjoy our interview with Jody Hedlund, an award-winning historical romance novelist, in this episode. Listen in via the video or audio and share your thoughts in the comments. Don’t forget to enter the giveaway below and share this interview with your friends!
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About Jody Hedlund
Jody Hedlund is an award-winning historical romance novelist and author of the best-selling books, The Preacher’s Bride and Unending Devotion. She received a bachelor’s degree from Taylor University and a master’s from the University of Wisconsin, both in Social Work. Currently she makes her home in Michigan with her husband and five busy children. Her latest book, A Noble Groom, just released.
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May 21, 2013
Book Blast: Every Hill and Mountain by Deborah Heal 5/21/13 -$50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!
Title:Every Hill and Mountain (Time and Again) (Volume 3)
By Deborah Heal
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Every Hill and Mountain Visiting another century…not the summer vacation she had planned. Those who have read Time and Again and Unclaimed Legacy know that Abby Thomas is a college student on a summer service project with 11-year-old Merri. And they know that the summer is not going the way Abby had expected—but in a good way. For one thing, she meets a very nice guy named John Roberts. And for another, she discovers a strange computer program called Beautiful House that lets her fast-forward and rewind life. Not her own, of course, but those of the people who lived in Merri’s old house. And the Old Dears’ old house, and…well, any old house. And since the program worked so well for the Old Dears’ family tree project, Abby’s college roommate Kate hopes it will help her find out more about her ancestor Ned Greenfield. And Kate’s fiancé Ryan thinks the program has lucrative commercial potential. Abby and John reluctantly agree to help Kate, but only on the condition that she and Ryan promise to keep the program a secret, because if it fell into the wrong hands…well, no one wants Big Brother invading their privacy. The two couples take a trip to the tiny town of Equality, set in the hills of southern Illinois and the breath-taking Shawnee National Forest. According to Kate’s research, Ned Greenfield was born there at a place called Hickory Hill. The mayor, police chief, and townspeople are hospitable and helpful—until the topic of Hickory Hill comes up. They seem determined to keep them away, telling them, “There’s nothing there for you to see.” Eventually they find Hickory Hill on their own—both the mansion and the lonely hill it sits upon. Built in 1834, Hickory Hill stands sentinel over Half Moon Salt Mine where the original owner John Granger accumulated his blood-tainted fortune. Abby and her friends meet Miss Granger, Hickory Hill’s current eccentric owner, and they eventually get the chance to time-surf there. Their shocking discovery on the third floor concerning Kate’s ancestor Ned Greenfield is almost too much to bear. What they learn sends them racing to the opposite end of the state to find the missing link in Kate’s family tree. And there they are reminded that God is in the business of redemption—that one day he’ll make all things new.
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Deborah Heal, the author of the Time and Again time travel mystery series, was born not far from the setting of her book Every Hill and Mountain and grew up “just down the road” from the setting of Time and Again. Today she lives with her husband in Waterloo, Illinois, where she enjoys reading, gardening, and learning about regional history. She has three grown children, three grandchildren, and two canine buddies Digger and Scout (a.k.a. Dr. Bob). She loves to interact with her readers, who may learn more about the history behind the books at her website www.deborahheal.com and her Facebook author page www.facebook.com/DeborahHeal.
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May 16, 2013
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Title: Wacky Wishes By Susette Williams Author, Jack Foster Illustrator
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Tommy and Suzie find a wishing well and like children do, they begin making wishes. Imagine their surprise when their wishes start to come true! Are spacesuits the new dress code at school? What’s Tommy going to do with three heads? You’ve heard of, “Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.” When Tommy and Suzie's wishing gets out of hand, will they be able to wish away the mess they've created before their wishes run out?
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May 6, 2013
Times of Turmoil Free on Kindle May 8 and 9
Times of Turmoil will be free on Kindle on May 8 and 9, the novel is also free to borrow if you have Amazon Prime. Links are below.
I also have two new reviews for the novel, both received in the last week and a half, and both are five stars.
5.0 out of 5 stars Time of Turmoil May 3, 2013
By D. Austin
Format:Paperback
From the first chapter I couldn't stop reading! Meet the Evans family, starting with Gregory. They are the evil behind so many world happenings, manipulating events to pursue their goals. The Atwoods were strong in their beliefs,at times unknowingly becoming victims to the Evans family. So many true events were in this book that it almost felt like reading an account of world news. Even though I kept telling myself it is only a work of fiction, I kept wondering if the author had some "inside information" and Gregory Evans was a pseudonym for someone real. I am grateful the author allowed me to read and review this book! I am now a fan of this series and will definitely be buying the rest!
TIMES OF TURMOIL April 27, 2013
By SHAN
Format:Paperback
From the beginning, I was hooked. Interesting read, following two families, the first, Evans, whom are pure evil and involved in so many of the awful events that have occurred in the USA. It's so hard to imagine any human being this evil. No love lost, even between family members as they are not capable of it.
As bad as the Evans family is, the Atwood family is good, looking to God for their help and trusting that He will see them through. Great reminder that with God in our life there is always hope!
Although fiction, very much what is happening all around.
Pick up this book today, you will not be disappointed.
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April 23, 2013
CrossReads Presents Christian Author Interviews – Richard Blackaby
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Dr. Richard Blackaby is the president of Blackaby Ministries International where he works with his father Henry and brother Tom. He is an author and a popular international speaker. Richard is married to Lisa and they have three amazing children: Mike, Daniel, and Carrie. Richard has a Ph.D. in history. He loves reading biographies and hockey. He works with leaders in the home, church, and business community, helping them develop their leadership to higher levels. Richard also co-authored the revision of "Experiencing God" and speaks often in churches and to Christian organizations.
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April 18, 2013
My Take on NBC TV Series Revolution
I'm part of the Candlelight Reads Blog Hop from April 19-22, 2013, where all the ebooks put up are $.99 each for the duration, including two of mine on Amazon, Time of Trouble and Times of Trial, (and if you have a Nook, click the link for both novels) and my newest release since signing up, Times of Turmoil, which is currently only available on Amazon. The topic is about the future destruction of Earth by a plague of zombies, environmental disaster, anything of a dystopian nature, etc. I decided I would give my thoughts on the NBC television series, Revolution, which is a post-apocalyptic dystopian type show. At the bottom, you'll find the links for the next blog to go to, the books that are on sale, and the Rafflecopter giveaway.
If you're not familiar with the series (spoiler alert!), the lights have gone out and now civilization is without electricity. The show sets itself fifteen years in the future, where there are four or five different countries made out of the former United States: California, Plains Nations (I'm to assume that means the Sioux or other Plains tribes take the land back?), The Monroe Republic (basically from the Mississippi to the East Coast), Georgia (which I'm guessing is the Old South), and Texas (which they reference from time to time with some contempt). The Monroe Republic, which is where this show is based, bans people from holding guns(because Monroe has all the major firepower), but everyone can carry bows and arrows, swords, and anything that wouldn't make the government afraid of being taken down. Since there's no electricity, there's no cars, trains, airplanes, so everyone has to walk, ride a horse, or ride on horse drawn wagon. Occasionally, there's flashbacks to before the blackout, showing what happened to the major characters and what they were doing before modern civilization ended, including how the electricity was turned off.
My very first thought when I began watching Revolution was that one of their writer's (or Jon Favreau or JJ Abrams) read S.M. Stirling's series of books, known as Dies the Fire. In that series, the electricity is turned off suddenly and civilization collapses. The action mostly takes place in the Williamette Valley in Oregon, where society turns into what resembles a Renaissance Faire. The story goes into all sorts of fantasy about a boy being the "Chosen One," even referencing Lord of the Rings a lot, while the Mormons convert part of the west into the country they always wanted, called Deseret, Idaho turns into the new United States, the Sioux claim the Plains as their new nation, and some sort of demonic cult that sits on all of their borders that wants to destroy them all. There are wars that involve swords and other primitive weapons. Humans in the cities have turned into cannibals (basically they're zombies, but the series doesn't say that exactly) when their food supply runs out, so it turns into survival of the fittest. Eventually, the hero grows up and has to take a Heroes Journey to Nantucket, where the electricity was turned off by aliens messing with the space-time continuum and aligning a bunch of different timelines together (at least that's what I think happened, I haven't gotten to read the last novel or two). So that's why I instantly thought of this series when I first began watching Revolution.
I have a few nitpicks with the show, since it's post-apocalyptic, and I enjoy this genre. First off, the scale of distances traveled is completely unrealistic if you're walking. At the beginning, Charlie (the main character, a girl) and her merry band of co-horts have to travel to Philadelphia from, I think, Wisconsin, to rescue Charlie's brother from the evil Monroe Republic after they kidnap him because they were looking for his father, who ends up getting shot and killed. So, they travel by foot the thousand miles or so in just a couple of weeks, when in reality, it should take many months. They also make it look like it's just a hop, skip, and a jump to walk from Philly to a town in Delaware in a couple of days after rescuing Charlie's brother, Danny. On their way to Philly, they recruit Charlie's uncle in Chicago, get waylaid a few times by the bad guys, get one of the main characters killed off, and all without looking dirty.
The cast looks nothing like they would if civilization actually collapsed. None of them look like they've gone through periods of not eating, they have clean and updated clothes that look like they just bought them from The Gap or wherever, clean hair, very white teeth, and they way they travel, it's like they're going on a hike through Yellowstone. They carry the kind of backpacks you'd use for school, when they should have military style backpacks that weigh over fifty pounds with the type of trip they're going on. They only showed one character fishing once, but no one kills deer or other wild animals for food, and they never show them asking farmers for food. I suppose you have to assume they do, but they don't ever carry enough emergency supplies in case they never come across any of that.
Now we come to the weapons the characters use. Sometimes their weapons appear out of nowhere, like Charlie's crossbow and arrows or someone's very large swords and machetes. The bad guys in one episode use Civil War type rifles and then two or three episodes later, are using fully automatic weapons. The same goes for the "Rebels," who complain about using "sticks and stones," but more often than not, they have automatic weapons to use too. In one episode, the Monroe Republic gets the tech from one of the people who turned off the electricity in the first place to power up a couple of Black Hawk (or maybe Vietnam era Huey's) helicopters that they had their slaves drag from some military base somewhere to take out the "Rebels," who dream of restoring the United States. In a heroic sacrifice, after their Uncle gets blown back by helicopter bullets trying to shoot down a helo with a bazooka (he's dazed, but not hurt!), Danny picks up the bazooka, sorta kinda aims it, and manages to shoot down one helo, while the other crashes due to the concussion of the blast, even though Danny has never been taught how to use the weapon. Danny dies when the last helo randomly keeps shooting as it's going down. Charlie even occasionally takes a automatic rifle from one of the guys she takes down and then starts shooting it, all without any training, and seems to have no problems with handling it or aiming it. Yeah, that would work in real life. Not.
Now we find out that the eggheads who turned off the power used nano tech that absorbs electricity, is breathed in since it floats in the air, and can replicate. Now, if the nano tech absorbs electricity, shouldn't humans die? For some people in the show, modern tech is still usable when you have a special kind of device, but they have yet to explain why they have it, if the power was supposed to stay off. The other bad guy, or maybe he's just misunderstood, is the one who came up with the plan to turn off the power. He worked for the DOD and his son was killed in Afghanistan, so he wanted to end wars to stop all the killing by turning off electricity. Yet, he decides to align with Monroe, who kills like it's going out of style. Now, they've introduced nuclear weapons. Well, ok then…
People criticize Book of Eli, The Postman, Waterworld, Mad Max, to name a few because some thought they weren't very realistic, but I think they're much more realistic than Revolution. Two of those movies have Kevin Costner in them, and he has a penchant for being as realistic as possible, which includes making the humans and their environment look as run-down and gritty as possible, and even making the movies three plus hours long just to show that. Book of Eli has everyone look like they're supposed to look and act: dirty, smelly, grimy, sickly, crazy, and human behavior is realistic. Mad Max basically has all the humans killing each other for gas, but they all look like they've spent some time without food or water.
Revolution doesn't take in consideration these points, even though I know that it's just a fantasy and by the same people who brought you Lost. Even if the power were to go out, the United States and the multitude of other countries wouldn't really collapse, because there was no electricity, instant communications, instant travel, etc before the mid-nineteenth century, so the government would adapt (probably by becoming a tyranny, if it wasn't already). They might adapt slowly, but it would adapt. Now, the citizens on the other hand….. Zombie Apocalypse anyone? Anyway, I will still watch Revolution, mostly because it's entertaining watching the series, and watching a main character that has as much facial expression as Tom Cruise having to go through all this tragedy while being completely stone faced.
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Earth Day and the Future – Candlelight Reads Blog Hop
I'm part of the Candlelight Reads Blog Hop from April 19-22, 2013, where all the ebooks put up are $.99 each for the duration, including two of mine on Amazon, Time of Trouble and Times of Trial, (and if you have a Nook, click the link for both novels) and my newest release since signing up, Times of Turmoil, which is currently only available on Amazon. The topic is about the future destruction of Earth by a plague of zombies, environmental disaster, anything of a dystopian nature, etc. I decided I would give my thoughts on the NBC television series, Revolution, which is a post-apocalyptic dystopian type show. At the bottom, you'll find the links for the next blog to go to, the books that are on sale, and the Rafflecopter giveaway.
If you're not familiar with the series (spoiler alert!), the lights have gone out and now civilization is without electricity. The show sets itself fifteen years in the future, where there are four or five different countries made out of the former United States: California, Plains Nations (I'm to assume that means the Sioux or other Plains tribes take the land back?), The Monroe Republic (basically from the Mississippi to the East Coast), Georgia (which I'm guessing is the Old South), and Texas (which they reference from time to time with some contempt). The Monroe Republic, which is where this show is based, bans people from holding guns(because Monroe has all the major firepower), but everyone can carry bows and arrows, swords, and anything that wouldn't make the government afraid of being taken down. Since there's no electricity, there's no cars, trains, airplanes, so everyone has to walk, ride a horse, or ride on horse drawn wagon. Occasionally, there's flashbacks to before the blackout, showing what happened to the major characters and what they were doing before modern civilization ended, including how the electricity was turned off.
My very first thought when I began watching Revolution was that one of their writer's (or Jon Favreau or JJ Abrams) read S.M. Stirling's series of books, known as Dies the Fire. In that series, the electricity is turned off suddenly and civilization collapses. The action mostly takes place in the Williamette Valley in Oregon, where society turns into what resembles a Renaissance Faire. The story goes into all sorts of fantasy about a boy being the "Chosen One," even referencing Lord of the Rings a lot, while the Mormons convert part of the west into the country they always wanted, called Deseret, Idaho turns into the new United States, the Sioux claim the Plains as their new nation, and some sort of demonic cult that sits on all of their borders that wants to destroy them all. There are wars that involve swords and other primitive weapons. Humans in the cities have turned into cannibals (basically they're zombies, but the series doesn't say that exactly) when their food supply runs out, so it turns into survival of the fittest. Eventually, the hero grows up and has to take a Heroes Journey to Nantucket, where the electricity was turned off by aliens messing with the space-time continuum and aligning a bunch of different timelines together (at least that's what I think happened, I haven't gotten to read the last novel or two). So that's why I instantly thought of this series when I first began watching Revolution.
I have a few nitpicks with the show, since it's post-apocalyptic, and I enjoy this genre. First off, the scale of distances traveled is completely unrealistic if you're walking. At the beginning, Charlie (the main character, a girl) and her merry band of co-horts have to travel to Philadelphia from, I think, Wisconsin, to rescue Charlie's brother from the evil Monroe Republic after they kidnap him because they were looking for his father, who ends up getting shot and killed. So, they travel by foot the thousand miles or so in just a couple of weeks, when in reality, it should take many months. They also make it look like it's just a hop, skip, and a jump to walk from Philly to a town in Delaware in a couple of days after rescuing Charlie's brother, Danny. On their way to Philly, they recruit Charlie's uncle in Chicago, get waylaid a few times by the bad guys, get one of the main characters killed off, and all without looking dirty.
The cast looks nothing like they would if civilization actually collapsed. None of them look like they've gone through periods of not eating, they have clean and updated clothes that look likey just bought them from The Gap or wherever, clean hair, very white teeth, and they way they travel, it's like they're going on a hike through Yellowstone. They carry the kind of backpacks you'd use for school, when they should have military style backpacks that weigh over fifty pounds with the type of trip they're going on. They only showed one character fishing once, but no one kills deer or other wild animals for food, and they never show them asking farmers for food. I suppose you have to assume they do, but they don't ever carry enough emergency supplies in case they never come across any of that.
Now we come to the weapons the characters use. Sometimes their weapons appear out of nowhere, like Charlie's crossbow and arrows or someone's very large swords and machetes. The bad guys in one episode use Civil War type rifles and then two or three episodes later, are using fully automatic weapons. The same goes for the "Rebels," who complain about using "sticks and stones," but more often than not, they have automatic weapons to use too. In one episode, the Monroe Republic gets the tech from one of the people who turned off the electricity in the first place to power up a couple of Black Hawk (or maybe Vietnam era Huey's) helicopters that they had their slaves drag from some military base somewhere to take out the "Rebels," who dream of restoring the United States. In a heroic sacrifice, after their Uncle gets blown back by helicopter bullets trying to shoot down a helo with a bazooka (he's dazed, but not hurt!), Danny picks up the bazooka, sorta kinda aims it, and manages to shoot down one helo, while the other crashes due to the concussion of the blast, even though Danny has never been taught how to use the weapon. Danny dies when the last helo randomly keeps shooting as it's going down. Charlie even occasionally takes a automatic rifle from one of the guys she takes down and then starts shooting it, all without any training, and seems to have no problems with handling it or aiming it. Yeah, that would work in real life. Not.
Now we find out that the eggheads who turned off the power used nano tech that absorbs electricity, is breathed in since it floats in the air, and can replicate. Now, if the nano tech absorbs electricity, shouldn't humans die? For some people in the show, modern tech is still usable when you have a special kind of device, but they have yet to explain why they have it, if the power was supposed to stay off. The other bad guy, or maybe he's just misunderstood, is the one who came up with the plan to turn off the power. He worked for the DOD and his son was killed in Afghanistan, so he wanted to end wars to stop all the killing by turning off electricity. Yet, he decides to align with Monroe, who kills like it's going out of style. Now, they've introduced nuclear weapons. Well, ok then…
People criticize Book of Eli, The Postman, Waterworld, Mad Max, to name a few because some thought they weren't very realistic, but I think they're much more realistic than Revolution. Two of those movies have Kevin Costner in them, and he has a penchant for being as realistic as possible, which includes making the humans and their environment look as run-down and gritty as possible, and even making the movies three plus hours long just to show that. Book of Eli has everyone look like they're supposed to look and act: dirty, smelly, grimy, sickly, crazy, and human behavior is realistic. Mad Max basically has all the humans killing each other for gas, but they all look like they've spent some time without food or water.
Revolution doesn't take in consideration these points, even though I know that it's just a fantasy and by the same people who brought you Lost. Even if the power were to go out, the United States and the multitude of other countries wouldn't really collapse, because there was no electricity, instant communications, instant travel, etc before the mid-nineteenth century, so the government would adapt (probably by becoming a tyranny, if it wasn't already). They might adapt slowly, but it would adapt. Now, the citizens on the other hand….. Zombie Apocalypse anyone? Anyway, I will still watch Revolution, mostly because it's entertaining watching the series, and watching a main character that has as much facial expression as Tom Cruise having to go through all this tragedy while being completely stone faced.
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April 16, 2013
Book Blast – Love the Wounded by Lynn Dove
Title: Love the Wounded
By Lynn Dove
About the Book:
“Love the Wounded” by Lynn Dove is the final and dramatic conclusion to her brilliant Wounded Trilogy series that has followed the lives of teenagers Jake, Leigh, Mike, Dylan and Tim as they come to terms with a series of tragedies and events that have made each of them question why God allows “bad things to happen to good people”.
Leigh does not know who to choose…her heart tells her she will always love Jake, but he has changed so much since the death of their friend, Ronnie, and with his mother going through breast cancer, he has totally closed himself off from her emotionally. Now she is dating Dylan and try as she might to accept him for who he is, she can’t stop thinking about Jake!
Dylan has never gotten over the loss of his father and little sister, killed by a drunk driver when he was just a young boy.
After a horrific accident that has put both Tim and his little brother, Evan in the hospital, everyone knows that not only is he being bullied at school; he cuts himself to cope with it all. But meeting Cassidy has given him the courage to stand up to the bullies and at the same time give her what she so desperately needs…a life-giving bone marrow transplant.
Jake’s mother keeps telling him that “God works all things out for good” but with all the things going on in his life and with his friends, he’s just not sure anymore. It is only after Mike is paralyzed in a car accident that Jake was partially responsible for that all the families and friends will be brought back together, not by coincidence, but by God’s design and then Jake will finally believe that God truly does “Love the Wounded”.
“A life of working with youth has inspired Lynn Dove, a Cochrane mother to turn her experiences into a book trilogy…(the Wounded Trilogy) series that parallels the struggles of students…(and) covers the angst of some of the real serious issues that teenagers face today, particularly with bullying and gossip. ” -Rocky View Weekly-
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Lynn Dove
Lynn Dove calls herself a Christ-follower, a wife, a mom, a grandmother, a teacher and a writer (in that order). She is the author of award winning books: The Wounded Trilogy. Her blog, Journey Thoughts won a Canadian Christian Writing Award – 2011. She has also had essays published in "Mother of Pearl: Luminous Lessons and Iridescent Faith" and "Chicken Soup for the Soul – Parenthood" (March 2013). Readers may connect with Lynn on Facebook, Twitter and on her blogs: Journey Thoughts and Word Salt or on her website: www.shootthewounded.org
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April 9, 2013
New Book Release: Times of Turmoil
In this prequel to Times of Trouble, we learn the back story of how the Evans family gained their riches and eventually their power to influence events in the United States and elsewhere in the world. We see important events that the Evans family gets themselves involved in: such as the return of the Israelites to Israel, the assassination of President Kennedy, the Iran Hostage Affair, the terrorism of 9/11, and eventually events that leads to government tyranny in the United States all to dilute the influence of Christianity in the country.
The novel also follows the Atwood family, starting with the Great-Grandfather of Brian, Charles. We follow him as he makes his way from Normandy in World War Two to being part of the liberation of Buchenwald, the Nazi Concentration Camp, shortly near the end of the war. Charles returns to his hometown in Virginia and gets married to the love of his life, Betty. Eventually, the family ends up in Delaney, Nebraska, when Tom Atwood, the son of Charles, buys some land after returning from Vietnam. In 2001, Aaron, the father of Brian, joins the Army to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan after the terrorist attacks on 9/11. About six years before the beginning of Times of Trouble, we get to see how Brian and Lynda finally get together and get married.
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New Release: Times of Turmoil
In this prequel to Times of Trouble, we follow how the Evans family gained their riches and eventually their power to influence events in the United States. We see important events that the Evans family gets themselves involved in: such as the return of the Israelites to Israel, the assassination of President Kennedy, the terrorism of 9/11, and eventually events that lead to gun control and other types of government tyranny in the United States.
The novel also follows the Atwood family, starting with the Great-Grandfather of Brian, Charles, as he fights in World War Two and ends up helping liberate Buchenwald shortly near the end of the war. Charles returns to the States and gets married to the love of his life, Betty. Eventually, the family ends up in Delaney, Nebraska, where we watch Aaron, the father of Brian, join the Army to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11. Later on, we get to see how Brian and Lynda finally get together and get married.
FREE to borrow for Amazon Prime Members or buy it for $4.99. Special $.99 price for book launch. Paperback will be available later.
Kindle ASIN: B00C9S9W5A
And…. Beyond the New Frontier is now available on Nook, Kobo, and Apple (Apple doesn't appear to be available just yet) after spending the last six months on Amazon's Select program. If you haven't read New Frontier and Final Frontier yet, try this one, since it's the combined version of both novels.
Share it now!
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