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TITLE: Book Blast: At The End Of Our Journey by JACK R EAST JR {June 18, 2013} - $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!

At The End Of Our Journey

By: JACK R EAST JR

About the Book
At the End of Our Journey is a personal testimony of the life and Christian faith of the author. The inspiration for the book came from two incredible and powerful dreams about Jack's Christian faith. The dreams were experienced in November of 2010 on two consecutive mornings. Jack awoke from both dreams with precise and detailed memories of the events and emotions felt during the dreams. He can recall all of the events of both dreams two years later. To be able to remember all of the details of both dreams is very unusual for him and for most other dreamers.

The two dreams did not reveal anything new about his Christian faith. The first dream expressed all of the doubts, fears, and questions that all followers of the Christian faith have asked themselves many times. The second dream was a direct confirmation from God that all of the promises of the Christian faith are true and will happen for all who believe in Christ's redemption and follow his teachings. Words cannot adequately describe the events and emotions of the second dream. The author has difficulty finding words to describe the emotions experienced in his dreams, but he can share the following conclusions about his dreams and the Christian faith with you.

He experienced the finality of knowing that he had died.
He knew the joy of knowing that his Christian faith allowed him to conquer death.
He felt hope and joy to know that his spirit had conquered death and was rising
into Heaven.
He was overcome with joy, peace, contentment, fulfillment, and the sure
knowledge that the only place he could possibly be was in Heaven. No other
place could feel so good and right.
He cannot adequately describe how it felt to know that God was there to
welcome him to Heaven where he heard his powerful and loving voice
say to him,


"Jack, I am glad you are here,
I have been waiting for you."
How could he describe hearing God's welcome end with the
following words...


"but, I am not ready for you yet."
At the End of Our Journey is Jack's attempt to share with you the wonderful experience of his life, dreams, and Christian faith. His wish is that you may also know the joy of the personal presence of God in your life and feel the full depth and beauty of His powerful love. And that you may receive a taste of what awaits for us at the end of our journey of Christian faith.

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JACK R EAST JR

Jack was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in September of 1940. In 1945 his family moved to Southern California where he lived for 30 years. He started his journey of Christian faith in 1956 at the age of sixteen. Jack married his wife Barbara in 1961 and their marriage has lasted for over fifty years. Jack started his career as a CPA, and he and Barbara started their family while living in Southern California.

Jack and Barbara moved to the far north coast of California in 1975. Jack continued to work at his accounting and tax practice as he and Barbara raised a family of three great sons. Their boys and their spouses have provided them with four precious grand children. Both family and the Christian faith have always been important parts of the life of Jack and Barbara. At age 72, Jack is still working at his accounting and income tax practice with Barbara's help. Retirement is under consideration, but it is not their greatest priority at this time.

In November of 2010 Jack experienced two incredible dreams about his Christian faith. The dreams were the inspiration for writing a book and for this website. The dreams have started a new chapter in the life and Christian faith of Jack R. East, Jr. at age 72.

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IF DADDY GETS THERE FIRST

Our family. I'm the youngest on the bottom right. My scanner isn't working correctly, but I used this anyway.


                              FATHER’S DAY: REMEMBERING DADDYI wrote this years ago when it appeared my Daddy, Joe Marion Nicholson, was dying. As our family prayed, God brought him through this crisis. He had prostate cancer and it spread to his bones. Tests showed it even was in his skull. Our main prayer was that God would take away the pain and wouldn’t allow him to suffer.  Although he didn’t fully recover his health, if I remember correctly, he took only one radiation treatment. He didn’t like the side effects.“I’ve lived a good life, so at my age I’m not going to take any more,” he said.Amazingly, though, even when he was no longer able to care for himself, he had no pain and the physician said there was no cancer.Daddy was a strong man, steady in his beliefs, and righteous in the way he lived. He became a committed Christian about the time I was born—the eighth child. He loved the Word of God, listening attentively when Mama, and later my stepmother, read at devotion time.He wasn’t that talkative, but I learned as adult when Daddy spoke usually it was with wisdom. As a child, I knew when he said “no,” that was final.In order to feed and clothe our large family, he worked hard. In Kansas either during the Dust Bowl or during the Great Depression (before I came along) they needed firewood. He knew of a large tree stump nearby and went out with ingredients for homemade dynamite—something containing salt peter. He was pounding the dynamite into the stump when it exploded, sending a large splinter through one of his eyes.Daddy was blind in that eye as long as I knew him.But that night I sat in the hospital waiting and praying with my sisters, I knew his spiritual eyes had been opened years before and when his earthly life was over, He was going to the place prepared for Him by God’s Son, Jesus Christ.Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:1-3).

                              IF DADDY GETS THERE FIRSTI sit in the waiting room at the hospital in Grand Junction, Colo. The sound of air circulation through a ceiling duct and nurses chatting at a nearby desk are the only night sounds.The room is small.Down the hall in Room 137, my father awaits surgery on his arms because he broke both of them in a fall. The surgeon says the bones in his arms are “honey-combed” because of cancer. He hadn’t been able to walk for a couple of months before he fell.My insides tremble when I think of him lying on the white hospital bed—pale and gaunt—the sparkle in his eyes fading.Will he survive the anesthetic and surgical trauma? Will the man who provided the food and clothing for me throughout my single life still be there tomorrow? The man, who possesses such strong character and faith in God; who had seen his family grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ?It is at times such as this that I groan and cry for the redemption of the body Paul talks about in Romans 8:22-24.How does one give up a loving father; Right now, as the lump in my throat makes it difficult to swallow and tears blur my sight, I can’t give him up. But I can let him go into the presence of God and wait there for me to join him. He was on earth before I got here. It must be all right for him to be in heaven before I get there.He didn’t need me before I was born, and he won’t need me when he leaves this earth.But I need him. Mother has been gone 21 years. Both my husband’s parents are gone. We’re the youngest children of both families and when Daddy is gone, there will be a great void.I have memories, though, if God takes him. I have a heritage given to me by both my mother and father that will live on after the grave has snatched them from me.From their graves, even, parents will have influence on me and through me.Yet the grave will be only a symbolic display to humankind that my parents moved elsewhere. It will be like the shell left behind when the chicken hatches. My parents will not be in the ground; they will be in the presence of God, just as the thief who repented on the cross before he died was with Jesus that day in Paradise.Even so, my mother and father will return with Jesus Christ to unite with a resurrected immortal body to house their spirits. Death will be swallowed by life (See 2 Corinthians 5:4NLT).The Bible says, “But I would not have you to be ignorant brethren, concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow now not even as those who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven witha shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God’ and the dead in Christ shall arise first.
“Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air” and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:13-17).I find comfort in those words. Whether we live, or die, we are the Lord’s--and that includes my daddy.

© Ada Brownell June 2012

How The Caney Creek Series Came to Be

By Jo Huddleston
That Summer is Book 1 in the Caney Creek Series. The setting of That Summer is the Southern Appalachians of East Tennessee where my ancestors and I were raised. I’ve listened to older generations tell stories at family reunions about time before telephones and automobiles. Their stories fascinated me and caused me to want to write about a time before I was born.This story percolated in my mind in the late 1990s. I’m what writers call a panster type of writer. I don’t outline my plot on paper. My entire plot and characters simmer in my mind before I write a word. Many times I don’t know the ending but I know how to get there. Of course, sometimes characters surprise me by going this way when I intended them to go another way. I love how my stories many times work themselves out as I write.While this story still rumbled around in my mind, in 2001 I received a life altering health diagnosis with a negative prognosis. My first symptom was the loss of penmanship that nobody, even I, could read. Then I began to have involuntary muscle spasms that prevented me from holding my fingers on the home keys of a keyboard. I couldn’t write and couldn’t type—this was before speak-to-type.I thought my writing career had vanished. I cleaned out my files—even trashed all my rejection letters I’d been saving. Now I wish I’d kept them to prove that I really am a writer. I gave away most of my writing craft books.My mind was still intact but my body wouldn’t do what it was told. My balance while walking started to diminish and I quit going to writing conferences. My doctor advised me not to drive. I was dependent on my family to even get to my doctor’s appointments and still am.In 2008, I began to improve. My hands were steadier and I could get my story started. The biggest aggravation when I write anything is the time I have to leave my story to research the facts. When the story starts pouring out of my mind I want to write. I write continuously, not indicating chapters but I do indicate scene and POV changes. After I finish that first draft I go back and insert chapters.I’ve outlived my doctor’s prognosis by two years. I’ve finished the second of a 3-book contract and feel fine other than fatigued when I don’t stop to rest now and then. Fatigue brings on more unsteadiness in my hands and legs.From 2001 to 2008 I had a lot of time to meditate. A relative marvels that I’ve never questioned, “God, why me?” I have not become bitter because of the health issues. I think God just gave me time to understand a lot of things when I was inactive. I’m a more peaceful, patient, and faithful me.That Summer hibernated for seven years, and then became a story on paper. When I finished That Summer, I thought I had accomplished my goal. However, I found I couldn’t leave my characters in some of their situations. I had to write at least one more book about them. Book 2, Beyond the Past, came to be. I’m now writing Book 3, in the Caney Creek Series, Claiming Peace, scheduled to release in September 2013.

 URLs Website: http://www.johuddleston.com/p/home.htmlBlog: http://www.johuddleston.com
WHERE TO PURCHASE CANEY CREEK SERIES BOOKSSigned copies available in left sidebar of my blog: http://www.johuddleston.comPaperback copies available at publisher’s site: http://www.donaldjamesparker.com/sOSProducts.aspx
Paperback and eBooks available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Jo+Huddleston

HOW DO YOU ARRIVE BEYOND THE PAST?

Tomorrow Jo Huddleston will share the suspenseful and miraculous story of how she wrote the Caney Creek series of novels; how her own history is wrapped around the stories; and how she had to climb over many obstacles to be where she is today as an author.

Christian novels often reach deeper than suspense, romance, drama, humor, mystery into not only the heart of characters, but dig into who we are--our problems, our needs, our frustrations, our fears--even our guilt.

I feature Christian writers here because as the title of this blog implies, "Ink from an Earthen Vessel," the humble  lumps of clay that we are, formed by God for a special use, can bless, encourage, lighten and brighten the lives of others--even for eternity. Jo Huddleston is one of these writers and her testimony will certainly bless you.

I read Christian novels because they minister to me spiritually as well as give me a wonderful read that's enjoyable. It's finding the answer to every in problem in life through our Savior and Lord that truly thrills the soul, and characters in Christian novels discover that.

Here's an introduction to Jo and to Jo's latest book, Beyond the Past. Log in to the blog tomorrow for Jo's interesting testimony of how she rose above a devastating medical diagnosis--and went ahead and created the books inside her heart.


BIO - Jo Huddleston


Jo Huddleston's debut novel, That Summer, released in December 2012 as the first book in The Caney Creek Series. Beyond the Past is Book 2 in the series. Huddleston holds a B.A. degree with honors from Lincoln Memorial University (TN), and is a member of their Literary Hall of Fame. She earned a M.Ed. degree from Mississippi State University. Professional membership: American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW).



Beyond the Past back cover blurb


Emmajean Callaway’s life in Atlanta plummets from bad to worse. Can big brother, Jim, lead her back to the family who loves her and also hold the imploding Callaway family together?

Jim Callaway looks forward to 1951 and the chance to forge a relationship withCaroline after twenty years apart. He’s sidetracked when his sister and his best friend need his help. His baby sister, Emmajean, skids into jail on drug charges in Atlanta. The ordeal of incarceration and trial diminishes her and she needs rescuing, not only physically but spiritually. She struggles toward recovery and restoration with her lawyer’s help as he champions her inside and outside the courtroom. Jim’s nephew Joe is one step ahead of the truant officer, wrecks his car, and officials suspect alcohol is involved. Joe awaits his fate at the hands of the juvenile court judge. Jim and Caroline continue their bumpy journey as they seek realization of their dreams, wondering if they really can overcome obstacles to their being together after so many years.

URLsWebsite: http://www.johuddleston.com/p/home.htmlBlog: http://www.johuddleston.com
WHERE TO PURCHASE CANEY CREEK SERIES BOOKSSigned copies available in left sidebar of my blog: http://www.johuddleston.comPaperback copies available at publisher’s site: http://www.donaldjamesparker.com/sOSProducts.aspx
Paperback and eBooks available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Jo+Huddleston

NEWS RELEASE ABOUT BOOK SIGNING ON JUNE 8

SPRINGFIELD, MO--Ada Brownell, a retired newspaper reporter and Springfield inspirational author, will sign her books from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.Saturday, June 8, at Christian Publishers Outlet, National and Republic Rd.Brownell’s book, Swallowed by Life: Mysteries of Death, Resurrection and the Eternal, is featured in The Pentecostal Evangel’s June 2 “Reading for Spiritual Health” edition. The magazine, published by the Assemblies of God, exerpted with permission, a portion of the chapter, “A Love Message.”      In the book Brownell shares how losing a daughter to cancer tested her faith, but also how being a medical reporter helped strengthen it. She cites evidence she believes shows we’re more than a physical body. For instance, weight gain and loss; cell death and regeneration; and the surgical removal of body parts and transplanting of vital organs, such as the heart. She also dives into the spiritual, discussing the mysteries surrounding the change from mortal to immortal; where we go when our body dies; resurrection; and what she believes the Redeemed will do in heaven.The book is written for support groups, religion classes, people with chronic or terminal illness, individuals who fear death or are curious about it, the grieving, and those who give them counsel. Questions and answers for each chapter make the book suitable for a Bible study text.  Brownell has written for Christian publications since age 15 and worked most of her career as a journalist at The Pueblo Chieftain in Colo., where she spent the last seven years as a medical writer. After moving to Springfield, Mo., in her retirement she continues to free lance for Christian publications and write non-fiction and fiction books. She is critique group leader for Ozarks Chapter of American Christian Writers and a member of American Christian Fiction Writers.
Her first novel, Joe the Dreamer: The Castle and the Catapult, was released Jan. 15, 2013. A non-fiction book, Confessions of a Pentecostal, published by the Assemblies of God’s Gospel Publishing House in 1978, is out- of-print but released in 2012 for Kindle. Her next book expected to be available this summer, is a self-help book, “Imagine the Future You.”

MERINGUE AND I

I think my husband decided to pursue me for his bride because he needed a cook. Although I was only age 15 and he 20 and already working for the railroad, probably what did it was the apple pie I made and took to a church supper. Guess he didn’t know I couldn’t cook much else. We married after I reached 16, which my Dad thought sounded better than 15, and God tried to teach me patience through cooking. I think what I really learned was creativity and ingenuity.Take for instance the first chocolate cake. I used the recipe on the back of the cocoa box and I didn’t notice high altitude instructions. My creation looked like the top of a volcano. Not to worry. I just turned a saucer up-side-down on the cake plate and put on the caved-in layers. After the chocolate frosting, my husband thought I had a masterpiece—at least until he cut it.There was no remedy for the first fried chicken that ended up raw in the middle and burned on the outside. But I’m tenacious and kept right on cooking, reading my little Pillsbury leaflets, asking questions and watching other ladies efficient in the kitchen. I discovered after I bought a recipe book I could make nearly anything—except meringue.The first time the lightly browned froth melted over my banana cream pie, oozing water on top and around the edges, I thought I messed up the recipe. I love meringue! My husband loves cream pies. So I divided egg whites from yolks, whipped them, and added all sorts of different ingredients cooks told me worked to make the sweet fluff perfect.Over and over and over I tried, and every time my pie was covered with tears. Some were mine; the remainder— egg whites that decided to revert to their original state.Maybe it was the chickens. Eggs are potential chickens, and chickens and I never had a good relationship, even when as a kid I gathered eggs. Roosters never liked me. I was flogged so many times I once jumped a fence taller than my head to get away from an angry Papa Chicken. Could somehow chickens put hatred into their DNA and allow me to reap it?Naw.  I’d read in the Bible, “Tribulation works patience, and patience experience, and experience hope.”

Romans 5:3,4

AUTHOR HEIDI GLICK SAYS: "PERFECTION IS OVERRATED"

Perfection is OverratedAs a child in summer camp, I worked on a woven craft with the help of my teacher. The craft was rainbow in color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple), but the last row of my teacher’s example was not in the correct color order. When I asked my teacher about the mistake, he told me he had done that on purpose as a reminder that only God is perfect. This lesson about imperfection can also be applied to the craft of writing. While I don’t think writers need to make purposeful mistakes in their writing, I do think that writers need permission to be imperfect. Permission to make mistakes allows writers to ·         avoid writer’s block, ·         accept rejection, ·         and grow as a professional. Writers need permission to make mistakes while writing. I’ve heard that writer’s block is when a writer gets caught up in editing mode and can’t switch back to writing mode. By allowing himself to make a mistake, a writer can work on a story and allow the words to flow freely without being concerned with revisions. The editing stage will come later. Good planning does cut down on revisions; however, in order to edit a manuscript, a writer must first complete a manuscript. Writers need permission to accept rejection. Almost every writer has been rejected at some point. I consider Frank Peretti to be a good writer, and I was amazed to learn that This Present Darkness had been rejected several times. My own debut novel was rejected before I later revamped it and then signed a contract with a publisher. I almost gave up on writing altogether at one point because I thought being called by God to be a writer meant that I had to be perfect, and if writing didn’t come naturally, then I wasn’t meant to write. But that wasn’t the case. Even pastors and missionaries train for their fields. Writers are no different. They, too, must continue to learn.Writers need permission to grow as a professional. Sometimes writers receive criticism from others. It is okay for a writer to realize his writing may not be perfect. In fact, a huge turning point in my writing career was accepting criticism and learning from it. Later on, I was better able to separate good criticism from bad, but before I could do that, I had to be open to the possibility that my writing was not perfect. The bottom line is that only Jesus is perfect. And that’s okay. If He wasn’t, then the rest of us wouldn’t need a Savior. Remember this, and every now and then, give yourself permission to be less than perfect.



About Heidi's book:Dog Tagsis a suspense novel that is set to be released on June 7, 2013, from Pelican Book Group, Harbourlight Book Division. In Dog Tags, a former Marine determines to protect the woman he loves at all costs, and yet his own secrets might turn her against him forever. Excerpt: The Knight’s mind clouded over, like fog settling over the local San Diego metro area. One thing was clear as he sat in his white, sparsely furnished living room: his goal. He must continue his quest to help damsels in distress, ones like Juanita. He hoped she’d listen to him, that she’d understand he only tried to protect her, that she’d appreciate his chivalry. But as he’d learned from experience, the women he chose to rescue might not always be cooperative. Being a knight in shining armor did not always prove an easy task. 

The finger in the jar atop the entertainment center served as a reminder: death was far kinder than the fate Juanita could have suffered at the hands of that other man. No matter what society thought, the Knight had done the right thing.Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uRQPwihJMrI

Character interview from Joe the Dreamer: The Castle and the Catapult

Recently I did this character interview for editor Ralene Burke’s blog Where the Light Pierces the Darkness.... Ralene asked the questions, and Joe, from my book JOE THE DREAMER: THE CASTLE AND THE CATAPULT answers. If you’d like to see the questions, too,  you can see the interview on Ralene’s blog.   Heeeere’s Joe!


1. My name is Joe Baker. I’m age 14, going on 15, tall for my age, but if things continue as they have the last few weeks I’ll pass for an old man any day now.I’m the son of Darin and Rose Baker, and they disappeared. My little sis, Penny, and I waited and waited that night, but they didn’t come home. Pop, a computer software designer, and Mom, a buyer and fashion consultant at Vanby’s, a prestigious teen clothing store, left work to visit a friend at the hospital and no one has seen them since.2. My life is full of challenges. First, I need to find out how to believe in miracles so God will bring my parents home. In the meantime, I should learn how to live with Uncle Faulkner and Aunt Anna. But Faulkner, a powerful newspaper editor, is so full of himself I don’t know who will explode first—him or me, and Anna is tied to that little glass of alcohol and one little match could set her ablaze.3. I thought my biggest fear was that my parents would be found dead. But now Pop has been accused of stealing priceless computer software to help control epilepsy I think he designed at home in his spare time. Then every time I read the Bible I dream I’m some great biblical hero and wake up shouting and screaming out, making Faulkner and his psychiatrist friend think I’m mentally ill, need medication and hospitalized.4. I always wanted to be like Pop and someday marry someone with beauty and character like my mom, but they aren’t here now. So, I let Gertrude, a wonderful old crippled lady, love on me and pray for me, but I also re-connected with my old neighborhood and joined a gang. Not just any gang, dude. The East Side Gallant Guardians. Christian teens who solve and prevent crime without guns or blades, using things like a pet skunk, sand, rope, noise, marbles. Centipede—he’s the leader--and his group of homies aren’t afraid of anybody or anything because they believe God is with them. Patrick—that’s Faulkner’s son—says we’re going to get ourselves killed, but so far amazing things are happening and we have found evidence that prisoners are being held at Sir Henry’s Castle in the mountains. I think that might be where Mom and Pop are, and we are taking a catapult and invading the castle.5. Would you believe we’re even allowing Pete’s twin sister to go with us? I’ve known Petra for a long time and hadn’t noticed how pretty and talented she is until just a few weeks ago. I’m not spreading it around that I like her, you see, so don’t you go texting everyone you know. I hope when everything comes down she’ll hang tough with her karate moves and cut the timber out from under some of those guards. Almost would make me grab her and plant a kiss on her gorgeous face! If you want to know how all of this turns out, check out this link and the review where a teen said the book is “A tale of intrigue and faith; captures the reader from the opening page” JOE THE DREAMER: THE CASTLE AND THE CATAPULT http://buff.ly/XeqTvH
A more recent review said "This book is good for any age."
Ralene Burke Where the Light Pierces the Darkness... Speculative Fiction Novelist Freelance Editor

How Dr. Joyce Brothers impacted my life

            God sometimes uses people we wouldn’t expect Him to use, and catches our attention in unusual ways.            That’s the way it was when I interviewed Dr. Joyce Brothers. Brothers, who died May 13 at age 85, was keynote speaker at a women’s conference in our city a long time ago and I spoke to her on the phone prior to the event.            What caught my attention was what the psychologist said during the interview about treating your spouse with respect and being thankful. “Marriage partners take one another for granted and expect them to do whatever needs to be done,” Brothers said. “Many couples fight about helping with chores, and if their mate empties the trash or cleans out the dishwasher, they barely notice. Instead, even when it’s a job we expect him or her to do, we should say, “Thank you for doing that. Nice job. That really helps.”            Brothers said when marriage partners respectfully show how much they appreciate one another, they’ll get more help and there will be less friction in the home. Saying “thanks” gets much better results than nagging, she added.            Coming from a family of workaholics, her words jabbed me right in the conscience. I expected my husband to jump on a job like my siblings would do, and if he didn’t, I’d get into a snit and do it myself—or give him an ear full.            I knew that’s not the way a Christian should act, but Satan deceives us into thinking if we’re doing our part it’s OK to attack the person we don’t think is doing his.            I tried Brothers’  “Thank you,” approach and discovered it made the home atmosphere better and it made me actually feel thankful.  It wasn’t long before my husband also was saying “Thank you.”            I don’t remember watching Brothers on television or reading more than one or two of her advice columns, but that one personal interview is enough for me to have respect for her, despite what I’ve read about some of her other advice.            What she did for me was show me a concrete way I could develop fruit of the Holy Spirit in my life—by showing patience, gentleness, goodness and self control. Acts of kindness are something we decide to do, and so are attitudes of the heart. Becoming thankful definitely gave me a spiritual growth spurt.You can find a number of quotes from Brothers on the internet such as: “Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.”“Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, ‘making it’, or success.”“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.”Good advice, and may these words long outlive her.

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Title:Every Hill and Mountain (Time and Again) (Volume 3)

By Deborah Heal

About the Book:
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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