Authors: Lauraine Snelling
The Second Half (31 page)
Someday Home
Heaven Sent Rain
Reunion
On Hummingbird Wings
One Perfect Day
Breaking Free
“The story is inspiring and hopeful. Snelling tells a wonderful tale of fresh starts, resilience, loss, and love in this perfect summer read.”
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RT Book Reviews
“Snelling's story has the potential to be a big hitâ¦The alternating narrators make the tale diverse and well rounded. The premise of the story is interesting and the prose is very moving.”
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RT Book Reviews
“Snelling (
One Perfect Day
) continues to draw fans with her stellar storytelling skills. This time she offers a look at small-town medical care in a tale that blends healing, love, and a town's recoveryâ¦Snelling's description of events at the small clinic during the storm is not to be missed.”
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Publishers Weekly
“Snelling's fast-paced novel has characters who seek help in the wrong places. It takes a raging storm for them to see that the help they needed was right in front of them the whole time. This is a strong, believable story.”
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RT Book Reviews
“Lauraine Snelling's newest novel will keep you turning pages and not wanting to put the book downâ¦
Wake the DawnÂ
is a guaranteed good read for any fiction lover.”
âCristel Phelps,
Retailers and Resources Magazine
“Inspired by events in Snelling's own life,
Reunion
is a beautiful story about characters discovering themselves as the foundation of their family comes apart at the seams. Readers may recognize themselves or someone they know within the pages of this book, which belongs on everyone's keeper shelf.”
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RT Book Reviews
“
Reunion
is a captivating tale that will hook you from the very startâ¦Fans of Christian fiction will love this touching story.”
âFreshFiction.com
“Snelling's previous novels (
One Perfect Day
) have been popular with readers, and this one, loosely based on her own life, will be no exception.”
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Publishers Weekly
“Snelling can certainly charm.”
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Publishers Weekly
“Snelling writes about the foibles of human nature with keen insight and sweet honesty.”
âNational Church Library Association
“Snelling's captivating tale will immediately draw readers in. The grief process is accurately portrayed, and readers will be enthralled by the raw emotion of Jenna's and Nora's accounts.”
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RT Book Reviews
“A spiritually challenging and emotionally taut story. Fans of Christian women's fiction will enjoy this winning novel.”
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Publishers Weekly
- Which character did you most closely relate to and why?
- What surprising things have happened in your life that forced to you to change and grow?
- In the novel, Mona struggles with worry. Do you identify with this problem? What helps you to overcome it?
- What advice would you give to this family to make times of change easier to manage?
- Ken has difficulty making the transition to retirement. Have you ever struggled with a major life change, such as changing jobs or moving to a new place? What was the hardest part? What about the experience was rewarding?
- We are encouraged to set goals and make plans, but what do you do when things happen to cause those goals and plans to be dumped or at least put on the back burner?
- Though Mona and Ken had raised two children, they found it challenging to transition back into the role of being parents to their grandchildren. Why do you think that was?
- We always have the choice to turn to our Father for help but often we don't until we are totally struggling. Or drowning. How can we help each other turn to Him first and learn to thank Him and praise Him even in the hardest times?
- Depression attacks so many of us, making daily living such a struggle. If this has happened to you, what did you learn from it? And how do you keep it from attacking again?
- What do you think the characters learned about themselves and each other by the end of the novel? Did you take away anything from their experiences that might help you in your own life or help someone you care about?
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by Lauraine Snelling
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ISBNs: 978-1-4555-8617-2 (trade paperback), 978-1-4555-8616-5 (ebook)
E3-20160517-DA-NF