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BROKEN GIFTS by Tyler Auck
Broken Gifts is a horrifying look into the depths of abuse and addiction, yet every chapter also seems to shine hope into the reader's rapidly beating heart. Looking back on the trauma in his life, Tyler Auck finds beauty. This beauty is as miraculous as a flower growing in the crack of a sidewalk. His story is awful. But, by the end of the book you will be cheering him on as he continues his journey in recovery. He shouldn't be alive today. But, he is. And he's kicking addiction's ass every step of the way.
Change for a Penny by Sue Skalicky
Our life story from this day forward doesnt have to mimic the pain of our past. Men and women who are equipped and empowered to revise the narration of past-life incidents can learn to narrate a story of joy, confidence, and hope as life unfolds. The characters that share our daily stage may add drama, humor, and sometimes even horror to our life stories, but we dont have to be at their mercy. Acknowledging the roles of others, learning how to draw healthy boundaries, and knowing the value and benefits of inviting these characters to play a significant role in our story can lead to living out a rich and rewarding story line. Our lives are not an accident. Instead, we encounter incidents on a daily basis that can often be quite unexpected and unnerving. But shifting our paradigm about these happenings from accidental to incidental can open our hearts and minds to great opportunities. Daily, we are faced with many decisions to be a victim or live in victory. Which will you choose?
Q: The Very First Gospel by Kurt Peterson
Based on a true story, this humorous retelling of the life of Jesus, focuses on the human nature of Jesus as he comes to grips with his divine nature. Other theological questions are featured as well. Was the wine at Cana a French vintage, or was it from California? Did Jesus smoke cigars? Did the Magdalene compose the Serenity Prayer? Did Mary, the Mother of Jesus, confect the grilled cheese sandwich? Did Jesus have a dog? Did one of the Apostles have Cerebral Palsy? Did Thaddeus really pluck his eye out? Does G-d have a La-Z-Boy recliner-rocker throne?
Who was Jesus, really? There are many people willing to tell you. There are many people who say they have all the answers. Faith is too important to be left to the priests and pastors. Find the answers for yourselves. This book won't tell you everything, but no book can tell you everything. Enjoy.
Who was Jesus, really? There are many people willing to tell you. There are many people who say they have all the answers. Faith is too important to be left to the priests and pastors. Find the answers for yourselves. This book won't tell you everything, but no book can tell you everything. Enjoy.
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Virgil Wander is a sweeping story of new beginnings against all odds that follows the inhabitants of a hard luck town in their quest to revive its flagging heart. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures of kite-flying, movies, fishing, baseball, necking in parked cars and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a swift, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked upper Midwest by an award-winning master storyteller.
But the Flames by Emily Vieweg
This collection, which honors bipolar disorder, social anxiety, Joan of Ark and the right to choose, also finds the courage to ask the right questions between all these things. Perhaps the same questions that live between generations and siblings and children and parents. These poems are fearless and full of the longing for connection of all kinds. You can find your own heart here and good company and new questions to companion you well.
Half the Terrible Things by Paul Legler
Half the Terrible Things is an intimate and sometimes violent novel portraying three interconnected lives. Based on true events, the life of Martin Tabert is short and tragic. Tabert is a young farm boy from Munich, North Dakota. While traveling around the country in 1922, he is pulled off a train near Tallahassee, Florida, charged with vagrancy, sentenced to a convict work camp, and whipped to death by the camp Whipping Boss. His body is buried in an unknown location in wild swamp country.
Eighty years later, his girlfriend, Edna, nearing her end in a nursing home in Devils Lakes, ND, asks her granddaughter, Nicole, to find his grave. Nicole, a young attorney with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., searches the Florida swamps while struggling with her own guilt stemming from her work at the Justice Department post 9/11.
The Tabert case resulted in prison reform in Florida after North Dakotans intervened following Tabert's death.
Eighty years later, his girlfriend, Edna, nearing her end in a nursing home in Devils Lakes, ND, asks her granddaughter, Nicole, to find his grave. Nicole, a young attorney with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., searches the Florida swamps while struggling with her own guilt stemming from her work at the Justice Department post 9/11.
The Tabert case resulted in prison reform in Florida after North Dakotans intervened following Tabert's death.
Raised In Captivity by Chuck Klosterman
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination.
The Lives of Edie Pritchard
Edie—smart, self‑assured, beautiful—always worked hard. She worked as a teller at a bank, she worked to save her first marriage, and later, she worked to raise her daughter even as her second marriage came apart. Really, Edie just wanted a good life, but everywhere she turned, her looks defined her. Two brothers fought over her. Her second husband became unreasonably possessive and jealous. Her daughter resented her. And now, as a grandmother, Edie finds herself harassed by a younger man. It’s been a lifetime of proving that she is allowed to exist in her own sphere. The Lives of Edie Pritchard tells the story of one woman just trying to be herself, even as multiple men attempt to categorize and own her.
Triumphant, engaging, and perceptive, Watson’s novel examines a woman both aware of her physical power and constrained by it, and how perceptions of someone in a small town can shape her life through the decades.
Triumphant, engaging, and perceptive, Watson’s novel examines a woman both aware of her physical power and constrained by it, and how perceptions of someone in a small town can shape her life through the decades.
Little Big Bully by Heid E. Erdrich
Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled we - how did we come to this? In answer, this book offers personal myth, American and Native American contexts, and allegories driven by women's resistance to narcissists, stalkers, and harassers. These poems are immediate, personal, political, cultural, even futuristic object lessons. What is truth now? Who are we now? How do we find answers through the smoke of human destructiveness? The past for Indigenous people, ecosystem collapse from near-extinction of bison, and the present epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women underlie these poems. Here, survivors shout back at useless cautionary tales with their own courage and visions of future worlds made well.
His Feathers Were Chains
Lajimodiere's newest collection of poetry takes its title from a statue the author observed - an Indian on a horse - fashioned from welded-together farm implements. The premise of the collection is overt criticism of settler society, but the poetry is subtle, approachable, and grounded in Ojibwe knowledge and customs. Feathers is divided into five sections: Broken Glass Dreams, Identity, His Feathers Were Chains, Thin White Heat, and Dancing with a Whirlwind.
A Certain Kind of Forgiveness by Carol Kapaun Ratchenski
Winner of The Birdy Poetry Prize, by Meadowlark-- 2019. "There is a worldliness in these poems, the kind of grit that accompanies a strong heart. There's awareness--of the self, of the world. And the poems are populated with the magical, husky things of this earth: warm beer in Berlin, rice in a bowl in a monastery, and stains from fresh cranberries. These are poems we can savor, now and again.” -Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-2019
The Silent Sound of Darkness by Sue Skalicky
The Facebook friend request glares back at Jaclyn Friedman. It is the face of her childhood abuser. She holds her breath as she looks at how age has sculpted his face with an unfamiliar texture. Nightmares rush to the surface. Adrenalin strikes her heart at full force. His eyes pierce her soul through the screen with the same fearful message she suffered as a child. Be silent or your family will die. Twenty-three years ago she believed him to be dead. Now, he's invaded her carefully constructed life. The shameful secret she has carried alone all these years now threatens to become deadly. Breaking the silence could be the only way for Jaclyn and her family to escape alive.
The Silent Sound of Darkness is a compelling look at the impact of childhood abuse and the deadliness of the silence that too often follows.
The Silent Sound of Darkness is a compelling look at the impact of childhood abuse and the deadliness of the silence that too often follows.
BROKEN GIFTS by Tyler Auck
Broken Gifts is a horrifying look into the depths of abuse and addiction, yet every chapter also seems to shine hope into the reader's rapidly beating heart. Looking back on the trauma in his life, Tyler Auck finds beauty. This beauty is as miraculous as a flower growing in the crack of a sidewalk. His story is awful. But, by the end of the book you will be cheering him on as he continues his journey in recovery. He shouldn't be alive today. But, he is. And he's kicking addiction's ass every step of the way.
Change for a Penny by Sue Skalicky
Our life story from this day forward doesnt have to mimic the pain of our past. Men and women who are equipped and empowered to revise the narration of past-life incidents can learn to narrate a story of joy, confidence, and hope as life unfolds. The characters that share our daily stage may add drama, humor, and sometimes even horror to our life stories, but we dont have to be at their mercy. Acknowledging the roles of others, learning how to draw healthy boundaries, and knowing the value and benefits of inviting these characters to play a significant role in our story can lead to living out a rich and rewarding story line. Our lives are not an accident. Instead, we encounter incidents on a daily basis that can often be quite unexpected and unnerving. But shifting our paradigm about these happenings from accidental to incidental can open our hearts and minds to great opportunities. Daily, we are faced with many decisions to be a victim or live in victory. Which will you choose?
Q: The Very First Gospel by Kurt Peterson
Based on a true story, this humorous retelling of the life of Jesus, focuses on the human nature of Jesus as he comes to grips with his divine nature. Other theological questions are featured as well. Was the wine at Cana a French vintage, or was it from California? Did Jesus smoke cigars? Did the Magdalene compose the Serenity Prayer? Did Mary, the Mother of Jesus, confect the grilled cheese sandwich? Did Jesus have a dog? Did one of the Apostles have Cerebral Palsy? Did Thaddeus really pluck his eye out? Does G-d have a La-Z-Boy recliner-rocker throne?
Who was Jesus, really? There are many people willing to tell you. There are many people who say they have all the answers. Faith is too important to be left to the priests and pastors. Find the answers for yourselves. This book won't tell you everything, but no book can tell you everything. Enjoy.
Who was Jesus, really? There are many people willing to tell you. There are many people who say they have all the answers. Faith is too important to be left to the priests and pastors. Find the answers for yourselves. This book won't tell you everything, but no book can tell you everything. Enjoy.
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Virgil Wander is a sweeping story of new beginnings against all odds that follows the inhabitants of a hard luck town in their quest to revive its flagging heart. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures of kite-flying, movies, fishing, baseball, necking in parked cars and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a swift, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked upper Midwest by an award-winning master storyteller.
But the Flames by Emily Vieweg
This collection, which honors bipolar disorder, social anxiety, Joan of Ark and the right to choose, also finds the courage to ask the right questions between all these things. Perhaps the same questions that live between generations and siblings and children and parents. These poems are fearless and full of the longing for connection of all kinds. You can find your own heart here and good company and new questions to companion you well.
Half the Terrible Things by Paul Legler
Half the Terrible Things is an intimate and sometimes violent novel portraying three interconnected lives. Based on true events, the life of Martin Tabert is short and tragic. Tabert is a young farm boy from Munich, North Dakota. While traveling around the country in 1922, he is pulled off a train near Tallahassee, Florida, charged with vagrancy, sentenced to a convict work camp, and whipped to death by the camp Whipping Boss. His body is buried in an unknown location in wild swamp country.
Eighty years later, his girlfriend, Edna, nearing her end in a nursing home in Devils Lakes, ND, asks her granddaughter, Nicole, to find his grave. Nicole, a young attorney with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., searches the Florida swamps while struggling with her own guilt stemming from her work at the Justice Department post 9/11.
The Tabert case resulted in prison reform in Florida after North Dakotans intervened following Tabert's death.
Eighty years later, his girlfriend, Edna, nearing her end in a nursing home in Devils Lakes, ND, asks her granddaughter, Nicole, to find his grave. Nicole, a young attorney with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., searches the Florida swamps while struggling with her own guilt stemming from her work at the Justice Department post 9/11.
The Tabert case resulted in prison reform in Florida after North Dakotans intervened following Tabert's death.
Raised In Captivity by Chuck Klosterman
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination.
The Lives of Edie Pritchard
Edie—smart, self‑assured, beautiful—always worked hard. She worked as a teller at a bank, she worked to save her first marriage, and later, she worked to raise her daughter even as her second marriage came apart. Really, Edie just wanted a good life, but everywhere she turned, her looks defined her. Two brothers fought over her. Her second husband became unreasonably possessive and jealous. Her daughter resented her. And now, as a grandmother, Edie finds herself harassed by a younger man. It’s been a lifetime of proving that she is allowed to exist in her own sphere. The Lives of Edie Pritchard tells the story of one woman just trying to be herself, even as multiple men attempt to categorize and own her.
Triumphant, engaging, and perceptive, Watson’s novel examines a woman both aware of her physical power and constrained by it, and how perceptions of someone in a small town can shape her life through the decades.
Triumphant, engaging, and perceptive, Watson’s novel examines a woman both aware of her physical power and constrained by it, and how perceptions of someone in a small town can shape her life through the decades.
Little Big Bully by Heid E. Erdrich
Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled we - how did we come to this? In answer, this book offers personal myth, American and Native American contexts, and allegories driven by women's resistance to narcissists, stalkers, and harassers. These poems are immediate, personal, political, cultural, even futuristic object lessons. What is truth now? Who are we now? How do we find answers through the smoke of human destructiveness? The past for Indigenous people, ecosystem collapse from near-extinction of bison, and the present epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women underlie these poems. Here, survivors shout back at useless cautionary tales with their own courage and visions of future worlds made well.
His Feathers Were Chains
Lajimodiere's newest collection of poetry takes its title from a statue the author observed - an Indian on a horse - fashioned from welded-together farm implements. The premise of the collection is overt criticism of settler society, but the poetry is subtle, approachable, and grounded in Ojibwe knowledge and customs. Feathers is divided into five sections: Broken Glass Dreams, Identity, His Feathers Were Chains, Thin White Heat, and Dancing with a Whirlwind.
A Certain Kind of Forgiveness by Carol Kapaun Ratchenski
Winner of The Birdy Poetry Prize, by Meadowlark-- 2019. "There is a worldliness in these poems, the kind of grit that accompanies a strong heart. There's awareness--of the self, of the world. And the poems are populated with the magical, husky things of this earth: warm beer in Berlin, rice in a bowl in a monastery, and stains from fresh cranberries. These are poems we can savor, now and again.” -Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-2019
The Silent Sound of Darkness by Sue Skalicky
The Facebook friend request glares back at Jaclyn Friedman. It is the face of her childhood abuser. She holds her breath as she looks at how age has sculpted his face with an unfamiliar texture. Nightmares rush to the surface. Adrenalin strikes her heart at full force. His eyes pierce her soul through the screen with the same fearful message she suffered as a child. Be silent or your family will die. Twenty-three years ago she believed him to be dead. Now, he's invaded her carefully constructed life. The shameful secret she has carried alone all these years now threatens to become deadly. Breaking the silence could be the only way for Jaclyn and her family to escape alive.
The Silent Sound of Darkness is a compelling look at the impact of childhood abuse and the deadliness of the silence that too often follows.
The Silent Sound of Darkness is a compelling look at the impact of childhood abuse and the deadliness of the silence that too often follows.
BROKEN GIFTS by Tyler Auck
Broken Gifts is a horrifying look into the depths of abuse and addiction, yet every chapter also seems to shine hope into the reader's rapidly beating heart. Looking back on the trauma in his life, Tyler Auck finds beauty. This beauty is as miraculous as a flower growing in the crack of a sidewalk. His story is awful. But, by the end of the book you will be cheering him on as he continues his journey in recovery. He shouldn't be alive today. But, he is. And he's kicking addiction's ass every step of the way.
Change for a Penny by Sue Skalicky
Our life story from this day forward doesnt have to mimic the pain of our past. Men and women who are equipped and empowered to revise the narration of past-life incidents can learn to narrate a story of joy, confidence, and hope as life unfolds. The characters that share our daily stage may add drama, humor, and sometimes even horror to our life stories, but we dont have to be at their mercy. Acknowledging the roles of others, learning how to draw healthy boundaries, and knowing the value and benefits of inviting these characters to play a significant role in our story can lead to living out a rich and rewarding story line. Our lives are not an accident. Instead, we encounter incidents on a daily basis that can often be quite unexpected and unnerving. But shifting our paradigm about these happenings from accidental to incidental can open our hearts and minds to great opportunities. Daily, we are faced with many decisions to be a victim or live in victory. Which will you choose?
Q: The Very First Gospel by Kurt Peterson
Based on a true story, this humorous retelling of the life of Jesus, focuses on the human nature of Jesus as he comes to grips with his divine nature. Other theological questions are featured as well. Was the wine at Cana a French vintage, or was it from California? Did Jesus smoke cigars? Did the Magdalene compose the Serenity Prayer? Did Mary, the Mother of Jesus, confect the grilled cheese sandwich? Did Jesus have a dog? Did one of the Apostles have Cerebral Palsy? Did Thaddeus really pluck his eye out? Does G-d have a La-Z-Boy recliner-rocker throne?
Who was Jesus, really? There are many people willing to tell you. There are many people who say they have all the answers. Faith is too important to be left to the priests and pastors. Find the answers for yourselves. This book won't tell you everything, but no book can tell you everything. Enjoy.
Who was Jesus, really? There are many people willing to tell you. There are many people who say they have all the answers. Faith is too important to be left to the priests and pastors. Find the answers for yourselves. This book won't tell you everything, but no book can tell you everything. Enjoy.
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Virgil Wander is a sweeping story of new beginnings against all odds that follows the inhabitants of a hard luck town in their quest to revive its flagging heart. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures of kite-flying, movies, fishing, baseball, necking in parked cars and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a swift, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked upper Midwest by an award-winning master storyteller.
But the Flames by Emily Vieweg
This collection, which honors bipolar disorder, social anxiety, Joan of Ark and the right to choose, also finds the courage to ask the right questions between all these things. Perhaps the same questions that live between generations and siblings and children and parents. These poems are fearless and full of the longing for connection of all kinds. You can find your own heart here and good company and new questions to companion you well.
Half the Terrible Things by Paul Legler
Half the Terrible Things is an intimate and sometimes violent novel portraying three interconnected lives. Based on true events, the life of Martin Tabert is short and tragic. Tabert is a young farm boy from Munich, North Dakota. While traveling around the country in 1922, he is pulled off a train near Tallahassee, Florida, charged with vagrancy, sentenced to a convict work camp, and whipped to death by the camp Whipping Boss. His body is buried in an unknown location in wild swamp country.
Eighty years later, his girlfriend, Edna, nearing her end in a nursing home in Devils Lakes, ND, asks her granddaughter, Nicole, to find his grave. Nicole, a young attorney with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., searches the Florida swamps while struggling with her own guilt stemming from her work at the Justice Department post 9/11.
The Tabert case resulted in prison reform in Florida after North Dakotans intervened following Tabert's death.
Eighty years later, his girlfriend, Edna, nearing her end in a nursing home in Devils Lakes, ND, asks her granddaughter, Nicole, to find his grave. Nicole, a young attorney with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., searches the Florida swamps while struggling with her own guilt stemming from her work at the Justice Department post 9/11.
The Tabert case resulted in prison reform in Florida after North Dakotans intervened following Tabert's death.
Raised In Captivity by Chuck Klosterman
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination.
The Lives of Edie Pritchard
Edie—smart, self‑assured, beautiful—always worked hard. She worked as a teller at a bank, she worked to save her first marriage, and later, she worked to raise her daughter even as her second marriage came apart. Really, Edie just wanted a good life, but everywhere she turned, her looks defined her. Two brothers fought over her. Her second husband became unreasonably possessive and jealous. Her daughter resented her. And now, as a grandmother, Edie finds herself harassed by a younger man. It’s been a lifetime of proving that she is allowed to exist in her own sphere. The Lives of Edie Pritchard tells the story of one woman just trying to be herself, even as multiple men attempt to categorize and own her.
Triumphant, engaging, and perceptive, Watson’s novel examines a woman both aware of her physical power and constrained by it, and how perceptions of someone in a small town can shape her life through the decades.
Triumphant, engaging, and perceptive, Watson’s novel examines a woman both aware of her physical power and constrained by it, and how perceptions of someone in a small town can shape her life through the decades.
Little Big Bully by Heid E. Erdrich
Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled we - how did we come to this? In answer, this book offers personal myth, American and Native American contexts, and allegories driven by women's resistance to narcissists, stalkers, and harassers. These poems are immediate, personal, political, cultural, even futuristic object lessons. What is truth now? Who are we now? How do we find answers through the smoke of human destructiveness? The past for Indigenous people, ecosystem collapse from near-extinction of bison, and the present epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women underlie these poems. Here, survivors shout back at useless cautionary tales with their own courage and visions of future worlds made well.
His Feathers Were Chains
Lajimodiere's newest collection of poetry takes its title from a statue the author observed - an Indian on a horse - fashioned from welded-together farm implements. The premise of the collection is overt criticism of settler society, but the poetry is subtle, approachable, and grounded in Ojibwe knowledge and customs. Feathers is divided into five sections: Broken Glass Dreams, Identity, His Feathers Were Chains, Thin White Heat, and Dancing with a Whirlwind.
A Certain Kind of Forgiveness by Carol Kapaun Ratchenski
Winner of The Birdy Poetry Prize, by Meadowlark-- 2019. "There is a worldliness in these poems, the kind of grit that accompanies a strong heart. There's awareness--of the self, of the world. And the poems are populated with the magical, husky things of this earth: warm beer in Berlin, rice in a bowl in a monastery, and stains from fresh cranberries. These are poems we can savor, now and again.” -Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-2019
The Silent Sound of Darkness by Sue Skalicky
The Facebook friend request glares back at Jaclyn Friedman. It is the face of her childhood abuser. She holds her breath as she looks at how age has sculpted his face with an unfamiliar texture. Nightmares rush to the surface. Adrenalin strikes her heart at full force. His eyes pierce her soul through the screen with the same fearful message she suffered as a child. Be silent or your family will die. Twenty-three years ago she believed him to be dead. Now, he's invaded her carefully constructed life. The shameful secret she has carried alone all these years now threatens to become deadly. Breaking the silence could be the only way for Jaclyn and her family to escape alive.
The Silent Sound of Darkness is a compelling look at the impact of childhood abuse and the deadliness of the silence that too often follows.
The Silent Sound of Darkness is a compelling look at the impact of childhood abuse and the deadliness of the silence that too often follows.
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