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Like a Hole in the Water
by Neil Sherouse
>80 5-Star Ratings on Amazon; 4.6 Stars on Good Reads
It was on a crisp April afternoon when the underpinnings of young Clint’s life collapsed beneath him. From that day, and throughout his youth, he assumed his best friend’s death was an accident. Now, confronted with clear evidence to the contrary, he begins an agonizing quest for truth.
Growing up together in the turbulent 60s, Clint and Sam were an unlikely pair, but history and circumstance forged an inseparable bond between them. After Sam is killed suddenly, Clint is left to find his own way into adulthood—always haunted by his friend’s untimely death. Now struggling to grow his fledgling law practice, Clint recalls his friendship with Sam even as he sets out to unravel the truth about his death.
A heartfelt coming-of-age story, Like a Hole in the Water unfolds amidst the Jim Crow South, the growing sentiment against the war in Vietnam, the Cold War and the race for space. Navigating all this, Clint and Sam push back against the norms and create for themselves a safe place in which to grow toward adulthood.
This is one of the best stories I’ve read in a long time…
You will fall in love with the characters and breathe a sigh of relief
when you realize the ending is flawless with no questions left unanswered...
Buy this book. You won't regret it. - 5 Stars by KA
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The Burden of Evil Times - 2nd Edition
Lyndon Sellers – a simmering cauldron of rage, threatening to boil over at any provocation…
Scott Herring – a fundamentally good man who becomes a lightning rod for Sellers’ anger, struggling to reconcile his emotions and his convictions…
Between them are innocents whose lives are at risk each time their paths intersect. Until – on one snow-bound day – all are caught up in the escalating violence.
Set in rural Kentucky in the waning days of 1977, The Burden of Evil Times challenges us with questions as old as humankind itself: How do we respond to evil? To what ends should we go to protect others around us? For newly minted clergyman Scott Herring these become existential questions as he begins his service at Hebron Church. As winter sets in, he must shepherd the community through tragedy and loss while at the same time confronting his own demons. An old nightmare returns, a romance grows, and a late-night conversation ensues with a long-dead martyr.
The Burden of Evil Times is the first book in the Scott Herring series, rereleased now in this new edition.
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The Chain: A Family Memoir of Courageous Women,
by Shirley Bernard
“An inspirational story about deep loss, perseverance,
and the human capacity to reinvent oneself anew.
Shirley’s remarkable story is more than a memoir.
It is a guide for how a seemingly ordinary person
can achieve an extraordinary life.”
Matthew Lysiak, author of Newtown: An American Tragedy
Out of the poverty and desperation of post-World War I Lithuania, Shirley Bernard’s grandparents arrived in the US with a few dollars in their pockets and the American Dream in their hearts. Settling in smalltown Michigan, they fashioned a life for themselves through hard labor and uncompromising determination.
By the early 1940s, their daughter – Shirley’s mother – and her young family began to pull ahead, acquiring a farm and educational achievement. Yearning for more, Shirley became the first in her family to go to college, eventually attaining a graduate degree and remarkable professional achievement in a field dominated by men. Along the way, she would experience tragedy and loss, find love, break glass ceilings, and rise to the top floor of one of America’s largest retailers.
Shirley’s story is, in so many ways, the story of America – the story of one person’s determination to get ahead, to overcome, to succeed despite the odds. Yet it is so much more. The Chain is the story of a changing nation, of a broadening landscape of opportunity, of one family’s striving over four generations to fulfil the aspirations that first brought them to America.
“Shirley’s story is as compelling a memoir as I’ve ever read.
From her roots in Lithuania to her professional successes,
her unflinching resoluteness to move forward in defiance of all roadblocks
will inspire you and rekindle your own inner fire.”
J. Neil Sherouse, author of Like a Hole in the Water
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