Pat Bertram is the author of Light Bringer, Daughter Am I, More Deaths Than One, and A Spark of Heavenly Fire. Bertram's books are available from Second Wind Publishing.
Grief: The Great Yearning is not a how-to but a how-done, a compilation of letters, blog posts, and journal entries Pat Bertram wrote while struggling to survive her first year of grief. This is an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths.
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When twenty-five-year-old Mary Stuart learns she inherited a farm from her recently murdered grandparents -- grandparents her father claimed had died before she was born -- she becomes obsessed with finding out who they were and why someone wanted them dead.
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In quarantined Colorado, where hundreds of thousands of people are dying from an unstoppable, bio-engineered disease, investigative reporter Greg Pullman risks everything to discover the truth: Who unleashed the deadly organism? And why?
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Bob Stark returns to Denver after 18 years in SE Asia to discover that the mother he buried before he left is dead again. At her new funeral, he sees . . . himself. Is his other self a hoaxer, or is something more sinister going on?
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Thirty-seven years after being abandoned on the doorstep of a remote cabin in Colorado, Becka Johnson returns to try to discover her identity, but she only finds more questions. Who has been looking for her all those years? And why are those same people interested in fellow newcomer Philip Hansen?
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December 21, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Nice. It probably covers more meaning for me this time of year because that photo reminds me of Iluka where my dad lives. All sea ports, however, have a magic to them. Yes, writing is seeing with new eyes or perhaps that is reading. Star of India…sounds like something out of the days when the British Empire ruled the waves.
December 22, 2011 at 10:40 am
Here’s some information about the Star of India: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_India_(ship)
December 22, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Ha! I thought so! She was originally British! Now she has an American history as well. Considering the waters she’s sailed she must have been tough. Alaska waters and New Zealand waters are not for the weak. She’s quite a sight in that second photo..