Going on spring break? Whether you’re going to the beach, the mountain or just relaxing at home, feed your mind with these two great reads: Blood of a Stone and The Widow Smalls and Other Stories.
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Blood of a Stone
With Holy Week and Easter just around the corner, “Blood of a Stone” is a timely read for the faithful. Set in the time of Jesus, author Jeanne Lyet Gassman gives another perspective on how a man came to believe in Jesus. This is historical fiction. An philosophical read but very enjoyable nonetheless.
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Description
Set in the first century on the edges of the Roman Empire and the Jesus movement, Blood of a Stone is a sweeping story of murder, betrayal, love, and the search for redemption.
Faced with the brutality of slavery, Demetrios confronts his master and flees by the blood of a stone. Determined to escape his past, he struggles to create a new life and a new identity with his friend and fellow escaped slave, Elazar.
However, freedom has its price. Secrets cannot remain secret forever. A chance for love is lost. Elazar betrays Demetrios to a so-called prophet named Jesus of Nazareth. Fearing the Roman authorities and Jesus, Demetrios risks everything to silence those who would enslave him again. His quest leads him to startling discoveries and dire choices.
Demetrios must answer the question we all ask: Can we ever be free of our past?
The Widow Smalls and Other Stories
With the central theme of farm life during the 1940s and 1950s, The Widow Smalls and Other Stories is an excellent collection of short stories that delves into hardship of making a living from the land. Each story is a great read on its own. It’s hard to put down once you start.
Description
Thirty years of browbeating from rancher Bud Smalls has penned his wife, Leah, into emotional isolation. Now Bud is gone and Leah owns the ranch, but there is no help forthcoming from Bud’s brothers who want to force her out and take the ranch for themselves.
When their attempt to humiliate her instead becomes her opportunity to succeed, Leah begins to find her way back to herself and learns how much she can gain by opening her heart.
The Widow Smalls is just one of the stories in this collection by the WILLA Award winning author of Unbroken, Jamie Lisa Forbes, who writes about the hardships of making a living from the land with an understanding that comes from first-hand experience.
Her deftly drawn characters include star-crossed lovers, a young rancher facing his first test of moral courage, an inscrutable ranch hand claiming an impressive relative, a father making one last grasp for his daughter’s love and a child’s struggle to make sense of the world around her. Each will pull you into the middle of their stories and keep you turning the pages.
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