Bøger af Deborah Reed

A beautifully written, thoroughly engaging novel. Deborah Reed s prose is lyrical, elegant, and vivid she is a standout among new American novelists. Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and Drinking Closer to Home Famed alt-country artist Annie Walsh has more than enough reason to sing her version of the blues, including a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family. Annie seeks refuge from an upended love affair with her producer, Owen Pettybone, by sequestering herself at home with her old dog Detour, surrounded by a lush Florida tangelo grove. Soon, however, this quiet, small-town existence far from recording studios, ardent fans, and affairs of the heart comes crashing down around her. A violent murder connected to her brother Calder threatens to tear her family apart and forces Annie to shore up her loyalties and uproot profound disappointments from her distant past. Like a fine and forlorn love ballad, the gifted, conflicted Annie lulls the reader into a journey through love and loss that mines the mysterious, and, at times, paradoxical rhythms of the human heart. Deborah Reed has written here a novel peopled with real, flesh-and-bone characters men and women both as good and delightfully flawed as our best friends, our spouses, ourselves. And the icing on this cake is Reed s lucid, lovely prose. Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, author of This Life She s Chosen and Swimming with Strangers Deborah Reed comes from a long line of storytellers and musicians and finds creative inspiration in the composition of alt-country, folk, and homespun goods. She currently resides in the Pacific Northwest, where she also writes suspense fiction under the name of Audrey Braun."

The youth are our future. We must instill in them the skills necessary to grab hold of that future with confidence. One way to accomplish this is to encourage the creative genius that lies within each of us. This horror anthology is comprised of written works by 6th-12th grade students willing to seize that creativity and change the world, one word at a time. All proceeds will be donated to the Haley Sue Foundation.

The author celebrates the 'Intimate Relationship' that is available to every Believer. She paints word pictures of Encouragement, Love and Praise as she shares Visions, Poems, Psalms, and Songs the Holy Ghost has given her through the years walking with Him as a Christian.

The story of a famous abstract painter at the end of her life-her family, her art, and the long-buried secrets that won't stay hidden for much longer. Ninety-three-year-old Violet Swan has spent a lifetime translating tragedy and hardship into art, becoming famous for her abstract paintings, which evoke tranquility, innocence, and joy. For nearly a century Violet has lived a peaceful, private life of painting on the coast of Oregon. The "business of Violet" is run by her only child, Francisco, and his wife, Penny. But shortly before Violet's death, an earthquake sets a series of events in motion, and her deeply hidden past begins to resurface. When her beloved grandson returns home with a family secret in tow, Violet is forced to come to terms with the life she left behind so long ago-a life her family knows nothing about. A generational saga set against the backdrop of twentieth-century America and into the present day, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan is the story of a girl who escaped rural Georgia at fourteen during World War II, crossing the country alone and broke. It is the story of how that girl met the man who would become her devoted husband, how she became a celebrated artist, and above all, how her life, inspired by nothing more than the way she imagined it to be, would turn out to be her greatest masterpiece.