{"id":177,"date":"2009-05-28T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T16:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2009\/05\/barnes-and-noble-review-plus-scared-ships-today.html"},"modified":"2009-05-28T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T16:12:34","slug":"barnes-and-noble-review-plus-scared-ships-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2009\/05\/barnes-and-noble-review-plus-scared-ships-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Barnes and Noble Review Plus Scared Ships Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning to find out that Amazon<\/a> and Barnes & Noble<\/a> are shipping Scared<\/a> today! For those of you who have pre-order (my most heartfelt thanks goes out to you), your books should arrive any day now. After you've ready the book, please post a review on Amazon or B&N so others can get a good feel about what the book is about. I'm also available to participate in Q&A sessions for summer book clubs. Just let me know, so I can get it on the calendar.<\/p>\n

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This review is posted on Barnes & Noble<\/a> by Julie Gillies<\/a> and will be up on her blog this weekend. Thanks Julie! Hope you are as moved by her review as I was! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n

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A powerful, extraordinary novel – the best I've read in years.<\/span><\/div>\n
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by JulieGillies<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n

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May 28, 2009: Tom Davis' first novel grabbed me by the throat and refused to let go. I no longer sat in a comfortable chair in my bedroom merely reading a book; I bumped along in a jeep on dusty clay roads, inhaled sweaty fear, witnessed atrocities that provoked gut-wrenching despair and anger, and grieved over inhumane conditions that pound innocent families on a continent plagued with disease and corruption.<\/p>\n

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Sweet little Adanna, already fatherless and literally starving, faces the unthinkable when her mother becomes gravely ill. Frightened yet determined to provide a meal for her two younger siblings, Precious and Abu, Adanna innocently brings horrendous calamity upon herself in her desperate search food.<\/p>\n

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Into this hostile environment Stuart Daniels, a world renown, award-winning photographer arrives. A decade earlier Stuart nearly lost his life photographing the violence that, unthinkably, continues to worsen in the heart of Africa. That trip was the beginning of the end for him. He's all but dead on the inside, his marriage is slowly dying and he is on the brink of losing his job. Drawn back to the very place that stole his soul, Stuart can't help but wonder what on earth he's doing in this god-forsaken corner of the world.<\/p>\n

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SCARED is authentic, intense, and in-your-face. It stops short of demanding action on the part of its reader, but you won't be able to help yourself. Warning: Tom Davis' powerful novel will make you rethink your life. And it just might save some.<\/p>\n

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