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Soneela Nankani
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Mitali Perkins
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Katina King is the reigning teen jiujitsu champion of Northern California, but she's having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past.
Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in Kolkata, India, and is reluctant to take on his future. Since he knows nothing about his past, how is he supposed to figure out what comes next?
Robin and Kat meet in the most unlikely of places - a summer service trip to India to work with survivors of human trafficking. As bonds blossom between the travel mates, Robin and Kat discover the healing superpowers of friendship.
At turns heart-wrenching, beautiful, and buoyant, Mitali Perkins' new novel explores the ripple effects of violence - across borders and generations - and how small acts of heroism can break the cycle.
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In Where Do I Go? by Gold Medallion Award winner Neta Jackson, Gabrielle Fairbanks hopes her move to Chicago will help her find real purpose in life. When she stumbles over a homeless woman and into a job as program director of the House of Hope—a downtown women’s homeless shelter—she believes she’s found what she’s been missing. And then her disgruntled husband threatens to divorce her and take custody of their children unless she quits working at the shelter.
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Excellent story excellent naration = awesome serie
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October Baby
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Not long after Hannah, a college student, experiences increasing anxiety and a sudden collapse, all signs point to the surprising circumstances of her birth. Hannah soon learns from her parents that she was adopted and is the survivor of a failed abortion attempt. Bewildered, angry, and confused, she turns to her oldest friend, Jason, for support. Encouraged by his adventurous spirit, Hannah joins his friends on a road trip, embarking on a journey to discover her hidden past and find hope for the unknown future.
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Longing For GREAT Christian Fiction
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Internationally best-selling author Francine Rivers—winner of a Christy Award and the ECPA Gold Medallion—crafts a riveting tale of mother/daughter bonds stretching across decades. Strong-willed Marta leaves Switzerland early in the 20th century and settles in California. Though Marta loves her eldest daughter Hildie, they often clash as they attempt to find their places in the world.
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Another Awesome Read From Francine
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How to Be an American Housewife
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How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters and the pull of tradition. It tells the story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
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big disappointment
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The Orphan Keeper
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Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life - and his destiny - is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the Indian orphanage that he is not an orphan, he has a mother who loves him. But he is told not to worry, he will soon be adopted by a loving family in America.
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5 Star Worthy
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In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. And soon, Lucía's parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States - on their own. Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers, Lucía struggles to adapt to a new country, a new language, a new way of life. But what of her old life?
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Fame
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As Dayne Matthews returns to Hollywood after his shocking discovery in Karen Kingsbury's best-selling novel Reunion, he faces the dangerous world of fame and paparazzi. Meanwhile, Katy Hart receives the offer of a lifetime - starring opposite Dayne in a Hollywood film. Dayne and Katy's choices will change their hearts and lives forever.
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Disappointing
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Like Dandelion Dust
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In this moving story, Jack and Molly Campbell are enjoying a wonderful life with Joey, their four-year-old adopted son. But their world is soon shattered when they learn Joey’s biological father is out of prison and wants to begin a new life with his son. And when a judge orders them to surrender Joey, the Campbells desperately consider taking their son and disappearing—just like dandelion dust.
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A Heartfelt Tear Jerker
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Summer at Willow Lake
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Real estate expert Olivia Bellamy reluctantly trades a trendy Manhattan summer for her family's old resort camp in the Catskills, where her primary task will be renovating the bungalow colony for her grandparents, who want one last summer together filled with fun, friends and family. A posh resort in its heyday, the camp is now in disarray and Olivia is forced to hire contractor Connor Davis - a still-smoldering flame from her own summers at camp.
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Finding Love at Summer Camp
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The Life List
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Brett Bohlinger has forgotten all about the list of life goals she’d written as a naïve teenager. In fact, at 34, Brett seems to have it all—a plum job at her family’s multimillion-dollar company and a spacious loft with her irresistibly handsome boyfriend. But when her beloved mother, Elizabeth, passes away, Brett’s world is turned upside down. Rather than simply naming her daughter the new CEO of Bohlinger Cosmetics, Elizabeth’s will comes with one big stipulation: Brett must fulfill the list of childhood dreams she made so long ago.
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Truly Terrible.
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Nearly Normal
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In her best-selling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood - her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of 13 to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Cea's unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.
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This one is just not for me
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Red Hot Lies
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They say bad things happen in threes. When her fiancé, Sam, disappears on the same day her mentor and biggest client is killed, hotshot Chicago attorney Izzy McNeil starts counting. But trouble keeps coming. Sam is implicated in the client's death, her apartment is broken into and it's not just the authorities who are following her.
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A bit uneven, but fun!
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- M. Tobin
- 09-15-22
Fantastic Read for Y/A to Adult
Love this novel...everything about it- plot, writing, emotion, stakes, characters, settings, discovering another country & culture- cultures, really. Highly recommended.
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- Adam Shields
- 04-05-19
Heavy themes, good writing
I recently listened to Mitali Perkins interviewed on the Conversing Podcast. I borrowed her book You Bring the Distant Near from the library and loved it. When I saw Perkins had a new book coming out, I preordered it. Forward Me Back to You is very different. You Bring the Distant Near was a multi-generational immigration story. A story of finding out what it means to be from India and in the US and how that experience is different across generations.
Forward Me Back is primarily a young adult book about Trauma. That is a heavy topic for a young adult book, and for one that I would probably classify as ‘Christian Fiction’ even though it is not published by either a Christian publisher or even a Christian focused imprint. But there are fully fleshed out Christian characters talking about God and faith and the world around them, while avoiding some of the traps that Christian fiction can fall into.
Katina King is the biracial child of a young White single mom. She works hard, not just at school, but in her jiu-jitsu (current northern California champ) and with a real vision for her future. She attends an elite private high school on scholarship. But after a sexual assault at her school that she was able to fight off, but was still traumatized by, her Mom sends her to Boston to heal with ‘Grandma Vee’. Grandma Vee is the aunt of her jiu-jitsu coach and an African refugee herself.
Robin Thorton was adopted from an orphanage in Kolkata by a wealthy White family in Boston. His parents love him and he loves them, but the loss of his family and history in India still matters.
When Kat and Robin meet at the church where Robin has been all of his adopted life, and where Grandma Vee has been even longer, Kat is defensive and wary. She is uncomfortable being around any men. But after watching a video from an anti-trafficking non-profit she decides on a whim to spend her summer in India with two other members of the youth group working in India. Robin has his own reasons for wanting to go back to India, to find his history, and maybe his mother. Their church team is rounded out by the youth pastor teaching at the local seminary, and Gracie, another teen girl.
Forward Me Back to You is somewhat of an ‘issue book’. Human Trafficking and its impact is felt throughout the book. And while there is an avoidance of simplistic presentation, there are a few sections that feel a bit too informational. With the addition of sexual assault, cross racial and international adoption, racism, and trauma more broadly, there is a lot going on in the book. Forward Me Back to You is clearly a young adult book. But it is not simplistic. It is Christian, but not focused on platitudes. I really was concerned a couple times about the framing of different issues, but in general every time I thought the book might go into a ditch, it surprised me (in a good way). There was a lot of skill both in the writing and the story development.
I alternated between reading in print and the audiobook. Soneela Nankai handled the narration well.
I have been reading a lot of heavy books recently and a young adult book was a good change of pace. Forward Me Back to You was still a book that focused on heavy themes, but there was hope that carried through. Even at dark periods in the book, there was alway hope coming. The fact that the hope came without easy answers or simplistic solutions I think does show a lot of skill in Perkins’ writing. I have read two of Perkins’ books so far this year and I will probably pick up another one or two. Authors that are both skilled, and able to handle diverse books are worth supporting.
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- Kelli and Steve F
- 05-29-20
Beautiful story
I loved it as an adult and I definitely feel it would enjoyable to teens and adults alike.
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- Jazie
- 07-15-20
Amazing book
This was such an inspiring story and I really enjoyed how she read everything as well. it was very enjoyable!
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