RIVER JORDAN

El comienzo de esta cautivadora novela de amores que despiertan, propósitos abandonados y legados reclamados es igual que un apacible domingo, pero a medida que el pueblo de Schibboleth comienza a sentir que la oscuridad se acerca, tres amigos deberán correr a contrarreloj para salvar el alma del lugar al que llaman hogar, y aprenderán que la solución puede exigir que estén dispuestos a sacrificarlo todo. He aquí un relato lleno de milagros y señales, un cuento asombrosamente redentor.

From the author of Praying for Strangers and four Southern gothic novels comes a chronicle of faith and spirituality that is personal, raw, wise, revelatory - and very funny.With a unique mix of passionate revelation and quirky humor, River Jordan takes us on a journey through her Southern childhood to her present-day life as a novelist. Her stories run the gamut from dancing disco nights and midnight desert rides to surprise visitations with the Divine. Included are comforting letters to personal friends and loved ones about faith, death, heartbreaks and their futures. Confessions of a Christian Mystic is a highly original work about an extraordinary faith that never loses touch with current culture or everyday realities. Jordan invites us to join in on her wild ride searching for the holy mysteries of God. This haunting work will leave you deeply comforted and full of hope. Hailed as "a book for our times,"Confessions gently leads us closer to that Divine mystery that shapes us and gives us life.

Two journalists in a small Alabama town discover a mysterious book that makes them confront the past.If you had the power to amend choices you made in the past, would youeven if it changed everything? Mercy Land has made some unexpected choices for a young woman in the 1930s. The sheltered daughter of a traveling preacher, she chooses to leave her rural community to move to nearby Bay City on the warm, gulf-waters of southern Alabama. There she finds a job at the local paper and spends seven years making herself indispensible to old Doc Philips, the publisher and editor. Then she gets a frantic call at dawnits the biggest news story of her life, and she cant print a word of it. Doc has come into possession of a curious book that maps the lives of everyone in Bay Citydecisions theyve made in the past, and how those choices affect the future. Mercy and Doc are consumed by the mystery locked between the pagesDoc because he hopes to right a very old wrong, and Mercy because she wants to fulfill the books strange purpose. But when a mystery from Mercys past arrives by train, she begins to understand that she will have to make choices that will deeply affect everyone she lovesforever. A tremendously well-written tale. River Jordan is a truly gifted author. Highly recommended. Davis Bunn, best-selling author

River Jordans Saints in Limbo is a compelling story of the mysteries of existence and, specially, the mysteries of the human heart.Ron Rash, author of Serena and Chemistry and Other StoriesI lose myself in Rivers writingtransported to a different time and place and in this case, to one that makes the ordinary mystical and magical. I give it FIVE diamonds in the Pulpwood Queens TIARA!Kathy L. Patrick, founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs and author of The Pulpwood Queens Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to LifeEver since her husband Joe died, Velma Trues world has been limited to what she can see while clinging to one of the multicolored threads tied to the porch railing of her home outside Echo, Florida.When a mysterious stranger appears at her door on her birthday and presents Velma with a special gift, she is rattled by the objects ability to take her into her memoriesa place where Joe still lives, her son Rudy is still young, unaffected by the worlds hardness, and the beginning is closer than the end. As secrets old and new come to light, Velma wonders if its possible to be unmoored from the pasts deep roots and find a reason to hope again. Praise for River Jordan[River Jordans] literary spice rack has everything you need to put together a good book.Rick Bragg, author of All Over but the Shoutin and Avas ManRiver Jordan writes so beautifully. Joshilyn Jackson, author of Gods in Alabama and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

What if there was something readers could do that could positively influence others and change their lives in the process? As 2009 approached, New Years resolutions were the last thing on River Jordans mind. Her sons were both about to go off to war and all she could do was pray for their safety and hope to maintain her strength, until she unexpectedly came upon the perfect New Years resolution-one that focused on others instead of herself. She would pray for a complete stranger every single day for a year.In Praying for Strangers, River Jordan tells of her amazing personal journey of uncovering the needs of the human heart as she prayed her way through the year for people she had never met before. The discovery that Jordan made along the journey was not simply that her prayers touched the lives of these strangers, but that the unexpected connections she made with other people would be a profound experience that would change her life forever.Watch a Video