This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is posting about Arms of Deliverance (Moody Publishers, 2006) by Tricia Goyer (fellow CFBA member, blogger, writer, and homeschooling mom!)ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tricia Goyer is one the members of the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance (Tricia's Blog, "It's Real Life" Tricia's Parenting Blog, "Generation NeXt") and we are pleased to be able to review her exciting historical fiction book, Arms of Deliverance. She was named Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference "Writer of the Year" in 2003. Tricia was also a finalist for the Gold Medallion Book Award and won ACFW's "Book of the Year" for Long Historial Romance in 2005 AND in 2006. She has written hundreds of articles, Bible Study notes, and both fiction (three other WWII novels, From Dust to Ashes, Night Song and Dawn of a Thousand Nights. Night Song, the second title in Tricia’s World War II series, won ACFW's Book of the Year for Best Long Historical Romance.) She's and non-fiction books. married to John, and they have three great kids whom she homeschools: Cory (17), Leslie (14), and Nathan (12). They make their home in Northwest Montana with their dog, Lilly.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The fourth and final novel in this exhilarating series capturing the tales of men and women swept into World War II. EUROPE, 1944
Katrine, a Czech Jew, is so successful in her attempt to pass as an Aryan that she finds herself dating and getting pregnant by a Nazi officer. Having convinced him of her genetic purity, the officer sends her to stay at a Lebensborn home--a Nazi breeding program in which children are raised and indoctrinated by the state. She eventually confesses that she's a Jew, he beats her, and she goes into labor. He wanted to keep the baby all for himself, but another series of events are set in motion.
Meanwhile, Mary and Lee, one a socialite, the other a working class girl, land similar reporting jobs at the New York Tribune on the eve of the war’s outbreak. Rivals with assignments on the frontlines of war-torn Europe, Lee joins troops sailing for Normandy, while Mary's destiny lies in the cramped quarters of a B-17 bearing down on Berlin. Before the presses roll, their lives will be indelibly marked by a caring American navigator, brave French resistors, and a maniacal Nazi officer. Arms of Deliverance is a story of unexpected redemption.
Lee didn't care much about getting dirty and wearing grubby clothes before this assingment. She was all about fashion and knowing the right people to get her the good stories. Then she gets into the frontlines, and really learns to care for the hurt and dying, and doesn't care about getting dirty. She learns that's what a good story is all about.
Mary finally gets to go in the B-17 over Berlin, she had been waiting all her life for this. She wanted to get to the front lines and get the big story. They have to bail out over Belgium and she gets paired up with Eddie. They get help along the way, and get chased by the Nazi's. Their airplane was named Destiny's Child. They even get a special duty to fulfill, which gives the true meaning to Arms of Deliverance. She and Eddie also fall in love along the way. So Mary does get her big story, and a family too!
The link for the book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802415563
Tricia's blog: http://triciagoyer.blogspot.com/
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Thank you for spreading the word about my novels!
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