Winner of the Christy Award 2020: General FictionIn the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose ... and rocks. *Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving*. When the poem spreads...
Winner of the Christy Award 2020: General Fiction
In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose ... and rocks. *Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving*. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny, coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work, but the building halts when tragedy strikes.
Decades later, Annie Bliss is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she learns her Great-Uncle Robert, the man who became her refuge during the hardest summer of her youth, is now the one in need of help. What she didn't anticipate was finding a wall of heavy boxes hiding in his home. Long-ago memories of stone ruins on a nearby island trigger her curiosity, igniting a fire in her anthropologist soul to uncover answers.
She joins forces with the handsome and mysterious harbor postman, and all her hopes of mending the decades-old chasm in her family seem to point back to the ruins. But with Robert failing fast, her search for answers battles against time, a foe as relentless as the ever-crashing waves upon the sea.
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Winner of the Christy Award 2020: General FictionIn the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose ... and rocks. *Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving*. When the poem spreads...
Winner of the Christy Award 2020: General Fiction
In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose ... and rocks. *Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving*. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny, coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work, but the building halts when tragedy strikes.
Decades later, Annie Bliss is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she learns her Great-Uncle Robert, the man who became her refuge during the hardest summer of her youth, is now the one in need of help. What she didn't anticipate was finding a wall of heavy boxes hiding in his home. Long-ago memories of stone ruins on a nearby island trigger her curiosity, igniting a fire in her anthropologist soul to uncover answers.
She joins forces with the handsome and mysterious harbor postman, and all her hopes of mending the decades-old chasm in her family seem to point back to the ruins. But with Robert failing fast, her search for answers battles against time, a foe as relentless as the ever-crashing waves upon the sea.
Whose Waves These Are$31.99
Koorong code526391
ISBN9780764232664
Pages364
PublisherBethany House Publishers
Publication date30 April 2019
Dimensions30 x 139 x 215mm
Weight0.85kg
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I loved the book, but my heart might need some time before I read her next book! It was such an emotional journal. So sweet and heart breaking all at once. Isn't that life? Sometimes euphoric tears, sometimes quiet tears, sometimes heartrending ones. Yet through it all, as Amanda so eloquently had her character Roy Bliss say, 'God is bigger'. \\nFor all the tears and pain, it still felt like a happy ending.
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I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
6 years ago
Incredible!
This book was by far one of the most incredible, well written, heart tugging books that I've ever read! I would put Amanda's writing up there with Francine rivers as my favorite authors. This book was deep, moving, powerful and entirely riveting to read. I only have good things to say about this! Desperate for more of Amanda's books to come out!
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I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
6 years ago
An Amazing Story, Dont Miss It!
As a child, Annie Bliss was allowed to spend one idyllic summer with her great uncle Bob in his small village in Maine. The girl crusty fisherman bonded, but because of the mysterious rift between Bob her father, Annie was never allowed to visit again. \\r\\nNow an adult, she is suddenly summoned back to Bob's side where Annie finds him languishing in a coma. She stumbles across some clues that uncovers an amazing story of love, loss, grief renewal. She finds Bob has led an unbelievable life may have unearthed the mystery involving her dad. \\r\\n\\r\\nThis amazing story that will grab your heart won't let go. Bob seems bigger than life because of how he has lived despite limitations, however, this is a believable story. Having personally been brought up by parents who were part of the Greatest Generation, I can attest to many of them like Bob. Despite hardships of the Great Depression the losses of WWII, that group kept going without losing their """"never give up"""" attitude. Amanda Dykes has written a terrific, page-turning story, but it is also a love story to the Greatest Generation. I predict we will be hearing more from her. This story will draw you in, leave you wanting more is told from a Christian viewpoint. I highly recommend this 5 star book to all. I received this for review. \\r\\n
