All the Blue-Eyed Angels

 All the Blue-Eyed Angels





Description: In the summer of 1990, fire rips through the Payson Church of Tomorrow, a religious community housed on a remote Maine island. When the smoke clears, Adam Solomon and his young daughter Erin are the only survivors of a tragedy investigators soon rule mass suicide. Tormented by the events of that day, Adam remains on the island for a decade before he finally hangs himself in the very site where the Paysons once gathered. Meanwhile, Erin—haunted by her memories of the Church and the presence of a mysterious cloaked man she saw the day of the fire—lives out the rest of her childhood on the mainland with her mother.
More than twenty years later, Erin Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist when she uncovers incontrovertible proof that the Paysons’ alleged mass suicide was actually something much more sinister. She returns to her hometown only to find an intricate conspiracy involving her parents, a haunted woman who sought refuge with the Paysons before the fire, and a disturbed boy who believed himself destined to lead the Payson Church to glory.
Now, isolated on the Maine coast with an old flame and a handsome newcomer with his own dark past, Erin will risk everything to uncover the secrets of Payson Isle—secrets someone will kill to keep buried.


 All the Blue-Eyed Angels





Description: In the summer of 1990, fire rips through the Payson Church of Tomorrow, a religious community housed on a remote Maine island. When the smoke clears, Adam Solomon and his young daughter Erin are the only survivors of a tragedy investigators soon rule mass suicide. Tormented by the events of that day, Adam remains on the island for a decade before he finally hangs himself in the very site where the Paysons once gathered. Meanwhile, Erin—haunted by her memories of the Church and the presence of a mysterious cloaked man she saw the day of the fire—lives out the rest of her childhood on the mainland with her mother.
More than twenty years later, Erin Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist when she uncovers incontrovertible proof that the Paysons’ alleged mass suicide was actually something much more sinister. She returns to her hometown only to find an intricate conspiracy involving her parents, a haunted woman who sought refuge with the Paysons before the fire, and a disturbed boy who believed himself destined to lead the Payson Church to glory.
Now, isolated on the Maine coast with an old flame and a handsome newcomer with his own dark past, Erin will risk everything to uncover the secrets of Payson Isle—secrets someone will kill to keep buried.


In the Presence of My Enemies

In the Presence of My Enemies



Book Description

January 1, 2010
In the Presence of My Enemies, the gripping true story of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham’s year as hostages in the Philippine jungle, was a New York Times best seller and has sold nearly 350,000 copies. Now releasing in eBook for the first time, this updated edition contains information on the capture and trial of the Burnhams’ captors; Gracia’s secret return trip to the Philippines; and updates on recent events in Gracia’s life, ministry, and family.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In this remarkably honest and unaffected memoir, Burnham tells the story of her captivity at the hands of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim extremist group in the Philippines. For just over a year, she and her husband Martin, a missionary pilot, lived with their captors and a variety of other hostages in the Philippine jungle. In a botched rescue attempt, the Philippine army shot and killed Martin Burnham and Ediborah Yap, a nurse who was the other remaining hostage. Gracia Burnham was also shot, but rescued and treated for a leg wound. Burnham hauntingly depicts the alchemical reaction of deep Christian faith, Stockholm Syndrome and the unremitting terror of hostage life. The odd intimacy among the hostages and captors comes across in surprisingly frank conversations. At one point, Martin boldly refers to all the bad things the captors have done to the hostages, only to have one of them look at him quizzically and claim he has never done any harm to the hostages. The captors, in fact, do unspeakable things, such as beheading hostages or taking them as unwilling "wives." Impressively, Burnham makes no attempt to dramatize these events for shock value, nor does she use this book as an occasion for Christian triumphalism. Instead, she chronicles both her high and low moments as a Christian during that year, and shows tremendous respect and love for members of other faiths with whom she lived. While some of the book is written for a Christian audience, a much wider audience will appreciate Burnham's brave, artless account of these horrific events.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.


In the Presence of My Enemies



Book Description

January 1, 2010
In the Presence of My Enemies, the gripping true story of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham’s year as hostages in the Philippine jungle, was a New York Times best seller and has sold nearly 350,000 copies. Now releasing in eBook for the first time, this updated edition contains information on the capture and trial of the Burnhams’ captors; Gracia’s secret return trip to the Philippines; and updates on recent events in Gracia’s life, ministry, and family.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In this remarkably honest and unaffected memoir, Burnham tells the story of her captivity at the hands of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim extremist group in the Philippines. For just over a year, she and her husband Martin, a missionary pilot, lived with their captors and a variety of other hostages in the Philippine jungle. In a botched rescue attempt, the Philippine army shot and killed Martin Burnham and Ediborah Yap, a nurse who was the other remaining hostage. Gracia Burnham was also shot, but rescued and treated for a leg wound. Burnham hauntingly depicts the alchemical reaction of deep Christian faith, Stockholm Syndrome and the unremitting terror of hostage life. The odd intimacy among the hostages and captors comes across in surprisingly frank conversations. At one point, Martin boldly refers to all the bad things the captors have done to the hostages, only to have one of them look at him quizzically and claim he has never done any harm to the hostages. The captors, in fact, do unspeakable things, such as beheading hostages or taking them as unwilling "wives." Impressively, Burnham makes no attempt to dramatize these events for shock value, nor does she use this book as an occasion for Christian triumphalism. Instead, she chronicles both her high and low moments as a Christian during that year, and shows tremendous respect and love for members of other faiths with whom she lived. While some of the book is written for a Christian audience, a much wider audience will appreciate Burnham's brave, artless account of these horrific events.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.


 
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