Selena Thinking Out Loud With Purpose is announcing a Novel Hana-Lani book giveaway! Personally, I love Lifetime movies and how they take stories from people's lives and other topics for women and bring them to the screen. The reviewer said that this novel reminded her of a Lifetime movie!
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Book Description:
Only opening their hearts will keep them from plunging into the dark 
abyss. Old Nani-lei lives in Hana-lani, her family home in rural Hawaii.
  She looks after her grandson Henry, 52, and his daughter Lucy, 6, who 
have returned to Maui from Berkeley after the death of Maria, Henry's 
wife.  Henry and Maria, both professors, had been working on A History 
of Ethics, and now the grieving Henry struggles to finish it. City girl 
Meredith Campbell, 36, fast-paced, self-centered, and beautiful, 
believes her body will ensure her happiness.  After losing her job and 
finding her lover unfaithful, she flies to Maui, sure he will 
follow...but her plane crashes near Hana-lani. As their worlds collide 
in a natural world both beautiful and dangerous, Henry will be forced to
 act on his words, and Meredith will come face-to-face with her own life
 choices. A poignant journey that unravels T.S. Eliot's "permanent 
questions"- what is goodness, truth, and love? By the author of the 
thought-provoking trilogy Pilgrimage, Offerings, and Inheritance.

 
About the Author:
 Christine Thomas Sunderland (1947-), the daughter of a Presbyterian 
pastor, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and came of age in the 
tumultuous Vietnam war years.  Her inspirational novels, set in the 
present day, reflect the larger questions of our world today: What is 
civilization? Why is our past important?  How do we understand where we 
are going?  She is also fascinated with the interaction of matter and 
spirit.  Her trilogy explores the legacy of Western European culture:  
Pilgrimage (OakTara, 2007), tells of a mother's search for healing of 
body and soul in Italy; Offerings (OakTara, 2009) tells of a redemptive 
journey through France (Bronze Medal winner in the Independent Publisher
 Book Awards 2010); Inheritance (OakTara 2009) tells of a life-saving 
trip through England. A fourth novel, Hana-lani (OakTara 2010), set in 
Hana, Maui, is a love story about the role of family in American 
culture.  She is currently working on a mystery about Mary Magdalene set
 in Rome and Provence.
Christine is Vice-President of the 
American Church Union, the publishing house of the Anglican Province of 
Christ the King.  She has written numerous publications for children, 
including the Jeanette Series, novellas set in France and San Francisco,
 8+, and has edited the Anglican Confirmation Manual and The American 
Church Union Church School Series (http://www.Anglicanpck.org).  She 
lives in Northern California with her husband and two incredible cats.
Visit Christine's website at 
www.ChristineSunderland.com
  
My Take on the book:
I love reading books like these because they remind me of a Life Time movie. I got into the plot of the story and kept wanting to read more so I could get to the good part lol I personally could relate to the characters in the story because my husband & I are two different people and a flat tire brought us together. This will be a good read for anyone who reads it.
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