"Elegant and engrossing....Henderson is a talent to watch." --Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology "This is not a book you'll soon forget." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for ElephantsThe gripping debut novel from Litpark.com founder and Pushcart Prize-nominee Susan Henderson, Up From the Blue is a dazzling tour de force that unfolds against the backdrop of 1970s America--a tumultuous era of desegregation, school busing, and the early rise of modern-day feminism. The story of an imaginative young girl struggling to make sense of her mother's mysterious disappearance, Up From the Blue is enthralling fiction that delves into complex family relationships, in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Katrina Kittle, and Laura Kasischke.

You have, at your beckoned call, the Creator of the universe, anxious to come to you and set you free from bondage. Many of us, though, struggle with how that works. "I know He is the answer, but how do I turn to Him that way? How can He bring me peace in the midst of my storms?" Therapy with God will teach you how to go to Him and find that peace you seek. You will learn to open your Bible and find Him everywhere you look. Come and discover His transforming power. Learn how to trust Him when your life falls apart. Learn to relate to Him as your Wonderful Counselor, Comforter, and Friend. Through Therapy with God and your Bible, fall in love with Him and bind yourself to Him. Then, in the good times and the bad, He will lift you up and set you free. Sue McHenry is a licensed Christian Mental Health Therapist with a successful private practice in southern Maryland. As a highly energetic and passionate follower of Jesus Christ, she relies on the Holy Spirit and God's Word to work in her clients' hearts and in her own life as well. She has witnessed Him perform many miracles of spiritual and emotional healing, and facilitating these connections with God is her life's calling. To do this work, God has given her a passion for Him and His Word, and a longing to teach others how to use their Bibles as the doorway into an overflowing relationship with Him. Her heart's desire is to teach them that an intimate and abiding relationship with Jesus, as well as a deeper understanding of Scripture, will bring relief when they suffer, joy when they grieve, and a testimony of triumph over their pain.

You have, at your beckoned call, the Creator of the universe, anxious to come to you and set you free from bondage. Many of us, though, struggle with how that works. "I know He is the answer, but how do I turn to Him that way? How can He bring me peace in the midst of my storms?" Therapy with God will teach you how to go to Him and find that peace you seek. You will learn to open your Bible and find Him everywhere you look. Come and discover His transforming power. Learn how to trust Him when your life falls apart. Learn to relate to Him as your Wonderful Counselor, Comforter, and Friend. Through Therapy with God and your Bible, fall in love with Him and bind yourself to Him. Then, in the good times and the bad, He will lift you up and set you free. Sue McHenry is a licensed Christian Mental Health Therapist with a successful private practice in southern Maryland. As a highly energetic and passionate follower of Jesus Christ, she relies on the Holy Spirit and God's Word to work in her clients' hearts and in her own life as well. She has witnessed Him perform many miracles of spiritual and emotional healing, and facilitating these connections with God is her life's calling. To do this work, God has given her a passion for Him and His Word, and a longing to teach others how to use their Bibles as the doorway into an overflowing relationship with Him. Her heart's desire is to teach them that an intimate and abiding relationship with Jesus, as well as a deeper understanding of Scripture, will bring relief when they suffer, joy when they grieve, and a testimony of triumph over their pain.

High Plains Book Award Winner for Fiction * Western Writers of America Spur Award Winner for Best Contemporary Western Novel * WILLA Literary Award Winner in Contemporary Fiction * Montana Book Award Honor Book With the quiet precision of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres and the technical clarity of Mary Roach's Stiff, this is a novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her father's mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town. "The dead come to me vulnerable, sharing their stories and secrets . . . " Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in Petroleum, a small Western town once supported by a powerful grain company. Living at home, she works as the embalmer in her father's mortuary: an unlikely job that has long marked her as an outsider. Yet, to Mary there is a satisfying art to positioning and styling each body to capture the essence of a subject's life. Though some townsfolk pretend that the community is thriving, the truth is that Petroleum is crumbling away-a process that began twenty years ago when an accident in the grain elevator killed a beloved high school athlete. The mill closed for good, the train no longer stopped in town, and Robert Golden, the victim's younger brother, was widely blamed for the tragedy and shipped off to live elsewhere. Now, out of the blue, Robert has returned to care for his terminally ill mother. After Mary-reserved, introspective, and deeply lonely-strikes up an unlikely friendship with him, shocking the locals, she finally begins to consider what might happen if she dared to leave Petroleum. Set in the American West, The Flicker of Old Dreams explores themes of resilience, redemption, and loyalty in prose as lyrical as it is powerful.

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