Linda Barnett-Johnson

Read more. Buy the Book A phenomenal  collection of medical patient accounts of encounters with the mysterious  during severe illness and life-threatening injury  from the voice of the physician who took care of them.  Both touching and thought-provoking, this book invites you to reconsider what happens when we die, and in doing so,  challenges you to ponder that perhaps we are much more than our earth-bound physical bodies.  Near-death experiences are often profoundly meaningful, yet when they are reported, they are  frequently met with skepticism and dismissal  by medical caregivers and family members. But do we have to fully understand these events to honor the transformative role they often play in the lives of those who experience them? Do we need to prove they are something more than the result of i...

  Read more. At first  The Last American Novel  glides you along like a summer read –  a mysterious visitor, a forbidden flirtation, a quiet curious death on a small Maine island, a traditional fishing village  and burgeoning summer retreat for writers, artists, and agents of the ruling class. The narrator, Ian Sippsac, is a 20-year-old genius and the embodiment of his generation – restless, funny, offensive, and tender – a recent college graduate working on the island mail boat while weighing a future in a damaged world he might not be able to navigate but is determined to expose.  Ian becomes  infatuated with a beautiful enigmatic 35-year-old , one of three editors on retreat to decide the final book to be published by a famed and dying American publishing house....

  Read more. The crushing pain of seven years of unanswered prayer for a child. A miraculous adoption story, followed by unforeseen challenges and heartbreak. Barbara Bras begins her memoir by sharing God's answer to her prayers and the difficult times that followed. Although God does not provide an easy fix, the intricacies of God's plans reveal themselves to her, and she relives her life in a new light.  Bras then recounts the stories of her grandfather Arshag and her grandmother Gulle, survivors of the atrocities of Armenia in 1915 . Arshag, sent to South America for his protection, returns as a soldier of the Armenian Legion to fight for his country. Gulle is the only member of her family to survive the death march into the desert . Through God's grace they find each other, marry and move to America in 1921. Bras is their first grandchild.  The final section of the memoir follows ...