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Moon in the Mango Tree Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Pamela Binnings Ewen / B&H Publishing Group Reviewed by Jill HartThe Moon in the Mango Tree has a little of everything within.It begins in the 1920's and delves the reader deep into what life was like for women in those days. Barbara has a beautiful voice, is training with the best teacher possible and has dreams of singing in the opera. She gets so far as to be given the opportunity to train with one of the biggest opera stars of the day. However, Iife never turns out quite like we think it will and Barbara soon finds herself married, albeit happily, and thousands of miles away from the opera stage. Her life as the wife of a missionary doctor starts out rough, but eventually her husband, Harvey, ends up as the royal physician in Siam. The story takes the reader from the streets of the US to the jungles of the Orient and on to pre-war Europe. The book keeps readers guessing as the Barbara and Harvey travel around the world seeking to help each using their unique talents. Based on a true story, The Moon in The Mango Tree is a great look at the life of women at the beginning of the twentieth century. Readers will identify with the characters search for their place in the world. As they travel across the globe chasing their dreams, they come to realize that God fulfils our desires in ways we ourselves could never even dream of. |
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Until recently retiring to write full time, Pamela Binnings Ewen was a partner in the Houston office of the international law firm of BakerBotts, L.L.P., specializing in corporate finance. She now lives just outside New Orleans in Mandeville, Louisiana with her husband, James Lott. She has served on the Board of Directors of Inprint, Inc., a non-profit organization supporting the literary arts in Houston, and is on the Board of Directors of The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society in New Orleans. Read more about Pamela at: www.walkbackthecat.com
Suspense Books By Pamela
| Faith On Trial Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Pamela Binnings Ewen / B & H Publishing Group Can you prove Jesus' claims to be the Son of God? Attorney Ewen brings the question of Christ's divinity to a new level in her riveting search for truth. Using federal rules of evidence, she investigates bedrock Christian beliefs, the credibility of the Gospels, and new evidence to verify Christ's resurrection. 210 pages, softcover from B&H. |
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The Moon In The Mango Tree By Pamela Binnings Ewen B&H Publishing Set in the Roaring Twenties, The Moon in the Mango Tree by Pamela Ewen is based on the true story of a young woman torn between her desire to study and perform opera and her love for a man. This richly detailed novel chronicles the life of Barbara as she chooses to follow her husband Harvey to the jungles of Siam where he will serve as the missionary doctor for the local people. It is here that she struggles to learn what is expected of her as a missionary wife, all the while becoming enchanted with the local people and their culture. |
| Walk Back the Cat Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Pamela Binnings Ewen / Broadman / Holman Driven by guilt and revenge, Wesley Bright is a charismatic, controversial, and corrupt archbishop of the Apostolic Church of God. Media-savvy and power-hungry, Bright camouflages his true motive---to destroy the church of the God who abandoned him during Bright's childhood. An engrossing suspense novel involving time shifts, mysterious characters, and the Shroud of Turin! 320 pages, softcover from Broadman & Holman. |
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Susan Sleeman
Susan Sleeman
is the author of Nipped in the Bud, available May of 2009 from Heartsong Presents: Mysteries, an imprint of Barbour Publishing.
