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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 242
Format: Bargain Price
Label: GuidepostsBooks
Manufacturer: GuidepostsBooks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: October 10, 2006
Publisher: GuidepostsBooks
Sales Rank: 581536
Studio: GuidepostsBooks
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Bestselling novelist Sue Monk Kidd shares her collection of early inspirational writings as she traces her growth through the joys, difficulties, and rewards of being a daughter, wife, mother, nurse, and spiritual seeker. This collection of nonfiction writings will provide insight about this popular writer, delighting fans of her internationally bestselling novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair.
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I just purchased this title for a friend who is retiring. The book is full of uplifting and thought-provoking essays and personal experiences that will beg to be read over and over. I was surprised to learn that Sue Monk Kidd (Secret Life of Bees and Mermaid's Chair)wrote for Guidepost Magazine, and this is a compilation of many of those selections.
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Firstlight by Sue Monk Kidd is a book I return to over and over. It contains a number of essays she wrote when in her thirties for the spiritual magazine, Guideposts. In her late twenties, early thirties the author seriously began to examine the reality of her inner life, the meaning and purpose of her life, and become serious about being a writer. Not surprisingly, when Guideposts asked that she assemble her essays into a book, Mrs. Kidd had her doubts that her writing from that period in her life ... Read More
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One of my favorite books of all time is Sue Monk Kidd's "Secret Life of Bees." This collection of her early inspirational writings for Guideposts and other publications is a delight. She was well known in those circles for years before her blockbuster book. As she says, she always had a desire to pay attention to her soul, a 'repository of the inner Divine, the truest part of us' from which so much of her writing sprang. This is very thought provoking reading, the type that you will want to savor ... Read More
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In a word, this book is inspirational. The tone is evident even in the book's packaging: its beach-sunrise jacket photo and its airy page design. If you need an emotional lift --- or know someone who does --- FIRSTLIGHT will provide it.
Over her writing career of nearly 30 years, Sue Monk Kidd has endeared herself to two audiences. First, to readers of Guideposts magazine and devotionals, for which she wrote very concrete, first-person, anecdotal narratives. A sample: "Late one winter night ... Read More
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Stories and essays filling FIRSTLIGHT with inspiration come from the author's early writings for Guideposts and other publications and are centered around spiritual insights and 'firsts', following her early years as a spiritual thinker. Anyone with an interest in the life and thought of Sue Monk Kidd in particular will find FIRSTLIGHT filled with both autobiographical insights and spiritual inspiration, making it a pick both for religious collections and for the general-interest public lending library.
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