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LETTER J!
This will be a giveaway working through the alphabet by author's last name.
RULES FOR ENTERING:
a. Post a comment to the blog entries of the books you would like to win AND answer the "Just for Fun" question that goes with it.
Today's question for "J." J is for jumping. Which would you rather do: jump out of an airplane (with a parachute of course), go bungee jumping, or jump rope for an hour. Just a silly question today. I would jump rope.
b. Enter on or before the date specified. Claim your prize, if you win, within 10 days of being notified or I will redraw. (In other words, let me know you want the book and where it should be sent, should you find out your name was drawn.
Enter by January 3. Today's book winner will be drawn on January 4.
c. Check back for the next giveaway: letter J!
Today's book is Forty to Life by Dave Jackson
FORTY TO LIFE a Novel by Dave Jackson Provoked by a gang leader into the random shooting of an innocent athlete, fourteen-year-old Raymond Slewinski now faces a forty-year sentence in Chicago's infamous prison system. To Ray, it might as well be for life. But just when Ray has resigned himself to this new existence, he receives an unexpected gift—forgiveness. Even when he learns that the source of this forgiveness is God, Ray still struggles to accept it. And then the ultimate test comes: When faced with the man who ruined his life, can Ray extend the same forgiveness that has been handed to him? A note from Dave: While this story is fiction, its opening chapters are based on a gang shooting on the Evanston/Chicago border in the summer of 1996. I was inspired to use this tragic event to start my novel when I learned the mother of the victim had visited the shooter in prison and extended her forgiveness in the name of Christ. Committing murder changed Mario Ramos's life forever, but so did this unfathomable forgiveness. Mario remains in prison where I have visited him and written to him. His new faith in Christ is strong. But someday he will get out ... and what he makes of his life then will be the rest of his story. My Thoughts: A story that shows the emense power of forgiveness to change someone's life.
