A Maze of Grace by Trish Ryan

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A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! <span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Enjoy your free peek into the book!</strong></span><br /><br /><font color="#cc0000"><em>You never know when I might play a wild card on you!</em></font><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong>Today's Wild Card author is: </strong><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><a href="http://www.trishryanonline.com/">Trish Ryan</a></span></strong><br /></div><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;">and the book:</span> </span></strong><br /></p><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446545813">A Maze of Grace</a></span></strong><br /></p><p align="center">FaithWords (June 22, 2010) <br /></p>***Special thanks to Valerie M. Russo of Hachette Book Group for sending me a review copy.***<br /><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#333399;"><span style="color:#cc0000;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</span> </span></strong></div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEU2M1rojWbtMIx-kg9WacY6nzTEdhUdOyysewDjLub3rHrXcz8VCoVsIcHFJlLjRw6kKQTVt_Qfrm0K7k3iMOt8_Z8IEdLHq9hSX0fxSQ5Ym08CIyK_JCe-MXu4zsJX7lhCRz_Sx2_BY/s1600/trishryanauthorphotocorner.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 156px; height: 182px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEU2M1rojWbtMIx-kg9WacY6nzTEdhUdOyysewDjLub3rHrXcz8VCoVsIcHFJlLjRw6kKQTVt_Qfrm0K7k3iMOt8_Z8IEdLHq9hSX0fxSQ5Ym08CIyK_JCe-MXu4zsJX7lhCRz_Sx2_BY/s200/trishryanauthorphotocorner.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480589005271701378" /></a>My dream, ever since I was a little girl, was to be a super hero. Specifically, I wanted to be one of the Wonder Twins, meeting with Superman and Wonder Woman at the Hall of Justice on Saturday mornings to fight evil and save the world. Lacking a twin, I got a law degree instead, thinking it would give me evil-fighting super hero powers. As it turns out, I was wrong.<br /><br />Shortly after realizing that I hated billable hours, I ended (read: fled) my career in law, and spent the next few years trying to make sense of the world. I couldn't shake the belief that things could/should/would be different - better, somehow - if only I could figure out what really mattered. I wanted to know how things like spirituality and luck and intuition worked, and how I could make them work for me. So I embarked on a quest to find the right God, but spent much of my time trying to find the right guy. At a certain point, after accumulating a heaping pile of mistakes on both counts, I came to see that the two might be intertwined.<br /><br />The good news is, after much trial and error, I finally found them both: the God, and the guy.<br /><br />Now I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with my super hero-husband Steve, and our genetically-improbable mixed-breed dog. I wrote a book about my search, "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: A Memoir of Finding Faith, Hope, and Happily Ever After," published by Hachette Book Group in 2008. The follow up, "A Maze of Grace: A Memoir of Second Chances" will be in stores in June 2010. And while I sit at my laptop typing each day, the Wonder Twin dream lives on...<br /><br />Visit the author's <a href="http://www.trishryanonline.com/">website</a>.<br />Visit the author's <a href="http://www.trishryanonline.blogspot.com/">blog</a>.<br /><br />Product Details:<br /><br />List Price: $19.99<br />Hardcover: 256 pages <br />Publisher: FaithWords (June 22, 2010) <br />Language: English <br />ISBN-10: 0446545813 <br />ISBN-13: 978-0446545815 <br /><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">PLEASE PRESS THE 'BROWSE INSIDE THIS BOOK' BUTTON TO READ THE FIRST CHAPTER:</span> </strong><br /></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixXIB0EyUAChITGvYObNJ-DD8nGQZAAOSIb2GZAq-rkESXjtJfUjdK0qssQZWslRIgb3MZhWzYQh5rngmsM8wEuJpISCFvylgdU4IAisg7PBL3jKt4wwyNtj1f_RL-LPAFxQpgp7yPTv0/s1600/amazeofgrace"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixXIB0EyUAChITGvYObNJ-DD8nGQZAAOSIb2GZAq-rkESXjtJfUjdK0qssQZWslRIgb3MZhWzYQh5rngmsM8wEuJpISCFvylgdU4IAisg7PBL3jKt4wwyNtj1f_RL-LPAFxQpgp7yPTv0/s200/amazeofgrace" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480589106608103506" /></a><br /><div style="OVERFLOW: auto; HEIGHT: 307px"><div style="background-image:URL('http://datapipe.libredigital.com/img/HBG/WidgetBackGround.jpg'); width:189px; height:236px; background-repeat:no-repeat;"> <div style="text-align:center;padding-top: 31px;"> <img src="http://datapipe.libredigital.com/content/303180F470A3E27317F68647D646768766A6F71606F7E7D7C7B7A761C322D2625290D153E205C4B736E5E505B43434A7B660309050B1B1B181F1A111F1E190013111614101D2149555E58563A6272666571617E336A696C6162652C666E6A6775666C6E2.jpg" style="border:1px solid #E6E6E6;margin:5;"/> </div> <div style="text-align:center;"> <a href="http://datapipe.libredigital.com/bil?nmB7j4jIAgz3TQ3aYDZFCja%2B33p93QDUIzj0IOGHhQNuJ6We9FPHeXrHpfVCqUJZ%2F1%2FWXBtHYeiMdYMrZqjDZaBmlMBXw36bpC2nNSzdiko%3D" target="_new"> <img src="http://datapipe.libredigital.com/img/HBG/BrowseInsideBook.jpg" style="border:0px;"/> </a> </div> <div style="text-align:center; margin-bottom: 5px;"> <a href="http://datapipe.libredigital.com/eolink?nmB7j4jIAgz3TQ3aYDZFCja%2B33p93QDUIzj0IOGHhQN%2BfgIx3iWKKPLubdsT7XT6NlR8c1RsoJpMBa91%2BgrLoBUe8e3GL7%2BarT1LxN5mLi4%3D" target="_new"> <img src="http://datapipe.libredigital.com/img/HBG/GetForYourSite.jpg" style="border:0px;"/> </a> </div> </div> </div><br />

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It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!

You never know when I might play a wild card on you!

Today's Wild Card author is:

Trish Ryan

and the book:

A Maze of Grace

FaithWords (June 22, 2010)

***Special thanks to Valerie M. Russo of Hachette Book Group for sending me a review copy.***

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

My dream, ever since I was a little girl, was to be a super hero. Specifically, I wanted to be one of the Wonder Twins, meeting with Superman and Wonder Woman at the Hall of Justice on Saturday mornings to fight evil and save the world. Lacking a twin, I got a law degree instead, thinking it would give me evil-fighting super hero powers. As it turns out, I was wrong.

Shortly after realizing that I hated billable hours, I ended (read: fled) my career in law, and spent the next few years trying to make sense of the world. I couldn't shake the belief that things could/should/would be different - better, somehow - if only I could figure out what really mattered. I wanted to know how things like spirituality and luck and intuition worked, and how I could make them work for me. So I embarked on a quest to find the right God, but spent much of my time trying to find the right guy. At a certain point, after accumulating a heaping pile of mistakes on both counts, I came to see that the two might be intertwined.

The good news is, after much trial and error, I finally found them both: the God, and the guy.

Now I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with my super hero-husband Steve, and our genetically-improbable mixed-breed dog. I wrote a book about my search, "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: A Memoir of Finding Faith, Hope, and Happily Ever After," published by Hachette Book Group in 2008. The follow up, "A Maze of Grace: A Memoir of Second Chances" will be in stores in June 2010. And while I sit at my laptop typing each day, the Wonder Twin dream lives on...

Visit the author's website.
Visit the author's blog.

Product Details:

List Price: $19.99
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: FaithWords (June 22, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446545813
ISBN-13: 978-0446545815

PLEASE PRESS THE 'BROWSE INSIDE THIS BOOK' BUTTON TO READ THE FIRST CHAPTER: