Review & GIVEAWAY!
"Anna's Healing"

(Plain & Simple Miracles #1)

by Vannetta Chapman

5 stars!

Description

Anna’s Healing is the first book in a brand-new collection from popular author Vannetta Chapman. These stories of love and family and Amish community in Oklahoma tell of the miracles that can happen when lives are lived in service to God and to one another.

When a tornado strikes the farms surrounding Cody’s Creek, Anna Schwartz’s life is changed forever. She suffers a spinal cord injury and suddenly finds herself learning to live as a paraplegic.

Three people—Chloe Roberts, Jacob Graber, and Ruth Schwartz—join forces to help Anna through her darkest days. Chloe is an Englischer who writes for the local paper. Jacob has recently arrived in town and stays on as a hired hand at her uncle’s. And Ruth is her grandmother, a woman of deep faith and a compassionate spirit.

Then one morning Anna wakes and finds herself healed. How did it happen? Why did it happen? And what is she to do now? Her life is again turned upside down as the world’s attention is drawn to this young Amish girl who has experienced the unexplainable.



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Biography

Vannetta Chapman writes inspirational fiction full of grace. She has published more than one hundred articles in Christian family magazines, receiving more than two dozen awards from Romance Writers of America chapter groups. She discovered her love for the Amish while researching her grandfather's birthplace of Albion, Pennsylvania. Her novel Falling to Pieces was a 2012 ACFW Carol Award finalist. A Promise for Miriam earned a spot on the June 2012 Christian Retailing Top Ten Fiction list. Chapman was a teacher for 15 years and currently writes full time. She lives in the Texas hill country with her husband. 

For more information, visit her at www.VannettaChapman.com 
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My Thoughts ~

Anna's Healing made an extraordinary impact on me as I grew to love the characters in this book! There were moments while reading this story that my emotions got the best of me. Each character represents someone real, someone in our lives, loved ones, friends, community. A freak tornado not only broke Anna's back, it also broke her spirit. Her entire world collapsed around her. Difficulty accepting help from others isn't an unusual reaction in the event of major life changes, but Anna fought her reality with ferocity even through her miraculous healing. 

Those involved in Anna's life became heroes in my sentiments. Her close Englisch friend, Chloe, Jacob Graber, her church community and most of all, her grandmother, were very strong components in this poignant story. I felt a tangible closeness to Anna's grandmother, a woman of strong and unwavering faith. Her life represented a deep peace and inner strength. She became my hero throughout Anna's story. Always a balm to Anna, she spent long hours reading scriptures and praying for Anna. I was deeply affected by that devotion. Jacob is an extraordinary character, a man of character and devotion. I connected with him immediately as he sought peace and harmony in his own life and eventually demonstrated that devotion to Anna.

Every day Anna awakened with her grandmother at her side, reading scriptures and praying. "Do you believe in miracles, child? Our Gotte is a Gotte of miracles." Reticent, Anna is reluctant to take on that conversation. Haunted with recurrent dreams, Anna struggles to comprehend their meaning. Her grandmother, always attentive, always at Anna's side through the worst of the storms, had an understanding of those dreams. She believed.

Are miracles real? Do you believe in miracles? It has been written that miracles do exist with examples to substantiate those theories. Anna's Healing is a pinnacle in faith, a faith that is so well represented in this story that my own beliefs were charged. This book is written with such depth of feeling that it stirs the soul and awakens the senses. I highly recommend this restorative depiction of how an entire community is affected by the events in one person's life.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest review. All expressed opinions are my own, and no monetary compensation was received for this review.

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