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Jo Ann Virden

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Historical Fiction, Romance, Biography

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Hi. I’m Jo Virden and I live in Arvada, Colorado with my husband, Bill. My journey into the realm of writing has been a rather circuitous voyage that began in high school, but was birthed in 1998. It was then that I met a most incredible 96-year-old woman named Ruth Marie Colville. I was almost 50 and in the midst of my thirty-seven year career in nursing. I ended up writing her biography, A Passion For Life: Ruth Marie Colville simply because it needed to be written. Along the way, Ruth Marie inspired me to explore my life choices and to understand that life is made up of multiple lives, each one leading to new adventures and new opportunities.
My relationship with Ruth Marie gave me the courage, fifteen years later, to entertain the idea ...more

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Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus: The Hidden Teachings on Life and Death (Wisdom of the Aramaic Jesus)

by Neil Douglas-Klotz

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Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground

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