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Linda Sammaritan

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Linda Sammaritan writes realistic stories, for both middle grades and womens’s fiction. She has published a middle grade trilogy, World Without Sound, based on her own experiences growing up with a deaf sister in the Vietnam War Era. Book One, Reaching Into Silence, was a Carol Awards semi-finalist, a Genesis Contest semi-finalist and a First Impressions Finalist.
Linda had always figured she’d teach teens and tweens until school authorities presented her with a retirement wheelchair and rolled her out the door. However, God changed those plans when He gave her a growing passion for writing fiction. In May of 2016, she blew goodbye kisses to her students and dedicated her work hours to becoming an author.
A wife, mother of three, and grandmo ...more

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The Quality of Our Soil

Jesus is a storyteller, and His early audiences consisted mainly of farmers and fishermen. No surprise then, when He chose to share a parable describing four types of soil.

First, soil along the road.

Packed hard under all the feet and hooves and wheels straying onto it. Farmers knew seeds would just lie there, never sprouting. Other animals would eat those.

Second, rocky soil.

Plenty of dirt. But fra

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	Sensational: Havok Season Four (Havok Flash Fiction Book 4) by Andrew Winch (Contributor), Laura VanArendonk Baugh (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kat Heckenbach (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Tidings - A Christmas Anthology by Susan Marie Graham (editor and contributor), Nancy Ness, Sarah Soon (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reaching Into Silence (World Without Sound Book 1) 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Speaking Through the Silence (World Without Sound Book 3) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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