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LeAnne Hardy

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Although I grew up in the Midwest of the United States, I have lived in six countries on four continents. I have sipped cream tea in Oxfordshire, eaten stewed goat at a Mozambican wedding, slid down rocks in a Mato Grosso river and shopped at Mall of America. My books for children and young people come out of my cross-cultural experiences and my passion to use story to convey spiritual truths in a form that will permeate the lives of children and young people. I recently returned to the Northwoods of Wisconsin after three years in Johannesburg, South Africa, where I focused on writing for children affected by HIV/AIDS, teaching writing workshops and reading stories in after-school programs in Tembisa Township.

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Published on January 19, 2025 10:38
Average rating: 4.02 · 167 ratings · 63 reviews · 13 distinct works
Glastonbury Tor (Glastonbur...

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The Wooden Ox

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Crossovers

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Between Two Worlds: A Novel

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So That's What God Is Like!

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Beads and Braids

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Keeping Secrets

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Admittedly, Tolkien goes on forever after the climax of the story, and his use of the past participial form drives me nuts, but the story is marvelous, the language exhilarating, and the reading of the audio spell-binding. I am never even tempted to ...more
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Maybe it was the hotel living. Or the 1919 time period, but the opening made me think of A Gentleman in Moscow, one of my favorite books, so I was pleasantly disposed from the start. The theme is women’s struggle for equality, particularly in the rea ...more
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This strange and fascinating book definitely needs a second read. It covers hundreds of years in the distant future following a nuclear holocaust that destroyed civilization and created mutants like a woman with a second head of a sleeping baby that ...more
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A sequel to City in One Building, this has a lot of the same quirky characters. It also ties up loose ends from that book with some of the same bad guys and then some. The author is a screen writer. In my own fiction writing, I often think about what ...more
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4 novellas united by a Christmas theme and Canadian setting and the mention of the carol “I Heard the Bells”. Even with mysteries thrown in, the writing was too romance for me.
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This book is full of raw pain and deep vulnerability as Ukrainian believers wrestle with their faith in an on-going context of war and uncertainty that I as an American have never experienced. These are NOT historical stories from some remote past. T ...more
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Strains credulity from the foolishness of hiring an entire train to trap the guilty for a night before turning them over to the FBI to a confrontation on the roof of the moving train, barefoot in a snowstorm. Of course, there are multiple deaths and ...more
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Excellent historical writing (although I did wonder about concern for the plague in the twelfth century) with a strong female character. But the child murders are horrific and the solution disturbing. We see medieval Christianity at its worst with li ...more
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“The Africans wouldn’t consider it a real visit unless they ate.”
LeAnne Hardy, The Wooden Ox

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“There are four things that lead to wisdom. You ready for them?'
She nodded, wondering when the police work would begin.
"They are four sentences we learn to say, and mean." Gamache held up his hand as a fist and raised a finger with each point. "I don't know. I need help. I'm sorry. I was wrong'.”
Louise Penny, Still Life

“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.”
Benjamin E Mays
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“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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