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Mitchell S. Karnes

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in Topeka, KS, The United States

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Young Adult, Fantasy, Christian

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Graham Diamond, C.S. Lewis, Joel Rosenberg, Max Lucado

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Mitchell S Karnes was born in Kansas and spent his childhood in Illinois. He lives in Brentwood, TN with his wife, Natalie, and five of their seven children. He serves as the Senior Pastor of Walker Baptist Church in Franklin. Mitchell holds a Bachelor’s degree and three Master’s degrees.

He hopes to entertain, challenge, move and teach through each and every book, using his stories as catalysts for discussions on critical topics such as bullying, making the right choices, standing firm in the face of danger, and discovering your gifts and talents. The Pact was just the beginning…the first book in a four-part series called The Canaanshade Journeys. Now he continues the tale with The Dragon’s Pawn.

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	Water Grave (The Detective Abbey Rhodes Mysteries Book 1) 4.50 avg rating — 32 ratings — 3 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
	The Least of These (The Detective Abbey Rhodes Mysteries Book 2) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 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
	The Pact: The Canaanshade Journeys Book I 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 3 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
	The Dragon's Pawn: The Canaanshade Journeys Book II 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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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When I was a young teenager, my father would take us all (Mom, Mark, Kathy, and me) to his post-graduate studies in dentistry. We would go to the hotel, swim in the pool and do whatever was around there. One year, as we vacationed in Miami, I got bored and decided (with the encouragement of my parents) to check out the gift shop in the hotel and see if I could find an interesting book for the Read more of this blog post »

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