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Amazed By Her Grace #1
Amazed By Her Grace
First book of the Amazed by her Grace series (Books must be read in order):
In this three-book novel, former Olympic track-and-field gold medalist Grace Gresham-Nelson amazes others with her startling and neat beauty, fierce devotion to rules and order, and ability to remain both popular and famously unknowable at the prestigious, all-girl Beck Academy in Atlanta, where Grace is a nationally successful athletic director.
But when she meets the new student Tracy Sullivan, a gifted basketball player from an area housing project, Grace is so amazed by the teen’s athletic ability that the woman’s famous wall of privacy begins to crumble...leaving woman and teen open to a scandal neither could have foreseen.
In this first volume, the reader sees the colorful world of Beck first through the eyes of the transplanted student Tracy and then from the perspective of the private teacher Grace.
Reader, get this volume first! Books in the series must be read in sequential order -- book 1, 2, 3 -- to follow the plot.
This version of the novel should replace any earlier downloads you may have acquired of the story.
In this three-book novel, former Olympic track-and-field gold medalist Grace Gresham-Nelson amazes others with her startling and neat beauty, fierce devotion to rules and order, and ability to remain both popular and famously unknowable at the prestigious, all-girl Beck Academy in Atlanta, where Grace is a nationally successful athletic director.
But when she meets the new student Tracy Sullivan, a gifted basketball player from an area housing project, Grace is so amazed by the teen’s athletic ability that the woman’s famous wall of privacy begins to crumble...leaving woman and teen open to a scandal neither could have foreseen.
In this first volume, the reader sees the colorful world of Beck first through the eyes of the transplanted student Tracy and then from the perspective of the private teacher Grace.
Reader, get this volume first! Books in the series must be read in sequential order -- book 1, 2, 3 -- to follow the plot.
This version of the novel should replace any earlier downloads you may have acquired of the story.
241 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 1, 2012
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About the author
Janet Walker
4 books2 followersJanet Marie Walker was born in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where she enjoyed reading novels, playing sports, visiting the public library, and studying the Bible literature of Jehovah’s Witnesses, her mother’s religion.
She is the daughter of William Edward Walker Jr. and Marie Ann Brown Walker, both of Charleston, South Carolina.
Music (recorded vinyl albums, singing, and piano-playing) was a staple in her childhood home, and she credits her parents with introducing her to the artistry of Sarah Vaughan, a singer whose voice serves as a soothing symbolic maternal fill-in to the main character in Janet’s most important novel.
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Miss Walker has held jobs as local newspaper reporter and copy editor; founding editor of a regional women’s magazine; TV associate producer; intern for a New York City publishing house; member of a CNN (Cable News Network) housekeeping crew; UPS package handler and delivery driver; freelance grammar editor; and cross-country truck driver.
All of this, she says, contributed to her ability to develop rich characters and authentic experiences in her fiction.
In 1993, at Augusta State University, for submitting a sample of what would become her novel, Amazed by Her Grace, Miss Walker received the Will Shingleton and Samantha Dawes Wich scholarships for creative writing. She later became the first and second recipient of ASU’s annual Henry Lott-Walter Wiggins Communications Scholarship (provided by former Augusta resident and TV journalist Nita Wiggins). At Georgia State University, in Atlanta, Miss Walker received Ph.D.-level research training in the field of literary studies as a Ronald McNair Scholar.
Walker’s feminist critique, “The Disney Girl,” appeared in the St. Martin’s Press college text The Great American Bologna Festival and other Student Essays, beginning with the 1994 edition. From 2000 to 2004, she studied rhetoric and composition, as well as African American Studies, at Georgia State University, where she maintained a 4.0 GPA for more than two years.
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Miss Walker has written four full-length novel manuscripts, a three-act play (Desire of Ovid’s Mother), and seventeen non-fiction books, including a 14-volume transcription of her 28-year diary. Currently, her three-book novel, Amazed by Her Grace, and one of her non-fiction books, What You Didn’t Learn in Trucking School: The Trucker’s Little Book of Etiquette, are available to the public.
Social taboos, the power of religion, class differences among African Americans, and the complex nature of female thinking are the themes that drive her fiction.
Miss Walker’s favorite author is Gloria Naylor; her favorite novels are Naylor’s Mama Day and Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. She has met and long respected Alice Walker, a native of Eatonton, Georgia, and credits Miss Walker’s womanist writings with changing Janet’s thinking and life thirty years ago. Still, she likes to playfully boast that Alice Walker “isn’t the only writing Walker of Georgia.”
Miss Walker’s ultimate dream is to walk into a college library and find her Grace novel not only wedged between the novels of Alice and Margaret Walker but also held in similar high regard. She currently resides in a suburb of Atlanta.
She is the daughter of William Edward Walker Jr. and Marie Ann Brown Walker, both of Charleston, South Carolina.
Music (recorded vinyl albums, singing, and piano-playing) was a staple in her childhood home, and she credits her parents with introducing her to the artistry of Sarah Vaughan, a singer whose voice serves as a soothing symbolic maternal fill-in to the main character in Janet’s most important novel.
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Miss Walker has held jobs as local newspaper reporter and copy editor; founding editor of a regional women’s magazine; TV associate producer; intern for a New York City publishing house; member of a CNN (Cable News Network) housekeeping crew; UPS package handler and delivery driver; freelance grammar editor; and cross-country truck driver.
All of this, she says, contributed to her ability to develop rich characters and authentic experiences in her fiction.
In 1993, at Augusta State University, for submitting a sample of what would become her novel, Amazed by Her Grace, Miss Walker received the Will Shingleton and Samantha Dawes Wich scholarships for creative writing. She later became the first and second recipient of ASU’s annual Henry Lott-Walter Wiggins Communications Scholarship (provided by former Augusta resident and TV journalist Nita Wiggins). At Georgia State University, in Atlanta, Miss Walker received Ph.D.-level research training in the field of literary studies as a Ronald McNair Scholar.
Walker’s feminist critique, “The Disney Girl,” appeared in the St. Martin’s Press college text The Great American Bologna Festival and other Student Essays, beginning with the 1994 edition. From 2000 to 2004, she studied rhetoric and composition, as well as African American Studies, at Georgia State University, where she maintained a 4.0 GPA for more than two years.
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Miss Walker has written four full-length novel manuscripts, a three-act play (Desire of Ovid’s Mother), and seventeen non-fiction books, including a 14-volume transcription of her 28-year diary. Currently, her three-book novel, Amazed by Her Grace, and one of her non-fiction books, What You Didn’t Learn in Trucking School: The Trucker’s Little Book of Etiquette, are available to the public.
Social taboos, the power of religion, class differences among African Americans, and the complex nature of female thinking are the themes that drive her fiction.
Miss Walker’s favorite author is Gloria Naylor; her favorite novels are Naylor’s Mama Day and Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. She has met and long respected Alice Walker, a native of Eatonton, Georgia, and credits Miss Walker’s womanist writings with changing Janet’s thinking and life thirty years ago. Still, she likes to playfully boast that Alice Walker “isn’t the only writing Walker of Georgia.”
Miss Walker’s ultimate dream is to walk into a college library and find her Grace novel not only wedged between the novels of Alice and Margaret Walker but also held in similar high regard. She currently resides in a suburb of Atlanta.
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June 23, 2017Great Book!!!! What A page turner
April 14, 2024
It actually took me a while to get to this book, and from the cover alone, I really had no idea what to expect. By the time I get to books, I tend to forget the synopsis so I actually thought this was going to be a happy-go-lucky story. Wrong! Grace's character by far is the complex of all the characters I've come across in the book and I can't help but hate her one moment and feel sorry the next. I didn't like the way the first half of the book was from Tracy's point of view, while the second half was in Grace's-I'm sorry Miz Grace's- point of view. I honestly thought I started reading another book. Nonetheless, this is a great story about learning to deal with your environments and your pain, and also it is a good book for learning how to eventually move on.
October 7, 2024
My Lord!
After reading Amazed by Her Grace by Janet Walker, I was deeply moved and captivated by her storytelling. While we’re reminded not to use the Lord’s name in vain, this book truly made me want to shout praises for its depth and inspiration. The journey through faith, grace, and redemption is powerful and heartfelt. I am currently reading Amazed by Her Grace, Book Two, and praying it will be just as enthralling and spiritually uplifting as the first!
After reading Amazed by Her Grace by Janet Walker, I was deeply moved and captivated by her storytelling. While we’re reminded not to use the Lord’s name in vain, this book truly made me want to shout praises for its depth and inspiration. The journey through faith, grace, and redemption is powerful and heartfelt. I am currently reading Amazed by Her Grace, Book Two, and praying it will be just as enthralling and spiritually uplifting as the first!
December 13, 2014
Takes a while to get into
Good story but the author takes too long to get to the details of what is going on. The descriptions of every scene takes two or three paragraph. I want to know what happens in Tracy and Graces lives but not sure if I can take reading book number 2.
Good story but the author takes too long to get to the details of what is going on. The descriptions of every scene takes two or three paragraph. I want to know what happens in Tracy and Graces lives but not sure if I can take reading book number 2.
July 3, 2013
Great elements in the story. The flow/transition could improve how the book reads.
August 4, 2017
Tracy😀
I enjoyed this book and I like the characters, at times it was a little bit slow, but overall it was a great read.
I enjoyed this book and I like the characters, at times it was a little bit slow, but overall it was a great read.
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