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Amazed By Her Grace #2
Amazed By Her Grace: Book II
Second book of the Amazed by her Grace novel (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 second volume, the story moves forward through several months as Grace and Tracy's wholesome friendship evolves cautiously, at first, and then with the speed of infatuation. The book ends with a breath-taking revelation that will leave readers scrambling for the next and final volume.)
Books in the Grace series should be read in sequential order -- book 1, book 2, book 3 -- to follow the story's plot.
Janet Walker's Amazed by her Grace. 1 novel. 3 books. 1 amazing 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 second volume, the story moves forward through several months as Grace and Tracy's wholesome friendship evolves cautiously, at first, and then with the speed of infatuation. The book ends with a breath-taking revelation that will leave readers scrambling for the next and final volume.)
Books in the Grace series should be read in sequential order -- book 1, book 2, book 3 -- to follow the story's plot.
Janet Walker's Amazed by her Grace. 1 novel. 3 books. 1 amazing story.
356 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 12, 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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July 3, 2013
This part of the book felt rushed. All loose ends were attacked and new story lines created (unwanted sex) and left unfinished.
October 18, 2024
When is the movie coming out?
All I can say is that I hope that the movie will be as good as the book! Excellent work, Janet Walker!
All I can say is that I hope that the movie will be as good as the book! Excellent work, Janet Walker!
August 2, 2017
Grace point of view
This book is told by Grace point of view and more about her life...I really didn't like it because it was repetitive of book one,(Tracy point of view) but again it was different from other books read. Overall it was a good read!
This book is told by Grace point of view and more about her life...I really didn't like it because it was repetitive of book one,(Tracy point of view) but again it was different from other books read. Overall it was a good read!
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews