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Those Who Believe
A Dangerous Faith. One Boy's Search for Truth.
A Life on the Edge A Family Divided
On the run from Social Services and others who do not understand their beliefs, Nathan and his mom, faith-healer Billie Ashbury move into yet another a new town.
Nathan again faces the challenges of making new friends and of keeping his family’s secrets. But what he really struggles with is his wavering faith and reconciling his actions with what his devoted mother has taught him from the cradle. Could disobeying her ever be right?
His very life could depend on the answer.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Another look at life through the eyes of mental & physical illness—a boy with all the odds stacked against him
By the author of Tattooed Teardrops, winner of the Top Fiction Award, In the Margins Committee, 2016, the story of Nathan’s love and loyalty will break your heart and put it back together again.
Those Who Believe is a gripping tale of a boy on the brink, caught between family loyalty and a desperate search for his own truth.
This book is perfect for readers who crave:
Intense family dramas
Unconventional characters
Stories that stay with you
Join Nathan in his struggle to make an impossible decision.
A Life on the Edge A Family Divided
On the run from Social Services and others who do not understand their beliefs, Nathan and his mom, faith-healer Billie Ashbury move into yet another a new town.
Nathan again faces the challenges of making new friends and of keeping his family’s secrets. But what he really struggles with is his wavering faith and reconciling his actions with what his devoted mother has taught him from the cradle. Could disobeying her ever be right?
His very life could depend on the answer.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Another look at life through the eyes of mental & physical illness—a boy with all the odds stacked against him
By the author of Tattooed Teardrops, winner of the Top Fiction Award, In the Margins Committee, 2016, the story of Nathan’s love and loyalty will break your heart and put it back together again.
Those Who Believe is a gripping tale of a boy on the brink, caught between family loyalty and a desperate search for his own truth.
This book is perfect for readers who crave:
Intense family dramas
Unconventional characters
Stories that stay with you
Join Nathan in his struggle to make an impossible decision.
- GenresYoung AdultAbuse
292 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2014
365 people want to read
About the author
P.D. Workman
230 books501 followersAward-winning Canadian author P.D. Workman has written over a hundred addictive page-turners featuring diverse and divergent sleuths, high-stakes investigations, and stories that linger long after the last page. Her books dive deep into characters’ minds while exploring timely social issues through fast-paced, emotionally charged plots. Readers praise her work for its powerful emotional truth combined with unputdownable suspense.
Shunning sleep, when Workman is not writing, formatting, or marketing, she’s probably running, reading, or spending time with her family.
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Shunning sleep, when Workman is not writing, formatting, or marketing, she’s probably running, reading, or spending time with her family.
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August 8, 2014
This was good. I already made a review for you. Hope you have success with it. I'm still trying with my published works, getting people to take it up and such. I'm also going to put my review for this here too, okay. It's basically the same thing I wrote earlier.
I'd just finished this story yesterday and found it really great. I liked the Main character Nathan who has diabetes and such and with a mom who doesn't believe in outside medicine nearly letting her son die. I could really sympathize with Nathan because I also have the same but it's only type 2, luckily. I can understand everything he's going through.
The story hit me from the time I, as the reader discovered he got those symptoms and stuff. It was like a kick in the pants for me.
You did an excellent job in showing his day to day life on what it's like living with such. I'm assuming he had the 'disease' since birth making him type 1, right?
No matter what, it can be a hard thing to do and with a mother like that. I couldn't really like it when she tried to kill Nathan's best friend Chandra thinking she's a witch and such when she wasn't. Just because the woman (Chaundra) had epilepsy.
While I can understand Nathan's mother being like that but I think she let her faith take her too far even to give her son a shot of rat poison.
The ending felt right to me, Nathan got what she deserved and even Nathan got to know his daddy better. It was a great story and I enjoyed reading it. It may end up being one of many books I go back to in reading.
I'd just finished this story yesterday and found it really great. I liked the Main character Nathan who has diabetes and such and with a mom who doesn't believe in outside medicine nearly letting her son die. I could really sympathize with Nathan because I also have the same but it's only type 2, luckily. I can understand everything he's going through.
The story hit me from the time I, as the reader discovered he got those symptoms and stuff. It was like a kick in the pants for me.
You did an excellent job in showing his day to day life on what it's like living with such. I'm assuming he had the 'disease' since birth making him type 1, right?
No matter what, it can be a hard thing to do and with a mother like that. I couldn't really like it when she tried to kill Nathan's best friend Chandra thinking she's a witch and such when she wasn't. Just because the woman (Chaundra) had epilepsy.
While I can understand Nathan's mother being like that but I think she let her faith take her too far even to give her son a shot of rat poison.
The ending felt right to me, Nathan got what she deserved and even Nathan got to know his daddy better. It was a great story and I enjoyed reading it. It may end up being one of many books I go back to in reading.
December 17, 2014
This is one of the very few occasions I would recommend a book only for a special group of persons. All the others need a great amount of tolerance, otherwise this book will enlarge prejudices against believers. I strongly recommend this book for christians who believe in snake-handling and the like. Yes, I'm convinced that God can save us from snakes and poison, but that doesn't mean I have to test him or my faith playing with snakes. Yes, He saved Daniel from the lions - but Daniel didn't bring himself deliberately in this situation, it was a kind of death penalty - and God saved him. Paul was bitten and survived. I don't know what is to come. Perhaps some day we christians will need His help with snakes and poison
This book has the wrong title, because in fact it is not about those who believe, not even about those pentacostal christians who do some very strange things, this is about a child suffering from a mother who is deeply traumatized and insane.
This book has the wrong title, because in fact it is not about those who believe, not even about those pentacostal christians who do some very strange things, this is about a child suffering from a mother who is deeply traumatized and insane.
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