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Jane Kirkpatrick

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July 28, 2010:  In all seasons, harvest. I couldn't help but notice the wheat.  Is there a golden color that is as rich?  After reading the last National Geographic issue about the human price of gold as a medal, I find even greater joy in looking at this kind of gold. 

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Jane Kirkpatrick is a writer, speaker, teacher...

Jane is inter-nationally recognized for her lively presentations and well-researched stories that encourage and inspire.  Her works have appeared in more than 50 publications including  Decision, Private Pilot and Daily Guideposts.  Many of her sixteen novels and nonfiction titles are based on the lives of real people or incidents set authentically in the American West.  Her first novel, A Sweetness to the Soul, won the coveted Wrangler Award from the Western Heritage Center.  Her works have been finalists for the Christy, Spur, Oregon Book Award, WILLA Literary Award and Reader’s Choice awards.  Several of her titles have been Book of the Month and Literary Guild selections. 

A Tendering in the Storm won the 2007 WILLA Literary Award for Best Original Paperback and A Flickering Light, a story based on her grandmother’s life as a turn of the century photographer, was named to Library Journal’s Best Books of 2009.

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"... beautifully portrays the lives and times of her grandparents.  Not only does she have a way with words that paint a living picture, her characters are bigger than life while being completely genuine."  Faithfulreader.com

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One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2009 Kirkpatrick, Jane. A Flickering Light. WaterBrook: Random. (Portraits of the Heart, Bk. 1). ISBN 978-1-57856-980-9. pap. "Inspired by the life of Kilpatrick's[sic] grandmother, this coming-of-age tale about a photographer's assistant in love with her married boss is a beautifully told narrative of temptation and God's redeeming grace." (LJ 4/1/09)

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