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Book your Christmas Shopping Chapter 1

Books are the BEST gifts for everyone: easy to wrap, easy to ship, easy to buy (and easy on the budget). Here is Chapter 1 on my Gift List.

Christmas shopping can be fun, frivolous, fanciful, and fretful. My most cherished family heirlooms treasured secrets have always come from books. When you inscribe "TO; FROM" on the title page of book, you are giving more than paper. Torn pages or sheets of worn out Santas, imaginary playthings and virtues scrapped from the past: you are giving thoughts, knowledge, feelings, adventure, and maybe even love.

"The Divine Heart" by Danielle R. Mani is a book you can confidently inscribe with your signature as a gift to a beautiful young woman in your life. (I am neither beautiful nor young, and I cherished receiving it myself).

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"The Divine Heart"

by Danielle R. Mani

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YA, Paranormal

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The Divine Heart by Danielle R. Mani pulled me in immediately with its first person witty narrative of a high school senior wryly tackling her senior year, crushes, and heart disease. When she receives a heart transplant, she is mysteriously recruited to solve an otherworldly mystery. Honest characters, flowing dialogue, relatable relationships, and jabs of emotion and shocking twists made me want to binge read it. My one issue, which made me waver between 4 and 5 stars in this review, was that mental illness of one of the characters was portrayed as an evil and unmanaged cause of conflict, which I think did not do the character or the illness justice. I received a free review copy of this book.

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