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Books by Linda Rooks
Broken Heart on Hold, Surviving Separation
A person who is separated or in marital crisis walks a lonely road—one filled with quiet moments of despair and an almost suffocating fear. He or she desperately desires understanding, clings to hope, and longs for a caring supportive friend. Broken Heart on Hold is that friend. The honest, heartfelt messages reach down into the valleys of the reader’s loneliness, travel with them through their mental labyrinths and shed a light in the dark tunnels where answers seem nonexistent. Broken Heart on Hold offers wisdom, insight, and encouragement as well as practical advice to help the reader sort through the confusion and find emotional and spiritual strength. Firmly rooted in scripture, the book offers wisdom, strength, and hope.
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Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated
A home ripped apart when one spouse leaves plunges those left behind into heartrending confusion. With the normal life of yesterday shattered and gone, unanswered questions abound, simple answers don’t exist, and reconciliation may seem out of reach.
When separation breaks a family apart, a spouse willing to fight for the marriage must step back from the fray and take a new look. Fighting for your marriage means going deeper to appropriate a whole new set of weapons. Change must take place, and it starts with God.
Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated continues to walk beside the brokenhearted, guiding readers in practical and strategic ways toward hope and a positive outcome. Through honest and insightful encouragement and stories of hope, the book guides readers into a place of strength where they can enter God’s war room, unravel the complexities of this difficult journey, and fight for their marriage.
Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated, A Practical Guide for the Brokenhearted, published by New Growth, was given the 2019 Nonfiction Book of the Year Award by Advanced Writers and Speakers Association and is available on Amazon, Christianbook.com and Barnes & Noble. You can find links to radio and TV interviews on the “Media” page, and learn more to help your marriage on Linda’s Broken Heart on Hold Facebook Page. Or sign up for Linda’s newsletter
Pieces of Dark, Pieces of Light
Forgotten Dangers. Family Secrets. An Unknown Fate.
In 2052 weapons of mass destruction are relics of the past until an unlikely discovery in Tajikistan thrusts long-forgotten dangers into the present. To keep terrorists from obtaining the weapons, U.S. leaders look to American diplomat Janssen LaMarche, whose diplomatic skills, family connections, and charismatic personality make him uniquely qualified to avert a world crisis. But before LaMarche begins his mission to Tajikistan, doctors identify a nagging health problem as terminal. Now forced to wage a life and death battle for himself, he must first travel back in time where an unknown fate awaits him and family secrets on two continents come to light. Meanwhile, his disgraced former brother-in-law joins him on the mission.
As a world crisis moves the plot through thrilling and suspenseful twists and surprises, at the heart of the story vibrates the personal saga of a man on a mission and the women who fear for his life
Pieces of Dark, Pieces of Light is available on Amazon
The Bunny Side of Easter, children’s picture book
On Easter morning, as parents watch their children scurry about the yard, looking for Easter eggs , many feel a disconnect between the legend of the Easter bunny and the real meaning of Easter. The Bunny Side of Easter fills the gap, taking children on an exciting and charming adventure with hints of allegory that point children to the true significance of Easter.
The Bunny Side of Easter is an exciting adventure about an ordinary rabbit who became the Easter bunny and went to the moon. Lost in a forest on Easter eve, a mischievous rabbit, a plucky duck and a playful monkey face a fearsome tiger. Can they save themselves and the little angel who was kind to them? Will the angel discover the truth about her power? A tale of fears faced and friendships gained.
The Bunny Side of Easter is now available on Amazon and at http://www.bunnysideofeaster.com
The Hardest Part of Those Wedding Vows
STANDING AT THE FRONT of the church, I gazed into my husband’s eyes and repeated our wedding vows—promises that would join our lives together in marriage. “I Linda take thee, Marvin, to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love…
Anticipatory Grief: The Journey of a Thousand Losses and Endless Grace- Author Interview with Tracy K. Pratt
WHEN YOU KNOW LOSS IS COMING, when does grief begin? Afterwards? Or before? And how do you work through it? Tracy K. Pratt’s book, Anticipatory Grief: The Journey of a Thousand Losses and Endless Grace, is a book I shared three years ago on Heart Talk but want to share again because I believe this book is so important in…
Silver and Gold
“TREAT HIM LIKE SILVER AND GOLD, LINDA. Treat him like silver and gold.” Jean sat forlornly on the couch, relating to me the bizarre set of circumstances she had recently experienced when her husband collapsed from a heart attack and she was unable to give him the required mouth-to-mouth resuscitation because she had a broken jaw and the doctors had…
Heavenly Headbutts: Reflections of Hope about Cats and Eternity
WHEN I TRY TO PICTURE my husband entering Heaven, I imagine him surrounded by lots of family members and friends who’ve gone before as they greet him and welcome him to his new home. Occasionally, I also wonder if among the crowd there might be a rambunctious Akita, a fluffy, tail wagging Peek-a-poo, a white cat with the shape of…
And The Flowers Fall
THE FLOWERS SENT by my publisher after the death of my husband were beautiful. The red and white roses, settled amidst the drama of orchids and the soft gracefulness of blue hydrangeas blended together in a stunning Christmas arrangement that lifted my spirits in the sad days following my husband’s death. Now the flowers were dying. As I gathered the…
To My Husband Who Is Now in Heaven
I SEARCH THE HEAVENS, looking for what is unseen by human eyes, wondering where you are, what you’re doing, longing to touch you again, longing to hear your voice. The partition between heaven and earth is vast and is not to be traversed by the living. You are on one side of this vast chasm, I am on the other….