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The Visitor at Winter Chapel
The Visitor at Winter Chapel
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by Michelle Batcheler and Frank Sikora

Category: Fiction
Format: Trade Paper, 136 pages
Pub Date: December 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9785311-7-1 (0-9785311-7-5)
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ABOUT THE BOOK
When her brother is killed in Iraq, Abbie Staley’s world is shattered. The eighteen-year-old college student finds her rural Alabama values torn asunder, altering her views on religion as well as the issue of abortion. But then a stranger comes to visit her at her home in the crossroads community of Winter Chapel. Another visit follows at the college campus. The stranger knows much about her life, and that of her brother, so much that at first she is terrified. But only then does she realize the visitor is of divine origin. While others have doubts about who she has seen, Abbie realizes that she has been chosen for something special, and devotes her life to helping others, one at a time. Her visitor comes one last time at Christmas, to leave a lasting gift that others share.


PRAISE
“Batcheler and Sikora tackle the age-old questions in an important contemporary setting. Well worth pondering in this compelling story.” — Greg Fulton, Time

“An intriguing story about the persistence of faith amid life’s harsh realities ...” — Carroll Dale Short, author of The Shining Shining Path and Turbo’s Very Life


ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Michelle Batcheler and Frank Sikora decided to co-author a book when they met at a swimming pool where Ms. Batcheler was a life guard. She studies broadcasting at UAB and works part time at the Birmingham News. This is her first book. Sikora is a native of Byesville, Ohio, and has worked as an Alabama journalist since 1964. He is the author of several books on the civil rights movement, including Selma, Lord, Selma and The Judge.

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