Hallie's Heart | 
| Author: Shelly Beach
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 117961
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0825424364
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780825424366
ASIN: 0825424364
Publication Date: January 12, 2007
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Product Description
An eccentric antique dealer and her fifteen-year-old niece struggle to find healing in this Mitford-type novel. Guaranteed fiction!
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 Christian story September 23, 2008
Hallie's Heart This was a very good story, written by a talented writer. The story was compelling. It would be helpful to relate to the story if you had a similar view on Christianity.The Lake Michigan setting was a nice change.
 What's Not to Love about Hallie's Heart July 19, 2008
In a moving and tender but topical and fresh manner, Shelly Beach's novel, Hallie's Heart, is first and foremost an inspiring story. With real and lovable characters and contemporary situations, you'll laugh as well as cry as Mona and her teenage niece, Hallie, confront the past and strengthen the bonds of family relationships. Sideline characters will win your heart too. Not just for teens, this is today's Christian fiction with a message for everyone. Strongly recommended for women of any age.
...a touching family story and a refreshing debut novel. July 15, 2007
Most weekends find flame-haired Mona VanderMolen scouting for rare finds. A former teacher who quit her job after a family tragedy, she's been the owner of Stewartville Antiques for eighteen months now and is finally learning the ropes. But life isn't easy in the antique business. Dealers often outbid her at auctions, and things are tight. Someone has already offered to buy her out. But she's a fighter, and she intends to make it through the tough times.
Mona's dire financial situation isn't her only problem. Her relationship with her beloved fifteen-year-old nice Hallie was shattered eighteen months ago, thanks to Mona's sister. She blames Mona for the accident the family's still reeling from and refuses to allow aunt and niece to see each other. But that's about to change. Hallie has plans her mother and Mona know nothing about. Can Mona get through to her niece with the love and forgiveness she so desperately needs? Or will that tragedy that shook their family take them both down for good?
Mona's quirks (like her peanut M&M cravings) make her believable and real, and it's easy to understand why niece Hallie is drawn to her. The single, fun loving woman isn't concerned what people think, either of her appearance or actions. Hallie herself is painted as the slightly cliched rebellious teenager at first, but it isn't long before we see her in a different light.
The theme of forgiveness is gently and convincingly woven through the pages of this contemporary story. Some of the dream sequences were a little hard to follow, but Beach's sprinkling of imaginative phrases (my favorite: "It's hot enough to gag a maggot.") and characters you'd like to call your friends make up for some mild first-book-itis.
Overall, Hallie's Heart is a touching family story and a refreshing debut novel.
--Reviewed by C.J. Darlington for TitleTrakk
Great new author! July 6, 2007
This is a very good book. I love the humor that is interspersed in Shelly Beach's writing about everyday life. She delves into pain and God's healing in a gentle and loving way through her characters. I am eager to read a sequel. I highly recommend Hallie's Heart!
Hallies Heart February 28, 2007
It was fun to read of places where I am from in the central Michigan area. I would recomend this book to anyone as a refreshing break. I enjoyed it and feel that she did a great job writing it.
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