Book Spotlight

PAPER DOLLS kara r. hunt

Paper can be torn and dolls can break.So can humans. Kite Tanner, Priscilla Martin, Lydia Dooley, Eve Stanton, and Mary Rabin are five women with very different stories that test the bonds of family and friendship. Will the women’s faith in God and each other stand the test of time? Or will it crumple like paper?

“Finding a woman who couldn’t relate to any of the themes in Kara R. Hunt’s expertly crafted novel, Paper Dolls, would be difficult. Wife, mother, daughter, sibling, friend, females struggling with identity, hope, hopelessness, dreams, and dreaded decisions. Based on the Book of Habbakuk, the intricate plot is a layer-uponlayer of deep emotional entwinement paired with strong Christian values.

“Hunt’s writing is superb. These characters portray the author’s attention to emotion, motivation, repressing and expressing old trauma, broken dreams, and the deepest, most horrifying fears, making them anything but paper cutouts of people. They are flesh and blood come to life in a memorable, extremely gifted, beautifully crafted story.” —Dr. Deborah Maxey, multi-award-winning author of The Endllng, A Novel, Licensed Counselor and Marriage and Family Therapist.

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THE TAPESTRY OF TRAUMA donna s. scott, lmft

Beautiful tapestries are woven with threads of amazing colors that have skillfully been combined by the master craftsperson. However, the picture we see on the front of the tapestry looks much different from the knotted mess we’d witness if we turned the masterpiece over.

This powerful visual is the central illustration used by author Donna Scott in her book, The Tapestry of Trauma: Transforming the Tangles of Childhood Sexual Abuse into God’s Masterpiece. The book speaks compassionately to those who have lived through the horrors of childhood sexual abuse and have grown into adulthood suffering with the knotted mess of the emotional scars.

She takes her readers all the way from developing the ability to discover a new view — from God’s view — to being able to picture their own healing. In between, her readers learn how to understand each thread of what they’ve been through and how to escape the grasp of the past.

Every reader is sure to emerge understanding herself or himself as God’s masterpiece. —Sharon Norris Elliott