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Please join us from 10 AM - 12 PM on Saturday, November 23rd for a book signing with local author Norma Vaughn Danzey for a signing featuring her latest novel Hope Overflowing, Rejoice Series Book 2. Her books are available for purchase in store now! If you are looking for a great heartwarming story to read before Thanksgiving then this is the one!As Joy Marshall sits on her front porch in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, she says a prayer that her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren will read the book that she has almost finished writing. In her book she shows how her desire to make the world a better place for women resulted in her going to prison and almost getting killed. Joy's hope is that it will keep them from making the same mistakes that she made, .
In this generational saga, Allen and Joy Marshall's family has multiplied, and spread out over many states and some countries. As Allen and Joy enter into their sunset years, they must learn to find happiness in different ways. Allen, used to staying busy with all the duties of a pastor and raising his family, learns to find joy in the beauty and majesty of creation.
Joy, who was born into a family of female protesters, still feels that need to help a worthy cause, but must find her satisfaction in writing novels using all the memories of her life as a pastor's wife and her desire to change all the wrongs of the world.
Their daughter, Hope Marshall Nations, has big plans that come crashing down when she discovers her husband has been accused of things he didn't do and some families in he church are spreading untruths about him. What about her children, their church, and Christian school? How can she help her husband when his life is tied to his job, Hope thinks he is the perfect Pastor of Music and youth at their fast growing church in Houston. To make matters worse, Hope's twin sister, Faith's, husband is the Senior Pastor at that same church, and they are having their own problems..
Charity and Teo are living in Paris and enjoying life singing and acting in various operas and shows. All of this comes to a halt for Charity when little baby Cecil Allen Riauldo is born. Teo continues acting, but Charity resents staying home all the time and feels Teo should spend more time with her and the baby. Teo's family are not Christians, and do not care for Charity or their son being a believer. They hold to the belief that you cannot worship something that you cannot see. This becomes a big problem, and Charity decides to take a trip back to America to visit her parents.
Allen and Joy's son, Samuel, struggles with his own problems in Washington D.C. How can he solve problems and make decisions that clearly go against the values his father instilled in him? .He finally finds a job he loves serving in The Secret Service, when he makes an unexpected visit to his grandparents home in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and finds something far more important than politics? Will this beautiful, talented, girl be the one to change his life?
Will Allen and Joy ever find the peace they sought in retirement? .
Lydia and Melody, Allen and Joy's granddaughters, complete their studies at Vanderbilt in Nashville, move to Houston, and set out to find jobs for themselves, but wind up working with their Uncle Sammy in Washington, D.C. Trouble abounds in the sticky world of politics, and the girls get a wake-up call. Different circumstances bring the family back together as they all gather at Joy and Allen's retirement home in the Great Smoky Mountains.
How will this generation learn to rejoice with hope overflowing? Read this second book in the Rejoice series to find out.
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