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Bo's Cafe Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Bill Thrall, John Lynch, and Bruce McNicol / Windblown Media Reviewed by Gail WelbornThe book carries an unforgettable authentic message that will change you if you let it.Bo's Cafe, "...where you are loved more for revealing your 'problems,' not less," is a mystery wrapped inside a profound message for those "called" to Bo's Cafe. It's only after the strange and wonderful journey ends that Steven realizes he too was "called." Steven Kerner, a high-powered executive, with a dream job, can't admit his bottled up pain or feelings of worthlessness. His denial triggers hot explosions of anger and rage at the one who least understands-his wife. When he meets eccentric Andy Monroe, a mysterious, aging hippie, who claims to know his father, he's drawn into conversation with him. Monroe tells Steven things about his personal life his wife doesn't even know, and then asks Steven to join him for a ride in his mint condition, 1970 Electra Buick Convertible. Hesitant, but perplexed and intrigued Steven agrees to join him, not realizing it's the first step of an intense and mystifying journey that brings wisdom if he finds the courage to be vulnerable. Bo's Cafe by authors and close friends, Bill Thrall, John Lynch, and Bruce McNicol is a book similar to The Shack in that it carries a spiritual message in novel form. It's also a book about community, authenticity, God's grace, love, repentance and forgiveness. Tough messages are delivered in dialogues with wit and subtle humor. Personal insights offer serious implications. But, as in The Shack, the journey is worth the cost. Publishers of that now phenomenal bestseller launched Windblown Media, "the company a book began" to publish The Shack, by William Paul Young, when secular publishers said The Shack was "too Christian" and Christian publishers feared it was "too controversial and edgy." They were both right, but that didn't deter the book from becoming a publishing phenomenon that rose to number one on the New York Times bestseller list, where it remained for thirty-three weeks. Today, Windblown Media sits under the umbrella of Hachette Book Groups, their intent- to publish books for the "spiritually hungry." Bo's Cafe, Windblown Media's second book fits that description-it's for the spiritually hungry, for those in need of authentic relationships of vulnerability, honesty and healing. It's everyone's story, and we all need such a place in our own lives, a safe place. The book carries an unforgettable authentic message that will change you if you let it. I suspect Windblown Media has another runaway bestseller on their hands. |
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Susan Sleeman
is passionate about Christian Suspense as both a reader and a writer. She is the author of High-Stakes Inheritance, a romantic suspense novel to be released in September by Love Inspired Suspense an imprint of Steeple Hill Publishers and Nipped in the Bud, a romantic cozy mystery in October from Barbour Publishing.
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