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Courage, Love and the Meaning of Christmas [Kindle Edition]

Shaun Roundy
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Courage, Love and the Meaning of Christmas is more than just a magical, engaging, page-turning, thrilling, funny Christmas novel. It’s also a complete guide to the Meaning of Life.

Spencer Cook has dreams and wishes, and he has just discovered the first key to making dreams come true: Courage. Watch how courage and other lessons he finds along the way impact his life as well as those around him.

Will he win the girl of his dreams? Will he learn how to live a satisfying life? Will he find the girl lost in the storm before it’s too late? You’ll enjoy finding out as you read this captivating holiday story.

Author Shaun Roundy completed this major revision of the popular Gone but not Forgotten just in time for the 2009 Christmas season.

Enjoy vivid detail, engaging relationships, deep yet easy-to-follow insights, and page-turning plot twists right up to the last sentence.

About the Author

Shaun Roundy earned an MA in English from Utah State University and taught writing there and at Utah Valley University for over a decade. He has published four books and written various articles. Shaun was born in New Jersey, then moved to Massachussettes, California and Brazil before settling in the Rocky Mountains in Logan, Utah. He later moved to Spain, Taiwan, China, and Utah Valley, as well as working and traveling in many other states and countries, including a five-week, 2,500 mile sailing voyage to help a friend bring his boat home from Venezuela. Shaun enjoys spending time in the outdoors, climbing, mountaineering, camping, skiing, sailing, motorcycling and participating in other sports. He has volunteered on the Utah County Sheriff Search and Rescue team for over a decade, as well as chairing the Mountain Rescue Association's Intermountain Region. He appeared in the Discovery Channel's Raging Planet - Blizzards and KUED's award-winning Secrets of the Lost Canyon. Most of all, Shaun craves beauty, experience, wisdom, fun and adventure, and hopes to share that with everyone around him and make the world a better place.

Product Details

  • File Size: 566 KB
  • Print Length: 152 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1893594017
  • Publisher: The University of Life Press (December 1, 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00318DBLS
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,508 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT! If you are too late for this year, purchase for next year!
This book has touched my life in a way that I hope you will discover for yourself.
It is one of those books that you might think it could be ordinary but it turns out
extra ordinary. I think Oprah should put this in her favorite things to give for Christmas!
That is how much I loved it!
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Not that good! January 6, 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I usually buy at least one special book to read and/or give to friends to read over the holidays. After these very positive reviewers I selected this one. I barely finished it.

In fact I skipped many pages due to the somewhat confusing narrative and Spencer's lack of focus. I understand that that was what the book was about partially: His search for the meaning of life and the meaning of Christmas, but the author seemed to be searching (and needs to find!) a better way to approach his readers. So now I'm at a loss who to loan this out to?
If you want a better Christmas "read" I suggest Christmas Joys, Everyday is Christmas, Christmas Gift, Christmas Box, The Gift of the Magi, Mrs. Miracle, and my all time favorite book for bringing out the Spirit in all of us "A Stranger for Christmas" by Carol Lynn Pearson. You will know more about the Meaning of Life and become part of Myrna's journey to find out if her family learned what she had taught!

Or you could just re-read the Gospel of Luke for the truest meaning of Life!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I laughed.
I cried.
The story stuck with me and made me think. I, like Spencer, thought about the meaning of life. As I read this thoughts and the characters wriggled their way into my heart. After I finished, I found these thoughts had blossomed and I will be better for having read this.
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More About the Author

Shaun Roundy's cv reads like a character from an action-adventure movie. Alongside writing half a dozen books in various styles, he has taught writing to thousands of university students, climbed 18,000' mountains, sailed 2,500 miles through two oceans, speaks half a dozen languages, lived on four continents and a tropical island, saved dozens of lives as a member of an active volunteer Search and Rescue team, chaired the Mountain Rescue Association's Intermountain Region, appeared in the Discovery Channel's "Raging Planet - Blizzards" and KUED's award-winning "Secrets of the Lost Canyon", along with many appearances on the evening news. The list goes on and on.

As a writer, he seeks primarily to entertain and inspire. "The best thing about writing is hearing that my readers stayed up all night reading because they couldn't stop, or laughed or shouted out loud, or that the plot caught them totally by surprise, or that they related to some character or insight that changed their life."

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no matter what happens, no matter what life serves you, you can always find or create moments of extreme beauty by refusing to give in to the unfairness and uncertainties and day to day challenges of everyday life. &quote;
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Because when you truly believe in yourself, then you dont need to say anything. You dont need to prove your worth to anyone. You just know it. And you expect everyone else to know it. And because you know it, then everyone else catches on and they believe it, too. &quote;
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A best friend is loyal. He would stand up for you. He would tell everyone about your best side and patiently forgive the insignificant flaws. I think you tend to hold up your flaws to the world as proof that youre not really lovable, and thats simply not true. &quote;
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