A Heart Traced in Sand [Paperback]

Steven Boone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2001

When a seventeen year old cross-country runner learns she is dying of a rare malignancy, she embarks on a healing quest with undeviating courage and prayer. It is her fathers faith that is tested at every turn. Using dreams, religious writings, and Naomis notes to herself, he emerges from the tunnel of darkness with an inspiring message of hope.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A teenager who battles cancer; her father was her main support. He is honest in accounting his struggle with despair. -- Southwest BookViews, Winter 2002

Among books about courage in the face of cancer, this one grabs readers by the heart and sweeps them along. -- Today's Librarian, January 2002

About the Author

Steven Boone was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1952. Raised in Illinois, New York, and then Washington, DC, he excelled in art at an early age, and in 1976 earned a degree in painting from the Maryland Institute, College of aArt in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating, Steven settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he now resides with his wife and youngest daughter. His art studio abounds with landscape, figurative, and abstract paintings, some of which were inspired by the death of his oldest daughter, Naomi, in the summer of 1999. Exhibited in Santa Fe, and on the Web, at stevenboone.com, his oil-on-canvas works resonate with the play of shadow and light.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Twin-Flames Publishing (May 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970604602
• ISBN-13: 978-0970604606
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,959,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Heart Traced in Sand, October 31, 2001

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Kathie Hainline (Ozark, Missouri) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Heart Traced in Sand (Paperback)

A touching reflection of a father's love and courage for his precious daughter. This story of endless faith and hope will definitely pull at your heart strings. Naomi is truly an inspiration to all. She loved and lived life to the fullest with a remarkable outlook. I couldn't stop reading....

5.0 out of 5 stars Touching and heartfelt in his faith in God's care, July 17, 2003

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Heart Traced in Sand (Paperback)

Winner of the Pinnacle Book Award, A Heart Traced In Sand: Reflections On A Daughter's Struggle For Life by Steven Boone is a personal memoir and candid reflection of a father's love for his daughter. This is the story of Steven's Boone's teenage daughter Naomi in the last two years of her young life which would prematurely end from cancer. Touching and heartfelt in his faith in God's care and as a living testimony to the human spirit, Steven Boone's A Heart Traced in Sand is emotionally moving in its shared revelation, and is especially recommended reading for anyone having to deal with chemotherapy and faith within lives of themselves, their families, and their friends.

5.0 out of 5 stars Heart to heart, February 22, 2003

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Paulette Frankl (Santa Fe, New Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Heart Traced in Sand (Paperback)

A Heart Traced in Sand is a personnal and intimate account of a father's unconditional love for his daughter and their journey together through the valley of the shadow of death.
Author Steven Boone pulls out his artist's palette and paints an amazing landscape of hard choices, heart breaking emotion, hope, fear, courage, faith and transcendence.
This book, about the loss of a daughter in the bud of her young life, carries with it an uncanny strength. The reader turns the last page feeling honored to have been privy to such intimacy and caring in this important experience of transition. This book is more than a story about loss and grieving, it is a gift of the cherishing of LIFE itself!