The Power of Miracles: Stories of God in the Everyday [Hardcover]

Joan Wester Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 14, 1998

"What an awesome time to be alive and to see how God can turn difficulties into shining moments of hope and glory!

As Joan Wester Anderson's beloved angel books so movingly testify, a great proliferation of miracles has blessed many people in our time. Today, with the millennium only a heartbeat away, accounts of people who have been touched by the hand of God or one of God's angels are more abundant than ever before.

In this book Anderson has gathered the most glorious and remarkable of these accounts--stories of mysterious rescue, celestial visions, unexpected healings, inexplicable protection, and many other signs and wonders. Mysterious forces save a mountain climber lost in a blizzard. In God's service, an illiterate carpenter finds himself able to read. A band of angels saves a little girl from her violent father. An eloquent preacher, his vocal chords rendered useless by scar tissue, suddenly--in the presence of a large congregation--regains his full voice.

Dozens of wonderful, true stories of God's presence in our lives light up these pages, shedding blessings of comfort and renewed faith on everyone who reads them.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Anderson, so her publicity people insist, has sold more than 1.1 million copies of her books. Now comes one that those same publicity people say contains "stories of mysterious rescues, celestial visions, unexpected healings, inexplicable protection, and many other signs and wonders." These stories, collected by the author from around the world, include one involving a pastor whose lost voice returns, one in which an illiterate carpenter can suddenly read, and one involving a soldier who runs out of gas on a lonely highway at the exact spot where a young woman is trapped under the wreckage of her car. There is lots of talk about guardian angels, heaven, and dreams. The book is an alternate selection of three book clubs, and with you-know-who on her side, Anderson could have another best-seller in the making. George Cohen

From the Author

This book has been re-released under the same title, The Power of Miracles, but it has eight new stories in the paperback version.  (It's purple.) --author

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 309 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1 edition (September 14, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345397320
• ISBN-13: 978-0345397324
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,914,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I started writing when we bought a handyman-special house that didn't come with a handyman. We had four sons at that point (a daughter finally arrived a year after we moved) so I started magazine freelance-writing. Collected a lot of rejection slips but I also learned a lot about the industry. I was completely self-taught and have never taken a journalism course.

By lurches and mistakes, I added a second income to the family while staying at home. A friend and I, on a lark, did a book on household humor together, and we found a publisher right away. The first book led to a second, but then my co-writer went off to a real job at a university. I continued at home with the magazine articles, an occasional book (the books never sold very well) and a speaking sideline that got me out of the house occasionally.

In 1992, as I made plans to finish my career in writing, I did one last book, Where Angels Walk, which became a New York Times best seller, and is still on bookshelves and published in at least 18 languages lo! these past almost-20 years. I never did stop writing, and have just completed #8 in my angel/miracles series. I also have returned to my roots---with a humorous book on family life, Moms Go Where Angels Fear to Tread.

I'm very grateful to God for allowing me to do this kind of work. My father once said that a person who loves her job will never work a day in her life, and that is me. I hope you are a new reader. Please check my website (and many new angel stories) at http://joanwanderson.com.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Company, April 11, 2000

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Y. Rangel (Walnut Creek, California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Power of Miracles: Stories of God in the Everyday (Hardcover)

Joan Wester Anderson's book titled "Power of Miracles, Stories of GOD in the Everyday" is a must read for anyone who believes in the gift of miracles but, more importantly, for those individuals that do not.

I was mesmerized by the powerful examples contained in her book. As I read these true stories, I experienced a range of emotions. In particular, tears of joy. The graces received by people just like you and me were deeply moving. Not only were the stories interesting and well written, it was very reassuring to know that GOD does care about all - both big and small.

The only thing I would have wanted was a longer book with even more wonderful examples of GOD in the everyday.

I strongly recommend this book.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is a wonderful book full of inspirational stories., November 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Power of Miracles: Stories of God in the Everyday (Hardcover)

O.k....I know you've heard alot about angels and how unusual and wonderful things can happen to everyday people. This book showed so many examples of how peoples lives are being altered by the sight and voices of angels.

Now I'm a little predjudice towards this book because....I had one of my stories accepted into her book. I feel so priviledged to be a part of such an inspiring book!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspitational Happenings, October 8, 2001

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Floriana Hall (Akron, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Power of Miracles: Stories of God in the Everyday (Hardcover)

A compelling rendition of unexplained happenings, so inspirational; and by reading it, if you didn't believe in angels and intervention from on high, you would have to rethink your views.
So many God-incidences instead of mere coincidences are portrayed in this book. I myself have had many unexplained happenings in my life, and I have to say that one of them is included in this book.
The author has a way of presenting it all in an interesting, believable manner. A must read!