Bøger af Karen Steele

Ever feel God is prompting you to step outside of your comfort zone? To obey Him though doing so would make your weaknesses clear to all? Nerd to the core, terribly shy, embarrassed at the mention of deodorant, naive to the real world, Karen felt in her first year of college that God was prompting her to become an Army Nurse. She nearly fainted watching a back surgery video in college - how could she become a nurse? She was voted "Most Humanitarian" in high school - how could she become a soldier? After much wrestling with the decision, she obeyed and signed on the dotted line at age 18. Four years later, upon her graduation and commissioning as a US Army Nurse Corps Officer, the nation was shaken by the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Following orders that led her to South Korea, Hawaii, and more, she came face to face with her fears and failures. Through a surprising dose of vulnerability mixed with both tears and laughter, she encourages others to step out in faith knowing that when your own strength is gone, God is faithful to sustain, strengthen, and support you when you simply have the courage to say yes to Him.

Set in the last half of the 19th C this is a fictionalised biography of the love story between a writer with an eccentric way of life and an older married woman. Fanny Osbourne, a woman of confused determination, brave in her outlook but uncertain of her needs, is married with three children and living in California. She tires of her husband's philandering and leaves, taking the children to Paris so her daughter can study art. After months of difficulties and extreme devastation she meets Louis, a penniless man with ill-health and a steady determination to become a successful writer. The Parisian bohemian society in which they mix counters the moral attitudes of the day; another man's wife and ten years older? Two years of a tumultuous and passionate affair pass before she has fears and doubts and leaves him to return to her husband full of remorse and hope for her marriage. She leaves behind her devastated lover, who after a year of ill-health and distress decides he has to go to California and find her. He realises he has little hope, little to offer but love and the fact that he may have to face her secure and happy with her husband, whilst he in may well die on the journey.

Explores the literary and historical significance of women's writing for the most influential body of nationalist journalism during the Irish Revival. This work studies women's writings in the Irish nationalist tradition, focusing on leading female voices in the cultural and political movements that helped launch the Easter Rising of 1916.