Bøger af Lonna Lisa Williams

After "Crossing the Chemo Room," Lonna Lisa Williams' cancer survival story continues in "I Saw You in the Moon," book 2 of her "Survival Stories." Discover what happened to her original characters and meet new ones in Lonna's further adventures. See how her children grew while she homeschooled them and guided them through figure skating and overseas excursions. Witness a California wildfire and a New Zealand glacier, battle with other cancer patients, overcome the sorrow of miscarriages, explore the enduring beauty of photographs and poetry, and experience the hope of Christ's resurrection.

Selah is a slavegirl who fetches water from a well. She sees the distant mountains and imagines things she has never known--like trees, stars, lakes, and snow. Her Master Regan and The Craft have kept nature from the valleys, damning rivers and turning all to desert. They weave their material spells upon the slaves, and nothing ever changes. Then, one day, Regan summons Selah to serve him at a banquet. As she fills a goblet, a stranger in a hooded cloak speaks to her and gives her one unmelted snowflake. That very night, the stranger named Micah leads Selah outside the Keep and across the valley, to meet a band of travelers. They journey through hills, moors, and highlands to Mountain Gate. Selah finds beauty, music, and love in the mountains. Regan and his soldiers follow, capture Selah, and imprison her again. She must face loneliness and The Craft to reunite with Micah and journey to the Summit.

Seventeen-year-old Miranda lives in future San Diego, a city enclosed in a Dome because chemicals destroyed the natural world. Everything is made of plastic, and wood is more valuable than gold. The daughter of scientists, Miranda is Keeper of The Last Tree, which is dying. She is also great-granddaughter of the famous environmentalist Gabrielle Leigh who foresaw the trees' destruction. By means of The Archives, a multimedia library, Miranda studies Gabrielle's life. Each "visit" through The Portal becomes more real, and Miranda gradually materializes in Twentieth-Century Oregon to explore the Pacific Northwest evergreen forests. She breathes pine-scented air, sees stars and waterfalls, tastes real food like chocolate, and wears cotton clothes. She watches Gabrielle fall in love and is caught in a battle between loggers and "greens." After Gabrielle's husband is killed and their child born in a snow-bound cabin, Miranda tries to stop the other tragedies the Archives foretold. She almost forgets her own world. Back under the future Dome, her family and boyfriend try to keep her from being trapped in the past. Government security forces, afraid that the outside world is too dangerous to explore, hunt them down. Miranda and Gabrielle struggle, between two places and times, to reintroduce trees to the future and lead people outside The Dome.

In Book 3 of "Survival Stories," Lonna Lisa Williams tells how she survived a tragic childhood and cancer. Then she realized she was an abused wife. But instead of finding a new life, she retreated into prescription medicine that her doctors gave her. A wildfire burned her California mountains, and Lonna flew to New Zealand with her two trusting children. She lost an international trial and returned to California where she lost everything in divorce. Her castle of a home was gone, her children hidden from her, and Lonna's downward spiral into drugs continued. She crashed her car in the mountains then nearly bled to death while stopping all prescription medicine. But, like the mythical phoenix bird and through the power of resurrection, Lonna rose to a new life of teaching English overseas. Walk with her on this journey of adventure, across the frozen rivers of Russia and to the sunset seas of Turkey. Discover how the extremes of fire and ice can shape a person's life. Catch a flame and snowflake in a camera's lens and listen to the music of this writer.

"Crossing the Chemo Room," Book One of the nonfiction trilogy "Survival Stories," tells the true tale of Lonna Lisa Williams' battle with cancer. After enduring a tragic childhood, early motherhood, and divorce to a Navy pilot, Lonna met her second husband at the university where she got her Master's degree in English. They married and had a daughter. When she was pregnant with their second child, Lonna noticed that something was wrong, and soon after Jonathan was born, she discovered she had cancer. Walk with Lonna as she takes you through the physical and emotional challenges of surgery, chemotherapy, and recovery. Meet the other patients, health workers, and friends who helped Lonna along this path. Discover how Christ's resurrection power strengthened Lonna to write about miscarriages and wildfires in "I Saw You in the Moon." Journey across the landscapes of New Zealand, Russia, and Turkey in Lonna's third book, "Fire and Ice," as she survives the loss of her California life and family but rises like a phoenix to teach English overseas.