Still Waters

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Summary: Beautifully written
Review: This book, picks up where Blackbird left off, and follows Jennifer through the trials, and tribulations she endures, in a "home" with relatives who do not value children, or children that are not their "own". Ms. Lauck is a wonderful writer, and draws you into her story from the first page. Through it all, Jennifer Lauck shows the reader what a survivor she is, and makes you cry with her, hope with her and pray that she someday soon, gets herself out of her awful situation.I did not put "her" story down, and read until late into the morning hoping & praying that she would triumph, and come to know real love. She is not whiny or woe is me, despite reason to be, and I would recommend this book to those of us, that THINK we had it rough as a child.

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Summary: I am going to be a better Dad
Review: This is a fantastic book, relates the undertones of Jennifer's feelings very strongly. Just less than halfway through the book, I made a decision to be a one hundred percent good Dad, This is how much Jennifer has effected me, helped me and will help my children. I read the [Amazon.com] rules to writing reviews and it states we should recommend similar items, I want to recommend another Oregon writer that has a super book called SB 1 or God by Karl Mark Maddox

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Summary: Impossible to Put Down Memoir!
Review: This is a heartwrenching and beautiful memoir by Jennifer Lauck. This is a sequel to her bestseller "Black Bird". This book tells the true story of Jennifer Lauck, a young woman who has been through so much--and lives to tell about it. She is a phenomenal woman, and a talented writer. Jennifer tells her story in an open and honest way, focusing on her feelings and her growth during a tumultuos childhood. She is lost, and then found. She is loved, lost, abandoned, hated, moved from place to place, and abused--yet she still shines. This book will speak directly to your soul, leaving you reflecting and appreciating your own life, as well as falling in love with the author. I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: Jennifer Lauck Writes Another Winner
Review: This stunning sequel to Blackbird is as memorable and poignant as Ms. Lauck's first book. Read Blackbird and then read Still Waters--you'll never forget them.

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Summary: Jennifer Lauck Writes Another Winner
Review: This stunning sequel to Blackbird is as memorable and poignant as Ms. Lauck's first book. Read Blackbird and then read Still Waters--you'll never forget them.

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Summary: A HEART-RENDERING STORY!
Review: Those who have read "Blackbird" may wonder if Jennifer Lauck ever finds true peace and happiness in her life. The answer will be found in this book. Anyone who has been raised in a house where they felt they were never truly wanted or accepted for who they were, or never felt love or warmth as a child, will appreciate Jennifer's story. To add to her trauma, Jennifer is separated from her brother, Bryan, and what follows later in life will once again, upset her difficult, empty world. Jennifer marries but it is not a happy marriage and once again her dreams are shattered. However, she does find the courage to learn from her past tribulations, to grow and to move on. Finally, when she marries for the second time, she finds a man who provides her with the love, support and compassion she has never known, and she is at last able to truly come to terms with her past and rebuild her life. "Still Waters" is a beautifully written, dramatically moving book and most deserving of a five star rating.

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Summary: A HEART-RENDERING STORY!
Review: Those who have read "Blackbird" may wonder if Jennifer Lauck ever finds true peace and happiness in her life. The answer will be found in this book. Anyone who has been raised in a house where they felt they were never truly wanted or accepted for who they were, or never felt love or warmth as a child, will appreciate Jennifer's story. To add to her trauma, Jennifer is separated from her brother, Bryan, and what follows later in life will once again, upset her difficult, empty world. Jennifer marries but it is not a happy marriage and once again her dreams are shattered. However, she does find the courage to learn from her past tribulations, to grow and to move on. Finally, when she marries for the second time, she finds a man who provides her with the love, support and compassion she has never known, and she is at last able to truly come to terms with her past and rebuild her life. "Still Waters" is a beautifully written, dramatically moving book and most deserving of a five star rating.

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Summary: The power of anger
Review: Those who read Lauck's first memoir, Blackbird, will expect to find a continuation in Still Waters of the upbeat note on which that first book ended. They would be wrong. Life did NOT go well for Jennifer Lauck when she was picked up at the bus station by her grandfather and left eventually at the 'safe haven' of her aunt and uncle's home. Although by the conclusion of Still Waters, we are asked to believe Lauck, with the help of New Age spirituality, has at last made peace with her tragic past, one can't help believing that it wasn't the power of hope that carried her to a relatively triumphant adulthood: it was the power of rage.