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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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Les Miserables is a favorite. The priest and then Jean Valjean over and over show self-sacrifice, forgiveness, and selflessness. A great movie--and a great book and play. :)
Only 12 years behind the times, are you, C? LOL
I loved this movie too, because of the symbolism that you mentioned.
Great, now I'm humming..."cuz I'm leavin', on a jet plane..." lol
Oh that's a good one, Pam!
I've been humming that song too, Robin. LOL
I figure you mean fiction books or movies, but for me, there is no book or movie about self-sacrifice that is more moving than the Book of Hosea. So I find it odd that there are so few books inspired by the story of Hosea. There may be more, but I found five and some of those are about as close to the story as Pretty Woman, which has no similarity except for the man falling for a prostitute. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been for Hosea to continue to take care of Gomer, even when he knew she was sleeping with other men or to care for a child that may not have been his own. It would have been so easy to write her off completely, but instead he went and bought his own wife back. He didn’t die in the process, but he gave up so much for that woman.
You know what I've noticed? I read Lonestar Homecoming for the second time he other day and it wasn't the main characters that stood out to me this time. Instead it was the main characters from the other two books (which by the way each time I read them I'm yelling at the characters to just tell each other why you got married, you've all done it haha!).
The way they bring new people into their circle and home so readily, or went to get Gracie clothes that night even though they have kids of their own and work hard and need sleep. But they put strangers ahead of themselves and opened up their hearts to them. Like letting them borrow a car or take a horse, clean their house or babysit. It just resonated so strongly with me the second time around, and made me want to try to do better about welcoming people.
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Aw, thanks! I love those characters. LOL
I LOVE Redeeming Love! I've read it several times. So glad you mentioned it! Hosea had to have been quite a man, eh, Timothy?
The Iron Giant.
This is one of my all time favorite movies. :)
I don't think I've heard of the Iron Giant, Barb. I have to check that out!
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