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    The Letter
    The Letter
    The Letter
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    The Letter

    Written by Richard Paul Evans

    Narrated by Richard Thomas

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    About this audiobook

    The Letter, the final book of the Christmas Box collection is, most simply stated, the love story of David and MaryAnne Parkin. But it is also everyone's love story, for it is about the storms that all relationships must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into one of real-life challenges and difficulties. We often forget that it is in the hard times that we truly see what is best in love as well as in life. Though love may be temporarily darkened, true love never gives in, or up, but holds tight to noble ideas, which transcend this earth and all time.

    The Letter is also about our pasts and our individual quests to discover who we are. In The Letter, David Parkin sets out on a journey to find his mother, a woman who abandoned him when he was a child. In truth, however, David is searching for himself as he seeks to free himself from the pain of her rejection and his fear that he was somehow unworthy of her love. In a sense, David's search is the same journey we are all pursuing. We are all seeking love.

    My hope is that you will feel what I felt as I wrote this book -- the divine nature of loyalty and the understanding of why we must share love whenever and wherever.

    One final note. I am saddened to finish the Christmas Box trilogy and to bid good-bye to the Parkin family. I do not know if I shall ever visit them again, but I am glad for this last story -- a story which I think is a fitting sendoff for the characters I've grown to love. I hope that the message you find in their lives is meaningful to your own. And, most of all, that in reading the Christmas Box collection, you, and those with whom you share my books, will never be the same.

    With my love, Richard Paul Evans
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 1997
    ISBN9780743549653
    The Letter
    Author

    Richard Paul Evans

    Richard Paul Evans is the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than forty novels. There are currently more than thirty-five million copies of his books in print worldwide, translated into more than twenty-four languages. Richard is the recipient of numerous awards, including two first place Storytelling World Awards, the Romantic Times Best Women’s Novel of the Year Award, and five Religion Communicators Council’s Wilbur Awards. Seven of Richard’s books have been produced as television movies. His first feature film, The Noel Diary, starring Justin Hartley (This Is Us) and acclaimed film director, Charles Shyer (Private Benjamin, Father of the Bride), premiered in 2022. In 2011 Richard began writing Michael Vey, a #1 New York Times bestselling young adult series which has won more than a dozen awards. Richard is the founder of The Christmas Box International, an organization devoted to maintaining emergency children’s shelters and providing services and resources for abused, neglected, or homeless children and young adults. To date, more than 125,000 youths have been helped by the charity. For his humanitarian work, Richard has received the Washington Times Humanitarian of the Century Award and the Volunteers of America National Empathy Award. Richard lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife, Keri, and their five children and two grandchildren. You can learn more about Richard on his website RichardPaulEvans.com.

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      You will stop and think ,why am I here ,who do I love , shall I serve my fellow man..... except the love of another and the service my fellow man. Life has a purpose.......
    • 3/5
      Beautiful use of the language, short and intense. a precious little book, Good for reading on a cold Sunday afternoon. Despite the psychological and dramatic approach it also includes a touch of mystery and suspense; sensitive with a touch of depth. Reading was entertaining while exploring the nature of love and relationships-husband and wife, father and daughter, and mother and son. It is a story about the tragedy of losses in a child's life and their conseguences through a life time. The novel is set during the depression years, "days of darkness, solar eclipse." The author introduced new words to my vocabulary and induced me ointo take notes of inspiriring thoughts and reflections:"It has been said that an author's mind is like a magician's hat - you cannot take out what has not first put in."p. 1"For love, in its truest form, is not the thing of starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and time to fully bloom, and, as such, seen best in its wrinkled maturity."Like all things, love too, strugles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin and to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship.Agape....And though it may be temporaril blinded by adversity, it never gives it up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcends this earth and time - while its counterfait simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing." p. 14-15"The premonitions that we so quickly dismiss are sometimes our truest glances of reality." p. 38