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Linda Collison

Linda Collison

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Linda Collison has received numerous awards for her creative writing, including the grand prize for fiction at the 1996 Maui Writers Conference. Her historical novel Star-Crossed (Knopf;2006) was a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age - 2007.

 

Friends in High Places

Friends in High Places

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<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><em><font size="3">From<strong></strong></font></em></span><strong><em><span style="font-size:14pt;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span><font size="3">  </font></span></em></strong><font size="3">October 15, 2006</font></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">A “well-researched, riveting adventure that<br />brings to light an overlooked <br />part of women's history.”</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p> <p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="3">From </font></span><strong><em><span style="font-size:14pt;">Kliatt </span><span><font size="3"> </font></span></em></strong><font size="3">November, 2006</font></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">”Collison has done her research well: Details of life on ship, diseases, injuries and treatments, battles and politics, women who sailed with the men – these details are copious and realistic. … Readers come away from Collison’s work with an understanding of what it meant to be a woman in those times, and with an experience of living on board a British ship.”</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p> <p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="3">From </font></span><strong><em><span style="font-size:14pt;">School Library Journal</span><span><font size="3">  </font></span></em></strong><font size="3">December, 2006</font></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">“Historical details are smoothly woven into the story, and a<br />historical note and bibliography are appended. Readers who enjoyed Avi's The<br />True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (HarperCollins, 1992) will find a more<br />substantial, mature story here to captivate them again.”</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p> <p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="3">From </font></span><strong><em><span style="font-size:14pt;">VOYA</span><font size="3"> (Voice of Youth Advocates Magazine)</font></em></strong><font size="3"><span>  </span>2007-02-01</font></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">“Collison, a former nurse and experienced seafarer, pens her first novel with an ear for wonderfully dynamic dialogue, an insistence on thorough research, and the heart of one who cares about issues timelessly important to women, from birth control to self-reliance.”</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p> <p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"></span> </p>