<p><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal;">An Amazon #1 bestseller with 50+ glowing reviews. </span></font></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">Available in Kindle and print.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">From the very start of her faith autobiography, ‘She Does Not Fear the Snow’, author Bobbie Ann Cole reaches out across the page and endears herself to her reader. You will very quickly feel that you know her, and will be richer for the knowledge. </span></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;height:auto;"><div>She comes to Israel, seeking meaning and purpose for her life, following breast cancer and the demise of her long-standing marriage. There, God claims her and lays a trail of miracles that lead her from her native England to a new husband of faith in Atlantic Canada. <br />Though she is upfront about her ending, you’ll find yourself longing to learn the next step in her discovery of new love and deeper faith journey. This is one of those books you just can’t put down. Potentially, you’ll be following the twists and turns of her journey into the wee small hours. <br />‘A mysterious rug with a life-changing message, a Ruth-type love story, fascinating interactions with other believers, poetic descriptions of landscapes many native Canadians take for granted—and a message of God’s love and salvation,’ writes critic Margaret Welwood. ‘Bobbie Ann Cole’s story is a little too strange and untidy to be fiction. As a true story, it will leave you satisfied, yet wanting to know more.’ <br />‘Often times, life will take us to the end of our rope, leaving us helpless and at our wit’s end. Yet, even in such dire situations, our God is not helpless. He will bring in plentiful harvest – a harvest of renewal, hope, joy and happiness in our life,’ says Khamneithang Vaiphei. ‘She Does Not Fear the Snow is an incredible testimony that will have a profound impact on you.’ <br />If mystery, romance, women’s faith issues, the Jewish roots of Christianity, Christian living or outreach appeal to you, you will find much to enjoy.</div><div> </div></div>
One of the most publicized events in Beverly Hills is the subject of my book, the murder of Benjamin Bugsy Siegel. I was born in Beverly Hills and spent the first thirty years of my life in the neighborhood It was a curiosity to me that my father walked every day from Doheny Drive to Linden Drive. When I asked him why he turned around at Linden he replied, “ Concentrate on your life, the Allen Smiley story isn’t for sale.” The memoir began as a compass to my secretive and criminal family history. This is the story of a woman whose survival is wedged between shameless love and immobilizing fear of her father. As Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel’s best friend and business partner from 1937 until his death in 1947, my father, Allen Smiley, acclaimed Ben Siegel. He was seated next to Ben the night he was murdered; a story very few have read. Faced with identity meltdown ten years after Dad died, I implored his friends, associates, historians, FOIPA, Immigration and Naturalization Agency, and Archives of the Department of Justice, to build the branches of my legacy. Along with this irreversible journey, I suffered disgrace, rage, and Dad’s supernatural disapproval as I delved into the FBI files and discovered the family secrets: his gambling addiction, criminal activities, imprisonment, attempt at reformation, and the vendetta the government placed on him for not cooperating as an informant. I could be mute about the subject, or expose what I know because I’ve made the family history mine. Incorporated within stories of discovery are government surveillance records, newspaper articles, court testimony, and criminal activities that defamed his reputation and our family. As the research escalates, the reader is taken inside the transformation of my identity. Once liberated from Dad’s paranormal disapproval of my investigation, the book is written. Dad served the organization until he took his own life in 1982. It’s taken twenty years to publish the book. This is a startling, yet inspirational look inside the struggle of a gangster’s daughter to understand her father’s allegiance to the Mob. I hope you will consider my point of view; men in organized crime bear a life and death-burden as fathers.
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