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Julie Eberhart Painter, born and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, always dreamed of becoming a writer. She wrote stories in her head all through her eight-year study of ballet and during her classes in Interior Design at the Moore Institute of Art Science and Industry in Philadelphia. She’s been known to mime furniture at parties. Her favorite pieces are Chippendale dining chairs and Victorian chaise lounges.

For twenty-six years, Julie worked with nursing homes as a volunteer coordinator and later as a community ombudsman. During her eighteen years with Hospice of Volusia/Flagler in Port Orange, Florida, she co-counseled patients and edited two book anthologies, stories collected from the community at large about grieving and bereavement.

Julie has published four novels: The Kingmaker; American Castles; Tahitian Destiny Mortal Coil, and The World, the Flesh and the Devil. Her e-book, From the Inside Out, is a personal memoir, about how to stay motivated and effective as a volunteer coordinator. It is available in online bookstores.

Julie has integrated her volunteer work and her hobbies of duplicate bridge and world travel into her flash fiction, which can be read online at www.bewilderingstories.com. Her short stories, based on Celtic, Chinese and Polynesian legends, appear in publications worldwide.

Her non-fiction work includes articles on writing in The Romance Writers' Report, The Galley, Florida Writers’ Magazine and The Heartbeat. She has contributed many essays to the Orlando Sentinel, Seniors Today, The News-Journal of Daytona Beach, and The Wittenberg Door, a religious humor magazine.

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”(Teilhard de Chardin)Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God is as layered as a French cassoulet, as diverting, satisfying and as rich. Each reader will spoon this book differently. On the surface it seems to be a simple and light-hearted poetic journey through the history of Western thought, dominantly scientific, but enriched with painting and music. Beneath that surface is the sauce of a new evolutionary idea, involution; the informing of all matter by consciousness, encoded and communicating throughout the natural world. A book about the cathedral of consciousness could have used any language to paint it, but science is perhaps most in need of new vision, and its chronology is already familiar.The author offers a bold alternative vision of both science and creation: she suggests that science has been incrementally the recovery of memory, the memory of evolution/involution.“ Involution proposes that humans carry within them the history of the universe, which is (re)discovered by the individual genius when the time is ripe. All is stored within our DNA and awaits revelation. Such piecemeal revelations set our finite lives in an eternal chain of co-creation and these new leaps of discovery are compared to mystical experience” (From a reviewer)Each unique contributor served the collective and universal return to holism and unity. Thus the geniuses of the scientific journey, like the spiritual visionaries alongside, have threaded the rosary of science with the beads of inspiration, and through them returned Man to his spiritual nature and origin.The separation between experience and the rational intellect of science has, by modelling memory as theory, separated its understanding from the consciousness of all, and perceives mind and matter as separate, God and Man as distinct. This work is a dance towards their re-unification: Saints and scientists break the same bread.All of time and all the disciplines of science are needed for the evidence. Through swift (and sometimes sparring) Cantos of dialogue between Reason and Soul, Philippa Rees takes the reader on a monumental journey through the history of everything – with the evolution of man as one side of the coin and involution the other. The poetic narrative is augmented by learned and extensive footnotes offering background knowledge which in themselves are fascinating. In effect there are two books, offering a right and left brain approach. The twin spirals of a DNA shaped book intertwine external and internal and find, between them, one journey, Man’s recovery of Himself., and (hopefully) the Creation’s recovery of a nobler Man.From the same review “The reader who finishes the book will not be the same as the one who began it. New ideas will expand the mind but more profoundly, the deep, moving power of the verse will affect the heart.(Marianne Rankin: Director of Communications, Alister Hardy Trust)

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Behind Tangled Web: Tangled Web, a mainstream romantic suspense, is a true book of the heart. As an adoptee, I had researched my background. My heroine, Catherine, is a projection of my mother’s life as I hoped she lived it after she was forced to give me up. It covers the period between the thirties and 1951 Behind Mortal Coil: My 105-year old grandmother was in a nursing home where a murder took place. Although she was not involved, thank goodness, I was interested enough to develope this story while on a vacation in St. Lucia. My experience as a Community Ombudsman for long-term care facilities led to the more technical aspect of the subplot

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<blockquote> "Julie Eberhart Painter is a true wordsmith who knows how to tell a compelling story. In Tangled Web, she displays her many talents as an accomplished author, not the least of which is her skill at creating authentic, credible historic settings—in this case, a Pennsylvania coal-mining community in the 1930s. I highly recommend reading Julie's novels." Marcia Ford, author of We the Purple and 25 additional books 　 Julie Painter’s new novel, Tangled Web, describes the undercurrents of family relationships in eastern Pennsylvania in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Out of wedlock pregnancy, corrupt adoption practices, and alcohol rehabilitation act as backdrops to this engaging fast paced saga centered around a young woman, Catherine, and her quest for love and self expression. Julie follows several families as they struggle to maintain equilibrium and cohesiveness in a time of social and political unrest and change An important thread of the book is the negative effect of dishonest adoption policies on biological parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees. Julie’s characters come alive because their strengths and vulnerabilities are described so vividly. Many are given opportunities to rectify past mistakes and are able to take advantage of "second chances." Tangled Webis a must read for the discriminating reader interested in serious romantic fiction. Lois Gerber, RN, MPH Praise for Tangled Web "Julie Eberhart Painter is a true wordsmith who knows how to tell a compelling story. In Tangled Web, she displays her many talents as an accomplished author, not the least of which is her skill at creating authentic, credible historic settings—in this case, a Pennsylvania coal-mining community in the 1930s. I highly recommend reading Julie's novels." Marcia Ford, author of We the Purple and 25 additional books 　 Julie Painter’s new novel, Tangled Web, describes the undercurrents of family relationships in eastern Pennsylvania in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Out of wedlock pregnancy, corrupt adoption practices, and alcohol rehabilitation act as backdrops to this engaging fast paced saga centered around a young woman, Catherine, and her quest for love and self expression. Julie follows several families as they struggle to maintain equilibrium and cohesiveness in a time of social and political unrest and change An important thread of the book is the negative effect of dishonest adoption policies on biological parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees. Julie’s characters come alive because their strengths and vulnerabilities are described so vividly. Many are given opportunities to rectify past mistakes and are able to take advantage of "second chances." Tangled Webis a must read for the discriminating reader interested in serious romantic fiction. Lois Gerber, RN, MPH Julie Eberhart Painter is a talented writer whose voice needs to be heard. She is an accomplished storyteller, but her novels are always more than mere stories. Mortal Coil is no exception; here Julie weaves an intricate tale of vengeful murder, corporate greed, and family troubles. I highly recommend Mortal Coil---and all of Julie's books.</blockquote> <blockquote>---Marcia Ford, author of 22 books, including We the Purple: Faith, Politics and the Independent Voter.</blockquote> Julie Painter is a fine writer who always delivers a whopping good tale, and Mortal Coil is no exception, rife with intrigue, get-down-and-happy relationship stuff,and important issues at the bottom. You can't go wrong spending a weekend with Mortal Coil. Shelley Fraser Mickle, author of The Assigned Visit and Barbaro, America's Horse. " "Julie Eberhart Painter uses a nursing home setting as the backdrop for Mortal Coil, a suspense novel involving murder, romance, and child custody issues. The every day concerns of patients and staff, especially the nursing home administrator, are explored. The author weaves practical, philosophical, and spiritual ideas into the book, a must-read for anyone interested in relationships, family life challenges, or aging." Lois Gerber, RN, MPH, community health nurse and recent contributor to Advance for Nurses, Nursing2008 and Nursing2009. "A compelling murder mystery set in what should be the most secure of environments, but author Julie Eberhart Painter lets the reader know that while there may be no absolutely safe haven, there’s always a place, hope and chance for romance. But just when you think the adventure is all over, Julie introduces a new twist to rock her characters and their town even more. You’ve got to read this one!" Jim Woods Author of Gunshot Echoes and The Lion Killer

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