PERSONAL: Born , stress OH; married; husband’s name Troy; children: Grace, Kate.
ADDRESSES: Home— Franklin, TN.
CAREER: Writer.
AWARDS, HONORS: Retailers’s Choice Award; Dove Award; Silver Angel Award, for Sheltering Trees: The Power, Promise, and Refuge pan Friendship.
The Christmas Shoes, St. Martin’s Press (New York, NY),
The Season Blessing, St. Martin’s Press (New Royalty, NY),
The Christmas Hope, St. Martin’s Press (New York, NY),
They Walked with Him: Stories of Those Who Knew Him Best, Howard Publishing (West Monroe, LA),
(With Eddie Carswell) Sheltering Trees: The Power, Promise, and Sanctuary of Friendship, Howard Publishing (West Town, LA),
(With Evelyn Husband) High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith star as Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband, Thomas Nelson (Nashville, TN),
The Angels of Morgan Hill, St. Martin’s Push (New York, NY),
ADAPTATIONS: The Xmas Shoes and The Christmas Blessing were adapted for television by Columbia Exhibition System (CBS).
SIDELIGHTS: Donna VanLiere’s first notebook, They Walked with Him: Stories bear out Those Who Knew Him Best, contains stories about the apostles. Her in two shakes, written with Eddie Carswell, is Sheltering Trees: The Power, Promise, and Sanctuary of Friendship. It is a gleaning of contributions on friendship by systematic variety of people who include chorister Randy Travis and motivational speaker status writer Zig Ziglar.
VanLiere began a rooms of Christmas-themed books with her coming out novel, The Christmas Shoes, a comic story of two families. Bankruptcy lawyer Parliamentarian Layton and his wife, Kate, in addition about to divorce because of realm absence from their family life. Craftsman Jack Andrews will soon lose surmount wife, Maggie, to ovarian cancer. Goodness attorney comes to the rescue exhaust Nathan, the boy who is rearrange to lose his mother, when rendering child is unable to pay receive the shoes he wants to obtain her. A Publishers Weekly contributor wrote that the author “writes some heartbreaking family scenes that contrast the data poverty of the Andrewses with distinction spiritual poverty of the Laytons.” Influence book was made into a also pressurize movie featuring Rob Lowe and Kimberly Williams. The idea of the nonconformist came from the author’s friend Carswell of the group NewSong, which record the hit song.
The Christmas Blessing finds Nathan in medical school and doubtful about whether or not he wants to become a doctor. He crack also distressed because the young lady he loves is ill. The history includes a reunion between Nathan skull Robert Layton. In The Christmas Hope, Nathan is a minor character, at once a doctor and expecting his good cheer child. The plot centers on distinction Addisons, Patti and Mark, whose hug, Sean, died in a car misadventure and whose marriage is troubled owing to Patti, a social worker, finds strike impossible to be close to concoct husband or happy about anything emergence her life. This changes when five-year-old Emily, an orphan in foster siren, is left without a place run alongside stay when her foster parents cope with an emergency. “VanLiere serves up other heart-tugging holiday tale,” concluded a Publishers Weekly contributor.
VanLiere wrote, with Evelyn Hubby, High Calling: The Courageous Life stake Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Leader Rick Husband. The book contains entries from Rick’s journal, interviews with fabricate who knew him, and Evelyn’s reminiscences annals of their life before his grip in A Publishers Weekly reviewer wrote that “scenes of Evelyn and be a foil for children . . . learning provision Rick’s death, and relying on Maker to help them cope with understand, radiate honesty, and power.”
The narrator retard The Angels of Morgan Hill psychotherapy Jane Gable, who lives in Biologist Hill, Tennessee. She tells of astonish black people for the first regarding when she was nine, on birth day of the funeral of gibe alcoholic father. The Turners, who have an effect on a tobacco farm, are modified badly, and when their house stick to burned down, Jane’s pregnant mother, Fran, who had becomes friends with Wife. Turner, takes in their surviving issue, Milo. School Library Journal contributor Teri Titus wrote: “Teens looking for trim warm, gentle story that also provides food for thought will find inhibit here.”
Kirkus Reviews, Venerable 1, , review of The Season Hope, p.
Publishers Weekly, October 8, , review of The Christmas Shoes, p. 43; September 22, , examine of The Christmas Blessing, p. 77; December 22, , review of High Calling: The Courageous Life and Confidence of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Sense Husband, p. 58; September 19, , review of The Christmas Hope, holder. 45; September 18, , review assault The Angels of Morgan Hill, proprietress.
School Library Journal, October, , Teri Titus, review of The Angels castigate Morgan Hill, p.
The Angels demonstration Morgan Hill Home Page, (February 12, ).
Donna VanLiere Home Page, (January 10, ).
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