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Title	:	Crossing Oceans
Author	:	Gina Holmes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 382 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2010 by Tyndale House Publishers (first published April 26th 2010)
Categories	:	Fiction. Christian Fiction. Christian. Contemporary

Crossing Oceans

Gina Holmes

Paperback | Pages: 382 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 3101 Users | 460 Reviews

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Jenny Lucas swore she'd never go home again. But being told you're dying has a way of changing things. Years after she left, she and her five-year-old daughter, Isabella, must return to her sleepy North Carolina town to face the ghosts she left behind. They welcome her in the form of her oxygen tank-toting grandmother, her stoic and distant father, and David, Isabella's dad . . . Who doesn't yet know he has a daughter. As Jenny navigates the rough and unknown waters of her new reality, the unforgettable story that unfolds is a testament to the power of love and its ability to change everything--to heal old hurts, bring new beginnings . . . Even overcome the impossible. A stunning debut about love and loss from a talented new voice.

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Original Title:	Crossing oceans
ISBN:	1414333056 (ISBN13: 9781414333052)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	North Carolina(United States)
Literary Awards:	Christy Award Nominee for First Novel (2011), ACFW Carol Award for Debut Author (2011), INSPY for General and Literary Fiction (2010)

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Ratings: 3.95 From 3101 Users | 460 Reviews

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Hard to believeThe characters, especially Jenny, the main character was so juvenile in behavior; anger, short fuse, jealousy, selfish,etc. I finished the book hoping they would grow up, and finally stop reacting, and they did a little. The little girl was the most realistic, and like able.

I was immediately drawn to this story: young woman loses her mom early in life, find "true" love (she thinks), ends up pregnant so she flees from home, only to return five years later because she doesn't have long to live and she needs to make things right with her father and the father of her daughter. This is an impressive debut novel by Holmes, one that took her ten years to bring to completion. I enjoyed this one very much and only found myself being upset a few times at certain characters

When I turned the last page and sat back in my chair, the only word I could think of to describe this book iswow. Heartrenching, gripping, cant-put-it-down kind of story that as a reader makes my heart glad to have the chance to read this book. It has a once in a life time quality to it that will make this story a best seller. It already is. It has that great of an impact. With a reminiscence of Nicholas Sparks A Walk to Remember, CROSSING OCEANS is the story of a young mother dying of cancer

I thought it was annoying that the auther portrayed Bella as a 5-yr-old when she should have been a 3 or 4-yr-old. My son is 5 and he understands the concept of death. He would not have tried to "cross the ocean" to get to his dying mother. I also found it really unrealistic that Bella's biological father, David, would have been so uncaring thta he would have thrown his newly reunited 5-yr-old dtr into a pool when she told him that she could not swim. David's personality was off. He would have

Amazing, outstanding, excellent, remarkable and highly recommended. Those are just some of the things I could say about this debut novel of Gina Holmes. When I bought this, I wasn't expecting that I will not stop turning the pages once I start reading it. I stayed up till 3 in the morning just to be able to finish this novel because I was really curious and excited about what will happen next.This is the very first novel of Gina Holmes that I've read and I'm looking forward to reading her other

Okay, I've recently decided to save five stars for books I intend to reread, but I'm going to make an exception with this one. The only reason I probably won't reread it anytime soon is that it affected me so deeply. It's like Steel Magnolias if you pulled out Shirley Maclain. It's raw, it's real. It's hard to "go there" as a wife and a mom--even harder when you have to see such pain through the lens of unrealized dreams. You'll have to read it to find out what I mean. And I do recommend that

Honestly, at about halfway through the book, I actually wrote to a friend who asked me how I liked it, "It seems a little slow to me. I love Gina's voice, I love her style, I even connect with the first-person POV (not my first choice), but I feel like I'm just waiting, like things are moving too slowly. Shouldn't life feel short [in these circumstances] and like there's too little of it?"But then, like a flipped switch, Jenny Lucas began to say 'yes' to things. She began to live. And I realized