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SBU University Libraries Author Series 2010 Spring Event – Heather Gilion, Author

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Mar 1, 2010 - 1:44:09 PM

BOLIVAR, MO – Mrs. Heather Gilion will be the featured author of the University Libraries’ Spring 2010 Meet the Author Series event to be held at 7:00 p.m. on March 4 in Hutchens Library located on the Southwest Baptist University campus in Bolivar. Mrs. Gilion’s book, Dancing on My Ashes: Learning to Love the One Who Gives and Takes Away, was co-written with her sister Holly Snell. It tells their inspiring true story of restoration and triumph following the tragic loss of their husbands.

According to the publisher’s website,“It was only supposed to take a few hours to scout out a good canoe route. But when James Brill and Scott Nesbitt weren’t back in time for dinner. their wives, sisters Heather and Holly Wall, started to pray. They didn’t stop—even when the bodies of their beloved husbands turned up a day later in the rushing river. Dancing on My Ashes is a true story that details the painful passage of two young widows out of the ashes and into their dance with the Almighty God.”

This event will begin with refreshments and music at 7:00 p.m. and the program will start at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Gilion will be available to answer questions and autograph books at 8:30 p.m. The SBU Bookstore will have copies of the book available for purchase at the event.

Mrs. Gilion, is a 1999 graduate of SBU with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and a minor in business administration. She and her husband Dallas and their two sons, Noah and Zachariah, live in Ozark, Missouri, where she and Dallas serve at LifePoint Church.

For more information about this University Libraries’ spring 2010 Meet the Author Series event call 417-328-1604 or 417-328-1619. For more information about the book go to: http://dancingonmyashes.tatepublishing.net/

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