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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 976.453150630922
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Thomas Nelson
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 237
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Studio: Thomas Nelson

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Summary: Amazing Story
Comment: The story had me gripped right away. Each chapter switched to each of the two main characters telling thier side of the story.
Here I was thinking it was great storytelling when I realized the story was non-fiction! This made the experience even more intense and beautiful.
This is a wonderful book. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Sad but great read
Comment: This was a very readable book and one that will touch your heart on many levels. Good for mature teens.

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Summary: Don't catch and release this book too soon!
Comment: Great book chosen/read for a book club (of all white women) I read this over a 4-day holiday and it brought me to tears a few times. It's emotional and historical, modern and joyful. I didn't feel the references to religion were so overt that someone like me (a non-practicing Catholic) was inundated to feel a certain way. I can relate to some of the books spiritual moments (from my own life) and it's interesting to see how they're written.

My personal take away is a better understanding of the homeless persona; how my volunteering in those environments may be mis/construed and received by the other parties. I think this would be a decent book for young adults preparing to volunteer as well as ALL of us and friendship. We're so superficial anymore, finding and keeping friends is important to our sanity. More than likely we give up (catch and release) one another too quickly because of petty things. We need more investment in ourselves and others- this book may remind us of it.

I'm not a book connoisseur so I can't dissect character forms or flawed themes, but I know what I like and this book was something that I'd like to either keep for later reading or pass on and allow others to enjoy as much as I did.

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Summary: Life Changing Story
Comment: I could not put this book down once I got into it. It has enabled me to understand the true nature of God and I have become involved in a Church that has many stories that echo the story of Ron, Deborah, and Denver.

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Summary: Inspiring
Comment: Wow. This was a powerful story on so many levels. It challenged me in my perceptions of people. It also convicted me about "catch and release" friendships. In ministry it is easy to view relationships as a means to share the gospel rather than a lifelong committment to a person. I don't think this is always wrong per-say, you can't be all things to everyone, but maybe God wants to do something more in both my life and the life of someone else. It is a powerful idea to start of thinking of truly loving and learning to trust to the point of becoming "family" with someone who is so much "the same kind of different" as me. I would highly recommend this book!

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Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen years on the streets of Dallas, Texas. No longer a slave, Denver's life was still hopeless-until God moved. First came a godly woman who prayed, listened, and obeyed. And then came her husband, Ron, an international arts dealer at home in a world of Armani-suited millionaires. And then they all came together.

But slavery takes many forms. Deborah discovers that she has cancer. In the face of possible death, she charges her husband to rescue Denver. Who will be saved, and who will be lost? What is the future for these unlikely three? What is God doing?

Same Kind of Different As Me is the emotional tale of their story: a telling of pain and laughter, doubt and tears, dug out between the bondages of this earth and the free possibility of heaven. No reader or listener will ever forget it.