There’s something about this book that is horrifically satisfying. But what she doesn’t know is that his appearance isn’t a coincidence, and the closure she’ll get isn’t the kind she expected. He makes her feel like there can be life after Ellie’s disappearance, and she begins to think she might be able to move on. She’s lost her husband, her other kids barely speak to her, and every time she sees someone who looks like Ellie, she flashes back to the day her 13-year-old girl went to the library to study and never came home.Ī post shared by Off the Shelf on at 7:29am PDTīut, as all great stories do, the appearance of a new man in Laurel’s life puts the wheels in motion for her to find some closure. Ten years after the disappearance of her daughter Ellie, Laurel is still broken.

THEN SHE WAS GONE begins as many other books do, with a parent distraught over a missing child. Honestly, if you have a friend who can guess the end of THEN SHE WAS GONE, stop being friends with that person. Two days later, I get a text from her, taking a stab at how it ended. So when she asked me what she should read next, I practically threw THEN SHE WAS GONE at her. She’d read pretty much every woman’s thriller you could think of-“girl looking for another girl’s killer” thrillers, “girl looking for her missing child” thrillers, “girl knowing something has gone wrong and no one will listen” thrillers, even “girl is a brilliant but fallen detective who fights against her own stereotype” thrillers-and every time she would guess the ending. Yasmin recently released her new book, Reclaim Your Heart, which is now available worldwide.I had a friend who was notoriously hard to please, readingwise.

She also worked as a writing instructor at Cardinal Stritch University and a staff columnist for the Islam section of InFocus News.Ĭurrently she’s an instructor for Al-Maghrib Institute, a writer for the Huffington Post, an international speaker, and author, where she focuses most of her work on spiritual and personal development. After completing her graduate work, she taught Islamic Studies and served as a youth coordinator. Degree in Psychology and her Masters in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

It is a manual of how to protect your most prized possession-the heart. A manual of sort, Reclaim Your Heart will teach readers how to live in this life without allowing life to own you. This book was written to awake the heart and provide a new perspective on love, loss, happiness and pain.

It is about the journey in and out of life's most deceptive traps. Reclaim Your Heart is about freeing the heart from this slavery. Many of us live our lives entrapped by the same repeated patterns of heartbreak and disappointment.

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