Living Outside of Time : a New Way of Knowing

By Natha Sullivan

SAM (Sarah Ann McClure) is glad to be what her mother calls the link for her family because she is the middle child, linking her two brothers. However, she is not glad that her older brother, Doug, is on his way to Afghanistan. She is very excited about becoming a teen-ager, but she is not ready for the bus accident that happens on her thirteenth birthday. While she is elated by the experiences she encounters in her comatose state, she is fearful to tell her dad, Fireman Joe, the traumatic future that she knows is facing him. And who is the dark skinned, white clad young man who continues to drop in to check on Sarah while she is in the hospital?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 18, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462869633

Natha Sullivan

Natha June (Lott) Sullivan was born in a rural village called Sherwood, nestled among the foothills of the Kiamichi Mountains in Southeastern Oklahoma. Since that time, she has traveled into almost every state in the union as well as Canada and Mexico. She has attended classes in twelve different colleges, completing her Master’s of Education at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri, and her Doctorate in Developmental Education at Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana. After a twenty-fi ve year teaching career, she has returned to her childhood home to retire and write. Teaching has always been her calling, but music and writing were her fi rst loves. Having been an avid reader since childhood, she channeled her creative energy into writing songs, poetry and short stories. Propelled Through Time is her second published work--a sequel to her fi rst book, Living Outside of Time. Natha and her husband, Robert, pastor a church in Battiest, Oklahoma. They have four children and nine grandchildren. When she is not writing, she enjoys serving as the coordinator of a rural reading center, writing and directing plays, and spending time with her family.

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