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Danielle Steele
Danielle Steel wrote the book His Bright Light about her son Nick
Traina. In a non-fiction work, Steel documented Nick’s life and death by suicide at nineteen.

Steel began her work outlining Nick’s life from an early age where he excelled both academically and physically to his early teens where his family and friends began to detect signs of significant mental illness.

Nick, as many manic-depressive sufferers, was misdiagnosed several times in the early stages of his illness. He, his family, and his friends suffered through multiple episodes of depression and mania that seemingly could not be controlled with medication. When he was finally accurately diagnosed, Nick and his family worked at maintaining both medical and emotional stability. During therapy Nick kept a journal which was one example of his attempts of documenting his joys, fears and challenges. Steel’s book contains many excerpts of the poignant and perceptive journal.

There is a lot of reality as well as a multitude of hope in this book. Steel herself writes that her hope is "that someone will be able to use what we learned, and save a life with it."

I enjoyed the book, although some of it fell close to my experiences, yet I found the book and the message it portrayed realistic and uplifting.

Billie Letts
Where the Heart Is

This is an excellant and compelling book about true courage to go on when the going gets tough! Centered in Oklahoma it starts out with Novalee Nation having some bad luck in her teen years. She finds herself in a Wal-Mart store with only $7.77. Amazingly enough this is what starts this girls journey into self truth and respect and courage to go on when the going gets tough! There is such a thing as angels in our lives! This is a book that can't be put down once you start it!