BRIDGE TO HAVEN

Book ID/图书代码： 13341014B68360

English Summary/英文概要： To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her real name is Abra. Even fewer know the price she’s paid to finally feel like she’s somebody.
To Pastor Ezekiel Freeman, Abra will always be the little girl who stole his heart the night he found her, a wailing newborn abandoned under a bridge on the outskirts of Haven. Zeke and his son, Joshua—Abra’s closest friend—watch her grow into an exotic beauty. But Zeke knows the circumstances surrounding her birth etched scars deep in her heart, scars that leave her vulnerable to a fast-talking bad boy who proclaims his love and lures her to Tinseltown. Hollywood feels like a million miles from Haven, and naive Abra quickly learns what’s expected of an ambitious girl with stars in her eyes. But fame comes at an awful price. She has burned every bridge to get exactly what she thought she wanted. Now, all she wants is a way back home.
In this riveting and highly anticipated tale of temptation, grace, and unconditional love, New York Times best-selling author Francine Rivers delivers big-canvas storytelling at its very best.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 那些20世纪50年代在好莱坞打拼的人，莉娜•斯科特是继玛丽莲•梦露后银幕上最热门的后起之秀。很少有人知道她的真名是阿布拉。甚至更少有人知道她为最终成名付出的代价。对于帕斯特•伊奇基尔•弗里曼来说，阿布拉永远是在郊区新生儿被遗弃的桥梁下，他找到她的那一夜偷了他的心的小女孩。齐克和他的儿子约书亚——阿布拉最亲密的朋友，看着她成长为一个充满异国情调的美丽女孩。但齐克知道她被遗弃的身世在她心中刻下了深刻的伤痕，伤疤让她的脆弱被宣称爱她的花言巧语的坏小子吸引，并被引诱到好莱坞。好莱坞感觉距离纽黑文有一百万英里远，天真的阿布拉很快学会想当明星的雄心勃勃的女孩的期望。但是成名要付出可怕的代价。她烧每一座桥梁以得到她以为自己想要的东西。现在，所有她想要的就是回家的路。在这个关于诱惑，优雅和无条件的爱的万众瞩目的故事中，纽约时报畅销书作家弗朗辛•里弗斯以最好的水平提供了一个大画布的故事。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：里弗斯（救赎之爱）以浪子和浪子的女儿的故事重新回归。1936年，阿布拉•马修斯在纽黑文的加州小镇的新生儿桥梁下被帕斯特•伊奇基尔•弗里曼发现。她被收养了，但从来没有归属感，所以轻易地被一个花言巧语的年轻人欺骗，并在几年后引诱17岁的阿布拉去好莱坞。在那里，她成为女星莉娜•斯科特，并被想要从她这里得到一切的经纪人包装，即阿布拉/莉娜来了解要得到她想要的东西会付出什么代价后。里弗斯以八卦专栏作家，灿烂的电影明星和梯子攀爬追求者很好地唤起了20世纪50年代的好莱坞；猫王和拉娜•特纳放将客串演出。这个故事将尤其引起基督教读者的共鸣，但里弗斯有吸引喜欢救赎的优秀故事的读者的写作能力。——出版商周刊

Rivers (Redeeming Love) returns with a page-turning recasting of the story of the prodigal son, here a prodigal daughter. In 1936, Abra Matthews is found as a newborn under a bridge in the small California town of Haven by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman. She’s taken in, but never feels as if she quite belongs, so she is susceptible to a beguiling young man who years later lures 17-year-old Abra to Hollywood. There, she becomes starlet Lena Scott, made over by a Pygmalion-like agent who wants everything from her, even while Abra/Lena comes to understand the cost of what she thought she wanted. Rivers nicely evokes 1950s Hollywood, with its gossip columnists, high-wattage movie stars, and ladder-climbing aspirants; Elvis Presley and Lana Turner put in cameos. This story arc will be particularly resonant for Christian readers, but Rivers has the writing ability to reel in others who enjoy a well-told tale of redemption. (Publishers Weekly)

Bridge to Haven (see on our backlist) has also just been licensed for a movie.

About the Author/作者介绍： “纽约时报”畅销书作家弗朗•里弗斯在内华达州的里诺大学开始了她的文学生涯，并且以英语和新闻学的艺术学士学位毕业。从1976年到1985年，在大众市场上有一个成功的写作生涯，而且她的书被读者和评论家高度评价。虽然成长于一个宗教家庭，弗朗辛并没有遇到真正的基督教徒，直到在以后的生活中她已经是一个妻子，三个孩子的母亲和一个既定的浪漫小说家。在1986年成为重生的基督徒后不久，弗朗辛写了“救赎之爱”作为信仰的发言。最初由班坦图书公司出版，其后在90年代中期由摩特诺玛出版社重新出版，这个对歌篾和何西阿的圣经故事的复述，时间设置在加州淘金热时期， 现在被许多人认为是基督教小说的经典之作。《救赎之爱》仍然是CBA的最畅销书籍之一，并且近十年来一直占据在基督教畅销书排行榜上。自《救赎之爱》后弗朗辛发表了许多基督教主题的小说—— 都是畅销书——并且不断赢得业界和全球各地读者的一致好评。她的基督教小说已经获得或提名无数荣誉，中包括RITA奖，克里斯蒂奖，ECPA金章和霍尔特奖章的优秀文艺人才等荣誉称号。1997年，她的励志小说第三次赢得RITA奖后，弗朗辛入选名人堂的美国馆的浪漫作家。弗朗辛的小说已被翻译成20多种不同的语言，并且她在国外很多国家包括德国，荷兰和南非都享受畅销书的地位。弗朗辛和她的丈夫里克住在加州北部，享受和他们的三个成年子女在一起的时光，并且抓住一切机会逗弄孙子。弗朗辛用她的文字来亲近神，她希望通过自己的作品赞美耶稣所做的一切以及为她的生活所做的一切。

"New York Times" best-selling author Francine Rivers began her literary career at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in English and journalism. From 1976 to 1985, she had a successful writing career in the general market, and her books were highly acclaimed by readers and reviewers. Although raised in a religious home, Francine did not truly encounter Christ until later in life, when she was already a wife, a mother of three, and an established romance novelist. Shortly after becoming a born-again Christian in 1986, Francine wrote "Redeeming Love" as her statement of faith. First published by Bantam Books and then rereleased by Multnomah Publishers in the mid-1990s, this retelling of the biblical story of Gomer and Hosea, set during the time of the California Gold Rush, is now considered by many to be a classic work of Christian fiction. Redeeming Love continues to be one of the CBA’s top-selling titles, and it has held a spot on the Christian best-seller list for nearly a decade. Since "Redeeming Love," Francine has published numerous novels with Christian themes--all best sellers--and she has continued to win both industry acclaim and reader loyalty around the globe. Her Christian novels have been awarded or nominated for numerous honors, including the RITA Award, the Christy Award, the ECPA Gold Medallion, and the Holt Medallion in Honor of Outstanding Literary Talent. In 1997, after winning her third RITA Award for inspirational fiction, Francine was inducted into the Romance Writers of America’s Hall of Fame. Francine’s novels have been translated into over 20 different languages, and she enjoys best-seller status in many foreign countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, and South Africa. Francine and her husband, Rick, live in northern California and enjoy time spent with their three grown children and taking every opportunity to spoil their grandchildren.

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