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Completely Restored

When Joe Murphy’s wife, Linda, spies an ad for a “beautiful 3-story Victorian house in need of some TLC,” the couple jumps at the chance for their dream home. Renovating it will allow them to indulge their passion for antiques and to get closer to an era they believe was a better time. Privately, Joe hopes that the project will also fill the void that has opened within their family life. They embark upon a grueling three-year renovation to restore the house to its former splendor, and everything seems perfect…until the morning Joe awakes to find a horse-drawn milk cart in his driveway and his family inexplicably transported back to the year 1909. Suddenly the Murphys’ dream for a simpler time becomes a shocking reality, one in which they will struggle to adapt to turn-of-the-century Iowa while seeking a way to return home. Completely Restored is a unique page-turner of a novel, filled with historical figures and events that help to teach a modern family about the simple joys of life.

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Product Details:
Author: Robert Kerr
Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Publication Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 1439255954
Package Length: 8.0 inches
Package Width: 5.25 inches
Package Height: 0.5 inches
Package Weight: 0.7 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 3 reviews
 
 

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5A long wait  Nov 07, 2009
I've waited a long time for this book. I've nearly stopped reading novels mostly because they just seem so very much alike. This book is most certainly not the run of the mill, easily predictable story line. As I was reading,I was just getting to the point that I was beginning to wonder if this book was going to hook me--then it did. From that point on,I couldn't put it down. First, the author clearly knows what he is talking about (something different). He did his homework. Second, it's written about the midwest and it actually sounds like someone from the midwest is telling the story. Third, there are simply delightful quirks in the story. Fourth, the author's writing is amazingly expressive. Fifth, and certainly the most important, this author knows how to tell a story. In fact, this is the primary strength of this novel. It is a great, well told story. My only complaint--it kept me up. I didn't want to quit reading until it was done. Cost me some sleep.

5Before the cd, IPOD and TV family stuck in a time so unfamiliar yet in their own home!  Nov 02, 2009
I was amazed at how the hard working family of the 21st century is thrust into the lives of people living in their community 100 years earlier. Like so often happens when people face crisis, lives are changed. This novel paints a small town picture that includes 100 year old small town solutions to child abuse. A magic act that joins the magician with one unlikely member of the audience brought tears to my eyes. The description of 1909 evangelist Billy Sunday makes you feel like you are in that big tent, surrounded by passion and uncomfortablely uncertain about the full meaning of what is happening in the lives of those who are most important to you. COMPLETELY RESTORED was a 1909 world series home run for author, Bob Kerr. I want more from this guy.

4Great combination of history and suspense  Oct 31, 2009
This time travel suspenseful novel pulled me in immediately with "I don't actually believe it and I lived through it." The "I" is Joe Murphy whose family has finally completed the restoration of a Victorian house on Main Street in Marshalltown, Iowa. The author did a great job of transistioning Joe and his family into a time 100 years earlier. Wife Linda puts on the dress decorating her bedroom mannequin and unframes pre-crash certificates to cash into spending money. Off she goes shopping for everything the family needs to live in 1909. Then the family meets Dr. Silas W. Fischer who provides both family comfort and suspense all through this first novel. You can tell the author loves history and did a lot of research to make the setting believable by including Cap Anson, Rev. Billy Sunday, and magacian T. Nelson Downs. Also enjoyable was the change in family dynamics as the TV, DVD, and computer were put into storage. I certainly look forward to this author's next novel. LaVonne H.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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