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Fire Weed by Terry Montague

10/9/2015
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Lisel Spann has dreamed only of wonderful things in her future. Living with her father, sister, and brother in a cramped apartment in Berlin, the small family shares what seems to be an unbreakable spirit of love and security. However, with the rise of the Nazi party and approaching dark clouds of war, any kind of future grows increasingly uncertain. Knowing little of hate and destruction, Lisel is ill prepared as the storms of battle erupt in full fury and loved ones are taken from her as her beautiful city is reduced to rubble.​


With fear and despair rising within, it is through her quiet, compassionate father that Lisel discovers faith and hope. Now, in a desperate journey to find her sister, Lisel and her neighbor flee Berlin and the advancing Russians for Frankfurt, a city under the protection of the Allies. But their flight to safety is filled with pain, hunger, and terror. However, with spiritual lessons and blessings from her father, the support of departed loved ones, and her tried but undying faith in a loving Heavenly Father, perhaps Lisel can emerge like the fireweed—rising strong and beautiful from scorched earth —transforming bitterness and despair into a charity that never faileth.

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When I was about three, my mom said, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I think she was expecting me to say, “A mommy, like you.”  Instead, I popped off with, “I want to be a writer.” I can still remember her face.  She said, “Well, don’t you think you need to learn to read first?” 
I didn’t think so.
  
Terry Bohle Montague is a BYU graduate and a free-lance writer, having written for television, radio, newspaper, and magazines including The Ensign and Meridian Magazine.  She has also been published as the author of book length historical non-fiction and fiction.
Her non-fiction work includes the book, Mine Angels Round About, the story of the LDS West German Mission evacuation of 1939 which occurred only days before the Nazi invasion of Poland. 
Her LDS fiction, Fireweed, is loosely based on her interviews with the evacuated West German missionaries and their families.
Terry studied with Dwight Swain and Jack Bickham, as well as David Farland. Her writing awards include those from LDS Storymakers, Idaho Writers’ League, and Romance Writers of America
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In Terry Montague’s Fireweed, she will take readers on a stunning journey to another place in time; to Germany, the place that Lisel Spann and her family call home.  Readers will follow Lisel throughout her life and experience the joys, sorrows, and pain, as well as spiritual insight from her and her family as they overcome it all.  With this breathtakingly beautiful and heart-felt novel, readers will come to know and love the characters and their story, laughing and crying along the way. I would recommend this novel to readers that enjoy historical fiction novels that take place before and during World War II.
 
Genre: historical; LDS; World War II
Publisher: Covenant Communications
Publication date:  October 1, 2015 (first originally published June 28, 1992)
Number of pages: 311
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Author Interview with Terry Montague

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Lisel put her arm around Susanne’s shoulder.  “Hush now. It will be all right soon.” Lisel heard  the returning hum of the airplane. She tilted back her head as if she could see skyward, but there  was only the white plaster of the ceiling above her. From the movement of the sound, Lisel knew the aircraft had banked and was circling back. As it drew closer, the sound became angrier, the hum of a fierce buzz. Lisel pulled in a deep breath and squeezed it in her throat. Then she heard it. The shrill whistle of the plummeting bomb. Next to her, Susanne screamed.  
Lisel pulled Susanne down so they both crouched low to the floor, their arms over their heads. The explosion rocked the walls. The light went out. Lisel heard the bursting, shattering glass from the windows upstairs. She heard the panicked screaming of the other women.  Plaster dust from the ceiling swirled around her and she choked. It seemed any moment the walls would give way. But they stood.
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