SEATTLE AVENUE

I learned about this book from my friend Judy. Judy’s best friend Hester Rumberg is the author of this remarkable true story. You won’t be able to put it down. Buy a copy for yourself and extras for special gifts.

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Twelve years ago on Thanksgiving weekend, something happened to a family that altered their lives forever.  Hester knew this family intimately and has spent the last 3 years writing their story.  The day before Thanksgiving 2007, the printer sent her the very first copy of her book. 

Hester’s book, Ten Degrees of Reckoning is about “the courage, commitment, passion, and patience it takes to embrace life fully.  The Sleavin family, two adults and their two children, possessed those qualities, and realized their dream to sail around the world in a 47-foot boat. They experienced indescribable beauty, rewarding challenges, deep and meaningful encounters, and a wholly shared understanding of the world and of one another during their meticulously planned and crafted out-of-the ordinary family adventure. Three years into the circumnavigation, not far from the shores of New Zealand, a ship altered its course by a mere ten degrees, and everything changed.”

Hester’s goal in writing this book goes way beyond telling a gripping story.  She wants to touch your lives and help us see how to live the best we can amidst the hardships of life. The story embraces the power of the individual as well as the power we have to help each other. Forced to self publish this book as a novice writer, Hester is now faced with launching her own advertising campaign in hopes that enough demand for her book will bring it to the attention of a major publisher. If there is enough demand for the book within a short period of time, then a publishing company will pick up the book and take over the advertising, promoting and printing of the book.