As Good as She Imagined: The Redeeming Story of the Angel of Tucson, Christina-Taylor Green [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Christina-Taylor Green was beautiful, precocious, and popular, a member of her elementary school’s student council and the only girl on her Little League team. Born on 9/11/2001, it was perhaps no surprise that she harbored aspirations of becoming a politician—thus her presence at the political rally that fateful day in Tucson last January. Congressman Gabrielle Giffords was severely wounded in the gunman’s splay of bullets; six others were killed, including Christina, the youngest of the victims. But this inspirational book recounts far more than the events of “the tragedy of Tucson.” Written by Christina’s mother (with New York Times best-selling biographer Jerry Jenkins), As Good as She Imagined celebrates this little
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Overview

Christina-Taylor Green was beautiful, precocious, and popular, a member of her elementary school’s student council and the only girl on her Little League team. Born on 9/11/2001, it was perhaps no surprise that she harbored aspirations of becoming a politician—thus her presence at the political rally that fateful day in Tucson last January. Congressman Gabrielle Giffords was severely wounded in the gunman’s splay of bullets; six others were killed, including Christina, the youngest of the victims. But this inspirational book recounts far more than the events of “the tragedy of Tucson.” Written by Christina’s mother (with New York Times best-selling biographer Jerry Jenkins), As Good as She Imagined celebrates this little girl’s life, along with the hope that has been born out of a nation’s loss and a family’s grief.

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Publishers Weekly
Christina-Taylor Green was nine years old when she was murdered at a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz., where she had gone in hopes of meeting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was gravely wounded at the same public event. Christina-Taylor’s mother allows readers to meet her little girl and the rest of the family in the story she tells of Christina-Taylor’s short life. Reading about the little girl is a lot like sitting down with a mother over coffee and hearing about a family, with both the intimacy and limitations that affords. The Green family was financially comfortable but faced their own difficulties before random tragedy struck in the form of a gunman who killed six people at Giffords’ Congress-on-your-Corner gathering. The family story told by her grieving mother is an attempt to commemorate her daughter. Christina-Taylor is young to be carrying so much symbolic weight, and it’s a little soon to draw lasting public meaning out of the event, but private grief deserves respect. (Jan.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781617950544
  • Publisher: Worthy Publishing
  • Publication date: 1/1/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 39,079
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

Roxanna Green has been a practicing home health-care nurse, now serving as CEO of the Christina-Taylor Green Foundation. Her husband, John, is National Crosschecker in the scouting department of the Los Angeles Dodgers. They have a son, Dallas, 12, and their daughter, Christina-Taylor, would have been 10 on the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

Jerry B. Jenkins is a New York Times best- selling novelist (Left Behind Series) and biographer (Billy Graham, Hank Aaron, Walter Payton, Orel Hershiser, Nolan Ryan, Joe Gibbs and many more), with over 70 million books sold. His writing has appeared in Time, Reader’s Digest, Parade, Guideposts, and he has been featured on the cover of Newsweek.

Table of Contents

The Macabre Setting 1

Chapter 1 "Someone Will Speak with You" 3

Chapter 2 A Love Story 7

Chapter 3 Starting a Family 15

Chapter 4 9/11/01 25

Chapter 5 Something Special 35

Chapter 6 An Even Bigger Move 45

Chapter 7 First Loss 61

Chapter 8 Prelude to Disaster 71

Chapter 9 The Unspeakable 85

Chapter 10 The News 95

Chapter 11 The Sanctuary 103

Chapter 12 Hunkered Down 115

Chapter 13 The Outpouring 129

Chapter 14 In Remembrance 151

Chapter 15 Final Farewell 165

Chapter 16 Seeking Peace 177

Chapter l7 The Visitation 189

Chapter 18 Enduring 205

Chapter 19 Legacy of a Princess 217

Notes 227

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 8, 2012

    BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN

    My heart goes out to this mother. I honestly don't know how she did this but I'm glad she did. Not only did it help her heal but she allowed us to get to know her beautiful, bright shining star. My daughter was also celebrates her birthday on 9/11 but she was born in 1976. I will read it again even though I sobbed all the way through it because loosing a child is a parents worse nightmare. Her and her husband should be proud of her accomplishments in the short years she was with them.

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  • Posted March 30, 2012

    Amazing book! absolutely recommend it!!

    Our pastor used this book in one of his sermons and I couldn't wait to get home and order it. I was not disappointed!! A very moving and heart warming book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 29, 2012

    Best book ever!!!!

    This book is one of the best books i have ever read. I have lent it to all my friends!!!

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