The Lost Choice: A Legend of Personal Discovery [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Are you ready to make the personal discovery of a lifetime?

In their Denver suburb, journalist Dorry Chandler and her detective husband, Mark, discover a strange object bearing a message etched in an ancient language. Joining forces with anthropologist Dylan Langford and his archaeologist girlfriend, Abby Warner, the team is enthralled by the mysterious artifact and its baffling message that appears to date back thousands of years.

Will the team discover the secret behind this mysterious historical object? Or will its message be lost forever?

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Overview

Are you ready to make the personal discovery of a lifetime?

In their Denver suburb, journalist Dorry Chandler and her detective husband, Mark, discover a strange object bearing a message etched in an ancient language. Joining forces with anthropologist Dylan Langford and his archaeologist girlfriend, Abby Warner, the team is enthralled by the mysterious artifact and its baffling message that appears to date back thousands of years.

Will the team discover the secret behind this mysterious historical object? Or will its message be lost forever?

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Traveler's Gift comes a gripping quest to uncover mankind's destiny. Elegantly blending riveting fiction, extensive research, and a powerful message of hope, The Lost Choice illuminates the timeless principles for transforming the world.

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Bestselling author Andrews (The Traveler's Gift) takes a cue from the success of his previous book, built around time travel, motivational ideas and historical figures, and continues in the same vein. When Mark and Dorry Chandler find an odd bronze object in a ditch in their Denver backyard, they begin to investigate its origin. Andrews develops the theme of the importance of making good choices, using the motif of four inscribed ancient bronze objects that together form a cup. Each fragment symbolizes choices that its historic owner made, influenced by the object. Using flashbacks, Andrews offers numerous short vignettes of the different historical figures who possessed each of the fragments, including Oskar Schindler, Alfred Vanderbilt, John Adams and George Washington Carver among others. The flashbacks are simply presented, and they often have the feel of fictional minibiographies for young readers rather than meaty adult fare. There's nothing particularly compelling about the storytelling-the mechanics of fiction are creaky in places-but that's not the point. Rather, the book stands on the positive message that one person by his or her decisions can change the world. As he did in The Traveler's Gift, Andrews should appeal to those readers looking for an uncomplicated motivational read with a dollop of history thrown in for good measure. (June) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781418536398
  • Publisher: Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
  • Publication date: 6/24/2004
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 45,458
  • File size: 511 KB

Meet the Author

Andy Andrews is a best-selling novelist and speaker whose combined works have been translated into nearly twenty languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. The Traveler’s Gift, a featured book selection of ABC’s Good Morning America, was on the New York Times best-seller list for seventeen weeks. As a speaker and corporate entertainer for the world’s largest organizations, he is in constant demand. Andy has spoken at the request of four different United States presidents and toured military bases around the world, speaking to troops at the request of the United States Department of Defense. Arguably, there is no single person on the planet better at weaving subtle, yet life-changing lessons into riveting tales of adventure and intrigue—both on paper and on stage.

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  • Posted February 1, 2012

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    A hidden gem well worth reading

    I love the works of Andy Andrews, and this was the last of his major works that I had yet to read. It is more obscure than many of his other works like The Traveler's Gift and The Butterfly Effect, but by no means of less quality. Andrews weaves in lessons of personal growth and development into a fictional account of comtemporary persons learning about remarkable people in history. If you are looking for a fun but meaningful read, pick up The Lost Choice by Andy Andrews.

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    The Lost Choice provokes thought and entertains with a touch of historical accounts of great individuals.

    This is another great book by Andy Andrews. He brings to life historical accounts of great people by intertwing them into his story presenting his case that all can make a diffence in the world. A boy finds a relic and his parents and another couple are amazed as they find the inspiration that the physical object has provided to a number of great people. This is great reading and would be great for book clubs or and readers that wish to hear a great story about "action" as opposed to "inaction." JRH

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