The shack: a novel
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After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions -- and finds unexpected answers -- in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller.When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that's supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment, he arrives on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.
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A confluence of paths
The gathering dark
The tipping point
The great sadness
Guess who's coming to dinner
A piece of "pi"
God on the dock
A breakfast of champions
A long time ago, in a garden far, far away
Wade in the water
Here come da judge
In the belly of the beasts
A meeting of hearts
Verbs and other freedoms
A festival of friends
A morning of sorrows
Choices of the heart
Outbound ripples
After words.
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