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Title: Courage to Love

Author: Robert Ellis

Narrator: Bill Birrell

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-10

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

It is an unthinkable match: Josh, a 21-year-old American lieutenant, and Haja, a teenage Palestinian freedom fighter. Both wounded in war and sent to Tel Aviv-Yafo's Rose of Sharon hospital, they are brought together during a hospital attack by the beauty of music and its ability to transcend each other's language.

Despite different religious upbringings, and the stern commands of their families, Josh and Haja fall in love. Tensions rise to the breaking point as they fight two battles: against the wounds destroying their own bodies, and against the centuries-old traditions concerning Muslim women, and the dictates of an Orthodox Jewish heritage.

In a haunting reminder of Romeo and Juliet, author Robert Ellis takes us on a journey through the turbulent struggle of young love in today's wars. Facing the threat of a new terrorist attack, can Haja and Josh overcome the odds against them, and give themselves, their families and the world, the Courage to Love?

Members Reviews:

Endearing Love Story in "courage to love" by Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis has written an endearing love story between two young people of different faiths wishing to become involved during war time. Their love shines throughout the book as they weigh not only their differences but their similarities through the people who are intertwined in their lives. Both are truly victims not only of this war but of their short time on earth. What needs to happen now is that a sequel be written about their upcoming lives together as they use all their capacities to find a steady path in this endeavor. I'll be waiting to read of the trials and tribulations of each and everyone of the characters in this fine book.

I purchased this book from Amazon.

Five Stars

great story, well told

Making Enemies Friends

Courage to Love was written to make enemies friends. I am not idiotic enough to believe one love story can solve world problems - except for the fact that it solved this author's problems with the world. The sleeping knowledge in this book needs to be told to each new generation to free them to make up their own minds about life. As I listened to the climax of the recording of the Courage to Love audio book, I listened to a frightened Arab teenager, her stern iman father, a stalwart American boy and his South Carolina Jewish parents, a Scottish Franciscan friar, an Egyptian doctor, both a Jordanian and an Irish nurse, and a Palestinian army general. I heard a symphony - composed of the truths of all the people around the world who had contributed to this book. Truth after truth. No arguments. No discords. Only truths that rang as bells. Throughout my life, my soul has seemed to record and mourn the numbers of soldiers and innocents who were killed in the wars of my time, from the Italian bombardment of Ethiopia and Spain in 1935-36, through the invasions of China, Czechoslovakia, WWII and the Holocaust, Hiroshima, Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iraq.

To stop this slaughter, my soul extends to the world this desert rose. The author.

A beautifully written story of a love and hope

A new exploration of the middle-eastern condition that takes place in a hospital and in two families of different backgrounds: it is the thermometer for the growing madness of the present Jewish-Palestinian conflict, but the perspective is not political, but human.