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For the last two weeks of August 2023 Hope~Inspired Stories presents author T.M. "Mike" Brown, with his latest non-fiction novel--a tense, exciting tale of the Civil War--The Last Laird of Sapelo...

• Publisher: ‎ Koehler Books (August 15, 2023)

The Last Laird of Sapelo is based on the tragic story of Randolph Spalding, the youngest son of Georgia's most well-known antebellum-era coastal planter and influential political figure, Thomas Spalding. Following his father's death in 1851, Randolph parlays his father's fame and gifted landholdings on Sapelo Island, hobnobbing from Charleston to Savannah to Milledgeville and ultimately failing to thwart Georgia's decision to follow South Carolina into secession by early 1861.

Within weeks after the assault on Fort Sumter, Lincoln's naval blockade threatens the entire southern coast. Colonel Randolph Spalding, now a reluctant commander of the militia, faces a storm of life-altering events in the months that follow, imperiling his family's legacy, livelihood, and lands. He ultimately must decide between supposed justice and saving the life of a slave who exacted revenge for the murder and rape of two children on Sapelo Island.

Author: T.M. Brown

T.M. Brown's favorite hymn...

Once more, the ever-popular-- "How Great Thou Art" (Alan Jackson)

Mr. Brown's favorite Bible verse: 

Genesis 1:1  "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

...and Psalm 8:

For the director of music. According to Gittith. A psalm of David.

1 

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory in the heavens.

2 

Through the praise of children and infants

    you have established a stronghold against your enemies,

    to silence the foe and the avenger.

3 

When I consider your heavens,

    the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars,

    which you have set in place,

4 

what is mankind that you are mindful of them,

    human beings that you care for them?

You have made them a little lower than the angels

 and crowned them with glory and honor.

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You made them rulers over the works of your hands; 

you put everything under their feet:

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all flocks and herds,

    and the animals of the wild,

8 

the birds in the sky,

    and the fish in the sea,

    all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 

Lord, our Lord,

    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

And from T.M. Brown: "God is the beginning and end of our faith." 

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"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." Philippians 4:8

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