For this week’s Inspired By, we are featuring Debra Rogers, author of  He Did You A Favor.  He Did You a Favor is an Empowering, humorous, hands-on guide to help you continue your journey out of grief and into greatness.

Here, Debra shares with us her top five books that inspired her most to become an author.

The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grissom

 Orphaned while on-board a ship from Ireland, a white 7-year-old Lavinia arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with slaves of the kitchen house. 

 

Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert

 Elizabeth Gilbert is a typical American woman in her early thirties.  After she leaves behind all her marks of success, following a divorce and a crushing depression, she sets off for happiness in different countries.

 

The Secret in the Old Attic by Carolyn Keene

Elderly Mr. March approaches Nancy Drewseeking her help to find his deceased son’s unpublished sheet music. A thief has been secretly entering the March house and stealing whatever songs he can find and publishing them himself. 

 

Mystic River – Dennis Lehane

 A tense and unnerving psychological thriller about three friends who experience something together as children and have to face eachother’s pasts 25 years later. 

 

The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley

The magical legend of King Arthur, retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne.

 

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