January 31

Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern Day Slave, An International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
By Ron Hall and Denver Moore

This is a really sweet, true story of a man who lived as a slave; he was actually a share-cropper (someone who farmed a person's property for the right to live in a shack there) with little formal education, tied to the land until he simply walked away; from there he got into some trouble with the law, finally ending up at a rescue mission in Fort Worth, Texas.  At the mission, he runs into volunteer Deborah Hall and her art dealer husband Ron.  Some unusual relationships are forged and all of their lives changed drastically - for the better - as God gives each one new perspectives and new work to do.  Very good story!