Refuge: A True Story of Faith and Civil War

John and Bessie Gonleh with Bruce Beakley. Enumclaw, Wash.: WinePress Publishing, 2009. 262 pp. (Paperback).

Readers will be appreciative, even delighted, to spend time with this book that highlights the true experience of a couple who tell the exciting story of their flight from their homeland in Liberia to America to escape the possibility of death in Liberia. The couple battled hunger and the daily threat of death at the hands of rebel soldiers. No doubt about it, this moving story will appeal to a wide audience. Readers will experience a sense of relief as they learn how the couple reached the United States.

Warning: Readers will not want to put the book down until they reach the conclusion of its exciting and meaningful account.