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Kathy Izard: Author & Changemaker in Charlotte, North Carolina
 

An inspiring true story to help you discover how to live wholeheartedly after life breaks your heart.

Nine years ago, Kathy’s world was shattered when her healthy husband, Charlie, suffered a catastrophic heart attack. Although he was miraculously still alive, there could be no return to normal living because the cause was a rare, incurable disease. In The Last Ordinary Hour, Kathy shares how they learned to live in radical uncertainty and how you can find hope even when medical science can offer no assurances.

*Support your local independent shops! If you’re in Charlotte, visit Park Road Books for signed copies.

 
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About The Last Ordinary Hour

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Is something holding you back from living your one beautiful life?

Through heart-pounding and heart-warming storytelling, Kathy recounts how they navigated their new world of rare disease to help you when crisis leaves you reeling. This is not a story about dying, it’s a book about living!

 

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The Last Ordinary Hour Reviews
Leighton Ford, President, Leighton Ford Ministries

This is a searing and ultimately beautiful story of Kathy Izard’s years-long pilgrimage on the knife-edge of time and eternity. It speaks to all who want to find a path of faith, to a life worth living, and a love worth living with.

Judy Seldin-Cohen, Author of Recharging Judaism

Feels like listening to that friend who trusts you with her deepest secrets.

Niki Hardy, Author of Breathe Again

A book I’ll read and reread. It’s a book I didn’t know I was waiting for.

 
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The Last Ordinary Hour is a must-read for those who have suffered tragedy and loss, for those who seek to deepen their spiritual life, and also for readers who simply long for a book you just can’t put down.

Katherine Olivetti
author of The Guided Dream Journal

 

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The Last Ordinary Hour Reviews
Brian Allain, Founder of Writing for Your Life

An incredible read I could not put down! Highly recommended!

Kate H. Rademacher, Author of Reclaiming Rest

A powerful love story and astute exploration of what it means to have faith when the future is entirely uncertain.

Leslie Hooton, Author of Before Anyone Else

In reading, I frequently found myself looking up to see if the earth had shifted or just my way of thinking.

 
 

About Kathy

Kathy Izard is an award-winning author and speaker who helped bring transformation to Charlotte in homelessness, housing and mental health. Her first memoir The Hundred Story Home released in 2016, received a Christopher Award for outstanding inspirational nonfiction. In 2019, she created A Good Night for Mr. Coleman with artist Evelyn Henson, which is a children’s book written to encourage kids to dream big and do good. Kathy has been recognized as a William J. Clinton Distinguished Guest Lecturer and her work has been featured on NPR as well as the Today Show inspiring people to be changemakers in their communities.

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The Last Ordinary Hour is not a book about dying. This is a story about living.

 
 
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