"Award winning writers Arlene Uslander and Brenda Warneka, met at a writer's site on the internet, as fate would have it. The result is an uplifting, inspirational anthology of true stories where coincidence or fate plays a part in the outcomes of many situations.
A number of authors, besides Uslander and Warneka, contributed to this collection of inspiring stories and after each story is a short biography of the author.
The Mystery of Fate comes at a time when the world needs to know that many times even when things could go terribly wrong and sometimes when it seems as if the did go terribly wrong, things actually went very right. Stories such as The Amazing Tablecloth, by Rabbi Adam Glickman, will bring tears to the reader's eyes and awe to their hearts.
This is a great read for incremental reading. Each story is riveting and to the point. I highly recommend The Mystery of Fate: Common Coincidence or Devine Intervention to all readers wanting hope and encouragement."
Reviewed by Donetta Garman, Allbooks Review
"Co-editors and Authors, Arlene Uslander and Brenda Warneka's book, The Mystery of Fate: Common Coincidence or Divine Intervention is an anthology of over fifty brief stories or encounters from both Uslander and Warneka and other authors of diverse cultures and various occupations from around the world. Each shares real stories of circumstances and situations that are so extraordinary and unexplainable that they may leave some wondering whether such encounters are mere coincidences or of divine intervention. In numerous instances throughout the book, one small seemingly insignificant action or deed; a decision or following one's own intuition lead to a profound change, transformation, and/or the saving of a life.
Whether one terms these occurrences fate, blessings, miracles, coincidences, luck or divine intervention, encountering such brings us to a complete halt, garners our undivided attention and leaves us with realization that there are things we cannot explain, fully understand or control. If, you have been reticent about sharing your own extraordinary and unexplainable encounters for fear of how they will be received of others, after reading Authors A. Uslander and B. Warneka and numerous other authors' stories in The Mystery of Fate: Common Coincidence or Divine Intervention, your fears will be put to rest. "
Mrs. Dorothy Barron, Author of Slinging Stones, Book Reviewer
"By its own standards. The Mystery of Fate is a book to rescue from any fire if only to gaze into tales with intimate flames that sear away comfortable dogma and call into question the randomness of life.
Hidden within the simplicity of Paul Harvey style "Rest of the Story" vignettes, the best of Reader's Digest articles with a touch of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" moments, specials on late night Coast to Coast radio tales, and Robert Stack's Unsolved Mysteries, is complexity converted to the rich simplicity that we poor temporal beings might understand.
If you have a void in your heart that needs to be filled--if you have ever awakened in this rented world and felt desperately alone, these stories just might warm your heart and suggest that, even in today's world, there are still miracles that can lighten even the darkest skies and melt the most cynical hearts.
The Mystery of Fate is a bookbinder's dream, for Arlene Uslander and Brenda Warneka have bound it with love and limitless faith."
Review by Merle Temple, author of the novel to be released in 2012, A Ghostly Shade of Pale.