Dexter, Missouri - Local author, Patti Gard will host a Book Study of her best selling publication, "I Saw Heaven" beginning February 16th and continuing each Tuesday through March 22nd in the Community Room of the Keller Public Library in Dexter.

The Book Study will be held from 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. A free copy of the book will also be provided to each participant.

No pre-registration is required to attend the Book Study.

Her first book entitled “I Saw Heaven!” was written just a few years ago in 2010.  It’s an inspirational story about her conversations with her brother after his near death experience. Richard Miller fell into a deep coma in 2001, but he defied the odds and one day woke up to talk about his experience of seeing Heaven.  Richard passed away in 2004 and she realized that God was in control.  Her book "I Saw Heaven" is a testament to a way God often works.

“Those conversations changed my life,” Patti said about her brother. “It was God’s plan and I am just following that inspiration.”

With a better understanding of writing and publishing her first book, she decided to write another book in 2013.  It is entitled, “Living Right Side Up in an Upside Down World.”

“I couldn’t have imagined the places the success of these books have taken me,” commented Gard.

“This community has been very good to me and I am blessed to live here,” Gard said.  “I have been many places, but this will always be home.”

"I just love my hometown," continued Gard.  "I have such fond memories as a child, I remember my classmates and I just have wonderful memories of Dexter growing up.  I wanted to do something for the community and giving away my books just felt right."

She writes her books under the pen name of Dunham.