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Full-Time Father and the Pursuit of Wisdom

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Alcorn (Author)Why do people build furniture or houses, plant trees, solve problems, dig up bones from ancient ruins, or invent? Each of us is distinct with individualized aptitudes for myriad explorations. As God created, is it possible we emulate it in His honor? I do not believe we are here to concentrate on one particular creative expression. Live long enough, and we vacillate from this to another. My resume is diverse and varied. As much as creativity ...

Apparently: This Is What Parenting Feels Like

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Dvorak (Author)In this rollicking and poignant narrative about the beauty and mess of everyday parenting life in all its stages, readers are immersed in stories that reflect pieces of their own lives-perfect for fans of Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions and Jennifer Senior's All Joy and No Fun.This is not a book about how to parent. Instead, this is a book about being one.In a uniquely fresh and honest voice, Sue Dvorak-herself a mother of six grown chil...

Monochromatic Heart: on grief and love and still being here

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Latshaw (Author) Number of Pages: 558 Dimensions: 1.24 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 15, 2025

When the Light Finds Us: From a Life Sentence to a Life Transformed

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Report copyright infringementby Judy A. Henderson (Author)A testament to the indomitable human spirit and the power of a mother's love, this story of a wrongfully incarcerated woman's fight for freedom and her family will inspire all. Judy Henderson was a single mother with a successful small business of her own when she was arrested and convicted of a crime she did not commit. Sentenced to life in prison, Henderson faced the untenable: leaving her young children as she entered the brutal pr...

Because: A CIA Coverup & A Son's Odyssey To Find The Father He Never Knew

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Report copyright infringementby James B. Wells (Author)James B. Wells was only nine when his father, Jack, an Army veteran working for USAID as a senior public safety officer in 1965, died in an Air America plane crash in Vietnam. Decades later, James discovers hundreds of letters in his mother's home and embarks on a thirty-three-year odyssey to uncover the truth and meaning behind his whistleblower father's covered-up and still CIA-classified death.Through archival and field research across...

Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

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Report copyright infringementby Charlie Bynar (Author)An inspirational story for anyone who's grieving, Through the Darkness explores the unbreakable bonds between loved ones, even after death.On April 18, 2017, Charlie unexpectedly loses her only child, sixteen-year-old Isaac. Devastated, she throws herself into investigating the circumstances of his death, which she suspects was related to medical negligence. As Charlie falls into darkness, she begins to sense that Isaac is communicating wi...

A Phenomenological Research Study of the African American Male and Grief: Johnathan Mommy Passed Away

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Report copyright infringementby Theresa Ellis (Author)When Theresa Ellis had to face the death of her own daughter-and then tell her grandson of his mother's passing-a surprising reaction led her to continue her degree. This is her story.In a devastating trial of life, Dr. Theresa Ellis had to endure saying goodbye to her child, a moment every parent hopes never to experience. In the following heartbreak moments after the news, Theresa had to share the information with her 15-year-old grandso...

Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Slice (Author)"A glorious, revelatory book."--Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of An Immense World "A beautiful, transformative book about being a parent in a world that rejects frailty and weakness."--Rachel Aviv, staff writer at the New Yorker A paradigm shifting look at the landscape of disabled parenting--the joys, stigma, and discrimination--and how disability culture holds the key to transforming the way we all raise our kids ...

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Saving The Lost Girl: A Memoir of Healing

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Report copyright infringementby Kelly Jean Torres (Author)Born to parents who could not escape their battles with addiction and mental illness, Kelly entered foster care before her first birthday. At ten, Kelly and her two sisters were adopted by the Atwoods, who moved them from the busy suburbs of Chicago to a remote Michigan town, where Kelly found herself trapped in an abusive home. After the death of their adoptive mother, a darker side of their adoptive father emerged, and at sixteen, Ke...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Scott (Author) Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 11, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Danei Rodriguez (Author) Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 20, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Marshall (Author), Rick Warren (Foreword by), John M. Perkins (Preface by)In an age defined by hyper-polarization comes a story of an unlikely and surprising friendship between two friends with radically different backgrounds and histories who find each other because they were found by God. Called to Be Friends, Called to Serve commemorates the never-before-told friendship between theologian and advocate John M. Perkins and philanthropist Howard F. Ahmanso...

Ron and Lib Loftis: A Marriage for the Ages

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Report copyright infringementby Karl W. Merritt (Author) Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Leone (Author)My Life with My Wife' is the true story of a great love that refuses to die. This book is written by a husband, a father, an ordained Elder in the Church of the Nazarene, the Associate Pastor/Worship Pastor at Faith Church of the Nazarene in Burbank, CA, and a volunteer as a Police Chaplain in the same city. This love story is for everyone, written in a powerful down-to-earth voice that will make you laugh, remind you of your own life, and ma...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Susan Spencer Cuminale (Author)This journey book is told to inspire the reader to listen to God's promptings and not be afraid of the unknown. He will always see you through the storms in this life until our journey has ended. Life is one big blooming adventure; enjoy the ride. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.13 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: February 20, 2025

Blackbird: A Mother's Reflections on Grief, Loss, and Life After Suicide

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Report copyright infringementby Betsy Stephenson (Author)Is grief on a dial or a switch? Both. Over six short weeks in 2022, Betsy Thibaut Stephenson lost her son to suicide, mother-in-law to dementia, and family dog to cancer. Rather than succumb to grief's darkness, Betsy chose to face her losses head-on, accepting grief as an uninvited yet permanent companion in her revised life. Blackbird is a memoir composed in real time, a concise and brutally honest look at the emotional, physical, and...

Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Godwin (Author)Award-winning writer Peter Godwin brings his "moving" (The Sunday Times, London) voice to his latest memoir about his evolving relationships with the women and places that shaped his life. Peter Godwin's mother is dying. Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now lies on a hospital bed in the partitioned living room of his sister's London home. Peter has spent his life missing his Zimbabwean ch...

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Report copyright infringementby L. Annette Binder (Author)When L. Annette Binder's mother starts to forget things she's always known, Annette researches ways to keep her from losing touch with the world. They try supplements and exercise routines, light therapy and sound tracks with 40-Hertz clicks. Annette begins to speak German with her mother-something she'd resisted since immigrating to the United States with her parents years before. And when these therapies prove ineffective, Annette si...

It Goes So Fast: The Year of No Do-Overs

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Louise Kelly (Author)An Instant New York Times BestsellerOperating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this memoir by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic--about the year before her son goes to college--and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along the way.The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James...

Tragedy to Triumph: Rebuilding a Traumatized Heart

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Report copyright infringementby Martha Bray (Author), Cheryl Stritzel-McCarthy (Author)When Martha Bray's husband Bob is killed in a devastating traffic accident in Skagit County, Washington, it smashes her world like a meteor striking Earth. The circumstances of the crash-the driver who'd caused the accident had a criminal history and was evading police-only underscore the tragedy. Bob was a respected Bellingham businessman and community member, but more than anything, he was Martha's belove...

Deconstructing Us: My Trouble with a Throuple

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Hudson (Author)First there were two. Then there were three. Then just one.Are the choices we make always under our control or does the universe purposefully disrupt our journeys, forcing a hand and requiring us to look at our lives from a totally new perspective? When Lucas Walker entered Jeff and David's seemingly comfortable partnership, a new polyamorous relationship was formed-a throuple-changing the trajectory of their lives forever. The power of thre...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandra Fuller (Author)From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child"A mesmeric celebration of a boy who died too soon, a mother's love and her resilience. It will help others surviving loss -- surviving life." -- David Sheff, New York Times"Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my...

Mothers Are Made: How One Mom Overcame Perfectionism, Self-Doubt, Loneliness, and Anxiety and Became a Better and Happier Parent

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Report copyright infringementby Danielle Sherman-Lazar (Author)A deeply personal motherhood memoir about how the challenges moms face daily sharpen them into stronger, braver, and better parents for their children. Motherhood is hard. It's full of plenty of moments where a mom might think, "I don't know if I can do this." Danielle Sherman-Lazar has had this thought many times as she's raised her four young daughters under 10, from her struggles with breastfeeding to two of her daughters' stay...

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Report copyright infringementby Genevieve Kingston (Author)The most "profound" (Booklist, starred review) memoir you will ever read about the power of love. Did I Ever Tell You? reads like a novel but is an unforgettable true story. Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the milestones of Gwen's life and each of her birthdays until age thirty. When Did I Ever Tell You? opens, just three...

Sermons from a Soapbox: Messages of Hope and Encouragement

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Report copyright infringementby Ladonna Shanks (Author)What is God like? Do you even believe in His existence?Sermons from a Soapbox contains brief, easy-to-read essays that span the author's personal spiritual journey of seventy-five years. Ladonna Shanks believes personal experience must form the base of written expressions. In sharing these entertaining anecdotes and the lessons she gleaned, she does not try to convince readers to accept her viewpoint, but encourages them to think, to ques...

Feild Notes on Little Rock: History and Memoir, 1622-2024

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Report copyright infringementby Charles R. Feild (Author)The title Feild Notes on Little Rock is an "E before I" play on an anachronistic spelling of an old family name. The book weaves that Feild family history, extensive research, and a trove of photos, maps, and documents together to tell a story not only of the family but also of one Southern town and by extension the American South.Feild Notes is not another Old South hagiography. There are no heroes or bold deeds-but there are lapses an...

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Report copyright infringement by Clara Bell (Author) Inspired by God, ". . . written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; . . . " This book is a legacy of the love of God lived through the life of Bedford McClain Mayott, Sr. His life touched the lives of many people through love, compassion, healing, understanding and just merely being a friend to many. May this book inspire you to walk in that same love of God. ". . . but the greatest of these is love." Clara Bell is a Woma...

Diary of a Foster Kid: My Survival Story

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Report copyright infringementby Sara-Ann Poirier (Author)Can saving a child's life be as easy as picking up a book? In this case, it might be. Join the author, Sara, through the true horrors of her life as a child taken into foster care far too late. Learn to look for early signs of child abuse and when it should be reported. Get a first-hand account on transitioning into foster care, being moved through multiple foster homes, and aging out of foster care alone. Childhood trauma affects every...

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Report copyright infringementby Stewart A. Bogle (Author)From the heartbreak of losing his wife through serious illness to navigating the difficult road of single parenting, Stewart's life continued to unfold in a series of unexpected and painful experiences. From fires, accidents, and serious health issues, his decision, that no matter what happened, he would turn to God and not from Him, became the guiding principle that got him through the darkest of nights.This is a raw and vulnerable acc...

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Bean (Author)I'm Not Supposed to Be Here. But God, an autobiographical life's journey, by Dr. Barbara "Mom" Bean, is a naked testimonial, and prescription for victory with God's help. It is a reality that life is difficult, as it is a hard schoolmaster because it gives us first the test and then we learn the lesson. Through this book, you will find instruction on how to set aside mediocrity and complacency. It will inspire you to join the special missio...

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Report copyright infringementby Maricelly Ramos (Author)A mother sharing he journey of how she was once in the hands of two abusers. From the age of 15 she survived domestic violence twice. Having her first child at 16 from her first abuser that was 7 years olde than her, married with a child. From abuse, PTSD, survival, motherhood and growth, this book will teach you that you too can grow to let go of fear and gain your power back. I candidly explain how I was able to overcome abuse and lear...