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Decluttering at the speed of life: winning your never-ending battle with stuff
By Dana K. White. 2018
God land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America
By Lyz Lenz. 2019
Combination of memoir regarding her personal life and faith journey and an exam of the role of faith in middle…
America in the wake of the 2016 election. Topics discussed include her desire for a stable faith community, decreasing church attendance, her divorce, and profiles of faith communities. 2019Gifted hands: The Ben Carson Story
By Ben Carson. 1990
Neurosurgeon Carson discusses his rearing by his poor, uneducated mother, who convinced her sons to rise above their surroundings. Religion…
helped Carson overcome a violent temper as an adolescent and became a guiding force in his life. As a doctor, Carson is best known for surgery on children, including a successful separation of Siamese twins and many hemispherectomies, in which half of the child's brain is removedSeeing lessons: 14 life secrets I've learned along the way
By Tom Sullivan. 2003
Motivational speaker and author of If You Could See What I Hear (DB 35991) offers advice on living with purpose,…
passion, and fulfillment. Sullivan, blind since birth, interweaves personal experiences with reflections on lessons learned, including turning disadvantages into advantages, facing fears, and creating a life plan. 2003Chicken soup for the NASCAR soul: inspirational stories of courage, speed, and overcoming adversity (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Jeff Aubery, Matthew E. Adams, Kirk Autio. 2003
Chicken soup for the parents soul: stories of loving, learning, and parenting (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger, Raymond Aaron. 2000
Forgive for good: a proven prescription for health and happiness
By Fred Luskin. 2002
Based on scientific research, this study offers new insight into the powers of healing. Provides a nine-step guide for overcoming…
the negative effects of anger, bitterness, and resentment by gaining control of our feelingsBlindsided: lifting a life above illness : a reluctant memoir
By Richard M. Cohen. 2004
Emmy Award-winning television news producer and journalist chronicles his battle with multiple sclerosis and colon cancer. While detailing his vision…
loss and other symptoms, Cohen's frank account is "not about suffering" but about "surviving and flourishing, rising above fear and self-doubt" with the support of his wife and children. Bestseller. 2004Blue like jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
By Donald Miller. 2003
A Woman after God's own heart
By Elizabeth George. 2004
A guide for personal and group study filled with advice, spiritual wisdom, and practical applications. The author offers practical, Scripture-based…
principles to women who want to become God's women of excellenceKnit together: discover God's pattern for your life
By Debbie Macomber. 2007
The author shares her life story as a means of counseling women about God's greater purpose in their own lives,…
in a personal account that explains how to recognize divine intentions. Debbie Macomber's belief is that God made you for a purpose and that what God calls you to do He also equips you to do. She encourages readers to follow their dreams and never give up. She explains the three lies that hold us back: "It's who you know, I'm too old, and it's too hard." Chapters are named for the different facets of life each of us is created for: purpose, dreams, risks, gratitude, and worship. Scripture passages are combined with anecdotes to flesh out insightsThe battle belongs to the Lord: defeating life's struggles through worship
By Joyce Meyer. 2002
Author and speaker Joyce Meyer shows you how to break through and trust God to do for you what you…
can never do for yourself -- overcome your battles and live in lasting freedom and victoryThe present: the gift that makes you happier and more successful at work and in life
By Spencer Johnson. 2003
A "practical parable" for rediscovering what is truly important in life. Relates a young man's journey to adulthood and search…
for a magical "present"--the power to focus on right now, learn from the past, and plan for the future. BestsellerWalk in the Son shine
By Nelda Ruth Primmer Eckert. 2007
First things first: to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy
By Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill. 1994
The author of "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" and two of his colleagues present the fourth-generation approach to…
time management. More than doing things right or efficiently, it focuses on doing the right things. Discussed are the "principles of peace" and the authors' prescription for avoiding the main obstacles to fulfillment, meaning, and joy. 1994. BestsellerSuffering And The Heart Of God: How Trauma Destroys And Christ Restores
By Diane Langberg. 2015
When someone suffers through trauma, can healing happen? And, if yes, how does it happen? Dr. Diane Langberg tackles these…
complex and difficult questions with the insights she has gained through more than forty years of counseling those whose lives have been destroyed by trauma and abuse. Her answer carefully explained in Suffering and the Heart of God is Yes, what trauma destroys, Jesus can and does restore.When It's Your Turn to Serve: Experiencing God's Grace in His Calling for Your Life
By Karen Pence. 2023
Life is full of unexpected obstacles, but there’s no challenge too big for God to handle. Washington D.C. is crammed…
with people eager to bend your ear about statistics, polls, and policies. Karen Pence is more likely to talk about beekeeping—if she’s not busy teaching an art class, painting watercolors, or riding her bike.An elementary schoolteacher who never expected to leave Indiana, Karen found during her extraordinary journey to becoming Second Lady that—despite the turbulence inherent to political campaigning, and through eighteen moves and countless surprises—God’s grace was sufficient.When It’s Your Turn to Serve is full of heartwarming and relatable stories of being a leader, a teacher, a mom, and a Christian throughout an unpredictable life. From turning up to “Pet Night” on Capitol Hill toting a lizard, two cats, and a dog—only to find it was an event for lobbyists—to getting the unexpected news that her husband had become Donald Trump’s nominee for vice president, Karen has learned to take surprises in stride. In this warm and deeply personal book, the former second lady shares the lessons she’s learned about God, faith, and family. Brimming with stories that mattered but didn’t make the headlines, the book challenges you to be open when opportunities arise, recognize your purpose in God’s plan, and step up to make a difference when it’s your turn.Three great nonfiction works from the Nobel Prize–winning, Catholic, French author of Thérèse Desqueyroux.Saint Margaret of CortonaFor François Mauriac, Saint…
Margaret of Cortona became a source of fascination and solace during the Nazi occupation of France. During that time, feeling himself and all his countrymen to be among the downtrodden, he wrote this biography of the thirteenth-century Italian penitent who would become the patron saint of the homeless . . .Born in 1247 to a farming family in a small village outside Perugia, Margaret of Cortona was willful and reckless in her youth. At age seventeen, she became a wealthy man&’s mistress—even bearing his son out of wedlock. But her life of sin ended when she found her lover murdered.Devoting herself to prayer and penance, Margaret eventually joined the Third Order of St. Francis and took a vow of poverty. She established a hospital for the poor and homeless at Cortona. On divine command, she challenged her own bishop for his lavish and warlike lifestyle. Canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in 1728, she became a patron saint of the downtrodden, including the falsely accused, homeless, orphaned, and mentally ill, as well as midwives, penitents, single mothers, reformed prostitutes, and third children.Letters on Art and LiteratureIn this collection of letters, Mauriacshares fascinating insights through correspondence with Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, and other authors, artists, intellectuals, as well as the readers of his various articles and columns. The letters delve into a variety of topics—from the death of Georges Bernanos to the correspondence between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide, and the Routier youth movement.Proust&’s Way The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac.Saint Margaret of Cortona
By François Mauriac. 1948
The Nobel Prize–winning author&’s stirring biography of the thirteenth-century Italian penitent who become the patron saint of the homeless. …
Born in 1247 to a farming family in a small village outside Perugia, Margaret of Cortona was willful and reckless in her youth. At age seventeen, she became a wealthy man&’s mistress—even bearing his son out of wedlock. But her life of sin ended when she found her lover murdered. Devoting herself to prayer and penance, Margaret eventually joined the Third Order of St. Francis and took a vow of poverty. She established a hospital for the poor and homeless at Cortona. On divine command, she challenged her own bishop for his lavish and warlike lifestyle. Canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in 1728, she became a patron saint of the downtrodden, including the falsely accused, homeless, orphaned, and mentally ill, as well as midwives, penitents, single mothers, reformed prostitutes, and third children. For François Mauriac, Saint Margaret of Cortona became a source of fascination and solace during the Nazi occupation of France. During that time, feeling himself and all his countrymen to be among the downtrodden, he wrote this biography.Mitigating Circumstances: A Detective's Stories of Forgiveness & the Fruit of God's Love
By Brian D. Baker. 2017
Mitigating Circumstances is a compilation of real-life detective stories that highlight the grace of God in the lives of criminal…
offenders. Told in the first-person, Mitigating Circumstances describes how the professional life of an experienced private detective changed dramatically when Jesus became the Lord of his life. A gritty, often discouraging occupation morphed into a ministry, and these stories are the fruit of this ministry. These stories are meant to encourage readers that God can heal even the most hardened, hopeless offender.