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1) I guess I haven't learned that yet: discovering new ways of living when the old ways stop working
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Zondervan
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"New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist writes about unexpected loss, change, faith, midlife, and a move to New York City with her signature depth and vulnerability. In this book, she invites us to practice curiosity and self-compassion, to become beginners again, and to rediscover resilience and courage in our own seasons of change"--
3) Untamed
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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
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She watched as her mother's body was removed from the ashes of her home . . .
Unbearable loss, dangerous secrets, and a life-threatening illness endangered her only hope for a future . . .
. . . But through it all, she found her faith.
When fifteen-year-old Shelly Edwards's mother is murdered by her alcoholic father, she loses her home, her family, and
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Butterfly Expressions LLC
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[2020]
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Drawing from extensive journal entries, Laree Westover shares events in her life that show her tenacity in moving forward with faith - faith in herself, her husband, and her God. Each heartfelt story is captivating and its historicity is trustworthy. Family happiness seemed to be frustrated as her husband grappled with chronic health issues and serious accidents. That, along with her own health challenges and those of her children, drew her into...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
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Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2011
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As a teenager, Hanny Londt-Shultz, together with her family, faced a grinding daily routine in a Japanese internment camp in Sumatra during WWII. But throught the recognition of small miracles, the members of the Londt-Shultz family, through damaged, edure , and in spite of life threatening challenges become saviors among their peers and courageous examples to their captors.
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[publisher not identified]
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[2014]
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The moments we stand is a blog written by Ashlee Birk. It is real life stories about her family and the challenges, heartbreak, trauma, and grief that day they struggled through when her husband Emmett was murdered ... by his mistresses husband. This first book of stories show the raw hours of emotion that followed the discovery of his death and his infidelity; the hour when all darkness in this world collided together and left Ashlee feeling helpless...
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Nancy Paulsen Books
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[2016]
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"Critically acclaimed author Jabari Asim and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator E. B. Lewis give readers a fascinating glimpse into the boyhood of Civil Rights leader John Lewis. John wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So...
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