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I started my conversations with God at a very early age. But, my hardest conversation with God was the day my husband died. I could not believe God in his infinite wisdom would take him from me and my family. I got so tired of people telling me that God does not make mistakes and doesn't do anything without a reason. I told God he had made a big mistake this time. Yet, every time I turned around someone else said to me, "God does not make mistakes."...
42) A Simple Man
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In a newly built home in the mountains, an old man named Clarence Callahan prepares for a lengthy visit with his youngest daughter, Liza Jane. The experiences they share in the month they are together would not only bring them immense joy but it would keep precious memories alive from the past while making new memories.
Liza is a caring and fun-loving businesswoman, who set aside a month to devote spending quality time with her ailing father. She...
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Preston Browning Jr. entered the world in 1929, a few months before the Crash and the onset of the Great Depression. In Culpeper, Virginia, Browning grew up amid the pervasive poverty of the times where he recalls being labeled by his father as the world's worst grouch, led in song by Miss Lizzy Lovell who banged on the piano at the local Episcopal church, and seated astride a cow who needed a lot of convincing to take him for a ride around the pasture...
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Father, Papa, and Dad are synonyms of a pivotal character in homes from time immemorial. It means several things to different peoplelogical or illogical, appropriately or erroneously. However, what is its truest meaning in the heart of the one who instituted the officeAlmighty God? The True Meaning of Dad promises to take you through a revealing journey into His heart, opening up what He originally had in mind right from Creation. It enables you to...
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Families are Forever: Communication Endorsements *I have read much of the book Families are Forever: Communication and I have found useful information in each chapter! This book has really opened my eyes to the way that I communicate with those in my life. I am very aware now that how I say what I say determines what others hear. I raise my glass to better communication! Bethany, Narrows, Virginia *Families Are Forever: Communication brings together...
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I would like to thank my family and friends for believing in me and for encouraging me to see this adventure through. Thank you Duane for making the book come alive with your illustrations. This book is dedicated to my dad who always told me to BELIEVE. Thank you daddy. Finally, I want to thank GOD for giving me the ideas and words to put down on paper. SOMETIMES OUR LIVES CAN BE SCARY AND EVEN A LITTLE CONFUSING: SOME PEOPLE CAN BE CRUEL AND HATEFUL...
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From the first time you were sent home to "tell your mother what you did" to the earliest schoolyard crush and beyond, this family-oriented collection of stories, told through the eyes of a young boy, rediscovers a time when life revolved around parents and grandparents, neighborhood, school and church. With a near-eidetic memory, author Robert Layton reminds us of the events that shaped our lives. The stories within reflect the youthful curiosities,...
48) The Mommy Cup
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Through a simple story, The Mommy Cup teaches how important it is for those who take care of others to make sure to take the time to take care of themselves too. Although it is a simple message, it is too easily set aside in the busy demands of day-to-day life. Read it with a friend or a child, and get ready to renew your life. How full is your mommy cup?
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"Secrets of Life Before Birth"is the presentation of the long processes leading to the conception and later the birth of an individual, in this case: Whomus, but it could be the story of any one of us.The distinction found in this book is the conversations translated from the many interactions among different actors in this story. The highly specialized unicellular precursors of a human being can be followed in their interactions among themselves...
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The purpose of this book is to celebrate a unique generation, ther multitude of 70+ seniors of the 21st century, who lead purposeful, rewarding and independent lives in specially designed retirement communities. The authors, in their early 80's, live it up each and every day in their chosen community. With humor, wistfulness, seriousness and common sense, they introduce some of their neighbors and provide a bird's eye view of active life after retirement....
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Growing Up under the Palm Trees is about a young Haitian American's journey advancing through the rough streets of Little Haiti, Miami, Florida during the late 80s to the early parts of the 21st Century. His account starts with his exit out of Haiti amidst a brutal revolution in which he and his family barely escaped with their lives. Upon arriving in Miami, they found another group of challenges in which each member had to acquire skills that would...
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Monica Drake exhibe en La locura de amar la vida la cara más vulnerable y humana de varios personajes a lo largo de décadas, a menudo huyendo o tratando de encontrar su sitio en un mundo demasiado grande y hostil. A lo largo de ese tiempo, de esas páginas, la vida revela su esencia como algo simultáneamente comprimido y expansivo, en un reflejo de lo que implica haber vivido tanto, y asistir al paso de esos años en un abrir y cerrar de ojos....
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Journey to Fulfillment is the story of a couple who have enjoyed 50 years of marriage. It includes tales of their ancestors, their children, and their grandchildren. Following is the authors introduction. When I was young I often asked my mother, Do you think Ill ever get married? My mothers reply was always yes, to which she would immediately add, the Blaisdell girls were shy like you in high school, but they both found husbands when they went to...
54) Here Comes Pop
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Sometimes the little Boo Boos in life can actually have a positive effect. It may only be that it makes you laugh later when you read about it in your diary. Like when your Pop decides to cook dinner and sets it on fire or completely destroys all of mums garden hoses. The true lesson here is that life is full of little surprises and most of the time there is a hero around to help fix things. You have got to love your Mum. Live, laugh and learn.
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In her usual conversational style, Dr. Akanet, through her perspective as a GP (family doctor) and mother to two young children, shares her ups-and-downs of 2020, while trying to move house. Moving home, particularly, when it involves buying or selling a house, has been, noted to be one of the three most stressful life events, and doing so, during a pandemic would make it even more challenging.
2020 brought with it challenges and changes most of...
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In a captivating tale, we follow the life of Jessica, a young girl who, born out of wedlock, was raised by her grandmother with little knowledge of her father and a distant relationship with her mother. Nurturing a deep-seated resentment toward men, she resolves to become a feminist lawyer, determined to see men like her father held accountable for their actions. However, a pivotal moment unfolds during her grade-school years when she encounters a...
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I Took My Mommys Heart To School is a heartwarming story about a puppy, named Myla, who is facing a common fear about change and uncertainty on her first day of school. Myla is content with her safe and comfortable life and is not so sure she wants it to change. Her mother tries to encourage her, while facing her own personal fears about letting Myla go. Together with loving support they learn they will always be together in each others hearts no...
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Meghan is caught between the past and the present. Part of her lives in Arizona, part of her feels at ease in New Hampshire. When she returns to the lake of her childhood, she is alone. Both her parents are dead and she is widowed. But soon she does not feel alone. The community of Pawtuckaway Lake embraces her as they did Jack MacNamara, her father. She revisits much of what she left behind: work, love, places and old feelings. Does she continue...
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Emptying a family home of all its contents is an experience that most people want to get away from as quickly as they can. But Linda Hetzer and Janet Hulstrand, authors of Moving On: A Practical Guide to Downsizing the Family Home, decided to write a book about it instead. "We decided to write the book we wish we could have had when we were going through the process of emptying our parents' homes," says Hetzer. Moving On provides a simple but very...
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Failure can displace one into a terrible state. Although it can be very difficult to bear the associated pain, it is unwise to accept or remain in a failed state. The pain enables a lesson to be learned which invariably provokes the mind to enhance the goodness in one's career, health, business, relationship with God, and social and family life.
Most successful people have failed, and it is not, unreasonable to think that their accomplishment was...
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