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New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst leans into the deeply personal topic of rejection and takes readers on a journey to explore its roots; the lies we believe as a result; and the truth about who God is, who we are, and what it looks like to live loved. --
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This is Viola Davis' story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero's journey.
"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and...
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Imagine if all the worn-out, untrue, painful chapters of our lives started to quiet, and the beautiful, unique pieces of who we are were to rise. Imagine if the stories we tell brought us back to our true selves, back to one another. Imagine if they spoke of how we loved and lost and tried our best. How we saw it all, even the parts that hurt.
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Susan Schorn led an anxious life. For no clear reason, she had become progressively paralyzed by fear. Fed up with feeling powerless, she took up karate.
She learned how to say no and how to fight when you have to (even in the dark). Karate taught her how to persuade her husband to wear a helmet, best one bossy Girl Scout troop leader, and set boundaries with an over-sharing boss. Here this double black belt recounts a fighting, biting, laughing...
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What would you say to your teenage self if you could?
Inspired by the journals she kept growing up, Sophie Lucido Johnson began an interactive conversation between her younger self and her current self. When she began the exercise, Sophie envisioned sharing important lessons on what it means to love your body, navigate relationships, and discover what fulfills you, no matter where life takes you. But as these "exchanges" deepened, adult Sophie discovered...
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"A sartorial follow-up to her hilarious memoir in stories, Fat Girl Walking, internet personality Brittany Gibbons once again deep dives into the world of the plus size woman, this time chronicling her love/hate (but mostly hate) relationship with what fashion,"--Amazon.com.
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"Journalist and NBC reporter Mariana Atencio's fresh, compelling voice resonates powerfully on current cultural topics, such as immigration and global poverty, encouraging individual readers to use their lives to make the world a better place."--Publisher's description.
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"The greatest luxury my family had were some tiles that my father had laid down for my mother. My father was a manual laborer. He had taken all of us to one of the tile factories on a family trip. My father couldn't afford the tiles, so he had us sort through the rejects, the broken and imperfect shards so that we could have something beautiful. I remember how he got on his hands and knees for my mother and for us children. I remember how he concentrated...
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"Set in working-class, Irish-American Boston of the fifties and sixties, Starved is a gripping and inspirational coming-of-age story. At the young age of four, Anne McTiernan was left by her mother at a Catholic boarding school where she emotionally and physically starved. After a doctor forced Anne's mother to bring her home, she used physical and verbal abuse to take out her frustrations on a defenseless little girl. Anne transitions from a malnourished...
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Trent Shelton seemed to have it all together--until everything fell apart. A college football standout, his NFL dreams died when he was cut from multiple teams. With no job and no prospects, learning he had a child on the way and numbing himself with whatever he could find, Trent then found out one of his closest friends had killed himself. Life seemed without hope--until Trent discovered the secret to finding promise in the darkest of times. And...
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"Reseña de un relato cuyo título "Crónica financiera y delictuosa de una mujer casada" no es del todo adecuado.
¿Y eso?
Según el diccionario, "crónica" significa la exposición de acontecimientos por el orden en que han ocurrido. Sin embargo, en el presente texto, los aconteceres se van alternando a brincos de atrás para adelante y viceversa.
Entonces, ¿merece el nombre de crónica?
Continuando con el glosario: "Financiera", o sea, de finanzas,...
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We all deserve the opportunity to truly soar to the peak of our potential, but for many, a villainous thought pattern called Victimhood holds us back, tethering us to a lesser life than we want and deserve. Sound familiar? Maybe there was a time in life where that mindset served you, but now it is stifling you from making progress in your life. Are you ready to move forward to rediscover your strength, your bravery, and your inner superpowers? Are...
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After nearly seventeen years of being in an abusive relationship with a gaslighting narcissist, Kerry-Ann boldly steps out to humbly and openly share her story of how she possessed the courage to finally walk away from what wasn't God's will for her life. Within the unequally yoked relationship, God revealed his undeniable and immeasurable grace and mercy that brought her through her toughest moments, time and time again.
As a woman of faith,...
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"An internationally recognized, stereotype-shattering yogi welcomes people of all shapes and sizes to start practicing yoga with simple instructions for 50 basic yoga poses and 10 sequences and reinforces the idea that yoga is about how someone feels, not looks."--
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Sandra Stevens's parents wanted their daughter to attend private Catholic schools they could not afford so her mother and father cooked up a scheme. They would buy a motel called The Morocco and rent rooms by the hour in order to pay their child's tuition.
The unwholesome effects such an environment can have on a child - who, as an adult, would eventually succumb to the siren call of easy money - is the subject of Surviving Sexploitation: The World's...
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Uncovering The New U is a call to action memoir for the woman looking, to identify their own strength and power to live ON purpose and intentionally. This interactive, empowerment memoir shares practical shifts & principles to do just that! International Master Trainer & Life Coach SheNesia Ewing reveals challenges caused by single motherhood, sexual assault, domestic violence, alcoholism, and homelessness because of her selflessness, lack of self-esteem,...
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A compilation of letters written for two teenage grandsons getting ready to embark on their journey into adulthood. Practical and sage advice for people of every age.
For those who have them, grandparents are often regarded as an incredible source of advice and wisdom. In this book, author Mike Andes has compiled a series of causal and heartfelt letters to his 17-year-old twin grandsons. His letters contain his thoughts, memories, and musings from...
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