7 Days to Upping Your Prayer Life, Loving Others, and Having More Joy by John Christopher Frame, Christian Living, 2021
This short but effective devotional guide/journal helps identify the connection between gratitude, humility, empathy, compassion generosity, holiness, and hope. A short devotional, reflective questions, scripture to read, a sample prayer and a focused action. helps you do more than just think about of these issues.
As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner, Historical Fiction, 2018
When the Spanish Flu attacks the Bright family, bring a baby into their fresh grief, address love relationships with desperation and hope, we are led into a story more about relationship and new beginnings than a pandemic
Beautiful Country by Quian Julie Chang, Memoir, 2021 Told through the young inquisitive, intelligent, but cautious Quian, we learn a desperate and heart-breaking story of living an invisible life as an undocumented immigrant.. Chang’s sparse but deeply affecting prose is worth the read on several levels: for the writing, for the story, and for the celebration of an indomitable spirit.
Educated by Tara Westover, Memoir, 2018
In this heart-wrenching, inspirational, often unbelievable story, Tara overcomes her fanatic and borderline deranged parents to show strength and unquenchable spirit to acceptance to Cambridge! Haunting, maddening, and remarkable; this book will stay with you for a long time.
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini, Historical Nonfiction, 2021
Based on the true story of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a slave who built a successful dress-making business and became the personal seamstress and trusted friend to Mrs. Lincoln.
No Regrets: Hope for your Caregiving Season by Rayna Neises, Nonfiction, 2021
While it focuses on caring for parents and “walking them all the way home,” its principles can be applied to spousal caregiving or other situations involving family.
Saving Mrs. Roosevelt by Candace Sue Patterson, Historical Fiction, 2021
Shirley Davenport joins SPARS, a newly created female component for the Coast Guard supporting the war effort. Recruited as a spy
she gathers intel on an American Nazi group and their nefarious plans that could put Mrs. Roosevelt in danger. The book offers a nice mix of history, romance, and twists and turns.
Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan, Historical Fiction, 2021
This is the little known story of the sinking of the steam ship Pulaski on its fourth journey 180 years ago is told by way of a fictional story. The Pulaski loaded 186 passengers for the two-night trip to Baltimore, but sunk. Often called the Titanic of the south,
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, Non-fiction, 2016
Julia Cameron believes that God is the first and great Creative who empowers us with a creative center. This 12 week initiative outlines weekly and daily practices to rediscover your creative, God-endowed leanings.
The Betrayal of Anne Frank, A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sulivan, Nonfiction, 2022
A team of 50 data scientists, forensic detectives, and other researchers reviewed thousands of documents, interviewed descendants, created a computer algorithm to show connections and studied possibilities and pushed for answers for two years. While they offer an explanation at the end,
The Dearly Beloved by Cara Well, Fiction, 2019
Two couples and their faith journeys intermingle to bring each person to new understandings in the middle of what life throws at them.
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, 2011, Nonfiction
This is the true story of how one woman and her two sisters mobilized other women into a dressmaking business under the watchful and oppressive rule of the Taliban.
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, Fiction, 2018
A family of three decide to start over in a remote part of Alaska where nothing they learned in any other part of rustic America defined success. It is a page-turner of danger, desperation, first-love, lost hope and reclaimed dream and reminds us that aloneness is a bane or a blessing depending on what you don’t want to face.
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