Amazing Grace for Survivors


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“For when I am weak, then I am strong.” - 2 Cor 12:10 As Christians, we recognize that life’s struggles can bring us strength and peace even if the challenges remain. This means that surviving is more than merely getting through an ordealÑit is being triumphant in spirit, regardless of the outcome. In Amazing Grace for Survivors, you will will witness God’s power as He forms and strengthens ordinary people who faced extraordinary circumstances. You will experience the pain in these stories and share the glory of their triumph. In the end, their grace becomes yours, for we are one body in Christ. In Amazing Grace for Survivors, you will meet: A man with cancer whose fear of dying teaches him how to live. A disabled girl who comes to understand that all life is precious. A woman who fights to adopt her son from Vietnam, and then fears she only brought him home to die. A heartbroken mother that learns to trust that her autistic son is in God’s hands. A mother that hunts down her drug-addicted daughter and brings her home. …and many more




Amazing Grace ~ the Survivors


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This is a survivalist book - filled with good tips and hints on how to survive. What the author has done is combine a practical survivalist book with practical information, creativity and fictional explanations and scenarios to allow the reader to prepare for various situational assessments of a crisis caused by natural disasters. A warning for readers is the fact that whenever a catastrophe strikes, there are victims and innocents. Strangers, men, women, children and this kind of contact create relationships. Relationships are handled in different ways depending on the threat level or compatibility. This book delves into a romantic erotic relationship between survivors. It is realistic in every way but fictional to keep it open and honest. Secondly, this book is also about a growing relationship between a stranded stranger and the survivalist who takes them under his wing and falls in love with her. Without a doubt, this book has sexually explicit scenes and romance created and woven into the fabric of this story. No man or woman should have to endure such an adventure without a partner - a very attractive and sensual partner who falls in love with this hero of a man who pulled her out of the zombie apocalypse and monsoon rains.This book is the final collection of the series where a man, woman and child meet and endure the struggles of an apocalyptic war against zombies and the survival needs of the El Ni�o that strikes hard with brutal lashing power and cripples the West Coast with flashflood, power outages and fuel shortages that put people in dangers. It also deals with survivors caught in the storms.This story it totally fictional but could be the real thing if you are a creative and visionary person. Whether you believe it or not, the havoc or chaos either one of these perfect storms brings to our society is worth reading about as the book is full of information on surviving the weather-related disasters and the zombie attacks when such conflicts appear. Weather forecasters have predicted a severe and damp El Nino weather conditions, the extreme change in climate and the environmental impacted of the numerous flashfloods helped spread the fear and number of zombies and their lethal virus biting behaviors. Although the El Ni�o for 2015-2016 did not impact the southern part of California but did cause a lot of beach shore erosion, the purpose of the book is to bring awareness while entertaining the reader with facts and other related matters. Therefore, we included zombies as they could very well be the enemy as either real or in an analogical expression.




Amazing Grace for Those Who Suffer


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A compelling collection of stories of hope and healing. These true stories will make you laugh, make you cry, and show you the power of God's healing grace. Ten stories address the age-old question of why a good God would allow people to suffer and how good can come out of evil. An inspirational collection of heart-wrenching and heart-warming sagas of people who have endured great hardship and have discovered hope and healing through God's amazing grace.




Americaca – the Sounds of Silenced Survivors


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I was an Indian without a tribe, stuck in the Oakland Housing Projects with only a maternal compass to guide me. Dios te bendiga, Mijo, my mother would say placing her hand on my forehead each day, asking God to bless me. I could feel her medicine, her energy, and her hope for me enter my body, fill my soul, and warm the cold. This was Her Blessing Way, praying for my protection in her absence, warning me of all the dangers. There were many dangers for an Indian boy in 1950s Apartheid Oakland, a reflection of Apartheid America. This is a story of raising children in a country that hated US, a story of how my mother fought to protect her Native son, a story of how she WON! This is an example of a common Native struggle; native mothers protecting their children, during and after The Indian Wars. This is about the generational trauma from The Indian Wars and the wounded soul of an Indian boy, growing up to be a Warrior in response to that war against our humanity.




Southern Writers at Century's End


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Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other regions of the United States. The rapid change that climaxed with the war in Vietnam, the Cold War, civil rights demonstrations, and Watergate has forced the traditional South to come to terms with social upheaval. As the essays collected in Southern Writers at Century's End point out, southern writing: since 1975 reflects the confusion and violence that have characterized late-twentieth-century public culture. These essays consider the work of twenty-one of the foremost southern writers whose most important fiction has appeared in the last quarter of this century. As the region's contemporary writers have begun to gain a wide audience, critics have begun to distinguish what Hugh Holman has called "the fresh, the vital, and the new" in southern literary culture. Southern Writers at Century's End is the first volume to take an extensive look at the current generation of southern writers. Authors considered include: James Lee Burke, Fred Chappell, Robert Drake, Andre Dubus, Clyde Edgerton, Richard Ford, Kaye Gibbons, John Grisham, Barry Hannah, Mary Hood, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Richard Marius, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Tim McLaurin, T.R. Pearson, Lee Smith, Anne Tyle,r Alice Walker, and James Wilcox.




Grace Will Lead Us Home


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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS PICK * OPRAH MAGAZINE SUMMER 2019 READING LIST SELECTION * NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE “A soul-shaking chronicle of the 2015 Charleston massacre and its aftermath... [Hawes is] a writer with the exceedingly rare ability to observe sympathetically both particular events and the horizon against which they take place without sentimentalizing her subjects. Hawes is so admirably steadfast in her commitment to bearing witness that one is compelled to consider the story she tells from every possible angle.” —The New York Times Book Review A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jennifer Berry Hawes. On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof’s massacre of nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the nation. Two days later, some relatives of the dead stood at Roof’s hearing and said, “I forgive you.” That grace offered the country a hopeful ending to an awful story. But for the survivors and victims’ families, the journey had just begun. In Grace Will Lead Us Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jennifer Berry Hawes provides a definitive account of the tragedy’s aftermath. With unprecedented access to the grieving families and other key figures, Hawes offers a nuanced and moving portrait of the events and emotions that emerged in the massacre’s wake. The two adult survivors of the shooting begin to make sense of their lives again. Rifts form between some of the victims’ families and the church. A group of relatives fights to end gun violence, capturing the attention of President Obama. And a city in the Deep South must confront its racist past. This is the story of how, beyond the headlines, a community of people begins to heal. An unforgettable and deeply human portrait of grief, faith, and forgiveness, Grace Will Lead Us Home is destined to be a classic in the finest tradition of journalism.




Surviving Theresienstadt


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After the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, Vera Schiff and her family were sent to Theresienstadt. Touted as the "model ghetto" for propaganda purposes, as well as to deceive Red Cross inspectors, it was in fact a holding camp for famous Jews--in case the world was to inquire. For most, however, it was the last stop on the way to the gas chambers. Those "lucky" enough to remain alive faced slave labor, starvation and disease. Shiff's intimate narrative of endurance recounts her and her family's three years in Theresienstadt, the challenges of life under postwar communism, and her escape to the nascent and turbulent state of Israel.




A Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors


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If stories are medicine, then this collection will help keep hopes up and spirits alive on the road to recovery. Readers will applaud the bravery of 50 exceptional survivors as they tell their unique experiences with breast cancer. Every breast cancer survivor has a different story, but they all have one thing in common: courage. From dealing with diagnosis to undergoing chemotherapy, facing hair loss and possibly the loss of a breast, these fearless women undergo more than anyone ever should. These stories pay tribute to these women and their battles, and celebrate their victories. In this stunning new collection, readers will find compelling, inspiring, and uplifting personal essays about the experiences and emotions of living with—and after—breast cancer. $.50 of every copy will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®




God Says I Am Battle-Scar Free


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BATTLE-SCARS: Neglect. Molestation. Brokenness. Abandonment. Those WERE some of the experiences endured by the authors of "God Says I am Battle-Scar Free." PURPOSE-FILLED! HEALED! STRONG! SURVIVOR! Those ARE the words used to describe those same people today. In this third installment of the Battle-Scar Free series, new testimonies of God's amazing grace and protection are shared. With each painstaking memory pained herein, the pathway to healing appeared - and, for some, their healing is still in repair. For those in like-circumstances, may these testimonies inspire YOU to become Battle-Scar Free. BE ENCOURAGED! BE EMBOLDENED! BE EMPOWERED! No longer shall God's children be subjected to a life He never intended. God loves us more than we could EVER love ourselves. In turn, He desires that we be loved FULLY by others...NOT abused by them.




Born from Silence


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Starting with the Psalms, poetry has long had a beloved and important place in Christian culture. Mark Anthony Grubb continues and maintains that tradition with this volume of poetry that will bring you to spiritual heights you have never experienced. Grubb’s gifted hand weaves a gamut of cadenced expressions, including the cross of Jesus, death and dying, gratitude for moms, a celebration of nature, God’s promises expressed in the coming of spring, questioning whether Jesus ever laughed, honor for the flag, and many more. For the faithful, this book will encourage, enlighten and challenge. For others, a journey with Grubb’s verse will inspire you to contemplate your spiritual condition. Lovers of inspirational lyrical poetry will find a treat in this classic hardback volume of 77 poems.