A Life Lived, Despite It All


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Dr. Earl W. Hendricks opens his heart and invites readers into the intimate journey of his life well lived. From childhood beginnings of abandonment and abuse in Jamaica to excelling in education and ministry. A Life Lived, Despite It All beautifully illustrates how finding love and redemption through God's unmerited favor can save anyone from the depths of despair. Dr. Hendricks's heartfelt memoir provides a compelling roadmap for overcoming life's struggles and embracing God's purpose and plan for your life, even if you sometimes find yourself a reluctant disciple. Recalling his extraordinary journey, Dr. Hendricks allows readers to delve deeply into his multifaceted relationship with his birth parents, the struggles and joys of being embraced by a white adoptive family, and his own journey into fatherhood, marriage, and ministry. A skilled and generous writer, Dr. Hendricks shares his own devastating experience with loss and divorce and provides hope for those who may be struggling with discouragement. A Life Lived, Despite It All demonstrates how staying close to God, answering his call for your life, and being open to love can be the antidote to a broken heart and blueprint to a life well lived.




Before Your Eyes - Despite It All, You Still Rise


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In this book, the author wishes to reach people's heart through her words and tell them how relatable we are to each other and how our own expectations hurt us. she hopes that we all find love within ourselves first because at the end of the day all we have is ourselves. About the Author: Unzila Iftikhar, a Pakistani teen writer and poet, born on April 2, 2003, in Karachi is an aspiring writer whose goal has always been to be known as a writer, a poet or a novelist. She wants to reach people's heart and let them know that whatever they are going through, they are not alone. She wishes to let people know how relatable we are to each other and how we can help each other to overcome our fears, ordeals and difficulties; and that we can find peace within ourselves. That we can save each other if we just hammer the wall of silence between us; we can complete each other.




The Sun and Her Flowers


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Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom




Despite It All, Here You Stand


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Unfortunately no one gets to choose the start of their life or gets to decide which foot they start off on. Growing up in the Foster care system and enduring every kind of abuse, is not ideal, especially when you're left alone at the end of it all. Eventually in life, you come to make your own choices. With a little bit of forgiveness, hope, and God on your side; you can still thrive and prosper. This book shares a story that could've ended tragically had I let my past define my future and the person I am today.




Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe


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Bringing together important new work by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe approaches emotions as a phenomenon complexly intertwined with society, culture, politics, and history. The stories in this book involve sensitive aristocrats, committed revolutionaries, aggressive nationalists, political leaders, female victims of sexual violence, perpetrators and victims of Stalinist terror, citizens in the former Yugoslavia in the wake of war, workers in post-socialist Romania, Balkan Romani "Gypsy" musicians, and veterans of the Afghan and Chechen wars. These essays explore emotional perception and expression not only as private, inward feeling but also as a way of interpreting and judging a troubled world, acting in it, and perhaps changing it. Essential reading for those interested in new perspectives on the study of Russia and Eastern Europe, past and present, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities who are seeking new and deeper approaches to understanding human experience, thought, and feeling.




Despite It All


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An FBI agent and military sergeant get all tangled up. Sergeant Joshua Greene - As a favor, Greene accepts a special assignment that puts him in the immediate vicinity of the disapproving Forest Taylor. Greene honors truth above all else so when a misunderstanding is cleared up between them, he is suddenly faced with a decision that challenges said honor. Should he come clean and tell Forest the truth or keep quiet? FBI agent Forest Taylor - Forest has his own set of problems, so he doesn't need the annoying Joshua Greene coming in all bossy and making matters worse. Greene doesn't even like him. Or does he? When he gets mixed signals from Greene, he can't help but wonder, should he back off or take a chance on Greene and lay it all on the line? The stakes are high and the lies, secrecy, and choices start adding up. Despite it all, can Forest convince Greene to stay? Will Greene admit the truth or will he take the easy way out and walk away?




Unapologetic


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Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the "new atheist" crowd, Spufford, a former atheist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, argues that Christianity is recognizable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the grown-up dignity of Christian experience. Fans of C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, Marilynne Robinson, Mary Karr, Diana Butler Bass, Rob Bell, and James Martin will appreciate Spufford's crisp, lively, and abashedly defiant thesis. Unapologetic is a book for believers who are fed up with being patronized, for non-believers curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century, and for anyone who feels there is something indefinably wrong, literalistic, anti-imaginative and intolerant about the way the atheist case is now being made.




Great by Choice


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Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. This book isclassic Collins: contrarian, data-driven and uplifting.




Despite Chaos


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Alexandra Castle hides the brightest part of herself. As the heir-apparent to the Castle Resort empire, her only fault—according to her controlling father—is that she’s gay. Keeping her sexuality hidden seems a small price to pay for upholding the family image. When Alex’s father pits her against her twin brother in a high-stakes competition to choose who will take over the company upon his retirement, Alex knows she’s got what it takes to win. Until an ex-lover reappears and threatens to destroy her life. Tyler Falling hides the darkest part of herself. On the surface, she’s a put-together middle-class wife and mother. In reality, she’s broken from a sexual assault twelve years earlier. When Tyler unexpectedly comes face-to-face with her rapist, a deep family secret surfaces and jeopardizes the life she’s created. With both their worlds crumbling, Alex and Tyler escape to Napa where a brief, anonymous encounter sparks a mutual infatuation, changing the trajectory of their lives. Living a lie is no longer an option, but can an improbable romance bloom amid embezzlement, blackmail, and self-exploration? Content note: the book contains one brief description of a sexual assault. Book One in the Falling Castles Series.




How to Enjoy Your Life in Spite of it All


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The "twelve pathways" explained in this book are a modern, practical condensation of thousands of years of accumulated wisdom. A must for people sincerely interested in their personal growth.