Where Life Takes US


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Charlie Ramsey and Dora met for the first time in a parking lot after a football game. They became high school sweethearts. They got married after college and moved into a new housing development called Valley View Estates. For the next twenty-something years, they raised their two children, Samantha and Skip. When they left for college, Charlie and Dora found empty nest freedom and regularly attended a neighborhood bar on the weekends. Their next-door neighbors moved out, and a younger show business couple, the Reynoldses, who had traveled most of the world, moved in. Randy was a producer of fashion shows, theater, and musicians. Camile was a tall, beautiful, shapely blonde who was retired but had been a fashion model since she was in her teens. The Ramseys and the Reynoldses started socializing at home and the local bar in the neighborhood and became close friends.




Where Life Takes You


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Becca is caught between sanity and nightmares, and between therapy, work, and her constantly looming past she can't find room to breathe. The ghost of her late step-sister, Lisa, who had stolen away Ian, her best friend, and then ruined his life, is her closest company and she struggles to escape Lisa's hold, even in death. With the help of her best friend and longtime confidant, Dan, she learns how to live for herself and learns how to turn around a dark disposition.




Life Takes Place


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Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of specific places and place experiences to understand place more broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he calls "synergistic relationality," Seamon defines places as spatial fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events. Throughout his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennett’s method of progressive approximation, he considers place and place experience in terms of their holistic, dialectical, and processual dimensions. Recognizing that places always change over time, Seamon examines their processual dimension by identifying six generative processes that he labels interaction, identity, release, realization, intensification, and creation. Drawing on practical examples from architecture, planning, and urban design, he argues that an understanding of these six place processes might contribute to a more rigorous place making that produces robust places and propels vibrant environmental experiences. This book is a significant contribution to the growing research literature in "place and place making studies."




Unforeseen: Learning to Trust in God’s Plan When Life Takes Unexpected Turns


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Bailey Lynn had her life perfectly planned. She thought she was on the path that God had preordained for her. But when her life took an unexpected turn, Bailey was left to question God’s ability to dictate her life. With shattered dreams surrounding her, Bailey found herself looking for answers to where she should go from here. In Unforeseen: Learning to Trust in God’s Plan When Life Takes Unexpected Turns, Bailey shares how she learned to trust God with a future she had never planned. As she battled whether God’s plans for her were truly as good as He had promised in His Word, Bailey began to see that His ways were definitely not like hers—they were better. Bailey shares some of her darkest moments and how, in spite of it all, her life has been more fulfilled when she follows God’s plan. Come along with Bailey to explore how God can direct your future to be more amazing than you could have ever dreamed. Endorsements In her book, Unforeseen, Bailey Lynn is very vulnerable and shares stories to display how God has showed up in her life. I love her writing style and the reflection questions at the end of each chapter. If you need some encouragement and prompting to draw closer to God, this book is for you! Leslie Speas Author of From Hot Mess to MESSage: 90 Days of Messages for the Hot Mess in You and blogger at www.lesliespeas.com Unforeseen is an authentically written book that deepens our walk with God as we learn from Bailey’s keen ability to draw spiritual insight from unusual places. Bailey helps us see Jesus through her life’s journey—whether breaking in a horse, being in a mirror maze, or dealing with a dog with pink eye. Readers will love reading and learning from the stories in this book as they find hope in the midst of their own unforeseen circumstances. Heather Holleman Author of Seated with Christ: Living Freely in a Culture of Comparison Real, honest, and vulnerable, Bailey Lynn offers insight into the valleys of life and what to do when you find yourself in one. Through her soulful writing, Bailey affirms the realities of doubt, confusion, and unanswered questions when life hits hard and situations blindside you. Through Bailey’s stories in Unforeseen: Learning to Trust in God’s Plan When Life Takes Unexpected Turns, you can once again discover purpose and tools to restructure your perspective based on a scriptural foundation. You will be challenged with questions that only you can answer for yourself. This book is practical, inspiring, and deeply spiritual. DeAnna Lynn Sanders Author of Unseen People: Sharing Light and Life with your Neighbors and the Nations




Make Your Bed


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Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal). If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better. Admiral McRaven's original speech went viral with over 10 million views. Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech, McRaven now recounts tales from his own life and from those of people he encountered during his military service who dealt with hardship and made tough decisions with determination, compassion, honor, and courage. Told with great humility and optimism, this timeless book provides simple wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve more, even in life's darkest moments. "Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national security vault." --Washington Post "Superb, smart, and succinct." --Forbes




When Life Takes What Matters and No Rain, No Gain


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These two separate volumes grew out of Susan Lenzkes's own flood of adversity. As her husband, Herb, battled cancer, Susan came to recognize the goodness found not only in refreshing spring showers but also in the raging torrents that threaten to wash away the very bedrock of our lives. These two books are now combined in a larger print edition that is gentle on the eyes and even gentler on the heart.




Radical Compassion


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One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us. A PENGUIN LIFE TITLE




My American Harp


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"My American Harp" presents 1,169 poems written 2010-2014 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be an American in the modern world of an interconnected global civilization.




A Life Without Water and The Road Leads Back


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A Life Without Water and The Road Leads Back. Two full length books...one low price! Praise for Marci Bolden: Oh my goodness. This book had me sucked in from the beginning. A well written, heartbreaking book about forgiveness, and finding peace amidst a tragedy that no parent should face. Get the tissues ready!!! This was a great book. I need a day to recover. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Stefani Reads ‘OMG… This book has me feeling every kind of emotion... Have a box of tissues ready…Truly beautiful. Netgalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘It was so compelling… An extremely emotional rollercoaster of a read. I’m sure I felt my heart literally break.’ , Netgalley Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Life Without Water Blurb: Carol Denman divorced her husband over twenty years ago and has never looked back. But on the day before their daughter’s thirtieth birthday, John barges back into Carol’s life with a request that threatens the fragile stability she has built. John Bowman is sick. Very sick. While he still can, he has some amends to make and some promises to fulfill. But to do that, he not only needs his ex-wife’s agreement…he needs her. With the past hovering between them like a ghost, Carol and John embark on a decades-overdue road trip. Together they plunge back into a life without water…but which may ultimately set them free. The Road Leads Back blurb: Second chance romance please! Sometimes the only place left to go is home. Kara Martinson always thought her high school crush was out of her league, but they did share one night she’s never been able to forget. Nearly three decades after being disowned by her parents and forced to raise her son on her own, Kara’s made it—her art is being toasted at a gallery opening. Even better, she and her son are finally on stable ground. Until Mr. One-Night Stand himself crashes her party. Harry Canton always knew Kara would make it as an artist. Almost thirty years after high school, he still considers her the one that got away. But the surprise reunion doesn’t quite go to plan when Harry discovers he left her with more than just memories when he went away to college. Desperate to connect with the family he never knew existed, Harry convinces his son to move cross country for a fresh start with his father—and pleads with Kara to come home, too. Kara hasn’t stepped foot in their hometown since the day she was sent away. But her son desperately wants the father he never had and denying him that may cost her everything. Can love heal old heartaches so Harry and Kara can have a second chance at the future they were robbed of so long ago? Or will the pain of the past be too much to face? The Road Leads Back can be read as a standalone which is part of an overarching six book Stonehill Series. It is a sweet, second chance, small town romance from your new favorite author Marci Bolden. If a charming, sweet second chance romance story that reconnects hero and heroine after years and years apart sounds like your idea of a good time . . . this book is for you! Guaranteed HEA & No Cheating.




When Life Takes What Matters


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Lenzkes offers a reflective, hope-filled devotional guide for those who seek comfort in the face of loss and grief. Brief, meditative devotions consider the many aspects of loss and speak compassionately to grieving hearts, while offering God-centered solutions.