Empty Closets


Book Description

Follow Susan Hughes Lewis as she learns how to live and raise her baby boy after her husband, Ben, dies suddenly of a heart attack. Written as a sequel to Closets in the Heart, author Suzanne Adair Young hopes to bless readers with the life events that follow as Susan is blessed by family and friends. A cross-country move is in store, not to mention many more precious new lives. But will one of those lives be ripped away when Susan least expects it? Readers will hurt when she hurts, cry when she cries, and above all be joyful as Susan is joyful. She thought her closets had been emptied of the anger and hurt that are so tempting to hide there, but have they been emptied entirely? See what God has in store for Susan in Empty Closets and walk with her in this poignant family saga.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell


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It's show time! Home staging transforms rooms from that everyday lived-in look to ready-to-be sold for top dollar. This step-by-step guide offers the tactics used by home stagers - from de-cluttering and cleaning up to arranging and remodeling - that will often yield a quicker sale and higher selling price. --Decorating tips to make a house appeal to the widest range of buyers --Cost-effective techniques to highlight the home's selling points, whether it's the floor plan, the high ceilings, or a newly renovated bathroom --Suggestions on how to downplay or eliminate features that might be considered negatives. such as smaller rooms, minimal storage space, or ghastly wall colors




The Metaphysics of Time


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Seventh in the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, this book discusses the concept of time and shows in the simplest ways how time informs discussions about causality, creation, physics, consciousness of time, and much more. Creating a series of conversations between two fictional characters, Bradley Dowden uses the characters to explore nine metaphysical issues involving time. Through the dialogue between his two protagonists, Dowden offers well-known arguments in the field of metaphysics for positions on such topics as the finite nature of time, absolute versus relational time, and Zeno's paradoxes of motion. The book draws on the theories of numerous philosophers, including Aristotle, Quine, Chrysippus, St. Augustine, Earman, Van Fraassen, Liebniz, and Hawking.










Forget Regret: Create a Life of Contentment


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Sometimes we stumble in our lives, but if we have the courage to keep going, we become more graceful as we go. This is a collection of life lessons that remind us to simplify our lives and our relationships. We can "forget regret" if we behave in a way that makes us proud. That way, there is no need for regret. This book tells it like it is but leaves us with a positive feeling and a determination to understand our lives in order to truly live them.







The Girl Who Passed for Normal


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In an isolated Roman villa, widowed English dancer Barbara Michaels serves as paid companion and tutor to twenty year-old Catherine, whose rich American mother thinks her 'mad.' In Barbara's eyes it's simply the case that Catherine is not 'all there', and dwells too much in the dysfunctional part of her own head. Barbara's sense of what is and is not 'normal', however, is about to be overturned. First published in 1973, The Girl Who Passed for Normal was Hugh Fleetwood's second novel and the winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for its year. 'Guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your chair.' New York Times 'Shocking... Horridly memorable.' San Francisco Chronicle




Brief Encounters


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"The best bathroom reading ever written! Each story takes just the right amount of time."—Mel Brooks




I Close My Eyes..


Book Description

"I Close My Eyes" is a collection of short stories, poetry, and prose, created from a look into past life and somatic experiences.