Everyone's mother is dead or dying. It is nothing new, nothing ceasing, nothing fresh or interesting. But when your mother is dying and when this dying insists at once that you take notice of it, you feel her bones in your own and that insistence stretches into the vision you have of your own life. This short collection of essays explores life and death-what they take, what they give, and what they leave behind.

Hugging Death: Essays on Motherhood and Saying Goodbye

Self-Help

Pace, Jean Knight

Death & Grief

Chasing Kites Publishing

Chronicles of a Stand-up Guy: A Peek into the Daily Grind of a Comedian

Humor & Entertainment

Housley, Mickey

Humor

Have you ever credited your success to having a Type A personality? If so, then you join an overwhelming number of people in the world who consider themselves Type A. As with any personality type, some qualities are positive and some are negative. But do these qualities bless or undermine the purpose God has given to us as Christians?In Type A Christian: Transforming Personality Traits into Fruitful Growth, Autumn Hoover sets out to answer these questions and to guide us in identifying positive and negative personality traits in order to fulfill our roles as followers of Christ.Type A Christian is a unique self-examination that introduces us to various personality types and behaviors and then provides us with a one-of-a-kind personality quiz to help assess our own common behaviors and Christian conduct. Here, Autumn combines her 17 years of experience helping people as a healthcare provider with her passion for personality examination and knowledge of Scripture to help us identify which traits need to be improved and which ones need to be transformed altogether. Using insightful examinations of Scripture, personality traits, and behaviors, Autumn walks us through an honest look at whether or not our behaviors coincide with the fruit of the Spirit. Each chapter in this book reveals valuable information that will impact our walk with Christ and the furthering of His Kingdom.God made us all unique and granted us with varying personalities to fulfill His purpose. Learning which traits to grow and which to prune can benefit both the church and the world in utilizing our best attributes and spreading the Gospel.

Type A Christian: Transforming Personality Traits into Fruitful Growth (Type A Christian 2-Book Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hoover, Autumn

Psychology & Counseling

When God speaks, Leisa Spann listens, but listening doesn’t mean things always turn out the way she expects them to. She has learned that in time, however, they always come together in the way God intends. And His ways are truly glorious.In this beautiful collection of stories, original poems, and scripture, It’s a God Thing: One Woman Experiences His Signs, Miracles, and Wonders, Trusting God introduces us to Leisa Spann and the miracles and wonders that have occurred in her own life. From her near-misses with death to opening a Christian gift shop, Leisa’s determination to live in accordance with God’s will and by His Word resulted in signs, miracles, and wonders that blessed not only her life, but the lives of those around her. In a world where faith and bearing testimony are not always appreciated, Leisa’s stories give us the courage to look for the signs and miracles that occur in our own lives, and to find the peace that comes when we turn our hearts to God and trust that He will never forsake us.Leisa’s personal journey truly testifies to all that the days of miracles, signs, and wonders has not ceased.

It's a God Thing: One Woman Experiences Signs, Miracles, and Wonders, Trusting God

Religion & Spirituality

Spann, Leisa

Christian Books & Bibles

“I’m not going to try it,” I said. “You’ll like it,” she argued. “I know I’ll like it,” I said. “That’s why I’m not going to try it.” “Try it just this once and I’ll never ask you to do it again.” That was a deal. I slipped back into the driver’s seat while Pat corn-rowed two neat lines of the silky white powder on the back of a plastic cassette tape cover. Fifteen hundred dollars every month, an abusive boyfriend, a molested child, a lost family, hotels for houses, a ruined leg, a gun to my head, a knife to my butt, a jail cell all my own. Black eyes, bruised days, broken hours. Looking back, it seems strange what I gave up to get my roommate off my back. It only took four seconds. ***In her debut memoir, Andrade tells of her years with cocaine and crystal methamphetamines—using, then selling—until all she had left of the life she wanted was a chalk outline and a pack of cigarettes. This is the story of her use and recovery, of the people who frustrated and inspired her, of her decision to leave the drug world. It is the story of her slow, often unsteady walk home.

Four Seconds: A Memoir

Andrade, Laura

Addiction & Recovery

On Sunday, Priscilla was a seven-year-old orphan living in Mexico. On Monday, she found herself in suburban Philadelphia beginning a new life. Instead of a happy ending, Priscilla cried and pleaded in Spanish to return to the woman who raised her. Love at the Border provides a rare look into the international adoption of an older child and speaks to all blended families as mother and daughter endeavor to bridge two worlds. This true story of love, loss, trust, and survival is a powerful testament to family and our need to belong. Women on both sides of the border – and ultimately Priscilla herself – must discover the key to her past that will provide a future full of the love she wants and deserves.

Love at the Border: An Adoption Memoir from Mexico

Politics & Social Sciences

DiDio, Anna Maria

Social Sciences

Grey Stone

In the land of the great red sun, dogs sing, wolves kill, humans serve, and wolf-shifters rule with magic and menace. 
Pietre is a human boy who has spent the last thirteen years afraid of the sunset, the Blødguard, and the wolf-shifting masters who rule his world. 
Wittendon is a werewolf prince who has spent the last nineteen years afraid of his father, his inability to do magic, and the upcoming tournament he's sure to lose. 
But when Pietre finds an orphaned pup in the woods and Wittendon is forced to arrest the boy's father soon after, both of them begin to realize that keeping the rules might be just as terrifying as breaking them. 
Now serf and master must learn to cut through their own prejudices and work together in order to turn their world before it turns on them. Grey Stone is a story of dogs who talk, wolves who kill, and a stone that-for better or worse-can change all that.

Grey Stone (The Grey)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Kennedy, Jacob

Fantasy

Grey Lore

Despite the perks of living with her rich aunt, Ella’s new life in Napper, Indiana, is pretty much tragically boring.Until Ella starts hearing strange voices. As rogue wolves begin to stalk the edges of town and a serial killer with a penchant for silver bullets draws closer, the city of Napper seems to wake up. Ella, with her new friends, Sam and Sarah, might be able to find out what the strange occurrences mean. Except that they’re all being pulled in different directions by people who love them; and some who don’t. Before they lose their way to the whispers they hear from the past, or the call to a future they’re not sure they want to create, the friends will need to confront who they really are and figure out what’s hiding in the silence of their sleepy little town.

Grey Lore (The Grey)

Dr. Bob wrote this book for individuals who might not realize what optometry is all about. He feels that individuals interested in becoming optometrists and optometrists already practicing could benefit from reading this book.He has now been working in optometry for almost thirty-eight years, thirty years of which has been in his own practice. Looking Good takes you through the time Dr. Bob first became interested in optometry to the present. He has seen over ten thousand patients throughout his career. Optometry is such a part of his life. The changes he’s made in his patients’ lives mean so much to him. It’s hard to describe the wonderful feeling he gets when a previous patient comes into the office and they say how they love coming into the office. As time goes on, Dr. Bob’s passion and excitement for optometry continue to grow, along with his practice. The whole area of E-Sports and the visual demands of its players can certainly benefit from appropriate optometric intervention. We can improve the performance of these individuals.At sixty-three years old, Dr. Bob is more excited about the profession than ever.

Looking Good: My Passion for Optometry and the Lives I've Changed

Medical Books

Rothbard, Dr. Bob

Allied Health Professions

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