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Book No More Perfect Marriages

Download or read book No More Perfect Marriages written by Jill Savage and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Many people say you can fix a broken marriage, but Mark and Jill show you how.” —Dr. Juli Slattery, psychologist, author, and president of Authentic Intimacy No marriage is perfect. But every marriage can get better. Do you feel like the spark is gone? Like a critical spirit has invaded your marriage? Like you want more intimacy, but something is in the way? You could be suffering from the Perfection Infection. The Perfection Infection happens when we cultivate unrealistic expectations of ourselves and our spouse, gradually leading to intimacy-killing behavior, also known as the “Seven Slow Fades.” That was the case for Jill and Mark Savage, and it eventually led to infidelity. In No More Perfect Marriages they speak honestly about their struggles, how they came back from betrayal, and the principles keeping their marriage strong today. They guide you in everything you need to know to kick the Perfection Infection right out and return to intimacy. In their warm, honest, personable style, Jill and Mark discuss: How the Perfection Infection invades a marriage—even a good marriage How to detect and correct the Seven Slow Fades How to set and communicate realistic expectations What to do if your spouse just won’t change How to guard your marriage from the Perfection Infection for good Hurting marriages can heal, and good marriages can become great. It takes work, yes, but No More Perfect Marriages will give you the insights, language, and roadmap you need for the journey. So start today. GROUP RESOURCES: A leader’s guide is included in the back of the book. FREE video curriculum and additional group resources are available for No More Perfect Marriages at www.NoMorePerfect.com. _____ “[Replaces] the Hollywood mirage of a storybook romance with a healthy blueprint of a real and rock-solid relationships. If you're looking for an authentic story, practical how-to, and hope to build true and lasting love, you've found it." — Michele Cushatt, author, Undone: A Story of Making Peace With An Unexpected Life “… Will empower readers to create healthier responses when facing marital challenges… Excited [to add it] to our recommended resources for couples." — Michelle Nietert, licensed counselor “Vulnerable, honest, and helpful… If you want to improve, save, restore, or renew your marriage, read this book.” — Mike Baker, sr. pastor, Eastview Christian Church, Normal, Illinois “Encouraging and very practical!” — Shaunti Feldhahn, social researcher and bestselling author of For Women Only and For Men Only

Book Big Wild Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jill Sherer Murray
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2020-05-12
  • ISBN : 163152853X
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Big Wild Love written by Jill Sherer Murray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Sherer Murray lived in a dead-end relationship into her forties before she finally let it go. She was like millions of women who struggle with whether to stay in a loveless marriage, a bad relationship, or give up on dating altogether, believing love isn’t in the cards. You may be struggling with a similar decision yourself. Perhaps you’re terrified of being single, and yet you don’t truly feel you’re living the life you want. With warmth and honesty, Murray shows you how letting go—of feeling stuck, afraid, and alone, and of believing what you’ve got is all you deserve—can free you from a life that isn’t serving you. She knows this is true, because she did it herself—and ultimately attracted the love and life she wanted. Through her story, other women’s stories, surprising facts and statistics, and helpful exercises, Big Wild Love will show you the way back to the self you’ve lost. It will put you on the path to change and teach you that, wherever you are, it’s never too late to start anew and find the Big Wild Love you deserve.

Book Thrive Through the Five

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jill Siler
  • Publisher : Dave Burgess Consulting
  • Release : 2020-09-05
  • ISBN : 9781951600662
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Thrive Through the Five written by Jill Siler and published by Dave Burgess Consulting. This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're defined by our failures only if we let ourselves be. In today's stressful climate of education budget shortfalls, ever-evolving academic standards, and widespread cultural transformation, how can educators find the confidence to become the leaders they hope to be? Thrive through the Five helps school leaders navigate that challenging 5 percent of work (and life) when things are really, really hard. The goal of this book is to not just help readers survive through those moments, days, and seasons, but to lead through them and truly thrive. The superintendent of Gunter ISD, a growing school district an hour north of Dallas, Dr. Siler offers a refreshingly honest account of the challenges and pitfalls of leadership. Coupled with her infectious optimism, her wisdom and insight invite educational professionals to take the next best step and move confidently--even through the toughest times. "Thrive through the Five transforms challenges into positive opportunities and achievement. It's a must-read for school leaders." --Jon Gordon, New York Times best-selling author of The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership "In Thrive through the Five, Dr. Siler uses her own experiences and expertise to provide practical, relevant insights into how all school leaders can thrive in those difficult times. This should be required reading for anyone who dares to be a great leader." --Kevin Brown, EdD, executive director, Texas Association of School Administrators "Thrive through the Five is a great story of one leader's journey to find a way through the parts of our jobs that don't always bring us the most joy, but often take up the most time. The quotes will inspire and the process will clearly help you navigate the 5 percent that has such an impact on our world both emotionally and physically as leaders." --Joe Sanfelippo, PhD, superintendent, Fall Creek School District, and author of Hacking Leadership

Book Grime and Punishment

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jill Churchill
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 1992-06
  • ISBN : 9780380764006
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Grime and Punishment written by Jill Churchill and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an unpopular cleaning lady is strangled to death with a vacuum cleaner cord, Jane Jeffry, a single mom with an eye for mysteries, finds time between PTA meetings and car pools to track down the killer.

Book The Prairie Homestead Cookbook

Download or read book The Prairie Homestead Cookbook written by Jill Winger and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.

Book Hausfrau

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jill Alexander Essbaum
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2015-03-17
  • ISBN : 0812997549
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Hausfrau written by Jill Alexander Essbaum and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, AND SHELF AWARENESS • “In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary.”—Time “A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her Tolstoyan namesake, throws herself into a psychosexual journey of self-discovery and tragedy.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman’s desperate soul.”—People Anna was a good wife, mostly. For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno—a banker—and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her. But Anna can’t easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it’s difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum’s debut novel is an unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves. Praise for Hausfrau “Elegant . . . There is much to admire in Essbaum’s intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present.”—Chicago Tribune “For a first novelist, Essbaum is extraordinary because she is a poet. Her language is meticulous and resonant and daring.”—NPR’s Weekend Edition “We’re in literary territory as familiar as Anna’s name, but Essbaum makes it fresh with sharp prose and psychological insight.”—San Francisco Chronicle “This marvelously quiet book is psychologically complex and deeply intimate. . . . One of the smartest novels in recent memory.”—The Dallas Morning News “Essbaum’s poignant, shocking debut novel rivets.”—Us Weekly “A powerful, lyrical novel . . . Hausfrau boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary.”—The Huffington Post “Imagine Tom Perrotta’s American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zürich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy.”—New York

Book Falling for Gracie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Mallery
  • Publisher : HQN Books
  • Release : 2017-04-25
  • ISBN : 1460397878
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Falling for Gracie written by Susan Mallery and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Someone Like You returns to Los Lobos and her “wit and wisdom are pitch-perfect as usual” (RT Book Reviews, Top Pick, 4 1/2 stars). First comes love, then comes marriage . . . At least, that was Gracie’s plan at the ripe old age of fourteen, when she loved eighteen-year-old heartthrob Riley with a desperation that made her a town legend. Even now that she’s all grown up, the locals in sleepy Los Lobos won’t let her forget her youthful crush. And how can she, when she’s face-to-face with Riley at every turn? The onetime bad boy has come back to town seeking respectability—but the sparks that fly between them are anything but respectable. Gracie’s determined to keep her distance, but when someone sets out to ruin both their reputations, the two discover that first love is sometimes better the second time around. Don’t miss The Happiness Plan, a new novel coming from #1 New York Times–bestselling author Susan Mallery where three women experience hope, heartache, and the power of friendship as they search for true happiness! “Susan Mallery really is a small-town romance goddess . . . Falling for Gracie was a great example of everything there is to love about Susan Mallery romances.” —Cheeky Reads “Filled with humor, warmth and strong characters.” —Contemporary Romance Writers “The interactions and the intense emotions between the characters make for a fun and interesting read.” —All About Romance

Book No More Perfect Moms

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jill Savage
  • Publisher : Moody Publishers
  • Release : 2013-01-16
  • ISBN : 0802484107
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book No More Perfect Moms written by Jill Savage and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have ever forgotten to pick up your kids, accidentally worn two different shoes to the grocery store, or lost your cool over a messy house, YOU ARE NOT ALONE! In No More Perfect Moms, Jill Savage says it how it is: All moms struggle. We fall short of our own standard of excellence, and then we feel insecure about not being the perfect wife with the perfect kids, perfect husband, perfect home, perfect friends, perfect marriage, and perfect body… Jill speaks to the root of the insecurities mothers feel and points to a better way. No More Perfect Moms will help a mom: Change her unrealistic expectations to realistic hopes Give grace and love to her husband and children even during struggles, and discover the beauty of grace when she stops judging herself and others Find freedom from disappointment when she embraces her real family, her real challenges, and her real, but imperfect, life With refreshing honesty, Jill exposes some of her own parental shortcomings and helps mothers everywhere shelve their desires for perfection and embrace God’s beautiful grace. When moms do this, they can learn to love their real but imperfect lives. GROUP RESOURCES: FREE video curriculum, a leader’s guide, and additional group resources are available for No More Perfect Moms at www.NoMorePerfect.com.

Book Better Together

Download or read book Better Together written by Jill Savage and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a mom is hard, but it doesn’t have to be lonely. Are you trying to do this mothering thing alone? So focused on the kids that you’re hungry for friendships of your own? Have good friendships, but you want to enjoy them more? Jill Savage, mother of five, knows those challenges well, and she’s here to help. Presenting a compelling vision of motherhood as a group effort, Better Together shows how you can: Combat isolation and enjoy a supportive mothering community Increase your social confidence and stop the comparison game Deepen your friendships as you share life with others Strengthen trust and build friendships without fear Increase your joy and thrive as a mom All these things are possible. Dive into this storehouse of creative ideas for how to make mothering easier, richer, and more fun than you ever thought it could be. GROUP RESOURCES: A leader’s guide is included in the back of the book. FREE video curriculum and additional group resources are available for Better Together at www.BetterTogetherBook.org.

Book Loving Corrections

Download or read book Loving Corrections written by adrienne maree brown and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times-bestselling author adrienne maree brown knows we need each other more than ever, and offers “loving corrections”: a roadmap towards collective power, righting wrongs, and true belonging This selection of prescient, compassionate essays explores patterns we engage in that are rooted in limited thinking. Through a lens of “loving correction” rather than mere critique, author adrienne maree brown helps us reimagine how to hold ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities accountable by setting clear boundaries, engaging in reflection, and nurturing honest relationships. Loving Corrections is divided into two sections, with the first portion featuring new essays including “A Word for White People” and “Relinquishing the Patriarchy” and writing on topics like moving from fragility to fortitude, disability, and navigating critique within activist communities. The second section expands and updates pieces from brown's popular monthly column “Murmurations” in YES! Magazine that explore accountability—within oneself and community—with depth, inventiveness, and empathy. Along with allowing us more authentic access to ourselves and to each other, the “corrections” in the book’s title are intended to explore and break identity-based patterns including white supremacy, fragility, patriarchy, and ableism. brown also offers practical guidance on how to apologize and be accountable from our nuanced positions of power, history, and resources. Building on her previous work—especially Holding Change and We Will Not Cancel Us—brown reminds us how much we need each other: "It is only through relationship that we learn how to be, understand our impact on others and explore small shifts that may yield remarkable collective change."

Book Zur alliteration im Neuenglischen

Download or read book Zur alliteration im Neuenglischen written by Karl Seitz and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 50 Best Romance Classics in One Volume

Download or read book 50 Best Romance Classics in One Volume written by Jane Austen and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 18063 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents a unique collection of the most exhilarating romances ever written, book which are sometimes with a happy ending, sometimes with a tragedy of the true heartbreak and sometimes lighten with the comedy of everyday: Romeo & Juliet (Play & Prose Version) Evelina & Camilla (Fanny Burney) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Persuasion (Jane Austen) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Villette (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Red and the Black (Stendhal) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Adam Bede (George Eliot) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) The House of a Thousand Candles (Meredith Nicholson) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Jennie Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser) Ann Veronica (H. G. Wells) The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill) The Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill) Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Miranda The Agony Column (Earl DerrBiggers) The Bride of Lammermoor (Walter Scott) Night and Day (Virginia Woolf) Affairs of State (Burton Egbert Stevenson) Jill the Reckless (P.G. Wodehouse) The Black Moth (Georgette Heyer) The Transformation of Philip Jettan (Georgette Heyer) And Both Were Young (Madeleine L'Engle) Penny Plain (O. Douglas) The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

Book Moving Is Murder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sara Rosett
  • Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • Release : 2007-03-01
  • ISBN : 0758272804
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Moving Is Murder written by Sara Rosett and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cozy mystery series opener, a military wife and professional organizer unpacks a murder case in her new neighborhood. Moving four times in five years has honed Air Force wife Ellie Avery’s packing and unpacking skills. But moving with a newborn daughter and husband Mitch in tow, during a heat wave, is enough to make her turn to chocolate for comfort. And when Ellie finds a local environmentalist dead on the side of the road, her instincts tell her this was no accident . . . Ellie snoops into the activist’s suspicious demise, only to realize she’s getting closer to the killer . . .maybe too close! This first Ellie Avery mystery launched a series that continues to win readers’ hearts. Includes great tips for an organized move! “A fun debut for an appealing young heroine.” —Carolyn Hart “A cozy debut that’ll help you get organized and provide entertainment in your newfound spare time.” —Kirkus Reviews

Book The Anatomy of a Calling

Download or read book The Anatomy of a Calling written by Lissa Rankin and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Anatomy of a Calling, Lissa Rankin, MD, makes a simple yet revolutionary claim: We are all, every single one of us, heroes. We are all on what Joseph Campbell calls "a hero's journey;" we are all on a mission to step into our true nature and fulfill the assignment our souls were sent to Earth to fulfill. Navigating the hero's journey, Dr. Rankin argues, is one of the cornerstones of living a meaningful, authentic, healthy life. In clear, engaging prose, Dr. Rankin describes her entire spiritual journey for the first time--beginning with what she calls her "perfect storm" of events--and recounts the many transformative experiences that led to a profound awakening of her soul. Through her father's death, her daughter's birth, career victories and failures, and an ongoing struggle to identify as both a doctor and a healer, Dr. Rankin discovers a powerful self-awareness. As she shares her story, she encourages you to find out where you are on your own journey and offers wisdom and inspiration in the form of "Hero's Guideposts" along the way. Dr. Rankin weaves in lessons on trusting intuition, surrendering to love, and learning to see adversity as an opportunity for soul growth. Much more than a memoir, The Anatomy of a Calling guides you to make a powerful shift in consciousness and reach your highest destiny.

Book The Transparent Temple

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Brottvick
  • Publisher : FriesenPress
  • Release : 2014-04-07
  • ISBN : 1770977228
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book The Transparent Temple written by Andrew Brottvick and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the needs of a struggling and drug-addicted community are pitted against the economic interests of a city, the outcome is rarely in question. Money wins. In The Transparent Temple, a determined group of recovering addicts are hoping to be the exception to that rule, bringing focus, understanding, and a new strategy for change they hope will heal the rifts in a broken society. City council will either choose to back "The Clinic Project," converting the Lund Building into an addiction clinic-with emergency, counselling, detox, and teaching facilities-or "The Corridor Project," which would demolish the building, in order to make room for a multimillion dollar complex-comprised of a cultural and historical centre, a community centre, and a housing complex for seniors-which will bring tourist dollars to the city's coffers. The Transparent Temple follows the major players in this struggle through seven pivotal days leading up to the crucial city council vote-days that could mean the difference between life and death for the men and women struggling to survive the addictions that have derailed their lives, and cast them into the role of second class citizens. Regardless of the outcome, the shared journey will impact greatly on the lives of all the major players, whose perspectives will never be the same. www.thetransparenttemple.com

Book English for Everyone Level 2 Beginner s Course

Download or read book English for Everyone Level 2 Beginner s Course written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide to English will ensure you're speaking the same language in no time. Work your way up with the ultimate self-study course that is easy to use and quick to learn. The Level 2 beginner's book guarantees an engaging and entertaining experience for adults learning English as a foreign language. Budding beginners who already know the basics of English, this one is for you. Moving on from Level 1, this brilliant book goes into more depth and detail, including talking about yourself and your feelings, routines, choices, past events, future plans, achievements, and ambitions. Eye-catching illustrations and step-by-step explanations keep content simple and straightforward for easy learning. Packed with listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises presented in bite-size modules, you can follow the book from start to finish or dip in and out to boost your language skills, expand your vocabulary, and get to grips with grammar. Level 2 builds your confidence and knowledge on the way to advanced English. English for Everyone Level 2 Beginner's Course covers the major global English-language exams, including TOEFL and IELTS. This book is part of DK's best-selling English for Everyone series, which is suitable for all levels of English language learners and provides the perfect reading companion for study, exams (including TOEFL and IELTS), work, or travel. With audio material available on the accompanying English For Everyone website and Android/iOS apps bringing vital experience of spoken English, there has never been a better time to learn the world's second most popular language.