Download or read book If I Had Only Known written by David Mooney and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, David Mooney lived his life without God. In David's mind, he had done so many bad things that he no longer had a chance with God. What David didn't know was that God was always there, just waiting for David to come to Him. In If I Had Only Known, David Mooney offers a revealing look at his personal failures, weaknesses, and tragedies and his lifelong struggle to find the Lord. David can never shake the feeling that he is not worthy of God's love. He leaves his wife, his daughter, and his job as a schoolteacher and band director to go into private business managing nightclubs. In a world where sin and vice are king, David has no hope of changing his life. He falls deeper and deeper into sin, even becoming involved in a potential multimillion-dollar drug deal, before he realizes that he cannot continue living the way he is. David joins the army and moves overseas in an effort to right the wrongs in his life, and with the help of a few special people, David begins to turn his life around. When he returns home to the US, a series of events leads David to realize once and for all that he has been merely hiding from the truth—God has always been with him. Follow David on his inspirational walk with the Lord as he learns that God will take him as he is, flaws and all.

Download or read book If I Had Only Known written by James Girvan and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I often wonder if I would have made a different decision when that life-changing phone call came—if had I only known what lay ahead of me? At a time when the forest industry was on a bustling trajectory of development, and foresters were in hot demand, one man embarks on the adventure of his life. Working in British Columbia in the late 70s and 80s carried with it far fewer rules and restrictions than exist today, allowing for creative working practices and many, many adventures. James Girvan shares personal stories from his time as a professional forester, weaving a rich tapestry of a vibrant and important Canadian industry. Readers from within the forest trade will be delighted to see their own experiences represented on the page, and curious outsiders will find their thirst for adventure whetted in Girvan’s exciting (and at times, unconventional) adventures.

Download or read book A Clouded Mind written by Caleb Warner and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his debut book, A Clouded Mind, Caleb explores the everyday trials that we face—such as Alzheimer’s, spousal abuse, child abuse, the loss of loved ones, life in the ’70s, growing up different, etc. He writes from his heart through personal afflictions and experiences of growing up in the hills of Kentucky in the ’70s while also writing with empathetic stories told to him by others. Not many subjects go unexplored in his laidback way of delivery and his thought-provoking way we look at things. If you would like to contact Caleb with comments on his poetry or to find out where you can obtain your own copy, please email him at [email protected].

Download or read book Lonely Trail written by Pat Duffy Hutcheon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

Download or read book I Saw a Dragonfly written by Gregory Idleman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a chronicle of my life and marriage of 14 years to Cynthia Ann Idleman who passed July 15, 2006 from liver failure. Truly the love of each other's lives, the story starts with our marriage and life with her four children, but quickly moves to the last two years of her life. Extremely emotional and spirit filled, learn of the challenges faced, setbacks, disappointments, renewed faith, and miracles from above. Even after passing, Cindy has sent signs to her loved ones that she is still in their lives, while the husband learns to deal with the grief that is more than he ever imagined. Through it all faith has grown, love endures and lessons learned to deal with heartbreaking grief. A co-worker of the author, after reading the initial draft said, "this is a wonderful love story with many miracles and needs to be told and shared with others." It indeed is an exceptionally emotional book, bringing frequent tears to the reader, but provides hope and faith in God.

Download or read book Star Child written by Jennifer Martin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age four, author Jennifer Martins son, Kelly, was diagnosed with a rare inherited metabolic disorder, mucopolysaccharidosis, or MPS, which caused multiple complications throughout his life. He lived until the age of twenty-three, when he died of a sudden heart attack. In Star Child, Martin offers a poignant look at her bittersweet healing journey following her sons death. Martins heartfelt expressions in Star Child celebrate Kellys brief life and give grieving parents solace and support, allowing healing to begin. Star Child includes stories and poems that complement my writing. Each story and each poem were specifically chosen to be included because of their beauty, eloquence, grace, and power. The authors and poets featured here offer a sacred communion with their words, hearts, and the deep understanding of loss, pain, and love. Their words and sentiments echo a familiar song to my broken heart. Different stories, different wordsdifferent but, in the end, the same. In the words of Queen Elizabeth II, Grief is the price we pay for love. Jennifer Martin Praise for Star Child Star Child: A Mothers Journey through Grief, by Jennifer Martin, is a beautifully crafted tribute to a young sons life and death, which lands in the heart gently, like a feather from an angels wing. Maria Housden, author, Hannahs Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived Star Child is a beautifully told story. Jennifer Martin has managed to speak of her deep loss without sentimentality. Instead, she creates space for the universal elements of loss and grief to find expression. Through her words, the tearing apart of one mothers heart moves toward a fierce resolve to find the deeper meanings in love and life. In grief, she writes, Something expands and contracts inside of you. It is a wise image. Then she submits her own pain to the expansion. Paula DArcy, founder, Red Bird Foundation; author, Song for Sarah: A Mothers Journey through Grief and Beyond and When Darkness Unfolds as Light

Download or read book How to Think Bigger written by Mark Victor Hansen and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go beyond the confines of human thought into the realms of imagination and possibility. Mark Victor Hansen, bestselling co-author of The Chicken Soup for the Soul series bridges your ideas from being ordinary to extraordinary. With his unique ability to think outside the box, Mark will show you how to multiply, magnify and magnetize simple ideas and turn them into greatness. His techniques will obliterate obstacles and reveal solutions. You will learn how to: Open the door to opportunities by identifying and valuing them Maximize your natural abilities and true talents Use your fears as rocket fuel to launch your success Defeat your limitations by applying the “12 Strategies to Big Thinking”

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Dirt written by Bram Presser and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An immense work of love and anger, a book Bram Presser was born to write.’ Joan London They chose not to speak and now they are gone...What’s left to fill the silence is no longer theirs. This is my story, woven from the threads of rumour and legend. Jakub Rand flees his village for Prague, only to find himself trapped by the Nazi occupation. Deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, he is forced to sort through Jewish books for a so-called Museum of the Extinct Race. Hidden among the rare texts is a tattered prayer book, hollow inside, containing a small pile of dirt. Back in the city, Františka Roubíčková picks over the embers of her failed marriage, despairing of her conversion to Judaism. When the Nazis summon her two eldest daughters for transport, she must sacrifice everything to save the girls from certain death. Decades later, Bram Presser embarks on a quest to find the truth behind the stories his family built around these remarkable survivors. The Book of Dirt is a completely original novel about love, family secrets, and Jewish myths. And it is a heart-warming story about a grandson’s devotion to the power of storytelling and his family’s legacy. Bram Presser was born in Melbourne in 1976. His stories have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Sleepers Almanac and Higher Arc. His 2017 debut novel, The Book of Dirt, won the 2018 Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction in the US National Jewish Book Awards, the 2018 Voss Literary Prize and three awards in the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards: the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and The People’s Choice Award. ‘The lyrical, impassioned and culturally rich prose of The Book of Dirt, and its moral force, bears echoes of such great Jewish writers as Franz Kafka (Presser inherited his grandfather’s copy of The Trial), Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Cynthia Ozick...It is a major book, and one for the times: while I was reading it, neo-Nazis in America brought fatal violence to Charlottesville, and, in Melbourne, neo-Nazis placed posters in schools calling for the killing of Jews to be legalised...The Book of Dirt is a courageous work, as necessary for us to read as it was for Presser to write.’ Saturday Paper ‘A beautiful literary mind.’ A.S. Patrić ‘Meet Bram Presser, aged five, smoking a cigarette with his grandmother in Prague. Meet Jakub Rand, one of the Jews chosen to assemble the Nazi’s Museum of the Extinct Race. Such details, like lightning flashes, illuminate this audacious work about the author’s search for the grandfather he loved but hardly knew. Working in the wake of writers like Modiano and Safran Foer, Presser brilliantly shows how fresh facts can derail old truths, how fiction can amplify memory. A smart and tender meditation on who we become when we attempt to survive survival.’ Mireille Juchau ‘The Book of Dirt is a grandson’s tender act of devotion, the product of a quest to rescue family voices from the silence, to bear witness, drawing on legend, journey and history, and shaped by extraordinary storytelling.’ Arnold Zable ‘A remarkable tale of Holocaust survival, love and genealogical sleuthing...A beautiful tale that will stay with the reader long after the book’s end.’ Books+Publishing ‘It’s hard not to be captured from the opening epigraph...[A] magnificent ode to all that is lost.’ Longin to Be ‘It is difficult to convey the breadth and nuance of this extraordinary work. It is a book about how history is made—and about who is allowed the privilege to remake it. There are echoes here of Sebald’s biting honesty and Chabon’s long and rewarding vignettes. An absolute pleasure to read.’ Readings ‘As in Sebald’s prose narratives, Presser’s novel inhabits and the dynamic region between fiction and non-fiction.’ Australian Book Review ‘An impressive and captivating story of remembrance, a journey into the past for the sake of deciphering our present.’ Dasa Drndic ‘In The Book of Dirt the fractured lines of memory create a gripping story of survival and love.’ Leah Kaminsky ‘I found Bram Presser’s The Book of Dirt impossible to forget. Penetrating, soulful, and surprisingly welcoming, it reminded me of my own ancestors and how easy it is to sidestep the past.’ Barry Scott, Australian Book Review, 2017 Publisher Picks ‘Presser blurs the boundaries of fact and fiction in a compelling way...A wonderful and original book, told in rich, lyrically beautiful prose that is laden with history and cultural meaning.’ Good Reading ‘A combination of homage, mystery, family history and a sepia-toned love story...The Book of Dirt is magnificent.’ ANZ LitLovers ‘A heartfelt and original attempt to bridge the ever-growing gaps between history, memory and silence...Its heart beats so earnestly, and so loud...What Presser has produced is a meditation on the ethics of storytelling, of the duties we owe to the people whose stories we tell, and to the people whose stories we don’t.’ Australian ‘Always surprising and beautifully complex, and both deft and sensitive in its handling of its intertwined narratives and materials. It is an incredibly affecting book, one that lingers long after reading—and a remarkably assured debut.’ Age ‘A gripping tale of survival and an absorbing novelisation of his family’s extraordinary lives...Presser fills in the gaps in his grandfather’s story with vivid character studies; together with poignant black and white snapshots, he brings them evocatively to life. His poetic narrative is a perfect foil for the silences of his forbears.’ Toowoomba Chronicle ‘The Book of Dirt is both a loving, honest portrayal of lives that would have been erased, and an incorporation of the broader lessons of their experience into contemporary mythology. It keeps the discussion about trauma, memory, and intergenerational acts of transfer alive for those generations that follow, that risk forgetting. It is a potent achievement for a debut novel.’ Sydney Review of Books

Download or read book Reba written by Reba McEntire and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same straightforward honesty that made her one of country’s top-selling female recording artists, Reba McEntire tells her phenomenal story. From her childhood in Oklahoma working cattle with her ranching family to her days on the rodeo competition circuit, from her early days as a performer in honky-tonks to her many awards and a sold-out appearance at Carnegie Hall, Reba relates her experiences with heartfelt emotion and down-to-earth humor. With the same warmth and generous spirit that infuses her music, she introduces us to the most important people in her life: the family and friends who sustain her and the musicians and producers who have inspired her and helped her realize her artistic vision. With great poignancy, she also recounts the lowest points of her life, the breakup of her first marriage and the plane crash that took the lives of eight of her band members; and the highest, her remarriage and the birth of her son Shelby. Her story is not only a chronicle of a remarkable life but a vivid testament of unshakable determination and faith in God. Reba: My Story is an intimate portrait of one of America’s most beloved and successful entertainers. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Context of Holiness Psychological and Spiritual Reflections on the Life of St Th r se of Lisieux written by Marc Foley and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores both the psychological and spiritual dimensions of the life of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. The basic premise of this book is that the spiritual life is not an encapsulated sphere, cloistered from the realities of our human existence. Rather it is our response to God within the physical, psychological, social and emotional dimensions of life. St. Thérèse did not grow in holiness apart from the human condition. Like all of us, she was emotionally scarred by the fragileness of life. She was deeply wounded by the death of her mother at the age of four, bedridden as the result of a neurotic episode when she was ten, struggled with debilitating scruples most of her life, and suffered an agonizing dark night of faith. St. Thérèse was no plaster statue saint. Her life was a real life. As it unfolds before us on the pages of Story of a Soul, we see a pilgrim soul who made her way home to God through many raging storms and dark nights. The specific nature of Thérèse's trials may differ from our own, but psychological and emotional suffering are our common lot. For example, we may not have know the pain of our mother dying when we were four, but most of us have know the pain of the loss of a loved one. The sufferings that we share with Thérèse are universal - physical pain, anxiety, anger, sadness, depression, loneliness, doubts of faith, to name a few. These sufferings make doing the will of God difficult, but they are the context of our choices. They are the context of holiness.

Download or read book Fascinating Bible Studies on Every Parable written by Dr. William H. Marty and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus knew the power of stories to touch people's hearts, so he used parables to teach his followers about the kingdom of God. If you want to know God better, the keys are in the parables. This book provides short studies on every parable in the Bible. You'll learn what God wants us to know from the prodigal son, the good Samaritan, the lost sheep, the talents, the sower, and many more. Each study includes a summary of the parable, the Scripture reference where it can be found, information on the historical and cultural setting, and key points. At the end of each study are questions that open the door to discussion, reflection, or further investigation and help you get to the heart of the parable. A wonderful tool for small groups or to add variety to your personal devotions. Let these studies draw you nearer to God as they enhance your understanding of his Word.

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Download or read book For Woman s Love A Novel written by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For Woman's Love: A Novel" by means of Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth is a gripping tale about the complexity of love, devotion, and sacrifice in the face of complication. The novel is set within the 19th century and chronicles the lives of girls, Clara and Edith, whose paths move among societal expectancies and private demanding situations. Clara, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat, is betrothed to the good-looking however pompous Sir Percy, while Edith, a lowly seamstress, has a mystery overwhelm on him. As their fates emerge as intertwined, Clara's privileged international is upended as she discovers Sir Percy's true person, causing her to observe her own goals and ideals. As their fates collide, each girl should confront the brutal realities of affection and betrayal, navigating a labyrinth of deception and treachery to discover their very own routes to salvation. Southworth expertly tackles issues of affection, duty, and self-discovery thru bright characterizations and subtle plot twists, supplying readers with a gripping narrative this is ageless in relevance.

Download or read book A Terribles Secret written by May Fleming and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.