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In Sickness and In Health: turning tragedy into holiness is a story of a woman who fell in love with a man, who had been recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Filled with hopes and dreams for the future, she did not know that their...

What does it mean to be a woman? MARION BOWMAN was born in Belize, spent her childhood sailing on the sea, and then relocated to the busy city of New Orleans, Louisiana. After college, she trod a path toward marriage and motherhood, just the...

Author: Sean Martin McQuadeISBN-10: 150350591XISBN-13: 9781503505919Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2015Pages: 286Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Though most often remembered as one of the most brutal military conquerors of all time, Mongol leader Genghis Khan also introduced many enlightened methods of ruling, laws, and government systems that are still used today. From his childhood on the Mongolian steppe to his...

Author: Paul LippokISBN-10: 1499094094ISBN-13: 9781499094091Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2015Pages: 558Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.24d

"The Magic of Dreams: An American Diplomat's Journey relays the story of a retired American diplomat who served in the U.S. Foreign Service for forty-three years. Eleanor L. Akahloun shares a remarkable personal and professional journey from humble, yet inspiring beginnings in her tightly...

Author: Joyce MorlinISBN-10: 1499070950ISBN-13: 9781499070958Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2014Pages: 106Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

"Cheekaah . . . Cheekaah . . . would you do me a favor . . . for Christmas . . . a present . . . would you . . . would you . . . write your life?" How can a grandfather...

John Knox ranks among the great leaders of the Reformed tradition. In particular, he made significant contributions to this movement as it unfolded in Scotland. In doing so, Knox wore many hats--prophet, pastor, preacher, reformer, statesman, revolutionary, and more. God's Watchman: John Knox's Faith...

From 1807, when the first Protestant missionary arrived in China, to the 1920s, when a new phase of growth began, thousands of missionaries and Chinese Christians labored, often under very adverse conditions, to lay the groundwork for a solid, healthy, and self-sustaining Chinese church....

In Glimpses of Another Land, Eric Miller takes the reader across the American landscape in quest of insight into our times. For those facing challenges and choices from all sides, Miller offers not analysis so much as reorientation--the kind of sharpened vision that redirects...

The Wendell Cocktail describes a major social problem, exemplified by the journals of a person with coexisting conditions--mental illness and addiction. Although there are resources for people with each of these conditions--psychiatry for mental illness and twelve-step programs for addiction--there are few effective resources...

Like many young people in his generation, Jesse Zink had long been eager to work overseas and make the world a better place. As a missionary working in a shantytown community in South Africa, he found all that and much more--in demanding, unexpected, and...

The author was once an all round sports man keeping fit and healthy until one day he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. This book is about what he had and what he has been through and how he came out fighting and mainly...

My reason for writing this book is to encourage people and let them know that no matter what is going on in their lives, everything happens for a reason. I am a firm believer that what we go through in our lives is necessary...

At the age of almost 47 years old I find myself travelling South on the M6 Motorway heading towards the village that I grew up in, almost 37 years have passed since I was wrenched overnight from everything I knew ... On May 16th...

Grace Saunders and her brother Ben were both born with the genetic disorder spinal muscular atrophy type 2/3, SMA. From her happy childhood growing up in Hertfordshire, enduring painful operations, to becoming a mom and a wife living an independent life in Coventry. Her...

This is the story of one man's struggle to make good in the hash environment of post World War II Britain, a country in long-term decline. It depicts the experiences, adventures and misadventures of a working class male. The treatment is earthy and candid...

Debbie Bliss has never been a shrinking violet. She has fought all her life--not just for herself, but for others too. Now aged forty-eight, there was a stage when she thought she would not live long enough to see her son grow up, to...

This is a story of a young man growing up in his household with all the fun in the world. But behind all that fun, drama wasn't too far away . . . Open up into a new possibility as I share my own...

Journey of an American Boy is about the true story of life from birth to the age of eighteen. It tells of the places lived, friends made, and family togetherness. It tells of the struggle in life after the author's father died in prison...

Living in Pakistan was like a 24/7 roller coaster ride for Sarah. Following into her father's footsteps she just picked herself and her family up from the comfortable, cosy and predictable British life only to land herself among people who not only thought and...

Alwyn's hunt for "agreement" started at a young age. Agreement was nowhere to be found. The rebel within him surfaced until the day he ran into Mr. Lee. "You must not make war in your mind." This was a statement he carried through challenging...

The deep moving burning story by Dorcas Shekina Sarudzai Mudzi waKujinga is a profound testimony of her life and her breath taking road to Christ. Her experiences as a freedom fighter and a disciple of Christ show that it only takes faith to keep...

The story revolves around Thomas's abduction as a child by Germans in a northeastern Brazilian city, trying to obtain information from the boy's father on the North Atlantic Sea Operation prior to the sinking of the Graf-Spee. The remembrances of the abduction gets interrupted...

As I look back over my life, it was a good ride. I experienced many potholes along the way. I'm not tired yet. The last thing I think about is death. I am not afraid of it. Why should I be? I can't do...

Although my childhood was erratic, I was blessed with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and foster homes that took me in. If I hadn't had them, I can't imagine where I would be today. I made a decision at seventeen to join the coast guard and...

I have lived forty healthy years with Type 1 diabetes. I wrote this book to let other diabetics know how to live that many years with this deadly disease and be very healthy. I have never had surgery, never had kidney, heart, eye or...

Author: Donald AndersonISBN-10: 1493186965ISBN-13: 9781493186969Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2014Pages: 168Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Author: Michael GainesISBN-10: 1493125621ISBN-13: 9781493125623Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2013Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

Author: Russell O. StewartISBN-10: 1493123378ISBN-13: 9781493123377Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2013Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

This old Biddy, was born in the ribble valley, in the Yorkshire dales, where she still lives.The village of Long Preston looks down to the river, from a safe distance. The river often floods the large plane, creating a lake. This book is a...

Sudden exit is an account of one man's struggle to fight back to health after suffering a massive cardiovascular attack (Stroke). Follow him through his physical and psychological struggles share his frustration and his anxiety. Does he make it? Or will the task prove...

Many books have been written of what it was like growing up in east London during the forties, fifties and sixties but the authenticity of this latest east London book is at its best, it tells of what it was like being born into...

"Pleeaze! Tell me that bomb isn't live!" is a follow on from Nick Crozbys' successful first book, "Pleeaze tell me that wasn't a teacher". Like its predecessor it continues in a humorously written, anecdotal style and is based on the multifarious events and incidents...

"Pleeaze! Tell me that wasn't a teacher!" is a humorously written, anecdotal account based on the multifarious events and incidents the author, Nick Crozby, has been privileged to encounter, enjoy and occasionally suffer during his long career in education. The events related were real...

This is the story of Iman, a story of a woman who grew up in the countryside in the "troubles" of 1970s Northern Ireland. She goes to England to qualify as a dietitian in the 1980s. Twelve years later, her world is turned upside...

This book will be useful to anybody who has attended one of my workshops or desires a good understanding of Parliament's rules governing this industry. I realise that some people in the industry seek to take advantage of the system, the landlords, or the...

On the farm there was a pigsty with a barbed wire fence surrounding it. Ernie climbed inside. When a sow charged him, he retreated and cut himself as he ducked under the barbed wire. With blood all over his eye, his mom took him...

This book charts the life of two young American teachers immersed in an Afghan village, and later in Kabul, from 1973-1976, before the onset of decades of conflict. In this turn back to the memories coded and buried in those years, and in the...

The Falklands, at the time of this story, were a little known group of islands miles away from anywhere that most people hadn't even heard of. Of course, nearly everyone has now heard of them and most even have a good idea where they...

Chronicles of a Child of an Alcoholic Parent articulates the author's struggles through a diverse set of circumstances only to realize that physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual health and well-being can only be found in trusting the truth of God's Word. Easy as it...

I want my heart to stop beating because I just got the call no mother wants to get. The call that screams your child is gone. He was 42 years old, but he was my baby. The words echo suddenly, "He is gone." I...

A speech professor and her student make a unique connection that changes each other's lives. Mrs. Noble encourages Priscilla to engage in public speaking, yet discovers in her student that where spoken words faltered, writing flourished. Priscilla, driven to profess God in her speech,...

It was a time before television sets, Big Macs, video games, and Harry Potter. The Japanese had bombed our naval base at Pearl Harbor. Older brothers, uncles and even fathers were drafted into the Armed Forces. Gene Autry was busy riding the range. Batman...

What is Circumstantial Depression? What affect does it have on the eyes and how we see the rest of the world and ourselves? My name is Lwa Ubunifu. I have Circumstantial Depression. I have struggled with this type of depression for a very long...

This is Iris's second book. Her first, Panama? Why Panama?, described the lengthy process she and Chris endured as they prepared to move to Panama upon retirement, the roller coaster of emotion involved, and the dos and don'ts of how to achieve this. Iris...

Drugs will make you do things a normal person would never think of doing. Add love to that cocktail, and you end up with a dangerous recipe for a life headed out of control. For Alton Fry Jr., methamphetamine and the most beautiful, crazy,...

On the outside, Brielle Joy is a smiling, carefree teenager, but behind her facade she's slowly drowning in her fight to control a life headed for destruction. She's struggling so much to forget her painful past that she's caught in the snares of anorexia...

Author: Samshair AlliISBN-10: 1483650839ISBN-13: 9781483650838Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2013Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d