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81) The Mommy Cup
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Through a simple story, The Mommy Cup teaches how important it is for those who take care of others to make sure to take the time to take care of themselves too. Although it is a simple message, it is too easily set aside in the busy demands of day-to-day life. Read it with a friend or a child, and get ready to renew your life. How full is your mommy cup?
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In his poignant memoir, Ken Ludmer, details his often raucous, always conflicted, and yet loving relationship with his mother. After sixty plus years of their epic battle, Ludmer and his Ma attempt to heal their wounds as he cares for her, following her broken hip at age 91. In the last eighteen months of her once brave and independent, world traveling life, they tell their stories to one another as they relive their battles in this American family...
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The author understands that discipline is vital to a child's development. Just as children need food, clothes,shelter, love, support, they need to be taught to respect boundaries, She knows that parents are the children first teachers and they have a responsibility to train them to be people of character. It's not the father or mother's job. IT'S BOTH.
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While the current conversation about work-family balance and "having it all" tends to focus on women, both men and women are harmed when conditions make it impossible to balance meaningful work with family life. Yet, both will benefit from re-evaluating what it means to have it all and fighting for changes in their relationships and society to make greater equality possible. Here, Miriam Liss and Holly Hollomon Schiffrin discuss the ways in which...
85) Chewy's Chest
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Step into the world of Chewy, a five year old boy growing up on a farm back in the fiftys. Follow Chewy as he goes through difficult times learning to deal with the loss of a loved one and the discovery of things hidden. Watch Chewy as he goes from a boy lost in tragedy to a boy that finds long lost family secrets from the past that help to bring him out of his shell and back into the world with his dad. As Chewy struggles with the loss of his mother...
87) Laura Smile
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We do not get to choose our parents or the families into which we are born. That is predestined by God, for those who believe it. We are all born innocent, but for many, that time of innocence passes much too quickly. Such was the case for Laura Faye Flannery (Red), nicknamed for her thick copper red mane. Her days of childhood innocence came to an abrupt ending when she was thrown into a life that she did not want or ask for. Red would spend the...
88) Helpmeet
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Helpmeet is the complete marriage prep-school handbook, providing you with insight into how to prepare logistically, emotionally and spiritually for the journey of a life-time. If you have ever wondered why some marriages succeed while others do not, Helpmeet helps you to understand the perspectives that can snatch your marriage from the road to failure and set it on the track to success. Using powerful historical examples, including the compelling...
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For author Dr. Barry Altman, growing up in an urban atmosphere during World War II made for a frightening childhood. Children like him latched onto dreams of success but also sometimes failure as they gleaned attitudes from their parents and elders. Also, at that time, urban children, particularly those in New York grew up faster, gaining knowledge from their environment more quickly than their parents might imagine. In Anthology of Innocence, Altman...
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How to Procreate a Healthy Family is a book of literature based on almost thirty years of experience in raising a healthy family. In it, the reader will find the formula on how to have a beautiful family.
This book is an easy form to read and in a language easy to understand. It teaches how to conquer the obstacles there are in life to procreate the desired healthy family.
Max Teran was born in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. He came to the United...
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HEALING AND RESTORATION TO A HURTING NATION This book is a practical guide for women coping with infidelity. For women finding themselves in an adulterous relationship - the reason why you should let go! It is proof that God is the God of the impossible. If you have by any chance given up on your marriage, just remember that God has the last say. If satan destroys a family, he destroys the church. Dont allow him to! God is waiting on you to call on...
92) The Chair
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Midnight feedings, gentle cuddles, laughs, life, and love - it all takes place in the comfort of a cozy chair. Described by some as a warm hug, The Chair provides a comforting insight of the kind of life-moments that happen when wrapped in the arms of an overstuffed piece of furniture.
The older reader is sure to recall their own "chair memories" while new memories are made with young readers, rocking back and forth.
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A Path to Healing is about the obstacles that my family and I have gone through. Its about how my sisters decisions tore my family apart and how we have tried our hardest to bring us back together. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesnt. This book was my way to healing. I had a lot of anger and unforgiveness in my heart for what my sister did. God had to speak to me and encourage me to write everything that was brothering me down and tell the world...
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AS A CHILD As a child I remember the sermon; It was on hell. As a child I remember the sermon; It was on Jesus As He said, I am the way. As a child I remember the sermon; It was about Jesus As He said, I am the truth. As a child I remember the sermon; It was about Jesus As He said, I am the life. As a child I remember the sermon; It was about Jesus As He said, No man cometh unto the Father But by me.
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AS A CHILD As a child I remember the sermon; It was on hell. As a child I remember the sermon; It was on Jesus As He said, I am the way. As a child I remember the sermon; It was about Jesus As He said, I am the truth. As a child I remember the sermon; It was about Jesus As He said, I am the life. As a child I remember the sermon; It was about Jesus As He said, No man cometh unto the Father But by me.
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My mother is the closest thing to God I know. Her God concept, whether she knows it or not, is that she cannot be fully known by just one name or one single entity. Not Dahlia, Zalia, Zat, Dale, Mrs. Testa, Gale, Ma, Grammy, Mimi but someone other. Someone who serves as many beings to many people, revealing herself to each of us in ways that we can best appreciate and understand. After decades of indifference, self-indulgence, rebelliousness, embarrassment,...
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If you found a book that would make you laugh, cry, think, experience personal introspection, evoke emotions–good and disconcerting at times; however, ultimately evolve as a human being–would you be interested in reading it? If so, then "A Spiritual Journey through Life and Self" is just such a book. This book addresses subjects in life, from the womb to death, in a deep and profound way through meaningful, easy to understand verse. It serves...
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Emptying a family home of all its contents is an experience that most people want to get away from as quickly as they can. But Linda Hetzer and Janet Hulstrand, authors of Moving On: A Practical Guide to Downsizing the Family Home, decided to write a book about it instead. "We decided to write the book we wish we could have had when we were going through the process of emptying our parents' homes," says Hetzer. Moving On provides a simple but very...
100) The Might Of Failure
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Failure can displace one into a terrible state. Although it can be very difficult to bear the associated pain, it is unwise to accept or remain in a failed state. The pain enables a lesson to be learned which invariably provokes the mind to enhance the goodness in one's career, health, business, relationship with God, and social and family life.
Most successful people have failed, and it is not, unreasonable to think that their accomplishment was...
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