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"Misplaced Eternity" is a profound work by Tijuana Smith, inspired by her deep Christian faith and the harrowing experience of losing eight family members in just seven months. The book delves into Smith's personal journey of wrestling with immense grief and seeking answers from God about death and suffering. It's a candid exploration of the natural despair felt in the face of loss that encourages readers to bring their hardest questions to God.
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In a world plagued by death, disease, and suffering, many ask why a loving God would allow this to happen. In Divine Dilemma, a poignant scriptural guide filled with personal testimonies, author Ken Ham offers hope and peace to grieving families and bewildered communities, strengthening their faith during life's darkest days.
For believers, reconciling this reality of suffering with the teachings of a compassionate Creator raises difficult questions....
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This book is a selection of a chaplain's experiences of how hospice can serve the families and patients who enter this special journey. It contains patient stories told from the chaplain's view. When Chaplain Beck is with patients, she often shares one of her stories to help ease their fears. It is her hope that sharing these stories in this book will prepare readers and lessen their anxiety when hearing the word "hospice" in relation to themselves...
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Gerome Singleterry is a born-again Christian that has received salvation from God, he has always wanted to do something to help advance his kingdom. Gerome has written over three hundred contemporary Christian songs and had his own Christian band called Faith. God blessed him to write all of the songs for that group. He also writes a daily Facebook devotion called "Think About?" He is proposing to publish it also.
God and his family are the most important...
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2024.
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First edition.
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How do we live without the ones we love? Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss that is profuse with life. Sloane Crosley is one of our most renowned observers of contemporary behavior, and now the pathos that has been ever present in her trademark wit is on full display. After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Crosley looks for answers in philosophy and art,...
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[2023]
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First Soft Skull edition.
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"In Atlanta, Kenny Bomar is a biochemist-turned-coffee-shop-owner in denial about his divorce and grieving his stillborn daughter. Chemicals killed their child, leaching from a type of plant the government is hiding in Black neighborhoods. Kenny's coping mechanisms are likewise chemical and becoming more baroque--from daily injections of lethal snake venom to manufacturing designer drugs. As his grief turns corrosive, it taints every person he touches....
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How Much Big Is the Sky is Sherry Chapman's searingly melodic and eloquent love song to her teenage son, Ryan, following his sudden death resulting from a car crash. Sherry captures the intimacy and immediacy of her experience with a rare combination of profound tenderness, literary skill, and raw candor in a powerful narrative that deeply resonates with readers. Structured in five parts resembling the various stages of grief, this unforgettable account...
88) Transformations
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Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton morphs classic fairy tales into dark critiques of the cultural myths underpinning modern society Anne Sexton breathes new life into sixteen age-old Brothers Grimm fairy tales, reimagining them as poems infused with contemporary references, feminist ideals, and morbid humor. Grounded by nods to the ordinary-a witch's blood "began to boil up/like Coca-Cola" and Snow White's bodice is "as tight as an Ace bandage"-Sexton...
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2023.
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First edition.
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High school senior Harriet is still grabbling with her mother's death when an unwanted property sale causes her to join forces with her new neighbor to stop Belle Grove Plantation from turning into a wedding venue.
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they have transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people's museums. Mother and daughter duo Claudia and Layla Hartwell plan to turn the...
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One day you and the rest of your close relatives will lose a dear close and important family member like your mother, grandmother or that uncle or aunt that was so loving, entertaining and supportive.And like so many time after they pass away the generations of your family, especially the young family members, will ask you questions about the personal details of their lives in which you won't have answers for like:When she was a child, what was the...
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Are you struggling to heal from a broken heart? Do you find solace in reading poetry during tough times? If so, "I Moved On, Now What?" is the book for you. Dive into a collection of 40 touching poems, carefully curated to help mend your broken heart."I Moved On, Now What?" is a thoughtfully crafted book to guide you through the challenging journey of healing from heartbreak. The book offers a collection of 40 beautifully written poems, each chosen...
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Whether you've lost a child, a loved one, or your health to some devastating illness, pandemic, or accident; Or even losing your home, job, income, or perhaps your reputation... Losing whatever is precious to you can be devastating. It may comfort you to know that God, the Master Artist of our lives is there with you tweaking all that Satan intends for evil, to give you hope and to turn you into the masterpiece God knows you are.
Skillfully pulling...
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Who knows the day of trouble and who can tell the outcome? When shall trouble ceases and the difficulty will be end?Our way of life has a question and answer that needs to be solved. Who knows what will happen in the next hour?Who can tell or predict the days ahead and how it shall end? We are like a shadow that goes away without notification. Every human being shall one day drop and will never return again until heavens vanish.This is sad and unnoticed...
94) De amor y muerte
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Amor y muerte son las pulsaciones que mayores pasiones provocan en nuestra especie. Ambas familiares y al mismo tiempo extrañas, pues cualquiera las puede reconocer y constantemente se vive en su horizonte. Pero cuando se manifiestan resultan insólitas.
Este volumen contiene el poemario ganador del Premio Nacional de Literatura Joven Raúl Padilla López 2023, Hundir las manos temblorosas, de Melissa Cordero Novo. Un preciso recorrido por la experiencia...
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Whether you've lost a child, a loved one, or your health to some devastating illness, pandemic, or accident; Or even losing your home, job, income, or perhaps your reputation... Losing whatever is precious to you can be devastating. It may comfort you to know that God, the Master Artist of our lives is there with you tweaking all that Satan intends for evil, to give you hope and to turn you into the masterpiece God knows you are.
Skillfully...
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"Cómo seguir adelante con la muerte de un hijo" es un libro de autoayuda que aborda de manera compasiva y práctica el proceso de duelo por la pérdida de un hijo. Escrito por expertos en el tema, ofrece herramientas y estrategias para enfrentar el dolor, encontrar consuelo y reconstruir la vida después de esta experiencia devastadora. El libro proporciona consejos sobre cómo manejar las emociones, buscar apoyo, cuidar de uno mismo y honrar la...
97) Purgatory
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Step into the ethereal realm of "Purgatory" by Samuel Ludke, where beauty intertwines with the poignant embrace of loss in the afterlife. This collection of poetry is an emotive journey through the veiled landscapes of existence beyond, where each verse delicately navigates the realms between light and shadow.Ludke's words paint a hauntingly vivid portrait of a place where the beauty of the unknown meets the ache of what was left behind. Through lyrical...
98) Blood & Nectar
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Written through times of Burnout and contrastingly, through times when exaltation encapsulated the air, leaving a taste of 'Melancholy Euphoria,' this very book is the amalgamation of blood and nectar, suggesting the co-existence of strength with weakness, telling on the agonizing truths while maintaining solidarity. Some of the pieces deal with themes like acceptance and endurance while some are outrageous messages, lamenting over the bloodshed of...
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Life was smooth sailing and quite normal up until my mom Janis was killed in a car accident heading from Santa Cruz California to Carmel when I was 11 years old. After her death, life changed drastically from a nice gentle breeze to a category five tornado; an inferno of drugs, lies and alibis. Let's just say… No more smooth sailing. When the dust began to settle at the age of 24, I enlisted in the United States Navy and set sail for a better life...
100) Girlhearts
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Some families you're born into, some you have to find for yourself Sarabeth Silver knows that her mom is different. Jane Silver is younger, prettier, harder working, and poorer-making just enough money cleaning houses for her and Sarabeth to live in a little trailer. It's always been just the two of them, but when tragedy suddenly strikes, Sarabeth will have to figure things out on her own. Sarabeth has never known either of her parents' families,...
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