Lynn Painter

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

When they first meet, Bailey and Charlie cannot stand one another, but when they met a year later as coworkers, Charlie secretly bets a colleague he can get Bailey to go out with him, and their relationship gets more complicated as they get closer and closer.

Betting on You

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Chelsea Patterson Sobolik

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Gospel Vision for Women and Work

Grasping the dignity and significance of women and work. Work looks different for each one of us. Whether in the home, with children, or in a professional environment--or some combination of these--women are cultivating a world of beauty, truth, and hope. But it's not easy. We have doubts and dreams ... questions and concerns. Chelsea provides a robust theological foundation as she engages our pressing questions: How do I glorify the Lord with my work? How do I balance work and life? Is it wrong to pursue my career ambitions? What does it mean to be a Christian in the workplace? How do I respectfully stand up for myself at work? How do I discern my calling? Work is an act of cultivation that involves developing something or someone to be better. Chelsea provides practical rhythms that women can incorporate into their lives to flourish in their work.

Called to Cultivate

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Edward M. Hallowell

John J. Ratey

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New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--From Childhood Through Adulthood

A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help readers thrive, by the bestselling authors of the seminal booksDriven to DistractionandDelivered from Distraction

"An inspired road map for living with a distractible brain . . .If you or your child suffer from ADHD, this book should be on your shelf. It will give you courage and hope."-Michael Thompson, Ph.D.,New York Timesbestselling co-author ofRaising Cain

World-renowned authors Dr. Edward M. Hallowell and Dr. John J. Ratey literally "wrote the book" on ADD/ADHD more than two decades ago. Their bestseller, Driven to Distraction, largely introduced this diagnosis to the public and sold more than a million copies along the way.

Now, most people have heard of ADHD and know someone who may have it. But lost in the discussion of both childhood and adult diagnosis of ADHD is the potential upside- Many hugely successful entrepreneurs and highly creative people attribute theirachievements to ADHD. Also unknown to most are the recent research developments, including innovations that give a clearer understanding of the ADHD brain in action. In ADHD 2.0, Drs. Hallowell and Ratey, both of whom have this "variable attention trait," draw on the latest science to provide both parents and adults with ADHD a plan for minimizing the downside and maximizing the benefits of ADHD at any age. They offer an arsenal of new strategies and lifestyle hacks for thriving with ADHD, including

. Find the right kind of difficult. Use these behavior assessments to discover the work, activity, or creative outlet best suited to an individual's unique strengths.
. Reimagine environment. What specific elements to look for-at home, at school, or in the workplace-to enhance the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit inherent in the ADHD mind.
. Embrace innate neurological tendencies. Take advantage of new findings about the brain's default mode network and cerebellum, which confer major benefits for people with ADHD.
. Tap into the healing power of connection. Tips for establishing andmaintaining positive connection"the other Vitamind C" and the best antidote to the negativity that plagues so many people with ADHD.
. Consider medication. Gets the facts about the underlying chemistry, side effects, and proven benefits of all the pharmaceutical options.

As inspiring as it is practical, ADHD 2.0 will help you tap intothe power of this mercurial condition and find the key that unlocks potential.

ADHD 2. 0

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Aundi Kolber

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Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move Through Hard Things--And Experience True Flourishing

There's a cost to being a certain kind of strong.When it comes to difficult circumstances, we've all heard the platitudes: "No pain, no gain." "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But if we spend our lives trying to be "the strong one," we become exhausted, burned-out, and disconnected from our truest selves.What if it were different? Could there be a different way to be strong? Could strength mean more than pushing on and pushing through pain, bearing every heavy burden on our own? What if, instead, true strength were more like the tide: soft and bold, fierce and gentle, moving together as one powerful force?In Strong like Water, author and trauma therapist Aundi Kolber offers a framework for true flourishing. With each page, you'll:
 * Learn how your nervous system shapes your experience so that we can move throughpain instead of being stuck in it.
 * Explore various practices, rhythms, and resources to support you in challenging circumstances with compassion and hope.
 * Discover how to internalize connection, love, and safety--empowering you with greater resilience.

A different, more expansive way of healing, wholeness, and possibly--especially--strength is possible. We were made to be strong like water.

Strong Like Water

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500 Piece Puzzle

Grow Through What You Go Through

A Fresh Approach to Move Us Out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--And into a Life of Connection and Joy

In the wise and soulful tradition of teachers like Shauna Niequist and Brene Brown, therapist Aundi Kolber debuts with Try Softer, helping us align our mind, body, and soul to live the life God created for us. In a world that preaches a "try harder" gospel--just keep going, keep hustling, keep pretending we're all fine--we're left exhausted, overwhelmed, and so numb to our lives. If we're honest, we've been overfunctioning for so long, we can't even imagine another way. How else will things get done? How else will we survive? It doesn't have to be this way. Aundi Kolber believes that we don't have to white-knuckle our way through life. In her debut book, Try Softer, she'll show us how God specifically designed our bodies and minds to work together to process our stories and work through obstacles. Through the latest psychology, practical clinical exercises, and her own personal story, Aundi equips and empowers us to connect us to our truest self and truly live. This is the "try softer" life. In Try Softer, you'll learn how to: Know and set emotional and relational boundaries Make sense of the difficult experiences you've had Identify your attachment style--and how that affects your relationships today Move through emotions rather than get stuck by them Grow in self-compassion and talk back to your inner critic Trying softer is sacred work. And while it won't be perfect or easy, it will be worth it. Because this is what we were made for: a living, breathing, moving, feeling, connected, beautifully incarnational life.

Try Softer

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Susan Massotty

Anne Frank

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The Definitive Edition

The Diary of a Young Girl

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Nick Hurst

Chelsea Hurst

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Ten Ways to Know If You've Found the One





How did you know you were right for each other How did you know it was the right time to get married What should we be doing as a couple to make sure our marriage starts out well

These questions are among many that Chelsea and Nick Hurst have received since nearly 2.4 million people followed their love story, engagement, and marriage on their YouTube channel. Now they're ready to dive deeper into the guidance they received, the lessons they learned, and the questions they asked themselves and others as they navigated the biggest decision of their lives.

Written from both Chelsea's and Nick's refreshingly honest perspectives, Marriage Minded is perfect for couples who are dating seriously or considering the big step of engagement. In these pages, Nick and Chelsea . . .

 * Share critical questions you should ask yourselves and each other before saying "I do"
 * Offer practical ways to better understand each other and your differences to build a solid and trusting relationship
 * Share ways to find hope and help for healing from past mistakes as you plan for your future together
 * Present a clear view of what godly marriage is and the importance of putting Jesus at the center before you're married

 

Chelsea and Nick are a breath of fresh air as they share what they wish they had known before walking into marriage. Allow their relationship and personal experiences to be an encouragement to you as you build your life together.

Marriage Minded

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Addison D. Bevere

Trading Boring, Transactional Prayer for Authentic Connection

Do you feel fragmented? Like life is just a series of compartments you have to move between? Like your days are nothing more than to-do lists? Like your spirit is skewed out of alignment? Do you long to feel whole, connected, and fully integrated in mind, body, spirit, and relationship? The best and surest way to pursue such wholeness is through prayer. Not the semimindless, I-just-ask-God-for-stuff-then-listen-to-the-deafening-silence kind of prayer you've tried before. That's not working. What you need is authentic connection that leads to harmony with God, yourself, and others. That kind of prayer is what Words with God is all about. In this thoughtful book, Addison Bevere breaks prayer out of its religious box and places it at the center of your everyday life, the place where God longs to make himself real to you.

Words with God

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Alison Espach

Read once by me! Barnes and Noble Pick of the Month 2023!

A Novel

Named a Best Book of 2022 by NPR and The Chicago Tribune

From Alison Espach, author of the New York Times Editors' Choice novel The Adults, comes a dazzlingly unconventional love story for readers of Ask Again, Yes and Tell the Wolves I'm Home.

For much of her life, Sally Holt has been mystified by the things her older sister, Kathy, seems to have been born knowing. Kathy has answers for all of Sally's questions about life, about love, and about Billy Barnes, a rising senior and local basketball star who mans the concession stand at the town pool. The girls have been fascinated by Billy ever since he jumped off the roof in elementary school, but Billy has never shown much interest in them until the summer before Sally begins eighth grade. By then, their mutual infatuation with Billy is one of the few things the increasingly different sisters have in common. Sally spends much of that summer at the pool, watching in confusion and excitement as her sister falls deeper in love with Billy--until a tragedy leaves Sally's life forever intertwined with his.

Opening in the early nineties and charting almost two decades of shared history and missed connections, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is both a breathtaking love story about two broken people who are unexplainably, inconveniently drawn to each other and a wryly astute coming-of-age tale brimming with unexpected moments of joy.

"Heartbreaking and funny, often in the same sentence--a deeply felt, finely wrought, and highly satisfying novel. Alison Espach has created a family whose every sorrow, joy, and idiosyncrasy is utterly, vibrantly real."--New York Times bestselling author Claire Lombardo

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

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Jamie Ivey

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Kick Unrealistic Expectations to the Curb and Rest in God's Truth

Jamie Ivey, popular Christian speaker and host of 'The Happy Hour, ' shares the utter relief of not having to be perfect

Why Cant I Get It Together

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Ramona Emerson

Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases-she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't let her sleep and who sabotage her personal life. Her taboo and psychologically harrowing ability was what drove her away from the Navajo reservation, where she was raised by her grandmother. It has isolated her from friends and gotten her in trouble with the law. And now it might be what gets her killed. When Rita is sent to photograph the scene of a supposed suicide on a highway overpass, the furious, discombobulated ghost of the victim-who insists she was murdered-latches onto Rita, forcing her on a quest for revenge against her killers, and

Shutter

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Candice Watters

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What Women Can Do to Help It Happen

Watters gives women permission to want a Christian marriage, encourages them to believe its possible, and supplies the tools to get there. This book blends the authors personal journey from singleness to marriage with a biblical perspective on marriage.

Get Married

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Lisa Anderson

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A Drama-Free Plan for Pursuing Marriage with Purpose

Finally, a no-holds-barred word on dating, preparing for marriage and maximizing singleness from someone who's actually living it.

Your attitudes about marriage and the path to marriage are wrong. Some you've inherited, some you've simply bought--hook, line, and sinker--and some you've made up yourself. They have translated into bad action (or no action) in dating and relationships. But it's not too late; you can break the cycle of dating dysfunction and learn to honor marriage, marry well, and live intentionally while you wait. Lisa Anderson proves it's possible.



The Dating Manifesto is neither a cheesy formula for finding a spouse nor a feel-good book about how the person for you is "out there" if you only "believe."Instead, it's a challenge to wise up, own your junk, and chart a bold new course for your relationship future.

The Dating Manifesto

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Cara Black

November, 2001: in the wake of 9/11, a gathering for family and friends is disrupted when a bomb goes off at the police laboratory - and Boris Viard, the partner of investigator Aimée Leduc's friend Michou, is found unconscious at the scene of the crime with traces of explosive under his fingernails. Aimée doesn't believe Boris set the bomb. When a member of the French secret service drafts Aimée to help investigate possible links to an Iranian Revolutionary guard and fugitive radicals who bombed Interpol in the 1980s, Aimée uncovers ties to a cold case of her father's.

Murder at the Porte de Versailles

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Kara Gnodde

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With the offbeat charm of The Rosie Project and generous warmth of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, a wry, moving debut novel about a pair of unforgettable siblings and a love triangle of sorts--one with math as its beating heart.

One of Cosmopolitan's Best Books of 2023

Meet Art and Mimi Brotherton. Devoted siblings and housemates, they're bound together by the tragic death of their parents. Mathematical genius Art relies on logic, while Mimi prefers to follow her heart.

When Mimi decides she needs more from life than dutifully tending to her brilliant brother, she asks for his help to find love. Art agrees, but on one condition: that she find her soulmate using a strict mathematical principle. Things seem promising, until Mimi meets Frank: a romantic, spontaneous stargazer who's also a mathematician. Despite Mimi's obvious affection for the quirky Frank, Art is wary of him from their very first encounter.

As Art's mistrust of Frank grows, so do Mimi's feelings, and the siblings' relationship is brought to a breaking point. Something about Frank doesn't quite add up, and only Art can see it . . .

The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything is a tender, intelligent and uplifting novel about brothers and sisters, true love in all its forms, and how the answers to life's biggest questions follow a logic of their own.

The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything

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The Daily Grace Co.

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A 365 Day Devotional

The Gospel Changes Everything

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Gregg Matte

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25 Christmas Devotions in Luke

Does the Christmas season feel rushed and chaotic rather than like a celebration of the peace and joy that has come as our God stepped out of heaven and became flesh? Have you ever gotten to the end of Christmas Day, exhausted and wondering, "Is this all? How do I make this more meaningful for my walk with Christ? For my family?" After seeing a challenge online, Pastor Gregg Matte began to read one chapter of the book of Luke each day, recording his reflections in a devotional each day. Spending time in the entire story of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke - from His birth to His death, resurrection, and ascension -centers us in the true reason for the season. We serve a Savior who was born and a Savior who is risen! Our celebration at the manger flows from our celebration at the cross. This set of 25 devotionals seeks to center us on the beauty of the full story of the Gospel of Luke with a devotional thought for each day in December leading up to Christmas. By Christmas day, just maybe, you have a renewed sense of joy and peace as you center your heart on Who and why we celebrate Christmas.

Salvation Has Come

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Amy Poeppel

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Amy Poeppel brings her signature "big-hearted, charming" (The Washington Post) style to this wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between.

In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby--belonging to exactly none of them--lands on their collective doorstep.

Lauren and her family--lucky bastards--have been granted the use of a spectacular brownstone, teeming with history and dizzyingly unattractive 70s wallpaper. Adding to the home's bohemian, grungy splendor is the bar occupying the basement, a (mostly) beloved dive called The Sweet Spot. Within days of moving in, Lauren discovers that she has already made an enemy in the neighborhood by inadvertently sparking the divorce of a couple she has never actually met.

Melinda's husband of thirty years has dumped her for a young celebrity entrepreneur named Felicity, and, to Melinda's horror, the lovebirds are soon to become parents. In her incandescent rage, Melinda wreaks havoc wherever she can, including in Felicity's Soho boutique, where she has a fit of epic proportions, which happens to be caught on film.

Olivia--the industrious twenty-something behind the counter, who has big dreams and bigger debt--gets caught in the crossfire. In an effort to diffuse Melinda's temper, Olivia has a tantrum of her own and gets unceremoniously canned, thanks to TikTok.

When Melinda's ex follows his lover across the country, leaving their squalling baby behind, the three women rise to the occasion in order to forgive, to forget, to Ferberize, and to track down the wayward parents. But can their little village find a way toward the happily ever afters they all desire? Welcome to The Sweet Spot.

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Lynn Painter

Betting on You

Chelsea Patterson Sobolik

Called to Cultivate

Edward M. Hallowell; John J. Ratey

ADHD 2. 0

Aundi Kolber

Strong Like Water

Galison

Grow Through What You Go Through

Aundi Kolber

Try Softer

Susan Massotty; Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl

Nick Hurst; Chelsea Hurst

Marriage Minded

Addison D. Bevere

Words with God

Alison Espach

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

Jamie Ivey

Why Cant I Get It Together

Ramona Emerson

Shutter

Candice Watters

Get Married

Lisa Anderson

The Dating Manifesto

Cara Black

Murder at the Porte de Versailles

Kara Gnodde

The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything

The Daily Grace Co.

The Gospel Changes Everything

Gregg Matte

Salvation Has Come

Amy Poeppel

The Sweet Spot

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