Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Growing Together Through Life's Changes

In this refreshing and inspiring memoir, Lauren Akins, the wife of country music star Thomas Rhett, shows what it's really like to be "the perfect couple" fans imagine, and reveals what it actually takes to live in love, stay in love, and grow together. When country music star Thomas Rhett won the ACM Award for Single of the Year with "Die a Happy Man," his wife, Lauren Akins, was overjoyed. Her childhood best friend and now husband was being anointed the hottest new star in country music--for a song he had written about her. He was living his dream. Lauren was elated, but she was also wrestling with some big questions, not the least of which was, How can I live my own life of purpose? Lauren Akins never wanted to be in the spotlight, but as Thomas Rhett made his relationship with Lauren the subject of many of his hit songs, she was tossed into the role of one of America's sweethearts. Revered by fans for her down-to-earth ease and charm, her commitment to humanitarian work, and the pure love she exudes for her family, Lauren has never shared her side of their story--full as it's been with deep love, painful loss, tremendous joy, and a struggle to stay grounded in faith along the way--until now. In Live in Love, Lauren shares details about her childhood friendship with Thomas Rhett, explaining how they reconnected as young adults. She offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of being married to her best friend, who just happens to be a music star, and the struggle to find her own footing in the frenzy of her husband's fame. And in heart-wrenching detail, she opens up about her life-changing experiences doing mission work in Haiti, and then in Uganda, where she met the precious baby who would become their first daughter. From sharing the romance of their handwritten wedding vows to the challenges they faced as they adjusted to the reality of becoming first-time parents, Live in Love takes an intimate look at one couple's life--and opens a window into all of our journeys on the path to self-discovery. Live in Love is a deeply personal memoir that offers inspiring guidance for anyone looking to keep romance alive, balance children and marriage, express true faith, and live a life of purpose.

Live in Love

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Explores the saga of the Irish people through the Larkin family in an epic that ranges from Ireland to New Zealand, Egypt, and Gallipoli

Redemption

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#hardcover #churchill #love #strength #devotion #firstlady #life #struggles - ￼The cover jacket is a bit torn as seen in the pictures but the book is an excellent to like new condition. 

The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

From the personal and political upheavals of the Great War, through the Churchills' 'wilderness years' in the 1930s, to Clementine's desperate efforts to preserve her husband's health during the struggle against Hitler, this is the inspiring but often ignored story of one of the most important women in modern history.



Without Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour and repelled the Nazi menace. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never have become Prime Minister. By his own admission, the Second World War would have been 'impossible without her'. Clementine was Winston's emotional rock and his most trusted confidante; not only was she involved in some of the most crucial decisions of war, but she exerted an influence over her husband and the Government that would appear scandalous to modern eyes. Yet her ability to charm Britain's allies and her humanitarian efforts on the Home Front earned her deep respect, both behind closed doors in Whitehall and among the population at large.



That Clementine should become Britain's 'First Lady' was by no means pre-ordained. Born into impecunious aristocracy, her childhood was far from gilded. Her mother was a serial adulteress and gambler, who spent many years uprooting her children to escape the clutches of their erstwhile father, and by the time Clementine entered polite society she had become the target of cruel snobbery and rumours about her parentage. In Winston, however, she discovered a partner as emotionally insecure as herself, and in his career she found her mission. Her dedication to his cause may have had tragic consequences for their children, but theirs was a marriage that changed the course of history.  Now, acclaimed biographer Sonia Purnell explores the peculiar dynamics of this fascinating union.

First Lady

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#hardcover #jamescarroll #priceofpeace #priest #struggles #God #values #love

Prince of Peace

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 #paperback #rachel #bloom #CWstar #CrazyExGirlfriend Laugh out loud #funny essays; #witty #struggles #mental #health

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Essays and Other Stuff

A collection of sidesplitting personal essays, poems, and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more from the charming and wickedly funny co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.


Rachel Bloom has felt  out of place her whole life, whether in the hallowed halls of Manhattan Beach Middle School or on Twitter. So she's decided to figure out exactly what makes her so different. I WANT TO BE WHERE THE NORMAL PEOPLE ARE is a hilarious exploration of all of Rachel Bloom's formative missteps, mishaps, and misanthropic moments.
 
In a collection of laugh-out-loud funny essays, all told in the unique voice (sometimes singing voice) that made her a star, Rachel writes about everything she thought made her abnormal, from her struggles with mental health, to her love of Disney and Spanx, to the story of how she didn't poop in the toilet until she was four. Her stories are hilarious, smart, and infinitely relatable (except for the pooping thing). 
 

I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

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Vintage Hardcover good shape binding good to book intact great read #hardcover #classic #horses  #struggles #hardships #findingagoodhome #wonderful #movie

Utah

Vintage Hardcover

Black Beauty

#hardcover #Nonfiction #mylifeinthemiddleages #JamesAtlas #asurvivorstale #Biography #Middle-age #Struggles #Relationships #Essays￼ box 43 There is a $7.50 purchase minimum when buying from my shop; as there’s a 20%-40% platform fee, packaging, travel costs, and of course my time. Thanks for understanding. 😊

Texas

A Survivor's Tale

What is the most baffling period in our lives? Not childhood, not old age, but the decades of our forties and fifties, the period now generously known as middle age. It's both an occasion for regret and an opportunity for coming to terms, the moment when we come up against our limits and discover -- for better and worse -- who we are. My Life in the Middle Ages is a portrait of what that unnerving experience is like. A collection of unified essays about the pleasures and pathos that attend the threshold of old age, it charts an original course between reportage and confession. Drawn from the author's own life, from the testimony of parents, children, teachers, and friends, from the books he's read and the life that he chose -- and that chose him -- My Life in the Middle Ages is a comic, poignant memoir that's both personal and generational. Whether he is struggling with God (or trying to find out if he believes in one), celebrating the books he's loved and regretting those he'll never read, or leafing through the snapshots in his family album and marveling at the passage of time, James Atlas is always alert to the surprises of everyday life. He parses the fine points of success and failure among New York's "lower upper-middle class" (several of the chapters began as essays in The New Yorker) and expresses the largest themes: "I tried to remind myself that death was a part of life. I was here, then I wouldn't be here." Atlas writes movingly about watching his parents age and his father die. In a wry and soul-searching piece, he recounts his perplexing quest for spiritual meaning after a secular lifetime, a quest that takes him to a private synagogue and a Buddhist meditation center. On the tennis court, he ruefully capitulates to his teenage son's blossoming athletic prowess, recalling a similar passing of the torch with his own father forty years earlier. At once pensive and funny, lighthearted and profound, My Life in the Middle Ages is a tale of survival, but also a meditation on how it feels to flourish -- how to live.

My Life in the Middle Ages

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#nonfiction #hardcover #history #relationships #struggles #experiences #secretalliances #enduringrivalries

Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

Examines presidential power within the context of U.S. history and the ongoing relationships presidents and ex-presidents formed with one another.

The Presidents Club

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#hardcover #inspirational #empowering #overcoming #struggles #rejection #scorned #determination #strengthofheart #prejudice #love #longlastinglessons

Charlie’s Monument 

Vintage paperback #youngadult #uglymut #greathuntingdog #courage #panther #orphan #comingofage #struggles #brutaluncle #runaway

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Vintage Paperback 

Bristle Face

#fiction #paperback #heartbreaking #moving #coping #struggles

When her sister Robin suffers a massive heart attack that leaves her in a coma from which she may never wake up, Molly Snow and her family struggle to cope with the tragedy as their relationships are put to the ultimate test.

While My Sister Sleeps

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#paperback #ya #civilwar #decisions #struggles #friendsdivided #family #trust #honor

Amelia’s War

#allgrownup #hardcover #millenial #fiction #singlewomen  #contemporary #funny #marriage #struggles #loneliness 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Connecticut

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she's a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it's what she leaves unsaid--she's alone, a drinker, a former artist, a shrieker in bed, captain of the sinking ship that is her flesh--that feels the most true. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: her best friend, Indigo, is getting married; her brother--who miraculously seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood--and sister-in-law are having a hoped-for baby; and her friend Matthew continues to wholly devote himself to making dark paintings at the cost of being flat broke. But when Andrea's niece finally arrives, born with a heartbreaking ailment, the Bern family is forced to reexamine what really matters. Will this drive them together or tear them apart? Told in gut-wrenchingly honest, mordantly comic vignettes, All Grown Up is a breathtaking display of Jami Attenberg's power as a storyteller, a whip-smart examination of one woman's life, lived entirely on her own terms.

All Grown Up

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#hardcover #nonfiction #love #family #relationships #parenting #dysfunctional #realstories #struggles #NYT

Florida

Honest and Amazing Stories of Real Families

Draws on the stories of twenty individuals to explore the mysteries of family life, explaining how, after years of conflict, a family can make the transition to a better place, and how to cope with such trials as divorce, death, abuse, and illness.

Why Do I Love These People?

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Idaho

Never before had she been so drawn to a man. Vividly, she recalled the pleasure of dancing with him, the feel of his hand on hers. But dramatic changes were taking place in the South. And soon her heart would be tested by fire.

Under the Southern Moon

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#biblestudy #nonfiction #struggles #theology #womenministry #womenofthebible #workbook #paperback 

Life-Changing Stories for Women Today

In this twelve-session small group Bible study, Twelve Women of the Bible, Lysa TerKuerst, Elisa Morgan, Jeanne Stevens and other leaders look at the spiritual lessons learned from twelve biblical women and what they mean for your life today.

You'll discover lessons from each of these women that will help you persevere through the circumstances you are facing today. Learn how to:

 * Apply biblical lessons to their own modern-day struggles
 * Live through their failures as well as successes
 * Draw near to God in a world filled with trials
 * Find lasting contentment 
 * Overcome rejection and insecurity

This Participant Guide features discussion questions, background information on each character, space to write down thoughts, a helpful Leader's Guide, and much more. 

Sessions include:

 * Eve: Finding Lasting Contentment in the Truth (Lysa TerKeurst)
 * Rebekah: Breaking Free of Feminine Stereotypes (Jonalyn Fincher)
 * Leah: Overcoming Rejection and Insecurity (Naomi Zacharias)
 * Hannah: Surrendering in Waiting (Amena Brown)
 * Abigail: Dealing with Confrontation in Relationships
 * Gomer: Learning to Accept Unconditional Love (Jeanne Stevens)
 * Mary, Mother of Jesus: Moving from Comfort to Courage (Jeanne Stevens)
 * Mary Magdalene: Transforming from Outcast to Follower (Jonalyn Fincher)
 * Mary of Bethany: Putting Our Faith into Action (Elisa Morgan)
 * Martha: Finding Our Identity in Jesus (Amena Brown)
 * The Woman at the Well: Turning Our Messes into Messages (Lysa TerKuerst)
 * The Syrophoenician Woman: Approaching God with Persistency and Boldness (Naomi Zacharias)

Designed for use with the Twelve Women of the Bible DVD 9780310691624 (sold separately).

Twelve Women of the Bible

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#Rembrandt #struggles #drama #love #historical #hardcover                                      With her mother dead of the plague, and her beloved brother newly married, Cornelia must manage her father's household, though he teeters on the brink of madness. She knows that among Amsterdam's elite circles, people are gossiping about her father's fading artistic genius--and about her, too. Yet there are two young men who seem unfazed by the slander- and very much intrigued by Cornelia. Set within the vibrant community of the 17th century Dutch Masters, I Am Rembrandt's Daughter is a moving coming of age story filled with family drama and a love triangle that would make Jane Austen proud.

New Jersey

In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a wealthy suitor.

I Am Rembrandt's Daughter

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Indiana

"make them rue the day they underestimated you." amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents shine your icy crown, the second installment in her new feminist poetry series, "you are your own fairy tale." this is a story about not letting society dictate the limits of your potential. it's time to take back your power & realize that you don't need a king in order to be a queen.

Shine Your Icy Crown

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#paperback #lighthouse #smallisland #rowsherboatschool #tragedy #lonely #citylife #struggles #decisions #challenges #friendship 

Keeping the Good Light

#hardcover #YA #contemporary #struggles 

Good used condition.  It was from a library or school at one part. 100% readable though!  I really enjoyed this book when I was younger! 


Lenore is Cornelia's mother--and Cornelia's fix-up project. What does it matter that Cornelia won't talk to anyone and is always stuck in the easiest English class at school, even though she's read more books than anyone else? She feels strong in the fixing. She cooks vegetable soup so Lenore will eat something other than Ring Dings; she lures her out of bed with strong coffee and waffles. She looks after the house when Lenore won't get out of bed at all. 
So when Lenore and her boyfriend take off for Vegas leaving Cornelia behind with eccentric Aunt Agatha, all Cornelia can do is wait for her to come back. Aunt Agatha sure doesn't want any fixing. 
Maybe this time it's Cornelia who could use it?

Lenore is Cornelia’s mother—and Cornelia’s fix-up project. What does it matter that Cornelia won’t talk to anyone and is always stuck in the easiest English class at school, even though she’s read more books than anyone else? She feels strong in the fixing. She cooks vegetable soup so Lenore will eat something other than Ring Dings; she lures her out of bed with strong coffee and waffles. She looks after the house when Lenore won’t get out of bed at all.

So when Lenore and her boyfriend take off for Vegas leaving Cornelia behind with eccentric Aunt Agatha, all Cornelia can do is wait for her to come back. Aunt Agatha sure doesn’t want any fixing.

Maybe this time it’s Cornelia who could use it?

Tending to Grace

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Massachusetts

A Memoir

After contracting polio as a child, Sandra Gail Lambert progressed from braces and crutches to a manual wheelchair to a power wheelchair--but loneliness has remained a constant, from the wild claustrophobia of a child in body casts to just yesterday, trapped at home, gasping from pain. A Certain Loneliness is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor.



Lambert presents the adventures of flourishing within a world of uncertain tomorrows: kayaking alone through swamps with alligators; negotiating planes, trains, and ski lifts; scoring free drugs from dangerous men; getting trapped in a too-deep snow drift without crutches. A Certain Loneliness is literature of the body, palpable and present, in which Lambert's lifelong struggle with isolation and independence--complete with tiresome frustrations, slapstick moments, and grand triumphs--are wound up in the long history of humanity's relationship to the natural world.

 
Purchase the audio edition. [https://www.amazon.com/Certain-Loneliness-Memoir-American-Lives/dp/B07ZL5JGPK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=certain+loneliness+lambert&qid=1582316642&s=audible&sr=1-1]

A Certain Loneliness

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#paperback #noraroberts #romance #family #struggles #ireland #love #countyclare #artworld

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Book 1 Born in Fire Book 2 Born in Ice Book 3 Born in Shame

Born In Triology 

#paperback #poetry #fiction #amandalovelace #romance #struggles #women #nonfiction 

North Carolina

Washington

The Fireproof Your Marriage Participant's Guide is founded on Biblical principles for strong, God-centered, marriages. With the Participant's Guides couples engage in a 6-session study with an easy format that integrates key Scriptures, group discussion and individual and couple's devotions. The Participant's Guide coordinates with the Fireproof Your Marriage Small Group Leader's Kit DVD, the Couples' Kit and the Fireproof Your Marriage sermons. Can be used with or without the movie.

Lauren Akins; Mark Dagostino

Live in Love

Leon Uris

Redemption

Sonia Purnell

First Lady

James Carroll

Prince of Peace

Rachel Bloom

I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

Anna Sewell

Black Beauty

James Atlas

My Life in the Middle Ages

Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

The Presidents Club

Blaine M Yorgason

Charlie’s Monument

Zachary Ball

Bristle Face

Barbara Delinsky

While My Sister Sleeps

Ann Rinaldi

Amelia’s War

Jami Attenberg

All Grown Up

Po Bronson

Why Do I Love These People?

Virginia Gaffney

Under the Southern Moon

Morgan B. Terkeurst; Amena Brown; Jonalyn Grace Fincher; Elisa Morgan; Jeanne Stevens; Lysa TerKeurst; Naomi Zacharias; Sherry Harney (As told to)

Twelve Women of the Bible

Lynn Cullen

I Am Rembrandt's Daughter

Amanda Lovelace; ladybookmad

Shine Your Icy Crown

Katherine Kirkpatrick

Keeping the Good Light

Kimberly Newton Fusco

Tending to Grace

Sandra Gail Lambert

A Certain Loneliness

Nora Roberts

Born In Triology

Amanda Lovelace; ladybookmad

Shine Your Icy Crown

Jennifer Dion

Fireproof Your Marriage Participant's Guide