Amy Tan

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

The author reflects on her family's Chinese American legacy, her experiences as a writer, her survival of natural disasters, and her struggle to manage three family members afflicted with brain disease.

The Opposite of Fate

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John Mulligan

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

A Novel

The down-and-out life of a Vietnam War veteran. The protagonist is Finn, a Scot drafted when his parents immigrate to the U.S. Traumatized by the war, he spends 12 homeless years pushing a shopping cart with his possessions before recovering.

Shopping Cart Soldiers

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#paperback #nonfiction #preemptivelove #war #memoir #humanitarian #hope #inspiration 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

A Journey from Hope to Despair and Back in a World That's Scary As Hell

With wars, injustice, and tragedy, this world can be scary as hell. Founder of Preemptive Love Coalition Jeremy Courtney shares his story of moving his young family across the globe to serve those in war-torn Iraq, looking fear and heartbreak in the face and discovering what it means to love anyway.

Love Anyway

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A sweet, poignant Christmas story! Great condition, see all pics 

A heartfelt gift for every family, sure to be shared over and over each year.

Eight-year-old Tess is convinced this is the year she will finally meet Santa, and experience "the Christmas magic." She also wishes with all her heart that her best friend's ill father will recover. Tess' faith in the season results in a Christmas Eve so wondrous, so sparkling, readers won't be able to help but feel transformed. Like trimming the tree and "It's a Wonderful Life"; baking cookies and "White Christmas," ON CHRISTMAS EVE is sure to bring new holiday magic to readers' lives.

On Christmas Eve

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Massachusetts

Living in Harmony with the Earth

Listen to Nature

Chris Gardner

Mim Eichler Rivas

Texas

"Chris Gardner, popular speaker and the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness presents, in the tradition of The Last Lecture and The Alchemist, a powerful book on dreaming your way to the next level of your life"--

Permission to Dream

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In this book the author who has PTSD himself, he wrote this book in order to help others be able to see the other side of PTSD.

Oklahoma

Author Shane Schilperoort's dreams began at a young age when he was first introduced to the California Highway Patrol. He told his parents he was going to become an officer and be helpful to the public. That dream came to fruition in the late 1990s. Schilperoort served with the CHP for seventeen years before a shooting in 2012 ended his career as a law enforcement officer and began his ordeal with post-traumatic stress disorder. In PTSD Will Not Own Me, he shares his story beginning with the incident that changed his life. He tells how he dealt with PTSD and how, at first, he let his life be dictated by this debilitating injury. He discusses the depression he experiened and the raw and deep emotions that often got the best of him until he learned to cope. PTSD Will Not Own Me narrates Schilperoort's dark and unique journey through PTSD, encouraging others to manage their own injuries and forge ahead in life.

PTSD Will Not Own Me

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Arizona

Notes from an Unusual Life

Live What You Love

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#paperback #autographed #uplifting #Hope #drama #fiction #onceuponabookclub 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Warm, powerful and unforgettable, Irish Times best-selling author Carmel Harrington's new novel is about second chances, friendship and unlikely heroes. 'Where is home?' DJ asked. 'Wherever the people you love are.' Ruth replied. Single mother, Ruth, and her son, DJ, have never truly fitted in, but that didn't matter, so long as they were together. When their home comes under threat, their quiet life will change forever. DJ meets Tom, a man who ten years ago walked out of his house and never looked back. Ruth, DJ and Tom have all felt like outsiders. Burdened with grief and insecurities, they are not living their best lives. But together, these three ordinary people will do an extraordinary thing...

A Thousand Roads Home

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Debbie Jacob

They were outcasts, the forgotten boys of Trinidad and Tobago imprisoned for violent crimes including armed robbery and murder. They had nothing left but a wish for a better life, the feeling that they would need an education to achieve their goals, and a desperate desire to find an English teacher. In 2010 Debbie Jacob entered the gates of the Youth Training Centre (YTC), the remand centre for boys in the Caribbean island of Trinidad - it would be a move that would change her life and the lives of her young charges forever. Based on a true story, Wishing for Wings recounts Debbie's challenging journey of preparing seven young men for the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) English Language exam. Heartbreaking but also encouraging, Debbie's story and those of her students, offer an unprecedented look into the lives of troubled teens and boys in prison. The realities of the education and justice systems are brought into sharp focus as are issues such as teaching (formal) English in a Creole speaking environment. It is a story of challenge and triumph; of rebellion and redemption; of loss and of learning, but most of all it is about the Power of Love. Debbie Jacob took a chance with her students, and they took a chance with her. In the end, both teacher and students would discover just how much they had come to need each other. Impossible to put down, Wishing for Wings captures both the fear and the pleasure of one teacher in unchartered territory; and the hope and trust sustaining her students. The story of their journey together will make you cry and make you smile, but most of all, it will remind you of the enduring power of faith and love.

Wishing for Wings

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Grant Martin

Book in very good condition except small stain on front outside edge of pages. See photo.

Virginia

Describes the symptoms of different types of learning disabilities, suggests remedies, and lists sources for further assistance

Help! My Child Isn't Learning

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Jennifer Rothschild

Maryland

Steps to Walking by Faith, Not by Sight

An author, speaker, and recording artist presents autobiographical sketches on her experiences as a college student, newlywed, parent, and friend in order to explain the benefits of living a faith-based life. Original.

Lessons I Learned in the Dark

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#hardcover #fiction #faith #hope #beautifulstory 

The First Phone Call from Heaven

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Perfect summer reading book. #divorced #newlife #selfawareness #moving #hope #newhome #Wisconsin #summer 

In this moving, witty novel, author Maureen Leurck explores the intricacies and joys of renovation and rediscovery-as one woman?s improvement project promises to transform much more than a home . . .

People keep a house alive, not the other way around. Alex Proctor has seen the truth of this in every empty, rundown property she?s bought and renovated since her divorce almost three years ago. She?s also experienced the thrill of making each one into a home. Her newest project is a dilapidated, century-old house just a few blocks from Geneva Lake, Wisconsin. Time and neglect, along with rats and raccoons, have ravaged it inside and out. Only Alex can see the beauty of what it once was and might become again. In just a few weeks-by the time the cicadas make their scheduled reappearance after seventeen years underground-the house should be ready to sell. In the meantime, there are construction disasters, and surprises, to contend with. Amid overgrown grounds and rooms brimming with debris, Alex finds treasures-pocket doors, hardwood floors hidden beneath layers of linoleum and grime-and carved initials that reveal a long-ago love story involving Alex?s elderly neighbor, Elsie, and another cicada summer. At the same time, Alex finds herself searching for a way to reconcile her new life with lingering feelings for her ex-husband. For so long she felt sure that moving on was the only option, but maybe this house, and everything she?s learning in it, could give Alex room for a second chance . . .

Cicada Summer

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Kimberly Willis Holt

Michigan

Kimberly Willis Holt's The Ambassador of Nowhere, Texas is a stunning post-9/11 companion to the National Book Award-winner When Zachary Beaver Came to Town. Decades after the Vietnam War and Toby’s life-changing summer with Zachary Beaver, Toby’s daughter Rylee is at a crossroads—her best friend Twig has started pushing her away just as Joe, a new kid from New York, settles into their small town of Antler. Rylee befriends Joe and learns that Joe’s father was a first responder on 9/11. The two unlikely friends soon embark on a project to find Zachary Beaver and hopefully reconnect him with Rylee's father almost thirty years later. This beautiful middle grade novel is a tribute to friendships—old and new—and explores the challenges of rebuilding what may seem lost or destroyed. Christy Ottaviano Books

The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas

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Helen Steiner Rice

Indiana

Christian poetry and prose. "A unique blend of inspirational poetry and devotional thoughts."

Expressions of Hope

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#hardcover #fiction #civilwar #georgia #trilogy #hope #exlibrary

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

In 1852, recovering from the death of her husband and parents and the loss of her home on St. Simons Island, Anne Couper Fraser finds refuge in Marietta, Georgia, but her new life and her family are soon torn apart by the conflicting loyalties and violence of the Civil War. 125,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

Beauty from Ashes

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bottom stamp, back of dust cover scratched, see photos

Alabama

Follows the love story of MaryAnne and David Parkin as they struggle with the lessons of love, loyalty, and forgiveness and cope with tragedy, in a story about the gifts we pass on to our children

Timepiece

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Robert Melinda Blanchard

Bob Blanchard

Idaho

Jane Clayson Johnson

Depression-Sharing Stories, Finding Hope

Silent Souls Weeping

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Rayed 4.1 out of 5 on Goodreads.
Book includes NAL Accent Conversation Guide
In a time of crisis, two women come together and set off down a road of hope in this novel in the Tending Roses series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours.
 
Twenty-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, doesn’t imagine any good could come out of the tornado that has ripped across the Missouri farmland where she makes her home. But some inner spark compels her to take action. To rescue her elderly neighbor Eudora Gibson from the cellar in which she’s been trapped. To make her way to the nearby town of Poetry, where the townspeople have begun to gather in the only building left standing. To collect from the devastated landscape fragments of life that lie strewn about in the tornado’s wake: letters, photographs, and mementos that might mean something to people who have lost everything.
 
Eudora Gibson didn’t think Jenilee had it in her. But the girl she’s hardly noticed for years is now surprising her—stepping forward with a bravery that inspires Eudora to face her own bitter past. Brought close by tragedy, the two will learn lessons about the resilience of the human spirit and the ties that make a community strong. And together, they will travel to a place that once lay beyond their dreams.


Tending Roses #2

Good Hope Road

Adult January Bible Study 

Isaiah: God is My Salvation 

Tracey Victoria Bateman

Susan Downs

Gail Sattler

Susan May Warren

Four Romances Are Built on the Foundation of Faith

In this collection of romantic novellas, four women learn that a happy home is based on the firm foundation of faith in Christ.

The House Love Built

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Henry Winkler

Lin Oliver

Hank Zipzer’s report is due, and he’s dreading it. Then he gets his grades and they are his worst nightmare come true: three Ds. His parents are not going to be happy. Hank thinks he has found a way to make those grades disappear… until his clever plan backfires, big time!

Georgia

Hank Zipzer, a learning-challenged fourth grader, gets himself into lots of trouble when he tries to hide the fact that he received a number of "D's" on his report card.

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Tracey Victoria Bateman; Susan Downs; Gail Sattler; Susan May Warren

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