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Being a teenager is tough. Having to live in a world as a 17-year-old girl is even harder. Beth Davis and Marjorie Williams were best friends who began high school as teenagers, but only one would survive to be a woman. Beth was a Christian; Marjorie was not. When Beth succumbed to spinal meningitis, leaving behind a full and promising life, Marjorie began to learn that being popular and physically beautiful were all illusions that pass in time and end in death. As the spider devours the butterfly, so does spinal meningitis leave a fallen little girl. Marjorie learned she needed Jesus.

Set in Pittsburgh in the 1980s, Christina's Gift begins with the death of Christina Martin Andrews, a minister serving an established congregation in the city. As her friends and family try to make sense of how her life ended, they realize that her friendship was an invitation to become friends with Jesus and, in doing so, to discover their true selves, their true purpose.

Nisey often wondered why she had to endure years of physical and mental abuse while being just a little girl who needed to be cared for by her mama. She had to take care of her little brother and sister while her mama worked her many factory jobs. Her mama seemed lost and didn’t know how to take care of her kids. When her mama died on May 23, 2019, she realized that 50 years of her life were entangled in her mama’s life of mental illness. It was at that moment that she realized that this book was about her mama, who was like a caterpillar that evolved into this beautiful butterfly.

Some believe that spirits still wander between the headstones, lamenting about the life and secrets they left behind. Others believe the spirits can’t rest until injustices are righted. Whatever you believe, this book might make you second guess yourself. Are cemeteries truly haunted? What lurks among the graves of those who’ve passed on? These tales of haunted cemeteries of all ages and origins and from around the world will leave you shaking and wondering if you should chase answers…or stay far away.

The purpose of this book is to show how to use biblical truths to uncover the true cause of a curse and spiritual bondage in our own lives and the lives of others to help them find emotional healing and spiritual freedom. Thus, the book explains the causes of a curse and spiritual bondage and offers biblical solutions to how to break them.

The Book of Ruth is about two sisters, Ruth Matilda Clarkson and Cora Undine Lasciter, who survive the trials of a challenging childhood and a demanding father in 1940s America and then find themselves swept up in the powerful currents of the men who come into their lives. It’s an uplifting survival story of two very different women connected by the unbreakable bond of sisterly love, unending faith, and the innocent truth and unfiltered love of a child who brings them back together, and represents the possibility of love, forgiveness, and ultimate redemption.

As we travel through life every day, we are faced with situations or celebrations that require some type of response—written or verbal. When this happens, it leaves little or no time to rush to the card outlet, going from aisle to aisle trying to find just the right card that will convey our deepest thoughts, usually resulting in the selection of slightly bent or smug finger print cards. We could spend hours upon hours picking our brains or perhaps walking the floor all night trying to find those special words for that special person in our lives. Till now, that was a problem.

Is a Golden Retriever the right breed for you? How much training and grooming is required for this beautiful breed? How do you raise a Golden puppy to be as healthy as possible? If you want to know the answer to any or all of these questions, this is the right book for you. 50 Things to Know About Golden Retrievers by Stephanie Fowlie offers an approach to adopting, owning, and raising a Golden Retriever. By the time you finish listening to this book, you will have all the knowledge you need for adopting and raising a Golden Retriever.

Valle Egypt is a case study that affords listeners the opportunity to better understand the serious consequences of financial elder abuse while providing an increased awareness of how to mitigate this escalating problem. Using a personal family story as a vehicle, the author presents a preparatory tool kit, which includes components such as fiduciary duty, mental capacity, legal trusts, and estate planning. The story presents a legal case, calling attention to the mental capacity of an aged parent, undue influence by children, and breach of fiduciary duty by the trustees.

Glimpses 2 is the exciting addition to Glimpses. It unravels the mystery of who is attempting to murder Marcella and life's discoveries at the end of the tunnel of passion. The ladies discover what their hearts have been longing to reveal. They continue on the road of fate, unified and strong.

Called to Help the Poor and Needy focuses on the more than 2,000 verses in the Old Testament and the New Testament in the Bible that direct us to help the poor and needy. The audiobook focuses on what God says about this major theme in the Bible and how we might more thoroughly live these commands from God.

This audiobook may be especially useful for those parents that have special-needs children. We have learned that special-needs children are just children like other children but have special needs above and beyond most children. We have applied this point view in the training of our two children.

Alzheimer's is devastating to the afflicted person, with no true cure in sight. However, your loved one will need all of the loving care and understanding you can deliver. Using the most of each day as a good point and shaping the now strange world to become just a little bit more manageable for your loved one is key. The challenges presented by the disease itself, the challenges from your hurt feelings, and the challenges of supporting family members as they deal with their feelings could be viewed as way too much to handle.

I name this audiobook Challenges in the Classroom. There are many challenges teachers and scholars face in the classroom room. Many teachers get so frustrated to the point of wanting to leave that profession. This novel is a helpful tool for all teachers, especially for new teachers, grades K-12. It offers many ideas or things to do to help you plan better and strategize when planning and preparing lessons. It tells you about the difficulties that teachers sometimes face in the classroom.

The Mackadoodle story came to mind when Virginia’s dog, Mack, nicknamed Mackadoodle, woke up one morning and couldn’t walk. He wasn’t in any pain. The vet used laser treatments and injections to get him moving again. After two months, he was walking and running just fine.

Cyprus gained independence in 1960 without a strong national identity. Citizens considered themselves Greeks or Turks, not Cypriots. Ethnic pride, reinforced by proximity to both countries, inflamed the majority of the population, and was encouraged by the historic rivalry between the two homelands. While examining the nation-state as an institution, I discovered a mechanism I now call transnational nationalism. Analysis of the Cypriot crisis of 1974 gives further insight into cultural politics in lands such as Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Palestine, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Twenty-five-year-old Kristine Anderson leads a very busy life of working a full-time job as a nurse and caring for her terminally ill mother. She doesn't have the time for or need any more complications in her life. When she unexpectedly becomes involved with one of her elderly patients, she makes a promise to the dying woman that invites troubling implications into her life.

The Biblical History of the Liberal, and of Conservatism came about through some discussion of the 2016 campaigns and the ways and means of the various parties in their attempt to be the winner in 2016. There was a noted difference in the way of those leaning to the leftward end of the political spectrum and of those leaning to the right side. There was quite a bit said regarding these two main ways, and the idea came across to make note of those observations. How far back did we go in our discussions? A ways, and in a general way, we went back to biblical times.

This book was written to inspire, encourage, empower, and equip listeners with the tools that are needed to weather the storms of life. It also gives instruction and inspiration to those who may feel like giving up as they go through the process of life. This book also will help the listener to be strong, courageous, and bold while going through the process. For those who desire to quit, this book will give you the tools that are needed to keep pushing through the pain and never give up.

Listen to a story about a child taking Jesus to school, in his or her heart - a wonderful audiobook for preschool to third-grade listeners! When moms and dads or teachers share God's little verses about what happens at school, the children are comforted to know someone knows what's happening and is godly problem-solving. The theme, of course, is sharing and caring!