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The bond between a mother and daughter is as beautiful and complex as her straightening your hair the night before Easter Sunday. It's a closeness destined at birth, yet as complex as the collision of sizzling grease meeting the hot comb at your edges. It's a beautiful, painful process. This audiobook includes letters and poems from 36 phenomenal Black women to our mother.

Including letters and poems from over 20 phenomenal Black women from around the world, MVM is continuing to do the work of centering our trials and triumphs like only we can. MVM was intentional about being for, by, and about Black women.

They are priceless, multifaceted jewels of misjudgment. Masterworks of the moronic. Steroid-juiced stupidity wearing a size 9XX dunce cap embroidered with one simple word: “Duh”. They are the colossally, often laughably bad notions that have leapt from the short-circuiting synapses of some of the world’s brightest (and dimmest) brains, then faithfully chronicled here in 100 of the Worst Ideas in History.

A new church model is emerging to effectively reach this generation Micro churches, as a fresh expression of the bride of Christ living in community, are flourishing in many parts of the world. In Micro Church Networks, Larry Kreider explains from decades of first-hand experience how these networks fit the needs, call, and passion of believers from many generations. God is always ready to do a new thing. Larry helps us perceive this new move of God and recognize the significant role of micro church networks in the advancement of God’s kingdom in our present time.

Most of us have never met a person whose life turned out exactly as he or she originally thought or planned. In fact, your life has held plenty of its own twists and turns, blessings, and burdens, combined with powerful advances and painful ambushes. Life does not come with a detailed syllabus for any of us. The truth is, we often have no idea what is coming around the bend, and much of life can be described as figuring it out as we go.

In Leap of Faith, author and Emmy-winning composer Janie Lidey shares the habits she has developed over the past 30 years that have catapulted her into living the life of her dreams. Lidey inspires her listeners with her favorite quotes and personal life experiences.

It's not easy being a doctor. Ask any GP. The profession may have a glamorous image, but there is little real glamour in haemorrhoids and hernias, athlete's foot and dermatitis. So when retirement looms for Christopher Devon, he is only too happy to shake off the aroma of antiseptic and look...

For 17 years of his life, the exact whereabouts of the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri are unknown to modern scholars. It is known that during this time he traveled as an exile across Europe, working on his epic poem, The Divine Comedy. In his masterpiece he describes a journey through the three realms of the afterlife. During his lost wanderings, Dante stumbled upon an infestation of the living dead. The unspeakable acts he witnessed became the basis of all the horrors described in Inferno.

An overview of Jesus’ teachings on life’s most pressing topics. Consulting Jesus on how to find eternal life is common. But what relevance do Jesus’ teachings have for contemporary life? When it comes to core worldview topics such as human life, marriage, and race, should it be Christ or culture that decides our convictions? Can we really find intelligent answers to contemporary quandaries in the ancient teachings of Jesus? In Countercultural Living, Carol Swain confronts cultural consensus with the countercultural and surprisingly compelling teachings of Jesus.

According to their friends, Tom and Pippa Drummond have the perfect existence - a great lifestyle, a lively marriage, and a great kid in Tally. In their late thirties, living in a converted barn on the edge of the Sussex Downs, Tom is a partner in 'The Pelican', a restaurant in Axbury Minster...

Will Elliott is out of a job. The lighthouse he's been manning on Prince Albert Rock, off the wild Cornish coast, is about to become automated. So Will decides to fulfil his lifelong ambition - to sail round the coastline of Britain. Determined to continue his solitary existence, Will begins his...

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With warmth, honesty, and biblical wisdom, Terry Moss guides you on a journey to become the kind of person who can love—freely, wisely, and well. This isn’t about perfection before connection; it’s about wholeness that transforms every relationship you touch. Because the greatest gift you’ll ever bring into a relationship… is a whole you.

In this third volume of her Wise Inner Counselor series, award-winning author, mystical poet, and inspirational teacher Cheryl Lafferty Eckl shares her unique, inside-out approach to becoming who you really are. She reveals insights into a positive psychology that honors your humanity through a dynamic partnership with your True Self-your Wise Inner Counselor.

For so many of us, the first introduction to Black history begins with lessons about slavery. While slavery is a crucial part of African-American history, it is not the beginning. In fact, there is a rich history tied to the continent of Africa that deserves to be told and to be marveled at—which is exactly what Maisha Oso does in Before the Ships. With sparse yet moving text, Maisha takes us back in time to before the advent of the Transatlantic slave trade.

The Joker: A Story About A Guy, A Gal & A Gasser! Where a troubled kid finds himself at Greg's Speed Shop and ends up going on the ride of his life! A marketing idea that turned into a legacy document, chronicling @ Gregs Speed Shop, Waupaca WI. A world class car and truck, custom build, and fabrication automotive shop.