When Sheila Walsh discovered “I’m not good enough and I’m good with that,” everything started to change. We’ve all experienced that moment when we wish we could start all over again. Failed marriage, lost friends, addictions, lost jobs. This is not the life we imagined. Yesterday can leave us stuck, sad, shamed, scared, and searching. Sheila wants you to face the pain head on and then start again, from right where you are. In It’s Okay Not To Be Okay, she helps you overcome the same old rut of struggles and pain by changing the way you think about God, yourself, and your everyday life. She shares practical, doable, daily strategies that will help you move forward one step at at time, knowing God will never let you down. It’s never too late to start again… and there is healing and freedom in just taking the first step.
After several years of widowhood and hard work, Ingeborg Bjorklund has reached a place of contentment with her life. She enjoys watching Blessing, North Dakota thrive and grow, filled not only with her extended family but also newcomers like David Gould. Though a high society businessman from New York City, David has become a dear friend. But how should she handle the ways their relationship seems to be changing? Meanwhile, her son Thorliff is raising two children alone, still grieving the loss of his beloved Elizabeth. He is surprised, therefore, by the effect the new schoolteacher Louisa Gutenberg, has on him. But would his feelings stay the same if he knew the real reason she visits her sister most weekends? With Blessing advancing forward, Thorliff decides to gather the stories of Ingeborg’s life, and subsequently the history of the town, into a book. But with every glimpse into the past, Ingeborg will have to decide if her settled, predictable life is worth more to her than a future she hardly dares to imagine in A Blessing to Cherish by Lauraine Snelling.
Two unsolved murders seventeen years apart are about to get personal in Justice Betrayed by Patricia Bradley. It’s Elvis Week in Memphis, and homicide detective Rachel Sloan isn’t sure her day could get any stranger when an aging Elvis impersonator named Vic Vegas asks to see her. But when he produces a photo of her murdered mother with four Elvis impersonators - one of which had also been murdered soon after the photo was taken - she’s forced to reevaluate. Is there some connection between the two unsolved cases? And could the recent break in at Vic’s home be tied to his obsession with finding his friend’s killer? When yet another person in the photo is murdered, Rachel suddenly has her hands full investigating three cases. Lieutenant Boone Callahan offers his help, but their checkered romantic past threatens to get in the way. Can they solve the cases before the murderer makes Rachel victim number four?
Where you come from matters far less than where you’re going in Rachel Fordham’s novel A Life Once Dreamed. Six years ago, a shocking secret sent Agnes Pratt running in search of a new start. She found it in Penance, a rugged town of miners and lumberjacks in the Dakota Territory. In the shadow of the Black Hills, she became Miss Aggie, respected schoolteacher and confirmed old maid - despite being only 24. But the past has a way of catching up with people. When childhood friend and former sweetheart James Harris accepts a position as the town doctor, Aggie’s pleasantly predictable days suddenly become anything but. James wants to know why Agnes left behind the life they had dreamed of creating for themselves - but he is precisely the one person who can never know. Can a healing light be shed on the past? Or will the secret Agnes can’t seem to outrun destroy her chance at happiness?
Parenting is an exciting adventure, full of twists and turns. But sometimes it feels like you don’t know where you’re headed, or you’re just making it up as you go along. How can you get where you want to be without having a plan in place? Dennis and Barbara Rainey have spent decades teaching on the foundations necessary for building godly families. Now they share the insights and expertise gleaned from those years of ministry, as well as stories and teaching from their own children about the challenges of parenting today. The Art of Parenting focuses your attention on four crucial elements in your children’s lives: relationships, character, identity, and mission. When you apply biblical truth to these four areas, you can feel confident your children will have a foundation they can build upon for the rest of their lives.
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