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  More Than Merely Eyes Can See

  Susan Carey

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  More Than Merely Eyes Can See weaves together the stories of a small church--mostly comprised of middle-class suburban members--and its inner-city neighbors. It begins with the congregation confronting its isolation in the community. A predominantly negative image had taken root in the congregation's imagination and festered in the absence of meaningful relationships with neighbors. Rebuilding those relationships began with listening. In 2011, the congregation launched the Friday Gathering and invited members and neighbors to dine together each week. 
  More than forty diners shared stories about their lives with grace, humor, and occasionally brutal honesty. The stories challenge the stereotypes spawned by census data and headlines and dignify the resiliency of the soul and the deep-seated need to belong. 
  Many organizations, not just churches, want to be perceived as warm and welcoming. But hospitality and charity often come with strings attached. Our norms and expectations about giving and receiving can be barriers to building trust, which is essential to building relationships. More Than Merely Eyes Can See offers readers diverse perspectives on racial identity, the shortcomings of charity, opportunities to repair inequitable systems, and the power of relationships. There is risk that a story will change us, that we cannot go back to who we were, when it transforms how we see ourselves and others.

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  Journey Through the Flames:...

  Sterling Hawthorne

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  Journey Through the Flames: Inside a Landmark Afghan Battle  
  ⭐⭐ Simplified Audio Guide ⭐⭐ 
  Are you eager to advance in your career and enrich your understanding of heroism and resilience amidst the Afghan conflict? 
  Looking for a comprehensive resource that offers all you need to explore these themes in depth? 
  Your journey starts here! 
  This audiobook is your definitive companion for deepening your insight, applying newfound knowledge, and engaging with compelling narratives of courage and tenacity. Get ready for an enlightening experience. 
  Enhanced Features of this Audiobook: 
  - Profound insights into the bravery and strength seen during the Afghan conflict 
  - Detailed accounts of significant events and figures in the battle 
  - Effective approaches to understanding and appreciating these stories 
  Our audiobook stands out for its in-depth exploration, crucial for anyone interested in this pivotal conflict. Stories are not just glossed over; they are examined with accuracy and depth. 
  Please note that this audiobook is produced independently and is crafted for your enlightenment. 
  With a clear and straightforward narrative, "Journey Through the Flames" ensures seamless transitions between captivating accounts. Say farewell to convoluted terminology and embrace clear, precise, and engaging content. 
  So, why wait? Click the BUY NOW button, secure your copy, and start your exploration of heroism and resilience amidst the Afghan conflict.

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  A Constellation of Ghosts

  Laraine Herring

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  A ghost is not what you think it is, says Raven. A ghost is a commitment. When Laraine Herring receives an unexpected colon cancer diagnosis, her father, thirty years dead, returns to her as a raven, setting off a magical journey into complicated grief, inherited trauma, and ancestral healing. As she struggles with redefining her expectations for her life, she slips farther and farther underground into the ancestral realm, where she finds herself writing a play directed by her father-as-raven. It will be a cast of only four: you and me and my mother and my father, and we will speak until there are no more words between us, says Raven. And then you can decide the ending. Tick, tock, write. With one foot in her old life and one foot in the next, Herring grapples with how the silences around her father’s polio and the judgments of her fundamentalist grandparents shaped her, and as she wrestles with the uncertainty of her future, she must decide what to carry forward and what to leave behind. Utilizing speculative elements and an innovative structure blending lyrical prose with a script format, A Constellation of Ghosts takes the reader into the liminal spaces between one world and another, where choices unspool into lives, and the stories we’ve told ourselves fall apart under the scrutiny of multiple perspectives like flesh from bone, reminding us that grief is the unexpected ferryman who can usher all of us back together again.

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  Nicky Winmar - My Story

  Nicky Winmar

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  Thirty years after creating one of the most memorable moments in sporting history, Indigenous AFL legend Nicky Winmar tells his story in a moving and compelling memoir. 
  Sport is made up of moments that thrill us at the time and quickly disappear. Very few endure for decades. Even fewer transcend sport and speak to an entire nation. 
   
  April 17, 2023, marked the 30th anniversary of St Kilda legend Nicky Winmar's proud and defining stand against racism – one of those moments that hasn't diminished over time and regrettably is still just as relevant today. 
   
  It is a stand that has become iconic, and so has Winmar, not just for his courage as he declared to a hostile, jeering crowd 'I'm black and I'm proud to be black' – but also because he is one of the game's great and most celebrated players. 
   
  Born a Noongar man from the WA wheatbelt 200 kilometres from Perth, Neil Elvis 'Nicky' Winmar quickly displayed an ability to overcome adversity. He would need to. He had a hard upbringing but loved to play footy every day with his younger brother among the livestock on the sheep farm where their father worked as a shearer. 
   
  The skinny teenager soon began playing football amongst hardened men for the local team and was signed to a senior team as a promising fifteen-year-old. Winmar would go on to become one of the most decorated players in AFL history. Recently inducted into the illustrious AFL Hall Of Fame, a member of the Indigenous Team of the Century, the St Kilda Team of the Century, a winner of Best and Fairest and Mark of the Year awards, Winmar became the first Indigenous footballer to play 200 games. 
   
  This long-awaited autobiography tells the story of Winmar's brilliant career in colourful detail, as well as giving moving insight into his life. Amidst the pain, the turbulence and the triumph, his heart and abiding sense of humour shine through. 
   
  'One of the truly great players . . . an amazing talent . . . If actions speak louder than words then Nicky Winmar's actions were better than anyone's.' Tony 'Plugger' Lockett

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  Knight of Molokai

  Eva K. Betz

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  Hurricane! Volcano eruptions and fire! Leprosy! Nothing deterred Father Damien from doing the work to which he had been called. Outstandingly big and strong as a boy, he was notably kind as a young man. He needed all his strength and kindness when he went to live at the leper colony of Molokai.This children’s biography of Father Damien of Molokai was written by Eva K. Betz, a prolific Catholic writer of history and biography books for children. (Introduction from an original dust jacket and Maria Therese)

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  Holding Space - A Daughter’s...

  Deidra Jackson

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  When love asks everything of you, what do you give? In Holding Space, Deidra Jackson opens her heart in a deeply personal memoir about caring for her Vietnam veteran father. What began as helping with meals and doctor visits became a profound journey of faith, endurance, and rediscovering grace in the “long middle” between duty and love. Honest, tender, and unflinchingly human, this book is a companion for every caregiver who has ever felt invisible while holding everyone else together and every woman balancing the competing demands of motherhood, marriage, and leadership. Through moments of exhaustion and extraordinary love, Jackson reminds us that grace lives even in the hardest days and that love, in its quietest form, is still enough. 

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