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  SET FREE! - Breaking the chains...

  Kelly James Davis

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  In the transparent story of her life, Kelly James Davis takes us on a journey from a happy middle class family into thirty years of a religious cult. The group was birthed out of the Jesus movement of the late '60s and early '70s but quickly departed from Scripture and eventually demanded separation from family and other outside influences. Kelly was totally convinced she was doing what God wanted her to do, yet found herself devoid of the joy and love she once experienced when she first committed to following Christ.Through exposure to authentic Christian believers and a more careful examination of God's Word, she was finally able to break free from the control, guilt and shame that enveloped her.In SET FREE! she shares the ups and downs of of communal living and identifies many of the tactics leaders use to gain control over others' lives. Yet in the end she recognizes how being free is really an inside job. It was only through Christ's love that she was able to forgive herself and others and walk in the joy and life He offers to all.

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  Choosing Resilience

  Tiran Jackson

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  I was on vacation with my wife, Maleka, celebrating our 15th anniversary. On the 3 rd day of the trip, we went on a boating excursion, and the boat suddenly exploded. As a result of the explosion, Maleka died, I lost my left leg, and had to find the resilience and strength to bounce back from this tragic loss. This book covers the story of me finding resilience earlier in my life, the story of the event that changed my life, and my journey to choose resilience and bounce back from this traumatic situation.

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  Shattered - In the Eye of the Storm

  Faye D Resnick, Jeanne V. Bell,...

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  A memoir by the author of Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted.In this sensitive memoir, Faye Resnick— friend of Nicole Brown Simpson— recounts the story of how she found herself in the middle of the O. J. Simpson trial. In her attempt to defend the truth about the murder of her friend, Nicole, Resnick gets embroiled in a heart-rending situation. Faye chronicles her struggle to act on Nicole Brown's behalf, sharing her own story of loss, drug addiction, and recovery.

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  This Part Is Silent - A Life...

  SJ Kim

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  A searing essay collection that explores displacement and loss, creativity and change, institutional power and progress. 
   
   
   
  Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in the world. With curiosity and sensitivity, she writes letters to the institutions that simultaneously support and fail her, intimate accounts of immigration, and interrogations of rising anti-Black and anti-Asian racism. She considers the silences between generations—especially within the Asian diaspora in the West—as she finds her way back to her own family during the pandemic lockdown. 
   
   
   
  Embracing the possibilities and impossibilities of language, Kim rejoices in the similes of Korean, her mother tongue, and draws inspiration from K-dramas and writers across cultures who sustain her. As borders close in and nations enter lockdown, the journey that Kim traces is fraught—and at once illuminates that the act of remaining present has its own power, allowing boundless hope.

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  All the Ways Our Dead Still...

  Caleb Wilde

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  What if our dead remain with us? What if closure is not the goal? No matter what you believe about the afterlife, what if the hereafter intersects with the here and now? 
   
   
   
  Caleb Wilde, author of the acclaimed memoir Confessions of a Funeral Director, was a skeptic. The baffling stories people told him—deathbed visions of long-dead parents, visits from the other side—must be hallucinations or wishful thinking, he thought. But the more stories he heard, and the more he learned about non-Western understandings of body and spirit, the less sure he was. 
   
   
   
  All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak takes listeners on a lyrical and tender quest to encounter the hereafter. As Wilde picks up bodies, organizes funerals, and meets with grieving families in a small town in Pennsylvania, those who remain share with him—and us—what they experience in the thin places between life and death. Entwining these stories with his own as a sixth-generation funeral director, and with the findings of neuroscience and the solace of faith, Wilde creates a searching, reverent inquiry into all the ways our dead remain with us. In the process, he takes on prevailing dogmas about death: from a narrow Christian view of heaven and hell, to secular assumptions that death is the end, to pop-psychology maxims that say we all need "closure" after our loved ones die.

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  The Plague Years - A Doctor’s...

  Ross A. Slotten MD

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  In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state of Illinois—than anyone else. As a family physician, he was trained to care for patients from birth to death, but when he completed his residency in 1984, he had no idea that many of his future patients would be cut down in the prime of their lives. Among those patients were friends, colleagues, and lovers, shunned by most of the medical community because they were gay and HIV positive. Slotten wasn’t an infectious disease specialist, but because of his unique position as both a gay man and a young physician, he became an unlikely pioneer, swept up in one of the worst epidemics in modern history. 
   
  Plague Years is an unprecedented first-person account of that epidemic, spanning not just the city of Chicago but four continents as well. Slotten provides an intimate yet comprehensive view of the disease’s spread alongside heartfelt portraits of his patients and his own conflicted feelings as a medical professional, drawn from more than thirty years of personal notebooks. In telling the story of someone who was as much a potential patient as a doctor, Plague Years sheds light on the darkest hours in the history of the LGBT community in ways that no previous medical memoir has.

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