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  Us After - A Memoir of Love and...

  Rachel Zimmerman

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  When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman’s door to report that her husband had jumped to his death off a nearby bridge, she fell to her knees, unable to fully absorb the news. How could the man she’d married, a devoted father and robotics professor at MIT, have committed such a violent act? How would she explain this to her young daughters? And could she have stopped him? 
   
  A longtime journalist, she probed obsessively, believing answers would help her survive. She interviewed doctors, suicide researchers, and a man who jumped off the same bridge and lived. 
   
  Us, After examines domestic devastation and resurgence, digging into the struggle between public and private selves, life’s shifting perspectives, the work of motherhood, and the secrets we keep. In this memoir, Zimmerman confronts the unimaginable and discovers the good in what remains. 
   
  “This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resilience that I’ve read.”—Tara Parker-Pope, The Washington Post

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  My Fight with God by Brian...

  Brian Klemmer

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  If you have ever wondered why life is sometimes unfair, if God really hears your prayers, or if you just can’t figure out Scripture, My Fight With God promises to stir you into new conversations with your heavenly Father and deepen your personal walk with Jesus. 
  Written with a strong, cut-to-the-chase approach, the author’s refreshing and natural responses to questions and situations that you face everyday will make you laugh as well as scratch your head more than once as you wonder “Gee, how did he know that’s what I was thinking?” 
  My Fight With God helps you:Learn why the meek inherit the earth and how you can too—without being beat up in the process.Realize that not only can a rich man get into Heaven, but that a rich person should get into Heaven.Discover why having only a tiny bit of faith is not sufficient to conquer today’s problems.Find out if and why God rewards a rebellious and wasteful child.Learn why God cursed a helpless tree and how not to be that tree. 
  The strength of My Fight With God is that it tackles many stumbling block Scripture passages and helps skeptics, confused new believers, and seasoned believers alike to understand God’s Word from a vantage of faith. Accompany author Brian Klemmer, read by his daughter Krystal Zellmer in this audio version, as he fights with God about what different parts of the Bible mean and his current understanding of their practical application in overcoming life’s challenges.

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  JK Rowling: The True Story of...

  Liam Dale

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  Once upon a time, as all good stories with happy endings begin, a penniless young mother walked the streets of Edinburgh with her beloved baby daughter, hoping to make her fortune. In truth, “fortune” is probably over-exaggerating; enough money to feed and clothe the two of them and put a decent roof over their heads was all this young mother asked, but it was proving to be incredibly difficult. 
   
  Yet this is no fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson, it’s the true story of one of the most successful women the world has ever known, who in 1990 came up with the idea for a book about an orphaned boy wizard. The boy’s name was Harry Potter, the young woman, JK Rowling, and the rest is history!

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  Milestone - The Strangest Conduit

  Gus Antos, Mark Robson

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  When Mark and Gus first met, they had no way of knowing they would one day be the owners of the largest home service company in Dallas–Fort Worth! From the onset of their first meeting, these two men knew they were part of something unique, something bigger, something they hope can be an example for others. While they shared every business owner's dream of success, it wasn't the money that was most important. At first, it was the challenge of overcoming normal start-up hardships alongside real-life crises, learning the ropes, and finding creative solutions to challenges they never saw coming. By keeping their eyes on what they considered most important—faith, family, and excellence—Mark and Gus embraced each challenge with love, loyalty to the vision, and compassion for the greater DFW community they serve. The values they put in place and their impact on the team, customers, and community are the heart and soul of Milestone. Discover the elements they put in place to create a company that works not just for its customers but for its team members and its community. Within these pages, you will learn how Gus and Mark turned each roadblock they met into an extraordinary opportunity to grow personally and professionally, while remaining true to their core values and beliefs.

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  A Snowflake Named Hannah -...

  John Strege

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  The story of John and Marlene Strege, their struggle with infertility, and how God orchestrated something much bigger than their own desire to have children.  From desperation to hope, A Snowflake Named Hannah tells the story of John and Marlene and their daughter Hannah, the first ever adopted frozen embryo.  John, by profession a syndicated sports writer, walks the reader through their life story from personal accounts and meticulous research - how they were a part of starting the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program, how they befriended Dr. James Dobson and ended up on his Christian radio program Family Talk, how they found themselves in the fight for preborn life in American Politics during the embryonic stem cell research debate, and how they ended up at the White House more than once during George W. Bush's administration.  John's no nonsense approach to telling their story is both personal and a piece of American political history. It tells their story of how their simple desire to have children, combined with their faith in God, lead them to experience and tell this amazing true-life story.

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  Light Skin Gone to Waste - Stories

  Toni Ann Johnson

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  In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They're Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn't know. With that, we're introduced to the Arringtons: Phil, Velma, his daughter Livia (from a previous marriage), and his youngest, Madeline, soon to be born. They're cosmopolitan. Sophisticated. They're also troubled, arrogant, and throughout the linked stories, falling apart. 
   
   
   
  We follow the family as Phil begins his private practice, as Velma opens her antiques shop, and as they buy new homes, collect art, go skiing, and have overseas adventures. It seems they've made it in the white world. However, young Maddie, one of the only Black children in town, bears the brunt of the racism and the invisible barriers her family's money, education, and determination can't free her from. As she grows up and realizes her father is sleeping with white women, her mother is violently mercurial, and her half-sister resents her, Maddie must decide who she is despite, or perhaps precisely because of, her family.

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