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  Elisabeth Elliot - A Life

  Lucy S. R. Austen

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  An In-Depth Biography on the Life and Work of Missionary Elisabeth Elliot
  Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) is one of the most widely known Christians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. After the death of her husband, Jim, and four other missionaries at the hands of Waorani tribesmen in Ecuador, Elliot famously returned to live among the same people who had killed her husband. Her legacy, however, extends far beyond these events. In the years that followed, Elliot became a prolific writer and speaker, touching the lives of countless people around the world.
  In this single-volume biography, Lucy S. R. Austen takes readers on an in-depth journey through the life of Elisabeth Elliot—her birth to missionary parents, her courtship and marriage to Jim Elliot, her missions work in Ecuador, and her private life and public work after she returned to the United States. Through Elliot's example of love for God and obedience to his commands, readers will ponder what it means to follow Jesus.
  
  - Single-Volume Biography on Elisabeth Elliot: Author Lucy S. R. Austen explores Elliot's professional articles, books, and radio programs, as well as personal scrapbooks, journals, and letters
  - Engaging: Tells the complex and moving life story of one of the most well-known Christian missionaries
  - A Great Resource for Students: Thoroughly researched book provides information about Elliot beyond her work with the Waorani people and her first husband's death

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  DIVA 20 - 12 Life Lessons from...

  Sheryl Lee Ralph

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  Emmy, Tony, and Spirit Award–winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph knows a thing or two about staying power in the capricious world of Hollywood. A seasoned professional who has taken the best lessons learned and used them to move her stellar career forward, she  
  now shares them with you. If you are an aspiring DIVA in training, regardless of your career choice, much of what she says in DIVA 2.0 you’ll find invaluable. These 12 lessons could help elevate your journey to greater heights. 
   
  You’ll get to go behind the scenes of stage, screen, and media to discover what a true DIVA must know, and the first step is, respecting themselves. In these personal tales and recollections, Sheryl reveals the ups and downs of stardom, the heartbreaks and triumphs,  
  the strength she found in her family and the kind of love that gives wings. 
   
  Whether starring on the big screen with Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Robert De Niro, Jon Voight, or Whoopi Goldberg or on the small screen in Moesha; Ray Donovan, Motherland: Fort Salem, or in Abbott Elementary, Sheryl Lee Ralph can be  
  counted on to bring her DIVA, Divinely Inspired, Victoriously Awesome, self to every project. And those DIVA inspired qualities have earned her the respect of her peers and recognition from legions of fans. 
   
  In DIVA 2.0 Sheryl Lee Ralph uses her life story to empower and encourage anyone seeking to find and live their best life with beauty, dignity and a grace that radiates from within.

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  Just One Text

  Mr. Joseph Kaburu

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  Have you ever held a love so precious that you believed nothing in the world could shake it 
  A love chosen by your spirit 
  sealed by your prayers 
  resting safely in the silence between two heartbeats 
  That was Joseph’s truth until one quiet moment shifted everything 
  It was not a threat 
  It was not a confession 
  It was a simple message 
  soft in its arrival yet heavy with storms unseen 
  This is where the journey begins 
  Not with chaos 
  but with a gentle turning of light into shadow 
  Not with destruction 
  but with the soft crack of something once sacred 
  You walk beside a man who loved with sincerity 
  trusted with his whole heart 
  and believed in forever 
  until forever slipped from his hands 
  You enter the quiet rooms of the soul 
  where love once warmed the walls 
  where silence grew heavier 
  where questions echoed without answers 
  You feel the sweetness before it faded 
  the sting of deception 
  the tremble of faith 
  the slow return of strength in mornings that felt too heavy to face 
  Yet this is not only a story of heartbreak 
  It is a story of courage 
  of rediscovering yourself one fragment at a time 
  of understanding how pain sharpens truth 
  how loss carves wisdom 
  how healing begins quietly long before you notice its steps 
  If you have ever loved deeply 
  you will see yourself here 
  If you have ever been hurt 
  you will feel every line 
  If you have ever risen from something meant to break you 
  this story will feel like home 
  And when life shakes you again 
  remember this truth 
  Just One Text can bend a moment 
  but it cannot break a soul that chooses to rise 
   Just One Text is not a tragedy 
   It is a triumph of the human heart

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  Zig-Zag Boy - A Memoir of...

  Tanya Frank

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  One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach—gentle and full of promise—in the grip of what the psychiatrists would label a psychotic break. Suddenly and inexplicably, Tanya is thrown into a parallel universe: Zach's world, where the phones are bugged, his friends have joined the Mafia, and helicopters are spying on his family. 
   
   
   
  In the years following Zach's shifting psychiatric diagnoses, Tanya goes to war for her son, desperate to find the right answer, the right drug, the right doctor to bring him back to reality. Meanwhile, the boy she raised—the chatty, precocious dog-lover, the teenager who spent summers surfing with his big brother, the UCLA student—suffers the effects of multiple hospitalizations, powerful drugs that blunt his emotions, therapies that don't work, and torturous nights on the streets. Holding on to startling moments of hope and seeking solace in nature and community, Tanya learns how to abandon her fears for the future and accept the mysteries of her son’s altered states. 
   
   
   
  With tenderness, lyricism, and generous candor, this compelling story conveys the power of a mother's love. Zig-Zag Boy is both a moving lamentation for things lost and a brave testament to the people we become in difficult circumstances.

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  A Love Letter to Football - From...

  Mark Davis

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  A Love Letter to Football is the story of how the beautiful game, from the litter-strewn pitches of the grassroots to packed stadiums at the top of the sport, can help carry us through our darkest days. 
   
  In 2016, Mark Davies was diagnosed with a rare and incurable blood cancer. A lifelong supporter of Middlesbrough Football Club, his devotion to the club and passion for a game so cherished by billions of people has been essential in helping him navigate the uncertainty of diagnosis and treatment. It’s been a fundamental part of his life in other ways too, from dealing with depression to fatherhood, not to mention some of the trials and tribulations of life’s broader challenges. 
   
  This honest, funny and entertaining account of a life-changing experience, love for a football club and the way the game has been a bedrock throughout his life underlines that football may not be more important than life and death, but the joy and ecstasy it can bring – even for a Middlesbrough fan – really can help when times are hard.

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  Blue Ambition - The Unauthorised...

  Michael Ashcroft

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  During the Conservative Party leadership contest in the summer of 2022, Kemi Badenoch made an immediate impression on the public as a politician with robust views and a strong personality. Although only a junior minister at the time, she was marked out as a rising star and, having exited the race after the fourth ballot, even as a potential future leader. From September 2022, she served in the Cabinets of Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, combining her post as the Secretary of State for Business and Trade with that of the Minister for Women and Equalities.
  Badenoch's centre-right instincts and admiration for Margaret Thatcher have helped to guarantee that her popularity among the grassroots of her party remains high, yet her background is unusual by Westminster's standards. Having been born in London and raised in Nigeria, she describes herself as 'to all intents and purposes a first-generation immigrant'. She returned to Britain aged sixteen to sit her A-levels before studying computer systems engineering at the University of Sussex. She then worked in the banking sector before becoming a Member of the London Assembly in 2015 and, in 2017, entering the House of Commons as the MP for Saffron Walden.
  So what makes Badenoch tick? How has she achieved Cabinet rank so quickly? And what would be the implications for the direction of the Conservative Party if she did become its leader?
  In this meticulously researched biography, Michael Ashcroft charts Badenoch's fascinating course from relative obscurity to being hailed in some quarters as the saviour of conservatism in the UK.

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