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Letters to Freedom: From Fear to Love to Grace is a love letter to hope, surviving, and thriving after loss. Dr. Patti Ashley shares her own love story about healing from the deep grief that accompanies the risk inherent in loving someone. Having lost both her father early in life and her fiancé much later in life to sudden heart attacks, Patti shares her journey of overcoming fear, embracing love, and finding grace in her grief. She initially wrote this story for her personal healing. She later decided to share it with others in the hopes it will help you find grace.

Capt. Kendall Thomas has been plagued by dreams of blood, dreams so horrifying they leave her trembling in the night. Kendall has good reason to be afraid. She's discovered thieves are stealing artifacts from the alien city on Jarved Nine, and the smugglers will do anything to protect their lucrative sideline - even commit murder.

Off the Hook shares real-life stories of real people who had no idea they were still captive to past hurts...until they walked through deep forgiveness! This way of forgiveness offers healing and freedom you never thought possible. It’s about the power of truly letting go - taking old pain patterns and people off your hook, for your sake, not theirs. No longer hemmed in by the burden of deep hurt, loss, and offense, you are free, at last, to soar above it.

Even Vegans Die empowers vegans and their loved ones to make the best decisions regarding their own health, their advocacy for animals, and their legacy. By addressing issues of disease shaming and body shaming, the authors present a manifesto for building a more compassionate, diverse, and effective vegan community. Even Vegans Die celebrates the benefits of a plant-based diet while acknowledging that even vegans can get sick. You will learn how to make the health care decisions that are right for you.

Just off of Highway 95 in the state of Nevada, there lies the small town of Tonopah. For miles around, it's desolate and in the silence, there lies one lonely motel. Across from the motel is an old cemetery, where miners were buried. It's not the ghosts within the cemetery that will make you run in fear.... For those of you faint of heart and fearful of clowns, this is not a delicate story.

Discover how to use visual goal setting to turn your dreams into reality. Filled with stories of personal and client experiences, this book will convince you that you don't have to be an artist or know how to draw to use these tools. You just have to be willing to honestly explore where you are, dream where you want to be, and choose the three bold steps you will take to make it happen. Using the latest neuroscience findings, test out how to trick your brain into helping you get what you want.

This awe-inspiring odyssey transcends the boundaries of time, culture, and the human spirit. Jo describes her participation in VETS (Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions) programs as she experiences the healing power of plant and animal medicines in Mexico. She writes about being a Sundancer on the Lakota and Menominee reservations. Her clear narrative delves deep into the portals of consciousness and realms of the sacred.

Patti M. Hall’s life is pitched into an abyss of uncertainty when a golf ball-sized tumour is discovered in her teenage son’s head and he is diagnosed with gigantism, a disease of both legend and stigma. After scrambling to access a handful of medical experts in the field, Patti learns that her son could grow uncontrollably, his mobility could be permanently limited, and his life could be cut short without timely and aggressive treatment. Patti’s attention shifts fully to her son, away from her relationships as well as her own career and health.

First-time novelist Patti Hill has won over critics with this appealing look at a widow's efforts to keep her life together and her faith strong. Owner of Perennially YoursGarden Design, Mibby Garrett loves her eccentric customers and her teenage son. She will need much support, though, when she finds out an intriguing secret about her former husband's past - he had a daughter he never told Mibby about.

Patti, the mother of Army medic Jon, and Jennifer, sister of infantry soldier James, forge a dear and lifelong friendship as their soldiers fight to stay alive in one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq. The story begins separately with the Patti and Jennifer's recollections of the day their soldiers deployed to Iraq from Ft. Lewis, Washington. As the book progresses, their separate stories of Army life grow together as their soldier's deployment continues.

This reference book, written by two experienced and successful (and, frankly, brilliant and talented) elementary school teachers, provides a day-by-day set of practical ideas and activities that parents can do at home with their elementary school-age children to help them become better students while also having fun.

With renovations of the new annex to Petunia's in full swing, Fiona's life might be more in order, but her habit of digging into criminal cases hasn't changed one bit. Doesn't help when her mother is on the suspect list, the death of a famous cooking show judge leading Fee into the dark side of bake offs, television, and murder.

In this entertaining and intimate memoir, the woman known by fans as "The Notorious P. A. B." reveals why she walked away from her TV news career after three decades. Patti Ann Browne also shares funny and poignant stories of her life off camera—from how she met her husband four years after turning down a blind date with him, to her son's near-death shortly after his premature birth and how it changed her perspective on life. Patti Ann's uplifting story is one of following your heart, owning your mistakes, living with integrity, and leaving the rest to God.

A self-employed landscape gardener, Mibby Garrett is raising her teenage son and struggling to make ends meet. What she really wants is plenty of prayer and more of her mother's fragrant French toast.

Bringing awareness, resources and community through the stories of Neurodivergents and their loved ones, interviews with the experts and the lives of the hosts Patti Crouch and Suzanne Sheppard.

The Future Leader is a business fable that serves as a practical resource, offering guidance to prepare for leadership while navigating the unique challenges of family dynamics and business responsibilities. Follow a candid dialogue between Jordan, a new successor, and Kelly, a family friend who has years of firsthand experience in the trials of succession.

The urgency and depth of encounter is a recurring theme in the poems of Jo Patti. Questions about loss, love, and destiny are spiraled into a mosaic she creates consisting of passages from around the planet, some crystal clear and others enigmatic.

Some love stories are written in stars… others in blood. Katriona Harvey was never meant to fall in love with a wolf-shifter—especially not Frederick Lancaster, heir to the rival clan. Their forbidden union shattered ancient laws... and unleashed consequences that echo through time. Now, under the rising Blood Moon, Katriona walks the razor’s edge of grief, her body carrying the last living traces of their love—twins born of fire and fang. The covens want them erased. The forest wants them hidden. But something far worse has awakened... When time-traveling witches arrive at ...

A storm the size of Texas brews when Gloria Powell and Kai Chang meet in a Ft. Worth hotel. They have come to discuss the future of Lily, the daughter Gloria adopted from China and the sister Kai hopes to reclaim. Kai is a doctor who had to give up her little sister during the Cultural Revolution and has since discovered that an inherited genetic defect may be waiting to fatally strike Lily. Gloria's relationship with her daughter is tattered and strained, and the arrival of Kai, makes Gloria fearful.

When your baby is unhappy, you're unhappy. Learn the experts' secrets to soothing your fussy little one, for happier days and more restful nights! Whether your baby is colicky, fussy, or just plain cranky, the proven techniques in The CALM Baby Method will help you both feel better.