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Does life feel crazy? Have you wanted to scream and make everything stop, even for a moment? I can relate. Over the last ten years, my family's journey has crossed continents, navigated horrendous health challenges, walked through tragic loss, and survived natural disasters. I have found that the only place to find hope is daily hearing the voice of God. During these times, I journaled what I heard and have since come to realize these words are not just meant for me but are a great lifeline for those searching to find hope themselves.

This is the moving yet deeply disturbing story of a middle-aged mother and a teenaged daughter torn apart by the sudden onset of the mother’s insanity. It details the severe paranoia and absurd delusions that began to control my mother’s behavior. It follows her transformation from loving parent to violent psychotic and my transformation from obedient daughter to terrified runaway. And it depicts the overwhelming revelatory moment when I finally learned she had died - six years before.

It was the spring of 1989. I was 16 years old, a junior in high school and an honors student. I had what every teenager wants: a stable family, a nice home in the suburbs, a great group of friends, big plans for my future, and no reason to believe that any of that would ever change. Then came my mother's psychosis.

Lifesaving talks about how to hear the voice of God through our relationship with the Holy Spirit. It is both a book of Biblical instruction and testimony. It is jam-packed with Scriptures for the listener's personal study. It takes a complex question, how to hear the voice of God, and answers it in simple, easy to understand terms backed by Scripture. It is an excellent book for new Christians and anyone who has asked the question, does God still speak today?

Kat, the epitome of a Southern housewife, had been struggling with feeling she had lost herself even before her husband’s infidelity with a much younger co-worker comes out. She decides that it is time to make a change and simply drives away from her life to visit with her childhood friend and former business partner, Jen, who left to become a successful caterer in Hollywood while Kat chose to stay behind and get married. Kat is blindsided when she meets the younger, handsome Irish star of a TV show that Jen is working on.

“Sets a standard for political storytelling with impeccable research and lively writing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Page-turning…riveting…colorful and detailed…a barometer of the health of our democracy.” —Barbara McQuade, The Washington Post Two investigations. Two...

Van Childs’ accidental discovery of an alien cache of advanced technologies thrusts him into the role of reluctant hero. Learning of an extra-terrestrial race, the Host, who visited Earth some 200 years before, Van is forewarned of an impending invasion by the Arkon, an expansionist race. Van’s quest to prepare Earth meets with opposition by a powerful human adversary with conflicting goals.

One year after being diagnosed with hearing loss, Rayne’s hearing keeps getting worse, even with aids. It’s a struggle to maintain friendships and keep up in school, surfing is now a wipeout, and she can’t understand her favorite singer’s lyrics. But worst of all, Rayne’s parents are pushing for her to get cochlear implants, a surgery Rayne’s not convinced is worth the risks and challenges. Rayne begs her parents to consider other options, but they’re not budging.

Develop a wonderful relationship with God to hear his voice. Over the years as I read the Bible, I understood that individuals that had great relationships with the Lord were favored and heard his voice. I believe this devotional will give you keys to building and maintaining an awesome friendship with the Lord to hear him and live an awesome life for the Lord.

Growing up with God is the story of Maria and Lucas, two best friends who are on the journey of discovering themselves in the very normal, but also epic journey of hearing from God's heart. Maria has a life-changing moment at summer camp when she hears from God for the first time. He tells her something beyond belief, that she is going to be an actor! And not in 20 years as an adult; she can pursue her acting career now! The problem is, with every step, something seems to stand in her way.

All believers long to hear Jesus tell them “Well done,” yet few understand biblically who Jesus will say this to! This book gives you the certainty of hearing those most coveted words! “Well Done” will provide you a deeper understanding of a life worthy of heaven’s rewards and a daily, renewed passion for Jesus and the gospel. Hearing Jesus Say, “Well Done” is an inspiring guidebook providing practical examples on how to live out a God-pleasing life— and outlines the Bible’s secret to unlocking heaven’s treasures.

This book examines the hearings that followed Mormon apostle Reed Smoot’s 1903 election to the US Senate and the subsequent protests and petitioning efforts from mainstream Christian ministries disputing Smoot’s right to serve as a senator. Exploring how religious and political institutions adapted and shapeshifted in response to larger societal and ecclesiastical trends, The Reed Smoot Hearings offers a broader exploration of secularism during the Progressive Era and puts the Smoot hearings in context with the ongoing debate about the constitutional definition of marriage.

Discover a stunning middle grade fantasy about a boy hurled into the Ghanaian underworld to help his grandmother save humanity, perfect for fans of Tristan Strong and Amari and the Night Brothers. Twelve-year-old Kwame Powell isn't ready to deal with losing his grandmother, even as he and his...

Life is going well for Sophie. She’s getting by at school, has some pretty awesome friends and their band have made it through to the semifinals of the Battle of the Bands competition. But when Sophie wakes up completely deaf one morning, the life she once knew seems like a distant memory. With lessons replaced by endless hospital appointments, and conversations now an exercise in lip-reading, Sophie grows quieter and quieter. Until she discovers the vibrations of sound through an old set of drums and wonders whether life onstage is actually still within reach.

A stunning memoir by writer and mental health advocate about motherhood, postpartum mental health, and finding ground when you lose all control. When writer and blogger Ayana Lage became pregnant, she prepared as any parent would: voraciously researching, Redditing, preparing for anything. And...

Hearing His Whisper is intimate conversations with Jesus through the challenges of life, including two of life's top stressors. You will discover a portal into the un-manifested spiritual dimension that ultimately leads to internal freedom, inner strength, self-love, and acceptance through and with the source of love itself.

We often think the process of hearing God’s voice is more complex than it really is. We may be straining to hear God speak in one specific way, when in fact, He is communicating in creative and unique ways which we must learn to discern. As you discover the different ways God speaks, you can position yourself to hear His voice with fresh, supernatural clarity!

When Vivienne Le Faye, a girl with profound intuitive powers, inherits a priceless family amulet, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Unaware of her hidden heritage, an ancient family curse suddenly haunts her and in her dreams, a mysterious young man with blazing golden eyes and supernatural gifts appears to protect her. Convinced he's real and positive she has fallen in love with him, Vivienne begins a dangerous inter-dimensional journey to a destiny in a mystical world of wizardry and magic.

Ever since she was a child, Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deaf—her life with this invisible disability has been one of in-betweenness. After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests a cochlear implant. This irreversible operation would give Louise a new sense of hearing—but it would come at the expense of her natural hearing, which has shaped her relationship with the world, full of whispers and shadows.

Lydia Denworth presents insights from studies of everything from at-risk kids in Head Start to noisy cocktail party conversation, from songbirds to signal processing, and from the invention of the telephone to sign language. Weaving together tales from the centuries-long quest to develop the cochlear implant and simultaneous leaps in neuroscientific knowledge against a tumultuous backdrop of identity politics, I Can Hear You Whisper shows how sound sculpts our children’s brains and the life changing consequences of that delicate process.