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A Prairie Girl's Faith: The Spiritual Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder

STEPHEN HINES · WaterBrook
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The beloved author of the Little House books was not only one of America's great pioneer storytellers but a woman of vibrant faith.A Prairie Girl's Faith provides the first extended, in depth discussion of the Christian faith of one of America's most beloved pioneer women--Laura Ingalls...
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Hiking Naked: A Quaker Woman's Search for Balance

IRIS GRAVILLE · Homebound Publications
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback

Knocked off her feet after twenty years in public health nursing, Iris Graville quit her job and convinced her husband and their thirteen-year-old twin son and daughter to move to Stehekin, a remote mountain village in Washington State's North Cascades. They sought adventure; she yearned...
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Staying Stylish: Cultivating a Confident Look, Style, and Attitude

Candace Cameron Bure · Zondervan
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Candace Cameron Bure, best known as D.J. Tanner from Full House and Fuller House and a New York Times bestselling author, whose faith and wit have delighted audiences for decades, lets you in on her best-kept secrets for Staying Stylish. This gorgeous manual for beauty, style, health, and spiritual...
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Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul

Hannah Anderson · Moody Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Feeling worn thin? Come find rest. The Blue Ridge Parkway meanders through miles of rolling Virginia mountains. It's a route made famous by natural beauty and the simple rhythms of rural life.And it's in this setting that Hannah Anderson began her exploration of what it means...
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Going Solo: Hope and Healing for the Single Mom or Dad

Robert Beeson · Focus on the Family
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

As parents face the difficult reality of a broken home, a sense of being completely overwhelmed can shut down the perspective they need to find restoration. Parents need to know that they can choose to define this season of their lives, instead of becoming defined by circumstances. They...
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Is This the End?: Signs of God's Providence in a Disturbing New World

David Jeremiah · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The world seems more fractured each day. People are asking, "Is this the End?" Never have the headlines been this jarring, the cultural changes this rapid, or the moral decay this pronounced. What on earth is happening? After each new occurrence, the most oft-heard questions are,...
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Busy Lives and Restless Souls: How Prayer Can Help You Find the Missing Peace in Your Life

Becky Eldredge · Loyola Press
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

If you've already figured out your life and feel totally complete, then this book may not be for you. But if you are like the rest of us, every day presents a mountain of to-do items, jobs to go to, errands to run, projects to complete, meals to cook, children to raise... You forge ahead...
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Resisting Happiness

Matthew Kelly · Beacon Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

A true story about why we sabotage ourselves, feel overwhelmed, set aside our dreams, and lack the courage to simply be ourselves... and how to start choosing happiness again! Are you happy? It may be the wrong question. Most of us think we are relatively happy, while at the same time knowing...
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The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

SARAH MACKENZIE · Zondervan
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids' academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face...
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Fit for Good: Eternal Principles, Patterns, and Practices of Fitness Success

H RICH TENNY · Cedar Fort, Inc.
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

We know the gospel changes lives--now let it change your body too! Fitness guru Liz Tennyson and Dr. H. Rich Tenney use gospel principles to help you improve your personal motivations, habits, and behaviors. Whether you want more energy to keep up with your kids or a longer life to serve...
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Regret-Free Living: How to Find the Intersection of Your Passions and Giftedness

Scot Sellers · Elevate Faith
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Scot Sellers shares his 10 essential lessons gleaned from a life devoted to better understanding relationships and sources of real satisfaction. Regret-Free Living is a valuable resource for making life decisions, and focuses on the human side of those decisions rather than a strict, formulaic...
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Our Father: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer

POPE FRANCIS · Image
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Pope Francis provides new insights into the most popular prayer in Christianity, offering readers a guide to living a life of meaning, purpose and strength.This new work by Pope Francis illuminates the most important prayer in all of Christianity, verse by verse, in conversation with Father...
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Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove · IVP Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

? PW Starred Review: "a must-read for Christians interested in how race-infused politics and religion undermine the American democratic dream.""I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided." Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American...
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Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

Diana Butler Bass · HarperOne
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The author of the multiple award-winning Grounded and leading trend spotter in contemporary Christianity explores why gratitude is missing as a modern spiritual practice, offers practical suggestions for reclaiming it, and illuminates how the shared practice of gratitude can lead to greater...
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Overcoming Toxic Parenting: How to Be a Good Parent When Yours Wasn't

Rick Johnson · Flemming H Revell
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Advice for Parents on How to Break the Cycle of Neglect, Abuse, or Absentee ParentingParenting is hard enough when you had good role models in your own parents. But what if your parents were absent, neglectful, or abusive? Are you doomed to repeat their mistakes with your own children?...
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