Author: Randy Pausch Publisher: ISBN: 9780340978504 Category : Cancer Languages : en Pages : 0
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author: St. George Stock Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 1775418448 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 81
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One of the most influential schools of classical philosophy, stoicism emerged in the third century BCE and later grew in popularity through the work of proponents such as Seneca and Epictetus. This informative introductory volume provides an overview and brief history of the stoicism movement.
Author: Sandra Leigh Savage Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462050697 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 249
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When author Sandra Leigh Savages husband committed suicide in 1997, she went into isolation for a year. In this memoir, she shares her journey from the grief she experienced to her vision of a great new life. Love Letters, a collection of letters begun in September 2010, provides a snapshot of Savages sorrows, joys, and reflections. Through these vignettes, she says her good-byes, notes her thanks, and provides advice for those who may have experienced the death of a spouse. This collection provides insight into how she survived the death of her husband, came to know and believe in the saving grace of God, and made the decision to stay on this earth to fulfill Gods wishes. Emotional and self-disclosing, Love Letters shares Savages personal message of living each day with no regrets. Through her life events, she expresses how placing your trust in the Lord can guide you through lifes bad moments and help you to full appreciate lifes good moments.
Author: Joyce Simmons Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1796098736 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 148
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Growing up in a house where alcohol, fighting, and adultery by a parent, was not a recipe for success, but God! Being a runner from the age of 5 years old, from fear, self-hatred, hatred of your parent(s) and hatred of life led me to drop out of high school to have a child. I wanted someone to love and someone to love me back! Moving on to drugs, alcohol, living on park benches in New York for over a year and one relationship after another led to a life of pure hell! Here you will learn: • How fear manifested in me for over 50 years. • How my ancestor’s and my trials were passed on generationally. • How God showed up and saved my life. • How my children, my grandchildren, family are overcoming. • How my family went from curses to blessings! If God showed up for me, He will show up for you! Test Him, read on.
Author: Aditya Powar Publisher: Adittia Publications ISBN: 9352915852 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 178
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Will you ever compromise your Love for someone else? Can we really get over, when fate planned something else? Four Friends, Rohit, Priya, Sam and Priyanka, luxuriated their love life. Rohit, was an unconditional lover for Priya. But there was a catch, their relationship was casted off by their parents. But When things were back on track for Rohit, an inferno falls Rohit’s life. They had a tragic turn, which lead these lovers apart. Is ending up life was a solution? Will they get over their fate, or build their own? How deep will the couple go to save their relationship? An witty tale about modern India, which could make you sense the true pith of ‘Relationship’ and help you chase your dreams. See Love from a complete different perspective with MY LIFE IN LOVE.
Author: Joan O'Brien Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 055762696X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 240
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Joan M. O'Brien, a fourteen-year breast cancer survivor, lived in New Canaan, CT with her husband of 43 years, Michael. Joan had been writing for two years since she retired as an attorney in 2007. On September 8, 2009, Joan passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family and after completing the writings for this book.Edited by Dr. Alyssa J. O'Brien.Design by Will J. O'Brien.
Author: Kimberly Palmer-Washington Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 1607914166 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 186
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Oh! What power And matchless Love Christ has Bestowed on His child My baby sister Kimberly. "Somebody Prayed for Me" is a unique, close and personal testimony of Kim's life. As you begin to read, you find yourself sitting up with Kim in the midnight hour; sitting at her bed side at the hospital as the doctors talk to her; and you even find yourself walking down the corridor as Kim is being wheeled into surgery. At times, you will laugh and at times you will cry. You will pray like you have never prayed before. As you read, you see and feel the wonder of Jesus throughout the pages. Kim clings to the only true and Faithful One's hand and that is Jesus. Life can hit us with some unexpected blows. Sickness is one of those unexpected blows that may hit you, a family member, or a close friend. "Somebody Prayed for Me" helps you take your petitions to Him who sits on high, whose ear is always intoned to His children's cries. Psalm 40:1 says, "I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry." He did it for Kim; He will do it for you. May God richly bless you as read "Somebody Prayed for Me." Beverly Palmer-Hill is a second- grade teacher from Columbus, Ohio. She is a published writer of poetry, a mother of two David V. Hill, III and Leslie Maxine Hill and the grandmother of Christopher and Alana Green. Kimberly Palmer-Washington is an International Singing Evangelist and the Publishing Director of ACOF News Ministry. She lives in Englewood, New Jersey. She is a mother of one adult daughter LoisJessica Carol Chappell Washington.
Author: Joseph Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1326188844 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 136
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Walking on fire, needles in the language, the Indian Ocean, religiosity, the magic of the tropical islands of our dreams. A new novelist to live and recounts firsthand Many writers, painters, artists and adventurers have lost the islands of dreams: those wonderful tropical paradise offered by our travel agency. But never the author has managed to assemble in a single novel Love with a capital letter to a reality unsuspected and amazing as the one that the reader will find in "Mauritius". An island where they must live different realities: Hindu with Catholics, Muslims and Buddhists. Apparently integration wonderful and respectful of different cultures but ... digging ... The reader will be fascinated by what they find, especially the magic, voodoo, the mystery, the white and black: Kali, ominous shadow or caring mother?
Author: Dawn Miller Publisher: Thomas Nelson ISBN: 1418588261 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 197
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Pioneer woman Callie McGregor and her family are determined to survive the Indian massacres, prairie wildfires, droughts, and blizzards of the Montana territory in the 1800s with their faith intact.
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