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Clouds: A Memoir

Clouds: A Memoir

by Laura Sobiech

Originally published as Fly a Little Higher and now updated and revised to coincide with the film release of Clouds, Laura Sobiech tells the amazing, true story behind the song and the movie. “Okay, Lord, you can have him. But if he must die, I want it to be for something big. I want someone’s life to be changed forever.” This is what … Read more…

Clouds: A Memoir
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Clouds: A Memoir

by Laura Sobiech

Narrated by Amber Quick

Originally published as Fly a Little Higher and now updated and revised to coincide with the film release of Clouds, Laura Sobiech tells the amazing, true story behind the song and the movie. “Okay, Lord, you can have him. But if he must die, I want it to be for something big. I want someone’s life to be changed forever.” This is what … Read more…

Fear Gone Wild: A Story of Mental Illness, Suicide, and Hope Through Loss
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Fear Gone Wild: A Story of Mental Illness, Suicide, and Hope Through Loss

by Kayla Stoecklein

Narrated by Kayla Stoeklein

Light in the Darkness. Hope in the Wilderness.Despite his deep desire to overcome mental illness and lead others out of their own pain, pastor Andrew Stoecklein died by suicide at the age of thirty. In the wake of the tragedy, his widow, Kayla, embarked on a journey to better understand Andrew’s harrowing battle, come alongside those with similar strug… Read more…

Fear Gone Wild: A Story of Mental Illness, Suicide, and Hope Through Loss

Fear Gone Wild: A Story of Mental Illness, Suicide, and Hope Through Loss

by Kayla Stoecklein

A pastor's wife's shattering yet ultimately hopeful story of her husband's death by suicide, her journey to understand mental illness, and the light she found in the darkness.On August 25, 2018, Kayla Stoecklein lost her husband, Andrew--megachurch pastor of Inland Hills Church in Chino, California--to suicide. In the wake of the tragedy, sh… Read more…

Blessed Are the Nones: Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community

Blessed Are the Nones: Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community

by Stina Kielsmeier-Cook

Can the Christian life be lived alone?When her husband left Christianity several years into their marriage, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left "spiritually single"—struggling to live the Christian life on her own, taking her kids to church by herself, and wrestling with her own questions and doubts.In this memoir, Kielsmeier-Cook tells the story of her mixed-f… Read more…

Cowboys and Indians and Pegasus Dreams

Cowboys and Indians and Pegasus Dreams

by Catherine Ann Andress

This is the story of a third generation Texas woman born in a small town in the center of the Texas Panhandle. Over protected and reared to be a wife and mother just as all the women in her family had been, her goal became just that, to be a wife and mother and to have a family of her own.Fate intervened, however, at every crossroad when her difficult first … Read more…

I Understand: Pain, Love, and Healing after Suicide

I Understand: Pain, Love, and Healing after Suicide

by Vonnie Woodrick

Time doesn’t heal—love heals   When Vonnie Woodrick lost her husband Rob to suicide in 2003, she was faced with a series of decisions. How would she move on? How would she support and raise her three children as a young widow? How would she talk about Rob and honor his memory? These questions had no easy answers, but Vonnie found herself lo… Read more…

From Widows to Warriors: Women's Stories from the Old Testament

From Widows to Warriors: Women's Stories from the Old Testament

by Lynn Japinga

For too long the women of the Bible have been depicted in one-dimensional terms. On one side are saints, such as Mary, while on the other are "bad girls," such as Eve and Jezebel. Just as often, the female characters of the Bible are simply ignored. However, the women of the Bible are complex, multidimensional individuals whose lives are inspiring, funny, an… Read more…

Forgiving Wife

Forgiving Wife

by Abby

How did the book, The Forgiving Wife come up? It was the year 2007 when the Holy Spirit prompt me to write about my story. At first, I was reluctant and pulled back, but the spirit of God kept pressing upon me. I finally decided to start jutting information here and there. As I started to gather more and more memories of my early marriage each day. I realize… Read more…

C.S. Lewis: A Biography of Friendship
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C.S. Lewis: A Biography of Friendship

by Colin Duriez

Narrated by Duriez, Colin

An Oxford student of C.S. Lewis's said he found his new tutor interesting, and was told by J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that. You'll never get to the bottom of him.' You can learn a great deal about people by their friends and nowhere is this more true than in the case of C.S. Lewis, the remarkable academic, author, p… Read more…

My Captain America: A Granddaughter's Memoir of a Legendary Comic Book Artist
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My Captain America: A Granddaughter's Memoir of a Legendary Comic Book Artist

by Megan Margulies

Narrated by Margulies, Megan

A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author’s relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America. In the 1990s, Megan Margulies’s Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the “Wild Man of 96th Street,” who set f… Read more…

God Owns My Business: They Said It Couldn't Be Done, But Formally and Legally...
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God Owns My Business: They Said It Couldn't Be Done, But Formally and Legally...

by Ken Anderson and Stanley Tam

Narrated by Bill A Jones

God Owns My Business is more than a book about a successful businessman. It is the chronicle of how an average man can, with God's guidance and a willing heart, succeed in any endeavor. They said it couldn’t be done, but formally and legally, business owner Stanley Tam made God the owner of his business. To say that his business has met with suc… Read more…


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