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What if the guidance you’ve been searching for has been beside you all along, quietly waiting for you to notice? If you’ve ever walked through pain that felt too heavy to carry, questioned why life can be so cruel, or longed for reassurance that you are not facing this world on your own, this book was written for you. Because no matter how strong you try to be, some moments break you open. Some seasons make you feel lost. And some wounds leave you wondering if the light will ever return.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, THE NEW YORKER “God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper,” writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life...

Sharon Stevens would never claim to be an angel. Early in life, perilous situations were thrust upon her. As an adult, she gravitated toward adventure and spur-of-the-moment decisions that often put her on the precipice of disaster and kept her in the pathway of people who would take advantage of her. If your aim is to find fault with her, she would be an easy target, but look again. This diminutive hair stylist was not the person you would have chosen for such a monumental task with a life hanging in the balance—but God chose her, nonetheless.

Standing at the podium at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club, Becca Moore is about to address a group of predominantly male football fans who know her only as the wife of the coach of the most famous high school football team in the nation: the Massillon Tigers. But more than being a coach’s wife, she is a girls flag football coach, an administrator for special needs students, and a two-time ironman finisher.

When she was fifteen years old, Leslie King ran away from an abusive home, looking for a better life and longing for real love. What she found instead was a man who wooed her just long enough to trap her in a life of prostitution. She became one of the many thousands of trafficked individuals in the United States, a number that continues to rise.

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world’s deadliest plagues: tuberculosis. During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white...

Lessons from an Angel is a touching memorial that epitomizes the power and beauty of friendships. Pulling teaching points from a dear and steadfast friendship in a fun and interactive way, Author Shalicia Torbert breaks down the different components of friendship and what to look for in the often-underrated relationship between friends. Even the most intimate, healthy, and loyal friendships have ups and downs. Gather your friends for a journey through friendship that is sure to strengthen and solidify your bond with those most dear to your heart.

The daughter of Holocaust survivors and recent immigrants, Ani Tuzman grows up in a world darkened not only by her parents’ unfathomable grief and rage, but also by the bewildering bigotry of her American neighbors, schoolmates, and teachers. Yet on the farm that is her home, Ani can’t help but find beauty and joy.

This is Mary Lasker's story. Americans now recognize the National Institutes of Health as the national treasure that it is, but when she began her crusade, her first challenge was persuading elected leaders and federal officials that the health of the American public was even their problem. Armed with the knowledge she was right, and supported by her husband, the famed ad man Albert Lasker, and close friend Florence Mahoney, she built a coalition of noted physicians and scientists that fundamentally changed how we think about medical research funding.

Magie Dominic’s first memoir, The Queen of Peace Room, was shortlisted for the Canadian Women’s Studies Award, ForeWord magazine’s Book of the Year Award, and the Judy Grahn Award. Told over an eight-day period, the book captured a lifetime of turbulent memories, documenting with skill Dominic’s experiences of violence, incest, and rape. But her story wasn’t finished.

Longing to return to beer halls and boys, a teenager gives birth to a daughter during the Great Depression but shows the ultimate lack of maternal instinct when her baby is discovered to be missing. Though she claims that a nurse abducted the newborn, the infant, and the anonymous nurse are never seen again. In Minneapolis, Lorene Hermanson is raised on discipline and Christian morality.

Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield", Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and reveals a complex and often trying woman. Based on the papers Clara Barton carefully saved over her lifetime, this biography is the first one to draw on these recorded thoughts. Not always altruistic, her accomplishments were nonetheless extraordinary.

In Angels Do Always Knock, I share a tender, honest memoir rooted in love, loss, and the quiet ways grace finds us. Through childhood memories, caregiving moments, and spiritual reflections, I trace the final chapters of my parents’ lives—and the presence that gently accompanied them.

In December 2011, 21-year-old Victoria’s Secretmodel Kylie Bisutti stunned the fashion industry when she chose faith over fameand fortune and made the switch from supermodel to role model. In I’m No Angel, Kylie shares her story - from her early years struggling to make it big in the cut-throat world of modeling, her big break winning the Victoria’s Secret Runway Angel competition, and the disillusionment and spiritual warfare that followed, to the moment she realized she could no longer reconcile her career with her Christian beliefs and surrendered her life to God.

A deathbed request inspires an army nurse to tell the truth about the war. He Called Me Lieutenant Angel speaks to you with the insistent voice of love, hope and redemption, from the intensive care ward of a Vietnam hospital. It is a story of strength and enlightenment, a tribute to all the extraordinary young soldiers and nurses who share the intimate, final moments of life.

Imagine everything you have ever known fading away, all around you. In this gripping memoir and powerful workbook, Angel Lyn recounts her upbringing as a devout member of the Mormon church, a dedicated housewife and loving mother of five sons in southern Utah. As challenges within her marriage unfold, she discovers a warrant for her husband's arrest that causes her to undergo an epic spiritual transformation, moving away from a deeply religious mindset to a more profound and spiritual approach to life.

Excellent biographies have been written about Clara Barton, Sarah Josepha Hale, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Tubman, but their lives have never been looked at together as they intertwined with the Civil War narrative. Plumb compares and contrasts the qualities of the women to discover their common attributes for success and what was unique to each woman. Without leading troops in battle or wielding political power, these five women profoundly influenced the start of the war and its conduct throughout as North and South clashed.