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Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In his famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards's wrathful God. Haunted by fear that crippled his relationship with God, Zahnd spent years praying for a divine experience of hell. What Zahnd experienced instead was the Father's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on her bestselling book Made to Crave, but now distilled down for busy readers, Lysa TerKeurst offers a new perspective to all those stuck in the cycle of losing weight but then gaining it back, equipping readers with the deeper spiritual and emotional motivation they need to make lasting changes.
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What happens when we stop avoiding difficult people and simply love everyone? In his wildly entertaining and inspiring follow-up to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Love Does, Bob Goff takes readers on a life-altering journey into the secret of living without fear, care, constraint, or worry. The path toward the outsized, unfettered, liberated existence we all long for is found in a truth as simple to say as it is hard to do: love people,...
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Top meditation teacher Sarah Blondin shows us that our restlessness, our unhappiness, our quickness to anger or frustration or sadness comes from being cut off from the heart. And she has a remedy at hand. Whether we are feeling overwhelmed, indecisive, self-loathing, disconnected, lonely, afraid, confused, anxious, or depressed, she reminds us, we can turn toward our hearts and regain a sense of equanimity and ease. In a blend of commentary and...
Author
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This board book bursts with heart as it describes the love a parent feels for their child from the moment of meeting--and beyond. From eyes, to lips, to fingers, to toes, all parents will know what it feels like to love every inch of your baby--and babies and toddlers will feel the love, too"--
69) Families
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Feminist
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
Readers are introduced to many different real-life families.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers-characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. In "The White Cat's Divorce," an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which will become his heir. In "The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear,"...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Todos creemos saber lo que es el amor. Nos lo dicen las canciones, las comedias rom̀nticas, los relatos que nos han contado desde la infancia. Asociamos el amor con un anhelo desesperado, con rupturas y despecho. Aceptamos abrir el coraz̤n, siempre y cuando el otro cumpla nuestras condiciones. ¿C̤mo superar los h̀bitos de toda una vida y descubrir un amor m̀s puro y generoso? Don Miguel Ruiz, uno de los l̕deres espirituales m̀s influyentes...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots -- fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family,...
76) Secrets
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having harbored an unrequited love for a man she met in childhood, Cassandra impulsively breaks an engagement to become the now-widowed man's nanny, but realizes that her chance for winning his heart is threatened by dark secrets.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and others Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer...
Author
Publisher
Northfield Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Does your child speak a different language? Sometimes they wager for your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are filled with gratitude and affection, and other times they seem totally indifferent. Attitude. Behavior. Development. Everything depends on the love relationship between you and your child. When children feel loved, they do their best. But how can you make sure your child feels loved?
79) Advanced love
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the creator of the popular blog 'Advanced Style', photographer Ari Seth Cohen's 'Advanced Love' collects affectionate portraits of subjects who prove that love is bound by neither the constraints of age or time. The book includes 40 profiles of inspiring couples from around the world, and more than 200 photos. The profiles explore themes of love and companionship through firsthand insight from the subjects; they share their stories of falling...
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