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"Horses to Color: A Book of Several Breeds" is a captivating journey through the majestic world of horses, presenting a diverse collection of 30 exquisite equine breeds. The reader will embark on an animated adventure from the fiery spirit of the Arabian, the sturdy strength of the Clydesdale, to the raw wildness of the Mustang. Each page offers a detailed illustration awaiting the reader's unique color palette to bring it to life. This book transcends a mere coloring experience, interweaving snippets of breed history and attributes, fostering an enriching understanding of these noble creatures. Unleash your creativity and discover the joy and tranquility of coloring while deepening your knowledge and appreciation of these magnificent breeds. A must-have for horse enthusiasts, aspiring equestrians, or anyone seeking a serene artistic outlet intertwined with an educational journey through the horse kingdom. Included here are many breeds, such as American Quarter Horse, Andalusian, Appaloosa, Arabian, Belgian Draft, Clydesdale, Dutch Warmblood, Friesian, Haflinger, Hanoverian, Holsteiner, Icelandic, Irish Draught, Lipizzan, Lusitano, Miniature, Morgan, Nustang, Norweigan Fjord, Oldenburg, Paint, Percheron, Saddelbred, Shetland Pony, Standardbred, Tennessee Walker, Thoroughbred, Trakehner, and Welsh Pony and Cob.

The beautiful cover art, "Shared Knowledge" by Charles Bibbs, frames the anthology These Black Bodies Are.... This collection provides snapshots of the human condition in melanated skin and kinky hair from established and emerging writers and artists in the Inland Empire and Los Angeles area, reaching throughout the diaspora. It is an exploration of eight movements: hopeful, mindful (mental health), mystical, enlightened (education), bodacious, bearing witness, eclectic, and transforming (transitioning). These Black Bodies Are... is a reminder that we can, at any stage and age, liberate and empower.

"...occasionally it hits me that I'm carrying the names of two people who seem to have experienced more pain than joy during their brief time above ground, and a less optimistic person than I might consider themselves cursed to carry such a couple's names, but I've always seen it as an honor, a chance for redemption, an inspiration to cultivate as much joy and adventure and kindness as possible, no matter how much time I'm given."Leaving the House Unlocked turns trauma into a chance for healing. It is a reminder to reflect, accept, never forget, but also not let what happened then define you as a person now. Elizabeth "Liz" Enochs invites readers in to tour through some of her most intimate memories. She revisits moments with ex-lovers, close and distant family members, and old friends. Her compelling honesty allows us to explore family and personal identity as well as acknowledge parts of the past-whether good or bad-that helped shape her as an individual.Through personal essays written entirely out of single-sentence prose, she questions when nostalgia becomes grief and remembers when life was cruel and when it was forgiving. Enochs also uses this collection to raise awareness on issues concerning animal welfare, environmentalism, and sexual violence.

The story of a boy growing up during the depression in the hills of East Tennessee. Family, faith, and fun make up his life as he learns what is most important. Through his simple life he learns character that will guide him as he grows into a man.

From Trafficked to Trucking is a powerful and inspiring true story of DollFace. This emotional book takes readers on a journey of struggle, perseverance, and triumph as DollFace overcomes the unimaginable horrors of trafficking and domestic violence. Dollface's story serves as a poignant reminder that we all have a responsibility to make a difference and create a world free of abuse and exploitation. This book offers a glimpse into an upcoming memoir by DollFace, which promises to take you on a captivating and transformative journey, leaving you feeling empowered and driven to make a positive impact. It's a riveting read that will leave you in awe of DollFace's strength and courage and motivated to take action. If you're looking for a story of hope and resilience, from trafficked to trucking is a must-read.

"The pages of Invitation are both comforting and insightful as Olubunmi shares her powerful journey of transformation with humor and candour.Discovering a collection of healing tools that enabled her to finally liberate herself from the prison of addiction and understand a valuable componentfor a healthy, happy life ... the real joy of self love. Olubunmi found her way back and in her honest memoir she demonstrates how you can too."- Ruby Brown CEO Holistic DirectoryThe basic needs of affection, trust and safety are required in everyone's life and it's possible to shut these feelings down when emotional needs are not being met. This leads to the risk of finding a substitute to fill the space and its when alcohol, sex, gambling or work find their footing and steadily grow.In one way or another, you have been experiencing deprivation somewhere in your life.'-Debbie Edwards

Yvette writes about her careers as she lived them - with boundless energy in an open and vivid style. In a unique approach, her story is interspersed with revealing conversations she recorded with many of her close women friends. First, Yvette was an actor, then award-winning documentary and BAFTA drama filmmaker; later an exhibited artist, plus book co-author/editor too. She unveils behind-the-scenes insights into her remarkable careers. She is a woman with a clear agenda for change who embraces life with passion. Her commitment to socially-relevant filmmaking, to equality and human rights campaigning is undisputed. Life was not straightforward. Yvette honestly explores her personal failings and achievements, whilst juggling a complicated personal life. Her drive to make order out of the chaos around her, her appetite for justice, along with her great warmth, are all there on the page!

After almost 50 years of battling an unwanted sexual identity that had promised him an afterlife in hell, Greg made the decision to give up the fight in 2019. Decades of depression and aversion/reparative "ex-gay" therapy - which consisted of sniffing dog feces while thumbing through cologne magazine ads and participating in awkward "gay men's basketball" bonding sessions - had landed Greg in two separate mental hospitals, leaving him disillusioned and suicidal and with a choice that had to be made.However, 'coming out' had its costs.

From Jill Duggar and her husband Derick, tell-all about the Duggar family from TLC’s hit show 19 Kids and Counting detailing the lies and manipulation behind the scenes, intimidation from patriarch Jim Bob, and the IBLP, a cultish organization the family is aligned with.

How does a yard full of stinky, steaming, heaping mounds of dog poo teach me about God? Or how does giving a timid Labrador a bath, resulting in a near involuntary vasectomy, better teach me how to approach people with the gospel of Christ? God will use the most unexpected things and the most unsuspecting times in our lives to reveal His heart to us. So often, it's through the simple and ordinary things in life that God shares some of the most profound lessons we will ever come to know. Join me in my journey with one such ordinary and simple life event...the entrance of Reggie, a black Labrador Retriever. Just another dog to most, yet to me a lifelong friend that would reveal some of the most significant life lessons I would ever learn. You'll laugh, cry and be greatly entertained through all the quirky, yet profound and moving life lessons that were gained from an amazing Labrador in the life of an unsuspecting human.

There are always stories behind the stories of our lives. The road of each year leads us to the interstate of our lives, with blocks, traffic, and rerouting along the way. It is in the midst of these obstacles that the Lord calls on us to reflect on the roads we've traveled and to see how He made a way for us, even if we have yet to reach the destination. Barbara Ann Remembers, a Recounting of God's Goodness by Barbara Wise is a series of true short stories, devotions, and teachings that are aimed to bring encouragement, peace, and joy to those whose journey has become bumpy. Having alw ays been passionate about the Lord Jesus and about His Word and His people, Wise's heart has gone out to those enduring life's seemingly endless struggles. Since early childhood, Wise has worked to reach out with the love of Jesus to those who need Him as Savior, to those who have been hurt and discouraged, and to those who are afraid. This collection by Wise was born out of a very difficult time in her life. But overcoming difficulty meant experiencing Him in a way that she never expected she could. Despite the challenges she's faced on her path to salvation and success, including the partial loss of her vision, God has made a way for her to push forward in her ministry when there seemed to be no hope. Read, reflect, and see that His work is never over as long as we invite Him to lead. Barbara Wise is a well known and loved prayer warrior. She is a teacher of God's word, a powerful intercessor, and a woman who has a great love for God's children. She also carries a burden for those that are not yet in the kingdom and seeks to reveal the Father's love through her ministry. Barbara's ministry style is warm and personable flowing in the gifts of the Spirit. She knows that all things are possible for those that walk in faith. She desires to be a voice of encouragement and hope to those she meets. Barbara has been married to her husband Victor for 55 years and they have three beautiful daughters.

Ashley Malinowski's childhood changed at just seven months old when her father walked out. Scarred by his abandonment and growing up in the care of her workaholic mother, Ashley struggled to find herself and where she fit in. She resolved to be a devoted mother in a loving family, one that she desperately needed as a child. However, a broken engagement, the devastating loss of her baby, and a failed marriage by nineteen were not part of the agenda. Plagued by abuse at every turn, Ashley sunk into a life of sin, pulled down by beasts of anxiety, depression, and heartache. The last place she expected to be at the start of her adult life was bereft and homeless. She knew she needed to change, and only the grace and love of Jesus Christ could show her the light in those darkest depths. Tangled Blessings is a compelling and honest true story, one that openly shares intimate human experiences. Now navigating the waters of marriage, motherhood, and ministry, Ashley details shedding her past mistakes and discovering the hidden blessings in her crazy life and encourages others to find their own.

"Millions of people know the name of the iconic country music artist, George Jones, but few people know that behind the man and his golden voice was a strong, feisty woman who not only saved his life from cocaine addiction, alcoholism, and other abusive and self-destructive behaviors, but also was instrumental in saving his soul. Married for more than thirty years to the greatest country music singer who ever lived, the man Frank Sinatra had whimsically referred to as "the second-greatest singer in America," Nancy Jones knew George Jones better than anyone else on earth--the good George and the bad George, the horrendous, and the hilarious. George and Nancy married March 4, 1983, and with her help and encouragement, he quit his wild and wicked ways--for a while. Nancy soon learned, however, that the demons held a strong grip on the man she loved, and they were not about to release him without a fight. But Nancy Jones is a tenacious fighter, and most people who knew "the Possum," credit Nancy with saving his life and rebuilding his career. For the first time, in Playin' Possum, Nancy Jones reveals the true "insider" perspectives and little known poignant and as well as humorous stories about the country music icon--his battles with cocaine, alcohol, abusive behavior toward her and others, his battles with himself, and most of all, his battles against the demons that sought to control him and ultimately destroy him. Nancy knew there was a good man inside George Jones, and she felt strongly that God had given her the assignment to help him, even if he hurt her. She refused to give up on Jones. Although Tammy Wynette sang "Stand By Your Man," it was actually Nancy Jones who stood by George for more than thirty years, and helped bring him to the Light. Together, they brought joy and light to millions of people."--

"Faith & Sexuality: Reconciling LGBT+ People and Christianity" is a valuable resource for those struggling to reconcile their spirituality with their sexuality. This book by Shane St Reynolds provides guidance and support to individuals seeking a more authentic and fulfilling spiritual practice. It explores the intersection of LGBT+ spirituality with other aspects of identity, such as race, gender, and class.Throughout the book, Shane shares stories of other LGBT+ Christians who have found ways to embrace both aspects of their identity, offering hope and inspiration to readers. The book also provides tools and resources for those seeking to create a more authentic and fulfilling spiritual practice, making it a valuable resource for anyone looking to reconcile their faith with their sexuality.Shane emphasizes that embracing both spirituality and sexuality can lead to a deeper sense of self-awareness, connection, and purpose in life. The book addresses the challenges that come with reconciling Christianity and sexuality, offering guidance and support to those who may feel lost or alone in their spiritual journey.Furthermore, "Faith & Sexuality" is also an autobiographical account of Shane's journey to Jesus and discerning his calling to ordained ministry. It provides a unique and personal perspective on the challenges that LGBT+ individuals face when reconciling their faith and sexuality.Overall, "Faith & Sexuality" is a must-read resource for LGBT+ individuals seeking to reconcile their faith and sexuality and create a more authentic and fulfilling spiritual practice. Shane's book amplifies the voices of marginalized communities, offering valuable guidance and support to anyone looking to embrace both aspects of their identity.

A selection of letters by the pacifist and noted art critic Clive Bell, expertly annotated by his biographer Clive Bell was a pivotal member of the Bloomsbury Group. His marriage to Vanessa Bell and his, at times tempestuous, relations with his sister-in-law Virginia Woolf form important strands in the cultural history of modernism. A tireless champion of modernist art, a committed pacifist and conscientious objector, Bell produced a huge body of correspondence with many of the leading artistic and political figures of his time. His lively, witty, highly opinionated letters are a window into the turbulence of the early twentieth century, populated by friends and acquaintances including T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau, as well as his Bloomsbury set, Desmond MacCarthy, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell. Arranged in eight categories - Bloomsbury Circles; Virginia; War; Arts and Letters; To the Editor; Francophile; Travels; Love, Gossip, Home - this selection emphasises Bell's enormously varied life and interests. Bell was born in the reign of Queen Victoria and lived long enough to have been able to hear the Beatles on the radio. His letters demonstrate an appetite for art, for love and for peace that never flagged. [bio]Mark Hussey is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Pace University in New York. His most recent book is Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism, A Biography (2021). He is also the General Editor of the Harcourt annotated edition of Virginia Woolf. www.markhusseybooks.com

A Descriptive Narrative of Life Events & Stories during a certain period of time when positive changes were beginning to take place and Development a new path...Starting at the end of one chapter in Life, High School Graduation, and carrying forward as small milestones are achieved over approximately a 10 year period. These stories and events are travel stories, success stories, family stories, stories of people, places and time spent on a journey of self-discovery. In one example, we start a cross-country journey, by bus, as the author leaves his city and family that he's grown up in to go reunite with a birth family he's only known by name to that point. We continue sharing life events that made a significant impact on his life's path, developing into a new man, so to speak. Now six years or so removed from the completion of the start of this series, read, enjoy as the next chapter evolves beyond your pages.

Told with the compassion and reality that can only come from personal experience, Honest Scales is a story of faith, hope, and ultimately freedom.

"Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of five children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a middle class suburb of Toronto. He loves watching Cher and Carol Burnett on TV, making clothes for his best friend's Barbie dolls, and helping his mum with her hair salon which she runs out of the basement of the house. In short: he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because his family is part of the Christian Reformed Church, a strict Calvinist sect, which is not accepting of homosexuality to say the least. We see him participating in weekly church services, catechism classes, going to Christian schools, his stint as a member of the Calvinist Cadet Corps. Vellekoop struggles through all of this, until he finally graduates high school and gets accepted into the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1982. It is there that his life truly changes, thanks in no small part to his taking a class called "Plays In Performance" taught by the wildly flamboyant and brilliant Paul Baker. Baker is the first "out" gay man Maurice has ever met, and the two soon become close friends. It is through witnessing Baker's functional relationship with his long-time partner Martin that Maurice finally starts to reconcile with himself and begin to accept who he actually is. But it's going to be a long, messy, difficult, and occasionally hilarious process. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together is an enthralling portrait of what it means to be true to yourself, to learn to forgive, and to be an artist."--

The memoir tells the story of a double life, split between the UK and Western Australia, and the transformation from an aristocratic upbringing to embracing the humbling experiences of Indigenous Australia. The writer delves into the emotional toll of losing her true mother, her IVF twin birthing and being studied by psychiatrists as part of twin studies. As a shapeshifting "bluebird" person, mediating between space and the planet, she explores her mixed heritage, including Rothschild's, and the impact of propaganda and psychiatry on her identity, particularly where the writer asserted she was antipsychiatry.From birth to the formation of a King's speech, this book is a journey of self-discovery, with the republic debate of Australia drawing her fate towards asylums, where her Indigenous wet nurse reveals her destiny. With vivid imagery from hummingbirds to the seaside, this is a powerful tale of personal emancipation and growth.

In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagy¿ ¿ the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons ¿ to shift the cultural narrative around mental illness, grief, and remembrance. Are these the only two stories? The one where you defeat your monster, and the other where you succumb to it?Jami Nakamura Lin spent much of her life feeling monstrous for reasons outside of her control. As a Japanese Taiwanese American woman with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, her adolescence was marked by periods of extreme rage and self-medicating, an ever-evolving array of psychiatric treatments, and her relationships with those she loved ¿ especially her father ¿ suffered as a result.Frustrated with the tidy arc of the typical mental illness memoir, the kind whose trajectory leads toward being `better¿, Lin sought comfort in the Japanese folklore she¿d loved as a child, tales of supernatural creatures known to terrify in the night. Through the lens of the y¿kai and other East Asian mythology, she set out to interrogate the Western notion of conflict and resolution, grief, loss, mental illness, and the myriad ways fear of difference shapes who we are as a people. Divided into four acts in the traditional Japanese narrative structure and featuring stunning watercolour illustrations, Jami Nakamura Lin has crafted an innovative, genre-bending, and deeply emotional memoir that mirrors the sensation of being caught between worlds. Braiding her experience of mental illness, the death of her father, and other haunted topics with the folkloric tradition, The Night Parade shines a light into dark corners in search of a new way, driven by the question: How do we learn to live with the things that haunt us?

In this reflective and enriching memoir, John Tuomey navigates the places and memories of his life over the scope of twenty-five years. First recognised for the urban regeneration of Dublin's Temple Bar, which included the construction of the Irish Film Institute, the National Photographic Archive and Gallery of Photography, his life in architecture led him to design social and cultural spaces such as the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, the Glucksman Gallery in UCC and the Victoria & Albert East Museum in London. Imbued with many inter-textual references to poetry, drama and literature and written in limpid prose, this memoir is inherently literary in nature. Tuomey looks back to his early life where he was born in Tralee and lived in different counties around Ireland, from small towns to country landscapes, from schooldays in Dundalk to student activism at University College Dublin. He traces the pathways that led to his formation as an architect, reflecting on the many cultural and social influences on his life. He excels in capturing the social landscape of Dublin in the 1980s and pays particular attention to the many buildings and social hubs of the inner city. His transient years of moving from Dublin to London, and subsequently working in places like Nairobi and Milan, chronicle the international influences on his outlook. The key relationships in his life, including meeting his future wife, Sheila - a fellow student of architecture in UCD - and his pivotal employment by James Stirling in 1976, form the backbone of his personal and professional life. Tuomey's expertise in his field is unsurpassed, with meticulous detail given to the finer aspects of design and architecture. His thoughts on the challenges facing the encroaching erasure of city life in Dublin are essential reading for anyone with an interest in the future of building in the city.

The day before leaving home to join the elite swim team at the University of Notre Dame, Ry Beville is involved in an auto accident that will put his entire family on hold. His parents rush to the emergency room only to find out the prognosis isn't good - traumatic brain injury with partial paralysis - potential career ending injuries.As Ry endures months of speech therapy, physical therapy and psychological counseling, his father Don reflects on a previous trauma he kept secret for years. With his son's future hanging in the balance, Don must face his own past head on.The Boy Who Broke Records will take the reader on a riveting journey showing us how to reweave our lives when tragedy seeks us out. With wisdom and humor, Don Beville narrates an uplifting story of courage, discovery, and acceptance to separate old pain from new beginnings. He realizes that there is a thin membrane that separates life from death.

A riveting memoir that is as much a history of a time and a place as it is a personal exploration.