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"If we're not careful, our whole identity can be wrapped up in what other people think we're supposed to be or what we think we're supposed to do." (148) Title:   If You Only Knew: My Unlikely, Unavoidable Story of Becoming Free Author: Jamie Ivey Publisher:  B&H Publishing Release Date:   January 30, 2018 Genre:  Non-Fiction / Memoir Links*:  Amazon  l  Goodreads  l  Book Depository  l  CBD  l  Itunes What if you knew all the moments of my past that I am not proud of? What if you really knew me, the messy parts that I’ve hoped to forget and worked hard to conceal? For so long, my greatest fear was what you might think of me if you only knew the whole story. It’s exhausting, this guarding of our stories and struggles. Fear of being found out had caused me to hide—but I wasn’t just covering my flaws, I was unintentionally blocking the beauty of God’s grace. My jo...

"No one can do everything, but everyone can do something."  (back cover) Title:   Walk It Out: The Radical Result of Living God’s Word One Step at a Time Author:  Tricia Goyer Foreword: Joanna Weaver, bestselling author of Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World Publisher: David C. Cook Release Date:   October 1, 2017 Genre:  Christian Living / Non-Fiction / Memoir Women often pack their lives with family, friends, and faithful service, yet still end up feeling empty and unfulfilled. In Walk It Out, Tricia Goyer demonstrates to women that walking out the mandates of Scripture allows God to spark passion and mission within them. Whether believers realize it or not, God intended for them to do what the Bible says: adopt the orphan, take the gospel into all the world, and care for the needy. These are mandates that point believers down the path of true living and eternal life. Sometimes those steps are easy, but many times they...

"God is an interrupter of plans."   Title:   Your Dream, God's Plan: Are You Longing for Something More? Authors:  Tiffany Smiling with Margot Starbuck Publisher:  Shiloh Run Press (Barbour Publishing) Release Date:   November 1, 2017 Genre:  Christian Living / Non-Fiction Satisfaction can be yours, but it might look different than you thought.  Like a lot of young women, Tiffany Smiling had been assured that the path to fulfillment looked like the one she’d seen in her favorite movies: She’d be swept away by a soul mate, live in a southern estate, and start a family. But Tiffany’s story unfolded quite differently. Weeks after serving on her high school’s homecoming court, while doctors operated to remove the brain tumor that was killing her, Tiffany suffered a paralyzing stroke. In the nick of a scalpel she lost her beauty and most of her physical ability. Returning to high school in a wheelchair, head half-...