A Love-Stretched Life: Stories on Wrangling Hope, Embracing the Unexpected, and Discovering the Meaning of Family
By: Jillana Goble
4.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“With forthrightness and a sense of humor, the author crafts a poignant portrait of motherhood, rep…
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1. The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place
By: Andy Crouch
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using internet filt… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
By: Tullian Tchividjian , Elyse M. Fitzpatrick , Jessica Thompson
4.06
Format: None pages,
All of us want to raise good kids. And we want to be good parents. But what exactly do we mean by "… read more
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- nonfiction
3. New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional
By: Paul David Tripp
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
365 Gospel-Centered Devotions for the Whole Year Mornings can be tough. Sometimes, a hearty breakfa… read more
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4. Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives
By: Henry Cloud , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
You want your kids to grow up into healthy adults. You want to see them take responsibility for the… read more
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5. Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
By: Beth Clark , Katie Davis
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
What would cause an eighteen-year-old old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashvill… read more
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6. Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad: The Perspective Shift That Could Completely Change the Way You Mother
By: Abbie Halberstadt
4.34
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER Bestselling author Abbie Halberstadt helps women see how God can us… read more
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- nonfiction
7. What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
By: Bruce D. Perry
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powe… read more
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- nonfiction
8. No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
By: Daniel J. Siegel
4.26
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain t… read more
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- nonfiction
- adoption
9. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
By: Beth Moore
4.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
10. You Are a Theologian: An Invitation to Know and Love God Well
By: Jen Wilkin
4.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Theology can be intimidating. Perhaps questions like these have kept you from engaging with it: “Wh… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care
By: Tori Hope Petersen
4.43
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
If you’re wondering if God can truly move in the life of someone with all the odds stacked against … read more
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- nonfiction
- fostering
- memoir
- adoption
"The foster care system should not be used solely to house children but should be used to help them heal."-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care
"Too many people throw money and goods at vulnerable youth when they need time, basic skills, and long-term relationships."-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care
"Being a safe person is something I've strived for. When all is said and done, I don't care to be remembered as a powerhouse. I hope to be remembered as a safe house."-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care
"When we place children to fill beds, we are creating a system of temporary housing rather than a long-term solution of finding children their forever, safe, and loving families."-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care
12. Stranger Care
By: Sarah Sentilles
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decide … read more
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- nonfiction
- fostering
- memoir
- adoption
"Do you have kids?" strangers asked almost every day. "No," I said, not wanting to explain, because, really, it's an unimaginative question, full of their beliefs about what family means, about who co…"-Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care
"People who learned Eric and I wanted to adopt a child often told us stories of adoptions gone wrong. The adopted child incapable of attachment. Who became a drug addict, a runaway, who drained bank a…"-Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care
13. WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
By: Ann Voskamp
4.35
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Are you facing repeated roadblocks or feeling life shift in ways you never expected? Bestselling au… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Love is an endless coming home."-Ann Voskamp, WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
"Therapy is a gym for the mind. Not ashamed to have a membership"-Ann Voskamp, WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
"Hopelessness rises when the pain of the past floods all of the future"-Ann Voskamp, WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
"Because God is Love Himself, He is the greatest and longest sufferer of the universe."-Ann Voskamp, WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
14. Now I Am Known
By: MUTABAZI
4.80
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
At age ten, Peter Mutabazi ran away from home in rural Uganda to escape his abusive father. For fiv… read more
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- nonfiction
- fostering
- memoir
- adoption
15. Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family
By: Mark Daley
4.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A candid, unforgettable, and often hilarious memoir of two dads daunting quest for fatherhood. A… read more
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- nonfiction
- fostering
- memoir
16. Foster the Family: Encouragement, Hope, and Practical Help for the Christian Foster Parent
By: Jamie C. Finn
4.73
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
There are great rewards that come along with being a foster parent, yet there are also great challe… read more
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- nonfiction
- fostering
- adoption
17. Reclaim Compassion: The Adoptive Parent's Guide to Overcoming Blocked Care with Neuroscience and Faith
By: Lisa Qualls
4.37
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Shed your shame. Renew your hope. Rediscover the parent you know you can be.Is your adoption journe… read more
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- fostering
- adoption
18. Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting
By: Kristin Berry
4.41
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Will You Open Your Heart and Home to Children in Need? As a teenager, Kristin Berry had heard all … read more
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- fostering
- memoir
- adoption
19. Honestly Adoption: Answers to 101 Questions About Adoption and Foster Care
By: Mike Berry
4.21
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Discover What Adoption and Foster Care Really Look Like If you are considering adoption or foste… read more
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- nonfiction
- fostering
- adoption
20. Born of Gilded Mountains
By: Amanda Dykes
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
When newcomer Mercy Windsor arrives in Mercy Peak in 1948 after a scandal shatters her gilded world… read more
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"Spatts is strong. - Rusty"-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
"I sometimes think, when our dreams seem impossible to us, perhaps we just haven't seen yet how God will chase after our hearts with those very dreams, in the unlikeliest ways."-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
"Sunsets here were more an experience than a sight. They marked the soul. Pierced it, rearranged things with all that shifting color and light, and sealed it up again, a little more whole than it was …"-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
"On a stage of earth, beneath a canopy of stars, with a score of scattered laughter, Mercy watched a story unfold more enchanting than any the Dream Factory of Hollywood could have produced. Even the …"-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
21. A Love-Stretched Life: Stories on Wrangling Hope, Embracing the Unexpected, and Discovering the Meaning of Family
By: Jillana Goble
4.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“With forthrightness and a sense of humor, the author crafts a poignant portrait of motherhood, rep… read more
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- nonfiction
- fostering
- memoir
- adoption
