Acclaimed writers, family, friends, and more pay homage to the celebrated Southern author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini. New York Times–bestselling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year career. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on literary life in and well beyond the American South. Conroy’s fellowship drew from all walks of life. His relationships were complicated, and people and places he thought he’d left behind often circled back to him at crucial moments. The pantheon of contributors includes Rick Bragg, Kathleen Parker, Barbra Streisand, Janis Ian, Anthony Grooms, Mary Hood, Nikky Finney, Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart, Ron Rash, Sandra Brown, and Mary Alice Monroe; Conroy biographers Katherine Clark and Catherine Seltzer; his longtime friends; Pat’s students Sallie Ann Robinson and Valerie Sayers; members of the Conroy family; and many more. Each author in this collection shares a slightly different view of Conroy. Through their voices, a multifaceted portrait of him comes to life and sheds new light on who he was. Loosely following Conroy’s own chronology, the essays herewith wind through his river of a story, stopping at important ports of call. Cities he called home and longed to visit, along with each book he birthed, become characters that are as equally important as the people he touched along the way.
Too often our broken hearts hold us back from living extraordinary lives. Transparent and unapologetic, Cynthia exposes the faulty beliefs that once left her feeling worthless, not enough, and shares how "Girl You Got This" helped her to move pass not good enough to more than enough. Sometimes finding your strength means to dig deep and find that hurting little girl on the inside of you and heal her heart. Learning how to love Keith taught me how to love myself, but most importantly, it taught me how to Love God.
There are some books that are considered instructional, some encouraging, and many that would be described as inspirational. There are still others that will challenge you, making you a bit uncomfortable as the Word of God gets to the root of things IN your life that may be delaying what God wants FOR your life. Rarely do you find all of these attributes embodied in one book and delivered with such heartfelt compassion and great power, but this is the one. Cynthia Bell takes you into her world, to share very intimate details of her transformation, from being one of Satan’s victims into a victorious, set free woman of God. As you read each testimony and allow it to penetrate every fiber of your being, you, too, will possess the fortitude necessary to tell yourself and everyone else, “Don’t be too chicken to tell somebody about Jesus.” Discover how to: Find hope to help you cope with your own circumstances Trade hurt for wholeness Forgive and be forgiven Give God the glory as you become strong in broken places
Are you in bondage to your childhood? Do you suffer from a deep seeded loneliness that you think no one knows about? Are you unable to forgive no matter how hard you try? This is my story of how with God's help I was able to claim victory and enter into His joy. A joy I could only read about in the Bible... yet it always seemed unattainable no matter how hard or how long I prayed. It was a long and drawn out journey learning how to fully and wholly surrender my will over to the Father. My hope is that by reading my story your journey to wholeness can be shortened. That you too can receive victory and begin entering in to the joy of the Lord.
This collection stitches together stories from the fabric of life. These unadorned personal essays embrace gardening, sewing, farming, parenting, and friendship. Spanning thirty years, they touch on the author¿s transition from California Valley Girl to rural life, and her desire to sample from a smorgasbord rather than sit down to a prix fixe meal.
Within is the Fountain is a conversation with God held by Leonora Nichols while living on Monticello Mountain in Charlottesville Virgina. Each morning she arose and for 10 years she transcribed the Voice that spoke to her. Part meditation, part journey "Within is the Fountain" can change your life and has the true ring of divinity in it's pages.
Why leave Manhattan for a town in Maine "where no one goes and nothing ever happens"? Confused, bereft, but following a hunch, Lee Baldwin moves to Limmington Mills to revel in solitude and brood about her missing husband. Life has other plans. While never forgetting about her Charlie, Lee is pulled into the daily dramas of her imaginative, flighty landlady Dolly and Dolly's brother, a taciturn welder at Bath Iron Works. Befriended by Maxine, store proprietor (and de facto town manager), she meets a trio of boys running wild and their mother, who may or may not have heard a saint speak. Most of all, Lee benefits from Hazel's fierce grace, the elderly woman whose grip on life breathes energy into Lee's own. Evoking the lives of northern New Englanders who struggle in the shadow side of prosperity, Preservation explores the isolation-and possibilities-of a time before electronics linked us nonstop through the cloud.
Only one word is needed to describe a busy woman: stressed. But there's a cure. Stressed spelled backwards is desserts! This book is designed to help you understand life, just as you understand your sweet tooth. It will whet your appetite for much more than a taste of dessert!
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