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Mom, I’m Mater

My Life as an Autism Mom

By: Melanie Thurston

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Mom, I’m Mater

My Life as an Autism Mom

By: Melanie Thurston

Enter the world of my family’s unique journey raising our daughter with autism...the hardest times, the inside look...and how God in His mercy and by His grace sustained this mama. This is my unique perspective in this world and how life as a special needs mom changed me!

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9798385035250

Two Roads Diverged and I Took Both

Meaningful Writing Instruction in an Age of Testing

By: Melanie Mayer

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Two Roads Diverged and I Took Both

Meaningful Writing Instruction in an Age of Testing

By: Melanie Mayer

Two Roads Diverged and I Took Both: Meaningful Writing Instruction in an Age of Testing presents theories, research, and practical ideas for classroom writing instruction, specifically in theareas of: the reading-writing connection, the social aspect of writing, grammar instruction, teaching mainstreamed special education or English Language Learners, and assessment. The book's premise is that when research-based best practices are applied, student writing quality is improved and authentic learning takes place, which will also promote success on state-mandated writing assessments; but preparing students to write primarily for assessments does not promote excellent writing for life.

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AuthorHouse

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1452028664

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9781452028668

Managing Hot Flushes with Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

An evidence-based treatment manual for health professionals

By: Myra Hunter,Melanie Smith

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Managing Hot Flushes with Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

An evidence-based treatment manual for health professionals

By: Myra Hunter,Melanie Smith

Following the success of Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats which outlines a self-help, CBT-based programme for dealing with menopausal symptoms, Myra Hunter and Melanie Smith have developed a pioneering group treatment for women going through the menopause. Managing Hot Flushes with Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is an evidence-based manual drawing on their research which has demonstrated, in randomised controlled trials, that group CBT effectively reduces the impact of hot flushes and night sweats. The treatment is effective for women going through a natural menopause and for women who have menopausal symptoms following breast cancer treatments and for other groups of women who have troublesome symptoms. This manual provides health professionals with everything they need to run groups to help women to manage hot flushes and night sweats. Managing Hot Flushes with Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy equips health professionals with knowledge, skills and materials to run groups to help women to manage menopausal symptoms in 6 (or 4) weekly sessions without the need for medication. It is easy to use with a companion audio exercise and downloadable/photocopiable resources on line, as well as power-point slides, homework sheets and diaries. Following Group CBT women have the information, practical skills and strategies to help them to cope with hot flushes and night sweats, and also report improvements in sleep and quality of life. This manual will be an essential resource for nurses, psychologists, counsellors, psychological wellbeing practitioners and cognitive behaviour therapists working in health care and voluntary settings.

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Routledge

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1317653556

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9781317653554

Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats

A cognitive behavioural self-help guide to the menopause

By: Myra Hunter,Melanie Smith

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Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats

A cognitive behavioural self-help guide to the menopause

By: Myra Hunter,Melanie Smith

The menopause is still a taboo topic and a source of uncertainty and embarrassment for many women. In Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats Myra Hunter and Melanie Smith aim to provide women with up to date and balanced information about menopause and a self-help guide to reduce the impact of hot flushes and night sweats in just four weeks. This book sets out an interactive four-week programme using cognitive behavioural therapy, with exercises and worksheets designed to enable women to develop strategies for managing menopausal symptoms. This approach is based on the authors’ research and has been shown to be effective in recent clinical research trials. This guide can help you to: Understand the biological as well as the psychological and cultural influences on menopause Understand and manage hot flushes in social situations Learn to modify triggers and use paced breathing to reduce the impact of hot flushes Reduce stress and improve well-being Develop strategies to help if night sweats disturb your sleep With a companion audio exercise and downloadable resources available online, Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats offers a complete and effective framework to approach menopause with confidence and to manage symptoms without the use of medication. The book is ideal for women approaching or going through the menopause, for women having menopausal symptoms following treatment for breast cancer, for their friends and relatives, and healthcare professionals working with women.

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Routledge

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1134639759

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9781134639755

Jerusalem, 1000–1400

Every People Under Heaven

By: Barbara Drake Boehm ,Melanie Holcomb

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Jerusalem, 1000–1400

Every People Under Heaven

By: Barbara Drake Boehm ,Melanie Holcomb

Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center, home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and dissonant voices from many lands, including Persians, Turks, Greeks, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Copts, Ethiopians, Indians, and Europeans, passed in the narrow streets of a city not much larger than midtown Manhattan. Patrons, artists, pilgrims, poets, and scholars from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions focused their attention on the Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings, creating luxury goods for its residents, and praising its merits. This artistic fertility was particularly in evidence between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, notwithstanding often devastating circumstances—from the earthquake of 1033 to the fierce battles of the Crusades. So strong a magnet was Jerusalem that it drew out the creative imagination of even those separated from it by great distance, from as far north as Scandinavia to as far east as present-day China. This publication is the first to define these four centuries as a singularly creative moment in a singularly complex city. Through absorbing essays and incisive discussions of nearly 200 works of art, Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven explores not only the meaning of the city to its many faiths and its importance as a destination for tourists and pilgrims but also the aesthetic strands that enhanced and enlivened the medieval city that served as the crossroads of the known world.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588395987

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9781588395986

Beauty for Ashes

A Journey from Brokenness to Wholeness Through God’S Love

By: Melanie DeVaughn Ivey

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Beauty for Ashes

A Journey from Brokenness to Wholeness Through God’S Love

By: Melanie DeVaughn Ivey

Have you often battled with feelings of emptiness, insecurity, confusion, and hurt? Those feelings are often signals to draw closer to God with an open heart and open arms. Living in frustration, confusion, pain, and hurt is the enemys goal because he doesnt want you to know the truth about how God sees you. This book helps prepare you to journey through your discovery of how to replace the ashes of your experiences, hurts, pains, disappointments, and inadequacies with the beauty in God that can only be obtained through an intimate relationship with Him. God will reveal the beauty in every experience. He desires for each of us to live and operate in our true authenticity revealed in the Word of God. Discover how brokenness can be replaced with wholeness and purpose from God. God will give you the beauty of wholeness, truth, righteousness, love, joy, peace, patience, and longsuffering. Isaiah 61:3 NLT

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WestBow Press

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1512710598

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9781512710595

Theoretical Basis for Nursing

By: Melanie McEwan,Evelyn M. Wills

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Theoretical Basis for Nursing

By: Melanie McEwan,Evelyn M. Wills

Concise, contemporary, and accessible to students with little-to-no prior knowledge of nursing theory, Theoretical Basis for Nursing, 6th Edition, clarifies the application of theory and helps students become more confident, well-rounded nurses. With balanced coverage of grand, middle range, and shared theories, this acclaimed, AJN Award-winning text is extensively researched and easy to read, providing an engaging, approachable guide to developing, analyzing, and evaluating theory in students’ nursing careers. Updated content reflects the latest perspectives on clinical judgment, evidence-based practice, and situation-specific theories, accompanied by engaging resources that give students the confidence to apply concepts to their own practice.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975175662

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9781975175665

Whose House We Are

By: Melanie Klink Wayne

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Whose House We Are

By: Melanie Klink Wayne

The stroy of St. Clement's is told through historical records and the testimonies of its congregration.

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WestBow Press

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1490856048

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9781490856049

On Extinction

How We Became Estranged from Nature

By: Melanie Challenger

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On Extinction

How We Became Estranged from Nature

By: Melanie Challenger

Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award–winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic sea voyage to South Georgia's old whaling stations, from a sojourn in South America to a stay among an Inuit community in Canada, she uncovers species, cultures, and industries touched by extinction. Accompanying her on this journey are the thoughts of anthropologists, biologists, and philosophers who have come before her. Drawing on their words as well as firsthand witness and ancestral memory, Challenger traces the mindset that led to our destructiveness and proposes a path of redemption rooted in our emotional responses. This sobering yet illuminating book looks beyond natural devastation to examine "why" and "what's next.

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Catapult

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1640094636

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9781640094635

Virginia Apgar

Groundbreaking Doctor

By: Xina M. Uhl,Melanie Ann Apel

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Virginia Apgar

Groundbreaking Doctor

By: Xina M. Uhl,Melanie Ann Apel

Prior to the development of a simple test called the Apgar score, many newborn babies missed receiving the urgent care they needed at birth. Dr. Virginia Apgar came up with the Apgar score to help these newborns by rating them in a number of different health areas. The savior of countless young lives, Virginia Apgar is hailed as a legend, a trailblazer, and an inventor. Readers delve into the riveting story of a medical legend who inspired women doctors to succeed at a time when society did not value the contributions of women in the work force.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1725340550

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9781725340558

Bog bodies

Face to face with the past

By: Melanie Giles

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Bog bodies

Face to face with the past

By: Melanie Giles

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The ‘bog bodies’ of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face-to-face with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation permits us to examine minute details of their lives and deaths, making us reflect poignantly on our own mortality. But, as this book argues, the bodies must be resituated within a turbulent world of endemic violence and change. Reinterpreting the latest continental research and new discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking ‘cold case’ forensic study of Worsley Man, Manchester Museum’s ‘bog head’, it brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. The book also argues that these remains do not just pose practical conservation problems but also philosophical dilemmas, compounded by the critical debate on if – and how – they should be displayed.

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Manchester University Press

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1526150174

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9781526150172

A Strategic Planning Approach

Defining Alternative Counterterrorism Strategies as an Illustration

By: Lynn E. Davis,Melanie W. Sisson

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A Strategic Planning Approach

Defining Alternative Counterterrorism Strategies as an Illustration

By: Lynn E. Davis,Melanie W. Sisson

While the United States government has historically undertaken strategic reviews and produced numerous strategy documents, these have provided only very general directions for U.S. policymakers. This paper defines an approach to strategic planning and illustrates its application using the example of the critical national security topic of counterterrorism.

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Rand Corporation

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0833052950

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9780833052957

A Hero on Mount St. Helens

The Life and Legacy of David A. Johnston

By: Melanie Holmes

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A Hero on Mount St. Helens

The Life and Legacy of David A. Johnston

By: Melanie Holmes

Serendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Johnston was part of a team conducting scientific research that underpinned warnings about the mountain. Those warnings saved thousands of lives when the most devastating volcanic eruption in U.S. history blew apart Mount St. Helens but killed Johnston on the ridge that now bears his name. Melanie Holmes tells the story of Johnston's journey from a nature-loving Boy Scout to a committed geologist. Blending science with personal detail, Holmes follows Johnston through his encounters with Aleutian volcanoes, his work helping the Portuguese government assess the geothermal power of the Azores, and his dream job as a volcanologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Interviews and personal writings reveal what a friend called “the most unjaded person I ever met,” an imperfect but kind and intelligent young scientist passionately in love with his life and work and determined to make a difference.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252051343

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9780252051340

Emily Dickinson and Poetics

By: Melanie Hubbard

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Emily Dickinson and Poetics

By: Melanie Hubbard

Dickinson formulates her poetics in the context of popular manuscript practices, rhetoric, philosophy, and science in the American nineteenth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108491766

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9781108491761

Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the Golden Age of Hollywood

By: Melanie Gall

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Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the Golden Age of Hollywood

By: Melanie Gall

The 1930s was a magical age in Hollywood, with Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, Bette Davis and Clark Gable lighting up the silver screen. But Deanna Durbin's fame surpassed them all. Born in Canada, Deanna was “discovered” by starmaker Eddie Cantor, producer Joe Pasternak and director Henry Koster, and she quickly became the world’s most celebrated star. She saved Universal Studios from ruin, she was a favourite of Winston Churchill and Anne Frank, and she became the highest-paid woman in America. From the start, Deanna’s life was irrevocably connected with that of another young ingénue, Judy Garland. Deanna and Judy were wildly talented, ambitious, and strong-willed young women who followed vastly different paths to stardom. While fame was thrust upon Deanna, Judy spent years struggling for success and their early friendship soon turned into a lifelong rivalry. Despite her tragic life, Judy Garland is remembered as an entertainment icon, beloved by millions. However, Deanna Durbin—who turned her back on Hollywood at the age of twenty-eight to pursue love and happiness—has been largely forgotten. But Deanna’s legacy endures, and this first-ever biography tells of how her gorgeous voice and winning charm vaulted her to worldwide fame and how a thirteen-year-old girl transformed moviemaking and influenced a generation of fans as the first teenage superstar.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493069047

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9781493069040

Women in the Stalin Era

By: Melanie Ilic

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Women in the Stalin Era

By: Melanie Ilic

This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities of women's lived experience in the 1930s and 1940s, and the various forms in which womanhood and femininity were represented and constructed in these decades. Women in the Stalin Era challenges the scholarly neglect women's history has suffered at the hands, and pens, of Russian and western historians of the Stalin period.

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Springer

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0230523420

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9780230523425

Motivational Interviewing, 2E

A Guide for Medical Trainees

By: Thomas M. Kelly,Melanie A. Gold

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Motivational Interviewing, 2E

A Guide for Medical Trainees

By: Thomas M. Kelly,Melanie A. Gold

This may be the single most important book you ever buy during your medical training. Rotations come and go, exams come and go, but regardless of specialty, patient-care will be at the heart of your practice. It is no exaggeration to say that motivational interviewing (MI) has transformed the way doctors engage with patients, families, and colleagues alike. MI is among the most powerful tools available to promote behavior change in patients. In an age of chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, obesity), behavior change is no longer limited to substance use or the field of psychiatry - maladaptive choices and behaviors that negatively impact health outcomes are rampant. There is an explosion of research projects using MI or adaptations of MI in the behavioral health medicine field in the past decade. Hospitalizations can't make people change. How marvelous is it that an evidence-based health behavior change approach (MI) can help people change the outcomes of their illnesses and the course of their lives. This therapeutic approach is not a form of psychotherapy and is not the stuff of cobwebs and old leather couches. MI is readily integrated into regular ward rounds and office visits and provides an effective and efficient approach to patients clinical encounters. Written by experts in the field and medical trainees across medicine, the second edition of the MI guide explores how MI enhances contact with patients from every level of training, following an accessible, succinct approach. This book covers the application of MI method and skills into practice and also includes numerous clinical scenarios, personal reflections and online animated clinical vignettes (video clips) that share the challenges and successes the authors have focused. Furthermore this book is endorsed by the pioneers of MI: William R. Miller & Stephen Rollnick.

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Oxford University Press

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0197583873

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9780197583876

Community/Public Health Nursing - E-Book

Promoting the Health of Populations

By: Mary A. Nies,Melanie McEwen

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Community/Public Health Nursing - E-Book

Promoting the Health of Populations

By: Mary A. Nies,Melanie McEwen

Covering the nurse's role in promoting community health, Community/Public Health Nursing, 5th Edition is known for its "upstream" preventive focus and social justice approach, photo novellas with clinical stories, and a concise, readable style. It shows how you, as a nurse, can take an active role in social action and health policy – especially in caring for diverse population groups. Expert authors Mary A. Nies and Melanie McEwen discuss today's issues and trends, and describe the key issues and responsibilities of contemporary community/public health nursing. An "upstream" focus addresses factors that are the precursors to poor health in the community. A "social justice" approach promotes health for everyone. Photo novellas use photographs to tell stories showing real-life clinical scenarios and applications of important community health nursing roles. Case Study: Application of the Nursing Process feature presents specific community components of the nursing process separately from individual and family. Clinical examples offer snippets of real-life client situations. Research Highlights boxes show the application of current research to chapter content. Ethical Insights boxes highlight ethical issues and concerns. Healthy People 2020 boxes summarize objectives and their importance in community health. Objectives, key terms, and chapter outlines introduce important concepts and terminology at the beginning of every chapter. Learning Activities at the end of each chapter ask you to apply concepts to the world outside the classroom. New Health Promotion and Risk Reduction chapter details the promotion of health and presents strategies that can identify risk factors for illness. Faith Community Nursing chapter reflects current terminology from the ANAÕs Scope and Standards of Practice, and includes more coverage of the spiritual health of clients. Health: A Community View chapter expands its discussion of the continual challenges and strategies associated with the delivery of health care. Communicable Disease chapter includes new information about public health surveillance, outbreaks, and bioterrorism. Cultural Diversity and Community Health Nursing chapter features new content on complementary and alternative therapies.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323293883

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9780323293884

Mom, I’m Mater

My Life as an Autism Mom

By: Melanie Thurston

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Mom, I’m Mater

My Life as an Autism Mom

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Confessions of Grace

My Survival Guide

By: Melanie Thurston

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Confessions of Grace

My Survival Guide

By: Melanie Thurston

II Timothy 1:7-"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power; and of love, and of a sound mind." Many times I claimed this verse while writing this book... many times I knew I was writing what God had called me to write but I wrote through my fear and to my own healing. My friends reading this, I pray that my story of the grace and love of our almighty God in my life will draw you closer to our Savior and encourage your walk in Him! Blessings, Melanie

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Mom, I'm Mater

My Life as an Autism Mom

By: Melanie Thurston

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Mom, I'm Mater

My Life as an Autism Mom

By: Melanie Thurston

Enter the world of my family's unique journey raising our daughter with autism...the hardest times, the inside look...and how God in His mercy and by His grace sustained this mama. This is my unique perspective in this world and how life as a special needs mom changed me!

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