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Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Published: 2005-02-22

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives.I found a 1955 printing of this book in an old waterfront cabin and was struck by the care with which the previous owner had read it. Eve (the name inscr...

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Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Published: 1991-10-08

Hardcover: 132 pages

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In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, L...

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The Gift Giver: A True Story

by Jennifer Hawkins

Published: 2011-06-01

Paperback: 264 pages

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The sudden loss of her husband empowers a young widow to open herself to a path of true acceptance. An accomplished athlete, businesswoman, and mother, author Jennifer Hawkins believes she has everything, until one morning she wakes up to find her husband's lifeless body lying in their be...

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The Gift of an Ordinary Day A Mother's Memoir

by Katrina Kenison

Published: 2010

Paperback: 321 pages

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2010 edition with a new epilogue by the author.

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The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir

by Katrina Kenison

Published: 2009-09-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition-boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place, and a slower pace, in a small New England town. It is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of l...

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The Gift of Asher Lev

by Chaim Potok

Published: 1991-06-30

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery

by David G. Benner

Published: 2004-02

Paperback: 114 pages

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About the Book Recipient of the Award of Merit in the Personal Growth/Individual Category of The Word Guild 2005 Canadian Christian Writing Awards! A Formatio book. "Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee." Augustine Much is said in Christian circles about kno...

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The Gift of Change

by Marianne Williamson

Published: 2004-11-09

Paperback: 368 pages

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"The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one's influence wide is to learn to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that...

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The Gift of Fear

by Gavin de Becker

Published: 1999-05-11

Paperback: 384 pages

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True fear is a gift. Unwarranted fear is a curse. Learn how to tell the difference.A date won't take "no" for an answer. The new nanny gives a mother an uneasy feeling. A stranger in a deserted parking lot offers unsolicited help. The threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can p...

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The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

by Gavin de Becker

Published: 2006-04-18

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The man whom Oprah Winfrey calls "the nation's leading expert on violent behavior" shows how to spot even subtle signs of danger before it's too late. Abridged. 3 CDs.Each hour, 75 women are raped in the United States, and every few seconds, a woman is beaten. Each day, 400 Americans suff...