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Holy Hot Mess
- Finding God in the Details of This Weird and Wonderful Life
- Narrated by: Mary Katherine Backstrom
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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In this National Bestseller, Mary Katherine Backstrom shares heartbreaking and hilarious stories of how God uses each "mess" in our lives to bring us closer to Him. She shows us that it's okay to celebrate exactly where we are right now—holy, hot mess and all.
A lot of people struggle with the concept of being holy. But the fact is, even the hottest of messes are being shaped—right now—into Jesus' likeness. In this book, Mary Katherine shares the sometimes-hidden evidence of God's work in her life and shows you that it's okay to embrace the hot messes.
Mary Katherine will share both hilarious and vulnerable stories about faith, friendships, motherhood, marriage, and depression. She will cover the topics that plague our hearts every day with raw, honest truth and a side of laughter. Mary Katherine invites you into her story as a friend, encouraging you to embrace the hot messes in your life. Because we are all a work in progress, and as long as we are alive, we are under construction—and construction sites tend to be messy.
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Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?
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- Narrated by: Dan Bucatinsky
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 866
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 795
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 794
In 2005, Dan Bucatinsky and his partner, Don Roos, found themselves in an L.A. delivery room, decked out in disposable scrubs from shower cap to booties, to welcome their adopted baby girl - launching their frantic yet memorable adventures into fatherhood. Two and a half years later, the same birth mother - a heroically generous, pack-a-day teen with a passion for Bridezilla marathons and Mountain Dew - delivered a son into the couple’s arms.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Parenting Book with Humor and Heart
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By: Dan Bucatinsky
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Moment Maker
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- Narrated by: Carlos Whittaker
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Life is made of moments. What are you doing to make the most of them? In Moment Maker, Carlos Whittaker shows you how to make each moment count, so those moments add up to a life rich with meaning, deeply satisfying, and full of purpose. Every day we have an opportunity to make our lives meaningful, to make them matter. Yet, for so many of us, we let too much of life happen without taking notice. For author, speaker, and podcaster Carlos Whittaker, living deliberately has become a way of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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going to read it again starting now! !Bravo Carlos
- By Eric B. Sichler on 06-02-15
By: Carlos Whittaker
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Everything You Ever Wanted
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- By: Jillian Lauren
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 60
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In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in her best-selling memoir, Some Girls. In her 30s, Jillian's most radical act is learning the steadying power of love when she and her rock star husband adopt an Ethiopian child with special needs.
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Great for adoptive families
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I Can Barely Take Care of Myself
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- Narrated by: Jen Kirkman
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- Unabridged
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"You'll change your mind." That's what everyone says to Jen Kirkman - and countless women like her - when she confesses she doesn't plan to have children. But you know what? It's hard enough to be an adult. You have to dress yourself and pay bills and remember to buy birthday gifts. You have to drive and get annual physicals and tip for good service. Some adults take on the added burden of caring for a tiny human being with no language skills or bladder control.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny. Not fall down laughing funny, but funny
- By david on 05-22-13
By: Jen Kirkman
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Rare Bird
- A Memoir of Loss and Love
- By: Anna Whiston-Donaldson
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story5 out of 5 stars 57
On an ordinary September day, 12-year-old Jack is swept away in a freak neighborhood flood. His parents and younger sister are left to wrestle with the awful questions: How could God let this happen? Can we ever be happy again? They each fall into the abyss of grief in different ways. And in the days and months to come, they each find their faltering way toward peace. In Rare Bird, Anna Whiston-Donaldson unfolds a mother's story of loss that leads, in time, to enduring hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Warning! Tears
- By Madge on 08-16-15
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Miss Fortune
- Fresh Perspectives on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not Okay
- By: Lauren Weedman
- Narrated by: Lauren Weedman
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4 out of 5 stars 40
Lauren Weedman is not okay. She's living what should be the good life in sunny Los Angeles. After a gig as a correspondent with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she scored parts in blockbuster movies, which led to memorable recurring roles on HBO's Hung and Looking. She had a loving husband and an adorable baby boy. In these comedic essays, she turns a piercingly observant, darkly funny lens on the ways her life is actually not okay.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good
- By Ajules29 on 04-02-16
By: Lauren Weedman
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Wildflower
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Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross-country road trip, saying good-bye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more adventures and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy, and healthy place she is today.
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A hilarious and heartbreaking memoir-in-remedies by a self-described "professional soul-searcher" that details a journey of self-discovery through more than 160 tonics, seminars, regimens, and transformative therapies. With a voice that is at once intimate and hilarious, Megan captures the openness and honesty necessary for people to take a new path in life. Listeners will open the audiobook with curiosity about all the different healing therapies that Megan tries, but leave with a new understanding of themselves.
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Mr. Toad's Wild Ride has some serious competition!
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By: Megan Griswold
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Love Story
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- By: Nichole Nordeman
- Narrated by: Nichole Nordeman
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story5 out of 5 stars 28
The best-selling album has inspired a heart-melting audio book. In Love Story, one of Christian music’s most remarkable singer-songwriters brings to listeners her proven gift for mining the gritty soil of everyday experience and emerging with poignant gems of spiritual insight. Based on the songs of the popular album, Music Inspired by The Story, Dove Award winner Nichole Nordeman takes us inside some of the pivotal moments of the people of Scripture, revealing a very human side that we’ve rarely glimpsed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very relatable and eloquent
- By Terah Crockett on 06-30-22
By: Nichole Nordeman
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She Laughs
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- By: Carolanne Miljavac
- Narrated by: Carolanne Miljavac
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 255
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 232
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Story5 out of 5 stars 232
Social media star and author CA Miljavac believes with all her heart that laughter is a gift, providing a sliver of distraction from life's struggles...relief when you need rescuing...hope in the midst of hardship. Though her life has been dotted with disaster, it's through laughter that she found the strength and courage to persevere...joy for the journey. And she'll help women of all ages discover the ways laughter can carry them through their very own painful situations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
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True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 32
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For decades, actress and director Christine Lahti has captivated the hearts and minds of her audience through iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God of Carnage, and The Blacklist. Now, in True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness, this acclaimed performer channels her creativity inward to share her own story for the first time.
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Christine Lahti, Actress, Activist and A+ Author!
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By: Christine Lahti
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He Came in with It
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
In an idyllic Los Angeles neighborhood, where generations enjoy deep roots in old homes, the O’Rourke family fits right in. Miriam and Craig are both artists and their four children carry on the legacy. When their teenage son, Nick, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, a tumultuous decade ensues in which the family careens off the conventional course. Like the 10 Biblical plagues, they are hit by one catastrophe after another: violence, evictions, arrests, a suicide attempt, a near-drowning - even cancer and a brain tumor - play against the backdrop of a wild teenage bacchanal.
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So Beautifully Written
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By: Miriam Feldman
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Comedy Sex God
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,955
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,729
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,720
Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, part sacred quest - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck for the spiritual seeker - a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of standout stand-up comedian, host of the hugely successful podcast You Made It Weird, and star of HBO’s Crashing Pete Holmes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed bag
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Thin Places
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
In her moving spiritual memoir, Mary DeMuth reflects on the “thin places” of her life—places where she was acutely aware of God’s presence. Through her own story, DeMuth invites you to discover new ways to experience a God who is ready to break through any ordinary day or extraordinary pain and offer you a glimpse of eternity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Taking steps toward healing with Thin Places
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Bloom
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- By: Kelle Hampton
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story5 out of 5 stars 71
When Kelle Hampton's new daughter was placed in her arms in the delivery room, she knew instantly that something was wrong. As her friends and family celebrated, a terrified Kelle was certain that Nella had Down syndrome - a fear her pediatrician soon confirmed. Yet gradually Kelle embraced the realization that she had been chosen to experience an extraordinary and special gift. With lyrical prose and gorgeous photography, Bloom takes listeners on a wondrous journey through Nella's first year of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Story
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Agorafabulous!
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- By: Sara Benincasa
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 84
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One of the funniest and most poignant books ever written about a mental illness, Agorafabulous! is a hilarious, raw, and unforgettable account of how a terrified young woman, literally trapped by her own imagination, evolved into a (relatively) high-functioning professional smartass. Down to earth and seriously funny, Benincasa's no-holds-barred revelations offer listeners the politically incorrect hilarity they heartily crave, yet is so often missing from your typical, weepy, and redemptive personal memoir.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More Fun than a Good Cry in a Bathroom Stall
- By Susie on 03-05-15
By: Sara Benincasa
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For the last several years, Penn and Kim Holderness of The Holderness Family have done the hard maintenance and the research to learn how to fight better. With the help of their marriage coach Dr. Christopher Edmonston, they break down their biggest (and in some cases, funniest) fights. How did a question about chicken wings turn into a bra fight (no, not a bar fight; a bra fight)? How did a roll of toilet paper lead to tears, resentment, and a stint in the guest bedroom?
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if I had known...
- By Corrales Reader on 04-09-21
By: Kim Holderness, and others
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Other Minds
- The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being—how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling.
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Mischief and Craft
- By Darwin8u on 08-10-17
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
- One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
- By: Michelle McNamara
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn - introduction, Patton Oswalt - afterword
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade - from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.
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A haunting masterpiece
- By Kat - Audible on 03-02-18
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Mama Bear Apologetics
- Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies
- By: Hillary Morgan Ferrer
- Narrated by: Hillary Morgan Ferrer
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Mama Bear Apologetics is the audiobook you've been looking for. This mom-to-mom guide will equip you to teach your kids how to form their own biblical beliefs about what is true and what is false. Through transparent life stories and clear, practical applications - including prayer strategies - this band of Mama Bears offers you tools to train yourself, so you can turn around and train your kids.
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Great book
- By Nathalie H. on 07-03-20
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The Well-Watered Woman
- Rooted in Truth, Growing in Grace, Flourishing in Faith
- By: Gretchen Saffles
- Narrated by: Gretchen Saffles
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In the chaos of our everyday, it can be difficult to live out and apply the truths of Scripture. We want more of Jesus, but we find ourselves looking to our own lives and accomplishments for our worth and identity. And while that may buoy us for a time, we’re often left feeling dried up, discouraged, and longing for more. Gretchen Saffles knows what it’s like to feel overwhelmed and unable to flourish. In The Well-Watered Woman, Gretchen leads us to the well of fullness, the word of freedom, and the way of fruitfulness.
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Renewed in Faith
- By Amazon Customer on 12-14-21
By: Gretchen Saffles
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Becoming Free Indeed
- My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear
- By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo, Corey Williams
- Narrated by: Jinger Duggar Vuolo
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Jinger, along with three of her sisters, wrote a New York Times bestseller about their religious convictions. She believed this level of commitment would guarantee God's blessing, even though in private she felt constant fear that she wasn't measuring up to the high standards demanded of her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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So close and missed the mark
- By Jim on 02-01-23
By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo, and others
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Good Boundaries and Goodbyes
- Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
- By: Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Lysa TerKeurst, Jim Cress
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,213
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Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst as she helps you stop the dysfunction of unhealthy relationships by showing you biblical ways to set boundaries—and, when necessary, say goodbye—without losing the best of who you are.
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A must read/listen!
- By prestonpreuss on 11-12-22
By: Lysa TerKeurst
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- Donna Sanchez
- 10-19-21
Love Mary Katherine’s heart!
As someone who struggles in much of the same ways with mental health as Mary Katherine, and who loves Jesus just as wholeheartedly, I found her cheerful and playful recounting of the messy messes in her life refreshing!
She is a vivid storyteller with a gift for pulling little details that could be considered insignificant and making those little pieces the pivotal life lesson! She sees the world in word pictures and doesn’t miss the heartbeat of Jesus as the thread holding it all and her together.
Mary Katherine, thank you for sharing your heart, your struggles and your story so beautifully with the world. Your story is changing lives and hearts and giving courage and insight into how to struggle “wiser.”
God bless you and your ministry!
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- Cc kaye
- 09-11-21
Very Relatable
MK is a great storyteller. I really enjoyed this.
Thanks for sharing your heart, MK. Life IS messy
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- Tracy Krieger
- 05-24-22
AWESOME!!
You don't have to be a Christian to love this book. Mary Katherine has a with words, she puts things in perspective. Please read you won't be disappointed!!
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- Regi
- 12-22-21
what a wonderful, honest book
I am so grateful that I stumbled upon this book. I now need to go back and write down some of her nifty sayings.
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- Lianne
- 08-08-21
I fully recommend Holy hot mess.
I fully recommend Holy Hot Mess. If you're trying to figure out if you should get it... Just do it. It is the kind of book that makes you feel less alone. I got my copy, go grab yours today!
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- Marshal McClinton
- 08-31-21
Excellent
Loved this!! Totally relatable and applicable. She is hilarious but, full of so much wisdom!! I will listen again!!
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- TONIE
- 05-22-22
Honestly and very Well Written
I loved it! This is definitely a book I can relate to while on my christain journey. It points out the fact that we are not perfect and that God loves us for who we are regardless of our mistakes, troubles, and wrong doing. yes even while proclaiming and loving God, we are all a Holy Hot Mess.
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- Tara
- 10-07-22
Enjoyed
Was a good listen/book. Laughed out loud many times, and it made me reflect on God's purpose and my life. I do wish there was a little more of the bible and God correlation and talk in it. MK, the author and narrator, seems like a fun person to be around, and if we lived nearby, I'd want to meet her and be friends, LOL.
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- Krista Ward
- 03-14-24
amazing book
it was like she was writing my story. I related so much to this whole book. I've suggested it to everyone I know.
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- Kimberly Gwynn
- 08-20-21
Thoroughly enjoyed!
Thank you MK for being authentic and providing a space to allow others to do so as well. I LOVE the goat story and shared it with my kids.
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