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Will you open your heart and home to children in need?
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Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne has made a name for herself telling stories of greatness after tragedy—but her real life does not mirror the stories she tells. When she's asked to spotlight her childhood best friend's missing person case on her podcast, she uncovers desperate secrets and must face the truth before she can move forward.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed This!
- De Freida Keith en 05-14-23
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Promises of the Heart: A Novel
- Savannah Skies, Book 1
- De: Nan Rossiter
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Macey and Ben Samuelson have much to be thankful for: great friends, a beautiful - if high-maintenance - Victorian house on idyllic Tybee Island, and a rock-solid marriage. The only thing missing is what they want the most. After her fifth miscarriage in six years, Macey worries that the family they’ve always dreamed of might be out of reach. Her sister suggests adoption, but Macey and Ben aren’t interested in pursuing that path...until a three-legged Golden Retriever named Keeper wags his way into their home and their hearts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- De Judy en 02-28-20
De: Nan Rossiter
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Lone Stars
- De: Justin Deabler
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Lone Stars follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone? Finding the answers takes Julian back in time to Eisenhower's immigration border raids, an epistolary love affair during the Vietnam War, crumbling marriages, queer migrations to Cambridge and New York, up to the disorienting polarization of Obama's second term.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read for bookclub but fell in Love
- De Ericka Lawson en 09-11-22
De: Justin Deabler
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The Surrogate
- A Novel
- De: Toni Halleen
- Narrado por: Stacey Glemboski, Laurie Catherine Winkel, Andrew Eiden, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 610
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 559
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 557
Ruth is a no-nonsense 40-something journalist from the Midwest desperate for a child with her new husband, Hal. Their hope rests with Cally, a 19-year-old who wants to go to college - but doesn’t have the cash. The arrangement seems perfect for everyone. But within a day of the baby’s birth, Cally has a change of heart - and engineers a harrowing escape from the hospital with the newborn. When Ruth and Hal discover that Cally and their daughter are gone, a whole series of doubts and secrets is revealed, and the difference between right and wrong is no longer clear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spectacular - Couldn’t put this book down!
- De Cindi en 01-10-22
De: Toni Halleen
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The Better Version of Me
- De: Marni Mann
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer, Erin Mallon, Jacob Morgan
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 309
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 309
At forty-two, Jesse Black had the perfect life. Even after surviving her father’s passing, she still had everything she dreamed of—two beautiful children and a husband madly in love with her. She was the owner of one of the most successful shapewear companies in the country. There was even a white picket fence around their home in Vermont. But underneath all that sparkle, shine, and achievement, Jesse was harboring a secret. A secret that would rip their perfect family apart and alter their lives forever—if it was ever revealed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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✫✫ 5 Stars ✫✫
- De ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 en 07-31-19
De: Marni Mann
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Before I Called You Mine
- De: Nicole Deese
- Narrado por: Mikhaila Aaseng
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 91
Lauren Bailey may be a romantic at heart, but after a decade of matchmaking schemes gone wrong, there's only one match she's committed to now - the one that will make her a mother. Lauren is a dedicated first-grade teacher in Idaho, and her love for children has led her to the path of international adoption. To satisfy her adoption agency's requirements, she gladly agreed to remain single for the foreseeable future; however, just as her long wait comes to an end, Lauren is blindsided by a complication she never saw coming: Joshua Avery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very special book
- De Kelly en 04-15-20
De: Nicole Deese
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He Came in with It
- A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness
- De: Miriam Feldman
- Narrado por: Ann Richardson
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 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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5 out of 5 stars
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So Beautifully Written
- De Michael en 08-01-22
De: Miriam Feldman
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Mending Places
- De: Denise Hunter
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Sure, it's romantic up amidst the snow-capped peaks of Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains, but Hanna Alexander has only one thing on her mind: trying to save the family lodge. That is, she did - right up until she hired mountain-guide Micah Gallagher to help raise revenues. Teeming with suspicion and intrigue, this Grand Teton adventure leaves listeners struggling with the Christian principle of forgiveness in the face of emotional entanglements, fears of the heart, and the inevitable agony of love.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disturbing storyline
- De Tina Hood en 08-14-20
De: Denise Hunter
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Gone Again
- A Thriller
- De: Minka Kent
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt, Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 155
On her fortieth birthday, Celia Guest has reason to celebrate. She has a loving marriage, a beautiful Connecticut home, and treasured friends. Celia has everything she’s ever wanted. But among the cards and well-wishes, she discovers a disturbing note: You don’t deserve any of this. Who could be so cruel, so resentful, so…knowing? Then, in the early morning hours, Celia vanishes without a trace.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing really happens
- De A reader en 04-11-23
De: Minka Kent
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Wild Hearts
- Secrets and Lies, Book 1
- De: Sharon Sala
- Narrado por: Nina Alvamar
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Dallas Phillips refuses to believe her father committed suicide, even though things were tough on his farm and he was deeply in debt. When she hears he'd told a neighbor about an upcoming windfall, she grows suspicious, and her suspicion only deepens when she realizes someone is lurking in the nearby mountains after dark. For help, she turns to Trey Jakes, local police chief - and her former lover. As they begin to investigate, another mystery comes to light.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well written but frustrating storyline
- De debbolsen en 01-31-18
De: Sharon Sala
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The Fourth Child
- A Novel
- De: Jessica Winter
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
The author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her the “extraordinary debut” (The Guardian) with a moving novel about motherhood and marriage, adolescence and bodily autonomy, family and love, religion and sexuality, and the delicate balance between the purity of faith and the messy reality of life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just OK - Considered Bailing
- De Madeleine Homan en 04-18-21
De: Jessica Winter
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Silence is a Scary Sound
- And Other Stories on Living Through the Terrible Twos and Threes
- De: Clint Edwards
- Narrado por: Joe Hempel
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
After his breakout hit book, I'm Sorry...Love, Your Husband, Clint Edwards has more laugh-out-loud tales, this time from the "terrible twos" and "threenager" phases each of his kids went through. His relatable toddler stories leave parents and caregivers cackling, and remind us all that no one is the perfect parent. In fact, sometimes the only thing that gets Clint through the day is thinking about when his kids grow up...and all the ways he can finally exact his revenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dads love it too
- De Yume Leona en 11-12-19
De: Clint Edwards
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Surrender Bay
- A Nantucket Love Story, Book 1
- De: Denise Hunter
- Narrado por: Kathryn Lynhurst
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Samantha Owens' estranged stepfather has died, leaving her his cottage in Nantucket - a place she fled years ago, never planning to return. As a single mom, Samantha can't afford to pass up a financial windfall like oceanfront property. So she travels home to fix up the house and sell it...never suspecting that Landon Reed still lives two doors down. As their long-dormant romance begins to bud again, Samantha must face a past that separated her from the God of her childhood. And she must tell Landon why she fled the island in the first place - a secret that could tear them apart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Cody Wheeler en 04-28-20
De: Denise Hunter
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The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets
- A Novel
- De: Molly Fader
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
It’s been 17 years since the tragic summer the McAvoy sisters fell apart. Lindy, the wild one, left home, carved out a new life in the city, and never looked back. Delia, the sister who stayed, became a mother herself, raising her daughters and running the family shop in their small Ohio hometown on the shores of Lake Erie. But now, with their mother’s ailing health and a rebellious teenager to rein in, Delia has no choice but to welcome Lindy home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Nessa en 09-25-23
De: Molly Fader
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Neither Present Time
- De: Caren J. Werlinger
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 106
Can a house save the lives of the people who live in it? Can an inscription written in a book over 60 years ago change the fates of people not even born when it was written? Beryl Gray is solid and dependable - her partner, Claire, thinks so, her family thinks so, her colleagues think so. She has a job she likes as a university librarian. Her life seems settled, content - except nothing is as it seems. Aggie Bishop's last girlfriend left her three years ago and she hasn't had a date since. She now takes care of her great-aunt Cory who doesn't want to be taken care of.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful instant classic!
- De MissLynn en 04-15-21
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All but Normal
- Life on Victory Road: A Memoir
- De: Shawn Thornton
- Narrado por: Shawn Thornton
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
After waking from a coma following a car crash, Beverly Thornton's once sweet and gentle disposition had been replaced by violent mood swings, profanity-laced tirades, and uncontrollable fits of rage. Inside the Thornton house, floors and countertops were piled high with dirty laundry and garbage because Bev was unable to move well enough to clean. Dinners were a Russian roulette of half-cooked meat, spoiled milk, and foods well past their expiration dates.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Should be in the religous category
- De Shreridan en 10-24-16
De: Shawn Thornton
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The Good Father
- De: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne, Arielle DeLisle, Emily Durante
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 906
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 803
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 799
Four years ago, 19-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting girls, Travis was at home, changing diapers and worrying about keeping food on the table. But he's never regretted his decision. Bella is the light of his life. The reason behind every move he makes. And so far, she is fed. Cared for. Safe. But when Travis loses his construction job and his home, the security he's worked so hard to create for Bella begins to crumble....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must-read tear jerker!
- De Wayne en 12-01-15
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The Brides of the Big Valley
- 3 Romances from a Unique Pennsylvania Amish Community
- De: Wanda E. Brunstetter, Jean Brunstetter, Richelle Brunstetter
- Narrado por: Rebecca Gallagher
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
In an area of Pennsylvania called The Big Valley, a uniquely blended Amish community thrives in which three distinct groups of Amish identify themselves by the colors of their buggies' tops - white, black, or yellow. Join New York Times best-selling author Wanda E. Brunstetter, her daughter-in-law, and her granddaughter in experiencing the stories of three young women who search for faith and love within this special place.
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3 out of 5 stars
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stilted dialogue
- De CS Seepe en 12-02-19
De: Wanda E. Brunstetter, y otros
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Adopting or fostering a child brings its own unique set of challenges only another parent facing the same uphill climb could possibly understand. From parenting children with traumatic pasts, to dealing with attachment issues, to raising a children with special needs, it can sometimes be a struggle just getting through the day. Mike Berry knows the loneliness and isolation you can easily feel in your particular parenting role - because he's been there.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This book is total garbage; Would not recommend.
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Honestly Adoption
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If you are considering adoption or foster care or are already somewhere in this difficult and complicated process, you need trusted information from people who have been where you are. Mike and Kristin Berry have adopted eight children and cared for another 23 kids in their nine-year stint as foster parents. They aren't just experts. They have experienced every emotional high and low and encountered virtually every situation imaginable as parents. Now, they want to share what they've learned with you.
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4 out of 5 stars
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pretty good
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De: Mike Berry, y otros
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Garbage Bag Suitcase
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- De: Shenandoah Chefalo
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
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Shenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug- and alcohol-addicted parents. She endures numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness. Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother's retirement community, she asks to be put into foster care. Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother?
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5 out of 5 stars
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What an exceptional and inspiring story!
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Securely Attached
- How Understanding Childhood Trauma Will Transform Your Parenting. A Handbook for Adoptive and Foster Parents
- De: Kristin Berry, Mike Berry
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General5 out of 5 stars 7
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5 out of 5 stars
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This has some very insightful information
- De Valerie en 08-16-23
De: Kristin Berry, y otros
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To the End of June
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Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children in their search for a stable, loving family. Beam shows us the intricacies of growing up in the system - the back-and-forth with agencies, the rootless shuffling between homes, the emotionally charged tug between foster and birth parents.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good dissertation
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Renowned child-development expert Dr. Karyn Purvis gives you practical advice and powerful tools you can use to encourage secure attachment in your family. You will benefit from Karyn’s decades of clinical research and real-world experience. Coauthor Lisa Qualls demonstrates how you can successfully implement these strategies in your home, just as she did in hers. You will learn how to simplify your approach using scripts, nurture your child, combat chronic fear, teach respect, and develop other valuable tools to facilitate a healing connection with your child.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An holistic approach to relational health
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Adopting or fostering a child brings its own unique set of challenges only another parent facing the same uphill climb could possibly understand. From parenting children with traumatic pasts, to dealing with attachment issues, to raising a children with special needs, it can sometimes be a struggle just getting through the day. Mike Berry knows the loneliness and isolation you can easily feel in your particular parenting role - because he's been there.
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1 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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pretty good
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 178
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If you’re wondering if God can truly move in the life of someone with all the odds stacked against her, look no further than Tori Hope Petersen. Tori grew up in the foster care system, a bi-racial child in a confusing and volatile world. Growing up with a mentally ill mother and living in twelve different foster homes, nothing was in her favor. And yet, even with a miniscule chance of graduating college and a great risk of being homeless, jobless, and on drugs, Tori overcame every negative stereotype that attacked her. However, Tori will tell you she did not overcome. Christ did.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Until Every Child Is Home
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important for the Church
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Foster the Family
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General5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 71
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With the compassion and insight of a fellow foster parent, Jamie C. Finn helps you see your struggles through the lens of the gospel, bringing biblical truths to bear on your unique everyday realities. In these short, accessible chapters, you'll find honest, personal stories and practical lessons that provide encouragement and direction from God's word as you walk the journey of foster parenting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book
- De Cara hughes en 04-01-22
De: Jamie C. Finn
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Another Place at the Table
- De: Kathy Harrison
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters - the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren't equipped for parenthood. All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos? For Harrison, the answer is easy.
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Fostering
- De Ozark en 01-31-20
De: Kathy Harrison
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Bastards
- A Memoir
- De: Mary King
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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Living in Oklahoma with her maternal grandfather, Mary gets a new name and a new life. But she's haunted by the past: by the baby girls she's sure will come looking for her someday, by the mother she left behind, by the father who left her. Mary is a college student when her sisters start to get back in touch. With each subsequent reunion, her family becomes closer to whole again.
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No sugarcoating, no bitterness, just brilliance
- De Michele Sharpe en 06-26-18
De: Mary King
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A Place Called Home
- A Memoir
- De: David Ambroz
- Narrado por: David Ambroz
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care, offering a window into what so many kids living in poverty experience every day.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very heart wrenching read, BUT
- De Everest Mom en 01-14-23
De: David Ambroz
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Hannah's Hope
- Seeking God's Heart in the Midst of Infertility, Miscarriage, and Adoption Loss
- De: Jennifer Saake
- Narrado por: Sarah Zimmerman
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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You can meet Hannah in 1 Samuel, chapters 1 and 2. The Bible says she was "barren", and we know she suffered heartache, anguish, and grief because of her empty arms. Perhaps you do, too. Hannah's Hope is for all who long for a child yet to be conceived, grieve for a baby too soon passed from the womb, or have lived through the no-man's-land of failed adoption. It is intended as a guide to assist you in making wise decisions as you struggle through your grief.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Helpful
- De Jocelyn en 08-06-18
De: Jennifer Saake
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Parenting Children of Trauma
- The Foster-Adoption Guide to Understanding Attachment Disorder
- De: Marcy Pusey
- Narrado por: Dana DiAngelo
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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Many foster and adoptive parents are raising children with complex emotional trauma, desperate for answers to heal their families. Caught off guard, these families find themselves with shattered dreams, shattered homes, and shattered hearts, with nowhere to turn for answers. Extended family members, friends, and the greater community don't understand the challenges and can, sometimes, add to the problems these families face, prolonging the healing process for all.
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1 out of 5 stars
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religious and designed to terrify
- De heather frady en 04-01-23
De: Marcy Pusey
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Adoption Unfiltered
- Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies
- De: Sara Easterly, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, Lori Holden, y otros
- Narrado por: Sara Easterly
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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Healing isn't possible, though, without first uncovering the hurts—starting with adoption's central players: adoptees, who are so often in pain, suffering from what the latest brain science validates as the long-term emotional effects of separation trauma. By encouraging others to vulnerably share their stories, the authors discover that adoptees aren't the only ones in the adoption constellation who are hurting. Birth parents regularly shut down after being shut out by adoptive parents.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gets you asking the critical questions
- De Elias Rademacher en 04-29-24
De: Sara Easterly, y otros
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Breathing Through Foster Care
- A Survival Guide Based on the Reflection of a Foster Mom
- De: Robin Hunt
- Narrado por: Robin LaVonne Hunt
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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Breathing Through Foster Care is an honest and sometimes raw account of the daily joys and challenges of fostering. This honest glimpse into an imperfect family offers practical tips on how to avoid the missteps they made. It also provides many strategies they learned along the way to maintain a healthy family with children who have experienced trauma.
De: Robin Hunt
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I'm the One Who Got Away
- A Memoir
- De: Andrea Jarrell
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
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Fugitives from a man as alluring as he is violent, Andrea Jarrell and her mother develop a powerful, unusual bond. Once grown, Jarrell thinks she's put that chapter of her life behind her - until a woman she knows is murdered, and she suddenly sees that it's her mother's choices she's been trying to escape all along. Without preaching or prescribing, I'm the One Who Got Away is a life-affirming story of having the courage to become both safe enough and vulnerable enough to love and be loved.
De: Andrea Jarrell
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Momma Said Write a Book About It
- Memoirs of a Scapegoat
- De: Victoria S. Hardy
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 21 h y 37 m
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When you’re a scapegoat in an abusive household, the scapegoating doesn’t end when you turn 18. Author Dani Donnelly is just now finding this out at age 50, and she’s about to show the world through her memoirs how pervasively damaging an abusive home can be. Her lifelong narcissistic abuser, however, is taking unthinkable steps to put a halt to Dani’s plan. This novel is a chilling tale of survival.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book, wish it had a real voice behind it
- De Jayme Paul en 02-02-24
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- Anonymous User
- 06-22-22
A family love
A very inspiring story of the hardships and love of foster care. A well written book. Thank you.
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- Kyle West
- 01-08-23
Great Book
I was hooked on every story and every life. Such a great read and look into the lives of foster kids and parents.
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- Stephanie McElmurray
- 09-07-22
kept me on the edge of my seat
every emotion, every detail I felt. as if I were going through this with them. I couldn't recommend this more!
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- Peter
- 03-09-20
A Intimate Looking into true grace and foster-care...
I learned so much from this book! It is my husband and I first year as a foster parent and it is absolutely insightful, honest and captivating! I am so impressed I am going to look for another of the authors books... I learned a lot and I am grateful that she shared such an intimate look into their foster care journey with us.
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- Czimmy
- 03-18-22
great listen
very inspiring, gives lots of encouragement for foster parents to keep the doors open
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- Cara Johnson
- 08-21-22
Powerful and honest
As a foster mom this book is spot on. It has all the feels and none of the judgement. this is a fabulous book for any person looking at becoming a foster parent, a first time foster parent, or even a veteran foster parent. I would also encourage anyone who supports foster care to listen/read this book. Hopefully the authors words will help explain what we as foster families feel but often cannot put into words until after we've faced the storm.
Thank you for taking the time to write this book!!
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