I was right in my assumption that last week would be a slow week for book mail, I only got two books, so I just held them back to post with this weeks books. I felt that made more sense overall. Interestingly enough, if House Trained didn't have a bluish tint to it, every single book I got in the mail this week would have had a white spine (Smoke and Dead Sisters were last weeks books.) But without further ado, here are the books that I got in the mail the past two weeks.
House Trained by Jackie Bouchard
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Synopsis
Alex Halstad, a childless-by-choice interior designer and dog mom, is a true perfectionist. But her orderly life turns chaotic when the teenage daughter her husband, Barry, never knew he had shows up on their doorstep...with a baby girl of her own in tow. While Alex’s dog enthusiastically welcomes the new arrivals, Alex struggles with the loss of her steady routine. She desperately needs peace and quiet to get her business back on track before Barry finds out she’s spent most of their savings. Meanwhile, the arrival of the girls stirs up old insecurities, and Alex can’t help but worry that Barry’s ex will make an entrance too. With her tidy life a distant memory, will Alex be able to learn from her dog the true meaning of love and acceptance?
From bestselling author Jackie Bouchard comes a humorous and heartwarming look at how life creates opportunities to love in surprising ways.
From bestselling author Jackie Bouchard comes a humorous and heartwarming look at how life creates opportunities to love in surprising ways.
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Coming Clean by Seth Haines
Synopsis
Coming Clean by Seth Haines
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“I suppose we're all drunk on something.”
Seth Haines was in the hospital with his wife, planning funeral songs for their not-yet two-year-old, when he made a very conscious decision: this was the last day he wanted to feel. That evening, he asked his sister to smuggle in a bottle of gin, and gave in to addiction.
But whether or not you've ever had a drop to drink in your life, we're all looking for ways to stop the pain. Like Seth, we're all seeking balms for the anxiety of what sometimes seems to be an absent, unresponsive God—whether it's through people-pleasing, shopping, the internet, food, career highs, or even good works and elite theology. We attempt to anesthetize our anxiety through addiction—any old addiction. But it often leaves us feeling even more empty than before.
In Coming Clean, Seth Haines writes a raw account of his first 90 days of sobriety, illuminating how to face the pain we'd rather avoid, and even more importantly, how an abiding God meets us in that pain. Seth shows us that true wholeness is found in facing our pain and anxieties with the tenacity and tenderness of Jesus, and only through Christ's passion can we truly come clean.
Seth Haines was in the hospital with his wife, planning funeral songs for their not-yet two-year-old, when he made a very conscious decision: this was the last day he wanted to feel. That evening, he asked his sister to smuggle in a bottle of gin, and gave in to addiction.
But whether or not you've ever had a drop to drink in your life, we're all looking for ways to stop the pain. Like Seth, we're all seeking balms for the anxiety of what sometimes seems to be an absent, unresponsive God—whether it's through people-pleasing, shopping, the internet, food, career highs, or even good works and elite theology. We attempt to anesthetize our anxiety through addiction—any old addiction. But it often leaves us feeling even more empty than before.
In Coming Clean, Seth Haines writes a raw account of his first 90 days of sobriety, illuminating how to face the pain we'd rather avoid, and even more importantly, how an abiding God meets us in that pain. Seth shows us that true wholeness is found in facing our pain and anxieties with the tenacity and tenderness of Jesus, and only through Christ's passion can we truly come clean.
Marriage: Convenient or Covenant by Stephen D. Matthews
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Synopsis
This book is design to take married couples and couples ready to get married through the scriptures. When you are done reading this book you will know whether your relationship is out of convenience or if you are in a covenant. Let us look at what God has to say before we let the world at our relationship.
Outcast by Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta
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Synopsis
Kyle Barnes has been plagued by demonic possession all his life. In light of recent revelations, he finally feels like he's starting to piece together the answers he's looking for. But while he feels a new sense of purpose... is Reverend Anderson's life falling apart?
Collects Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta #7-12.
Collects Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta #7-12.
God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels by Nawal El Saadawi
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Synopsis
Collected for the first time in one complete volume, God Dies by the Nile and other Novels are three of El Saadawi’s most remarkable tales of tragedy, revenge, despair, and violence. Powerful and moving, El Saadawi masterfully captures the personal struggles of women in a society steeped in hypocrisy and reveals the daily revolt of women against the corrupt norms of the Arab world.
The Long Gray Goodbye by Bobby Underwood
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Synopsis
Honeymooning with Caroline on the coast of Ecuador, Seth Halliday watches helplessly as a girl falls from a gray and rainy sky to her death. The name on the envelope she was willing to die for is that of a very lovely television star. She is Seth's starting point as he follows a trail of murder and possession leading him from Boca Raton to Paris, Greece, and then back to Ecuador, for a rainy confrontation with one of the most brutal and heartless killers Seth has ever encountered.
Smoke by Catherine McKenzie
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Synopsis
From the internationally bestselling author Catherine McKenzie comes an evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town.
After a decade-long career combating wildfires, Elizabeth has traded in for a quieter life with her husband. Now she works as the local arson investigator in a beautiful, quaint town in the Rockies. But that tranquil life vanishes when she and her husband agree to divorce, and when a fire started in nearby Cooper Basin begins to spread rapidly. For Elizabeth, containing a raging wildfire is easier than accepting that her marriage has failed.
For Elizabeth’s ex-friend Mindy, who feels disconnected from her husband and teenage children, the fire represents a chance to find a new purpose: helping a man who lost his home to the blaze. But her faith is shattered by a shocking accusation.
As the encroaching inferno threatens the town’s residents, Elizabeth and Mindy must discover what will be lost in the fire, and what will be saved.
After a decade-long career combating wildfires, Elizabeth has traded in for a quieter life with her husband. Now she works as the local arson investigator in a beautiful, quaint town in the Rockies. But that tranquil life vanishes when she and her husband agree to divorce, and when a fire started in nearby Cooper Basin begins to spread rapidly. For Elizabeth, containing a raging wildfire is easier than accepting that her marriage has failed.
For Elizabeth’s ex-friend Mindy, who feels disconnected from her husband and teenage children, the fire represents a chance to find a new purpose: helping a man who lost his home to the blaze. But her faith is shattered by a shocking accusation.
As the encroaching inferno threatens the town’s residents, Elizabeth and Mindy must discover what will be lost in the fire, and what will be saved.
Dead Sisters by Debra L. Manion
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Synopsis
In the 1980's, an obscure graduate student was the foremost scholar on a newly discovered gnostic tractate entitled The Thunder, Perfect Mind. Previously, only one Harvard professor had significantly researched the work, but his untimely death left her alone in the field. On her own within the university stacks and the Egyptian intertestamental past, she struggles to break the code of a 2,000 year old buried writing, which in turn leads her down unexpected rabbit holes of stolen children, the FBI, and four generations of dead sisters. And with each revelation, she uncovers her own buried crimes. Unable to cope, she turns to The Thunder, Perfect Mind for answers. This is a not a story of one woman's forgiveness, but rather the story of a more unsettling idea: that forgiveness itself may be unnecessary.
So after getting all this put together, it looks like this week was not only the week of white spines, but also short synopses. I find trend like that interesting to say the least. I think of the books that I got in the mail the past two weeks, I'm most excited to read Smoke. Which of these books are you most interested in reading my review on? - Katie
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