Insidious and hidden shame is a visitor that inhabits people who were victims of abuse, whether they realize it or not. The transformational information in this book brings to light, with positivity and compassion, where that shame hides, how it can direct your life, and how you can shatter it in order to discover the real person underneath it all. In so doing, your inner lifes aim is free to live on purpose and with passion allowing for dreams to come true.

You don't have to live with shame.Shattered by Shame-Crowned in Glory offers life-changing truth and hope to all whose lives are marred and crippled by shame, dishonor and injustice.Laurie Smucker provides proof that God is not the source of shame. Rather, His desire is to remove shame and to repair its devastating effects.*Learn how to identify and nullify shame's accusations.*Recognize how shame can control your thoughts and actions.*Discover how shame prevents you from receiving God's best. *Understand how shame can destroy your personal relationships.*Experience complete emotional healing and personal restoration today. Meet God right where you are, and let Him break shame's deadly bonds once and for all!Come and exchange your shame-filled past for His brilliant glory. About the author: Laurie Smucker knows firsthand how shame can keep someone isolated and stuck in the past, and also how God can remove that shame and replace it with His amazing glory! A gifted Bible teacher, songwriter and worship leader, Laurie now ministers to hurting people here in the U.S. and abroad. She is also a marathon runner for the purpose of praying for miracles in the lives of others. She and her husband, Mark, have three children, Aaron, Stefanie and Adam, and they make their home in Willamette Valley, Oregon, where they also serve as elders and worship leaders in their church.

Refreshingly authentic and bold… Don’t miss this smashing novel from Francina Simone, filled with heart, humor and a heroine to root for! Olivia “Liv” James is done with letting her insecurities get the best of her. So she does what any self-respecting hot mess of a girl who wants to SMASH junior year does… After Liv shows up to a Halloween party in khaki shorts—why, God, why?—she decides to set aside her wack AF ways. She makes a list—a F*ck-It list. 1. Be bold—do the thing that scares me. 2. Learn to take a compliment. 3. Stand out instead of back. She kicks it off by trying out for the school musical, saying yes to a date and making new friends. Life is great when you stop punking yourself! However, with change comes a lot of missteps, and being bold means following her heart. So what happens when Liv’s heart is interested in three different guys—and two of them are her best friends? What is she supposed to do when she gets dumped by a guy she’s not even dating? How does one Smash It! after the humiliation of being friend-zoned? In Liv’s own words, “F*ck it. What’s the worst that can happen?” A lot, apparently. #SMASHIT “Smash It! smashed it."—New York Times bestselling author Christine Riccio

This moving account of loss, grief, healing, and spiritual awakening is written and narrated by three individuals: Louise Brandson, Laura Brandson, and Rhiann Hosking. It traces the aftermath of the sudden death, in a horrific automobile accident, of a central figure in the three authors' lives - a husband, father, and grandfather, respectively. This book as well, is an empowering account of the journey through domestic abuse and ultimate triumphant over the life altering effects experienced by author Laura Brandson and family. Each individual describes her path from the initial shock through the grieving process toward healing and spiritual awakening. This work will appeal to those who have lost a loved one or lived through domestic abuse, and are searching for solace. At it's heart, this work explores the beautiful and mystical nature of life and life after death.

"Presented in Ojibwe-English and English-Ojibwe sections, this dictionary spells words to reflect their actual pronunciation with a direct match between the letters used and the speech sounds of Ojibwe. Containing more than 7,000 of the most frequently used Ojibwe words."--P. [4] of cover.

The explosive finale to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series. Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie? Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong—between Ella and Juliette—blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control. The day of reckoning for the Reestablishment is coming. But she may not get to choose what side she fights on.

From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled-upon pillars of American Jewish self-definition (Americanism, Zionism, and liberalism) have begun to collapse. The binding trauma of Holocaust memory grows ever-more attenuated; soon there will be no living survivors. After two millennia of Jewish life defined by diasporic existence, the majority of the world’s Jews will live in a sovereign Jewish state by 2050. Against the backdrop of national political crises, resurgent global antisemitism, and the horrors of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Leifer provides an illuminating and meticulously reported map of contemporary Jewish life and a sober conjecture about its future. Leifer begins with the history of Jewish immigrants in America, starting with the arrival of his great-grandmother Bessie from a shtetl in Belarus and following each subsequent generation as it conformed to the prevailing codes of American Jewish life. He then reports on the state of today’s burning Jewish issues. We meet millennial Jewish racial justice organizers, Orthodox political activists, young liberal rabbis looking to “queer” the Torah through exegesis, Haredi men learning full-time at the world’s largest yeshiva, progressive anti-Zionists attempting to separate Judaism from nationalism, and right-wing Israeli public intellectuals beginning to imagine a future without American Jews. As it traverses today’s Jewish landscape through uncommon personal familiarity with the widest range of Jewish experience, Tablets Shattered also charts the universal quest to build enduring communities amid historical and political rupture.

Elahe lives with her brother and parents in east end of London. Elahe has always dreamed of being a wife and a mother. After marrying James she starts to see her dream come true, all she wants is a baby and when she is denied this she takes drastic steps. As James lies in a coma his secret life unfolds this turns Elahe ́s mind as she takes on an alto ego of an evil aggressive entity who wants revenge leaving tragedy and mayhem in her wake destroying the lives of family and friends around her. While on holiday with her best friend Sandi she knows the only way to rid the demon watching her is to confess her secret to Sandi, who is only to willing to listen not knowing its to big even for her to keep. Elahe has murdered once so would knowing her secret make Sandi her next victim

Maverick trauma surgeon Ashton "Snow" Frost keeps the world at a distance, relying only on his three closest friends to keep him connected. But when a ghost from their past returns to Cincinnati, Snow stands to lose everyone he loves. Framed for murder and reeling from attacks on his friends, Snow is pushed to his breaking point. Jude Torres won't let the doc shatter. The paramedic has been attracted to the doctor since he first laid eyes on him at the hospital, even if the arrogant, solitary man doesn't fit into any of his plans. One hot, reckless kiss shows that Snow isn't who he appears to be. And one night together will never be enough. Jude will fight for the doc. Fight to keep him whole. Fight to keep him safe. Fight to simply keep him.

Historians often assert that Confederate nationalism had its origins in pre-Civil War sectional conflict with the North, reached its apex at the start of the war, and then dropped off quickly after the end of hostilities. Anne Sarah Rubin argues instead that white Southerners did not actually begin to formulate a national identity until it became evident that the Confederacy was destined to fight a lengthy war against the Union. She also demonstrates that an attachment to a symbolic or sentimental Confederacy existed independent of the political Confederacy and was therefore able to persist well after the collapse of the Confederate state. White Southerners redefined symbols and figures of the failed state as emotional touchstones and political rallying points in the struggle to retain local (and racial) control, even as former Confederates took the loyalty oath and applied for pardons in droves. Exploring the creation, maintenance, and transformation of Confederate identity during the tumultuous years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Rubin sheds new light on the ways in which Confederates felt connected to their national creation and provides a provocative example of what happens when a nation disintegrates and leaves its people behind to forge a new identity.