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Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children
by Faith McDonnell Grace Akallo Dan HaseltineFor several decades a brutal army of rebels has been raiding villages in northern Uganda, kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers or wives of commanders. More than 30,000 children have been abducted over the last twenty years and forced to commit unspeakable crimes. Grace Akallo was one of these. Her story, which is the story of many Ugandan children, recounts her terrifying experience. This unforgettable book with historical background and insights from Faith McDonnell, one of the clearest voices in the church today calling for freedom and justice will inspire readers around the world to take notice, pray, and work to end this tragedy.
Girl Talk: 52 Weekly Devotions
by Lois Walfrid JohnsonA Faithgirlz Guide to Life By middle school, a lot of new, sometimes strange, things start to happen, and it can be overwhelming. You have new responsibilities, new opportunities, and a whole new set of problems, and sometimes it can feel like no one but you can understand what it’s like to be you. Well, you’re not alone. This one-year devotional is filled with stories about girls who feel just like you, and who are going through things like embarrassing moments in front of friends, putting up with mean girls at school, having a huge crush on that cute boy, or just dealing with what it’s like to become a young woman. As you read their stories each week, and fill in questions about how you think each girl should react, you’ll learn new ways to deal with the pressures around you. Through prayer and journal exercises, you’ll also discover there is someone out there who knows exactly how you feel. And he’s more than ready to listen.
Girl Talk With God
by Susie ShellenbergerMost Christian teens don't know how to pray. And when they do pray, they don't know how to discern God's voice. In Girl Talk With God, author Susie Shellenberger shows teens how to pray and challenges them to deepen specific areas in their lives through a series of conversations between God and a teenage girl. As editor of Brio magazine, a Focus on the Family publication for teenage girls with a circulation of over 200,000, Shellenberger has proven a keen ability to reach this often-misunderstood age group with her signature blend of casual, non-threatening teaching.
The Girl That He Marries: A Novel
by Rhoda LermanThe novel that Gloria Steinem called &“the feminist Jekyll-and-Hyde of our time―and we recognize the monster in ourselves while we&’re laughing.&” Outrageous and outrageously funny, The Girl That He Marries is the story of Stephanie―nearly thirty and still single, a bright and attractive young woman with an unerring instinct for unmarriageable men and a nagging fear she&’s going to grow old alone. Enter Richard: urbane, ambitious, and eminently marriageable. The adored son of an adoring mother, Richard has been adroitly manipulating people all his life. He&’s especially adroit at the game of love. Before she knows it, Stephanie is hooked on Richard. But before Richard knows it, Stephanie has figured out the rules―and very soon is beating him at his own artful game. In the process, she twists herself into the girl he would marry―and becomes a very different woman. The trouble is, as Stephanie finds out too late, when you play the mating game, you risk getting stuck with the prize. &“[A] hilarious romance a la Kafka.&” —The New York Times Book Review
A Girl To Come Home To (Love Endures #3)
by Grace Livingston HillBack Cover: "Young and courageous Rodney Graeme had made a name for himself as a navy hero. Now he was returning home before being given a top-secret assignment in the states. Everyone in town came to greet him. Everyone including beautiful Jessica, the woman Rodney had loved, the woman who jilted him for a richer man while he was away. And unbeknownst to Rodney, Jessica's powerful husband is determined to use his lovely wife and Rodney's feelings for her--to his own advantage. Suddenly Rodney finds himself caught up in an espionage plot, fighting bravely against desperate odds. Then he meets a gentle young girl whose faith touches him deeply, and he discovers a strength to overcome--and the joy to be found in honest faith and real love."
Girl, Uncoded: A Memoir of Passion, Betrayal, and Eventual Blessings
by Brandi DredgeFor fans of true crime memoir comes a gripping tale of one woman&’s harrowing and spiritual journey of resilience after she learns that she was a victim of a sex crime—and her husband was the culprit.At sixteen, Caroline longed to meet the man who owned the apartment she was hanging out at with her teenage friends. The one they said was a stripper, a fact that intrigued her. From the moment she saw Gary Richard, she craved his attention—and once their eyes met, he was all she wanted. Months later, she was dismayed to discover that she was pregnant. But she had Gary Richard, she reassured herself, and he was all she needed to be okay. A belief that didn&’t change even when, holding their week-old son, she sat in court and watched him face charges for stolen property. This was her family, her life; so when Gary Richard&’s lawyer suggested a ploy to show the judge he was a changed man, she agreed. At seventeen years old, she became a wife. Over the next nine years, Caroline&’s identity and dreams of a fairy-tale life became twisted by adultery, betrayal, poverty, court cases, and lies. And then, one evening, the reality of her marriage finally became clear to her after a sergeant revealed she was the victim of one of her husband&’s crimes—statutory rape—and her son&’s DNA was the evidence the prosecution needed to convict him.
Girl Unwrapped
by Gabriella GoligerToni Goldblatt's awakening to forbidden desire in 1960s Montreal conflicts with the expectations of her Holocaust-scarred parents; she flees to Israel in an attempt to reinvent herself, but the Zionist dream doesn't save her. Only on her return home, where she discovers kindred spirits in the underground lesbian scene, does Toni begin the accept the truth about herself.
Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
by Rachel HollisWith wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have. <P><P>Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Chic Media, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base of hundreds of thousands of fans by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own. Now comes her highly anticipated first book featuring her signature combination of honesty, humor, and direct, no-nonsense advice. <P><P>Each chapter of Girl, Wash Your Face begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body and relationships, she speaks with the insight and kindness of a BFF, helping women unpack the limiting mind-sets that destroy their self-confidence and keep them from moving forward. <P><P>From her temporary obsession with marrying Matt Damon to a daydream involving hypnotic iguanas to her son’s request that she buy a necklace to “be like the other moms,” Hollis holds nothing back. With unflinching faith and tenacity, Hollis spurs other women to live with passion and hustle and to awaken their slumbering goals.
The Girl Who Saw Heaven: A Fateful Tornado and a Journey of Faith
by Lisa ReburnA remarkable true story of one child&’s journey into the afterlife after surviving a super tornado.When Ari Hallmark was in kindergarten, her family was caught in a powerful tornado in their hometown of Arab, Alabama. On April 27, 2011, Ari and her parents, Shane and Jennifer Hallmark, were putting the finishing touches on their new home, which Shane had built from scratch. Shane&’s last-second decision to drive to his parents&’ house put the Hallmarks directly in the path of a devastating EF4 tornado. Moments after the Hallmarks arrived at the home, the mile-wide tornado ripped the house off its foundation and flung it in the air. When Ari regained consciousness, she began sharing the extraordinary story of what happened to her during the tornado: she met her guardian angel and followed her family to heaven. The full story of what Ari went through—the six months of reoccurring dreams that foretold the tragedy, and the unexpected challenges she faced from the legal system after the storm—delivers a powerful message to the world: you will see your late loved ones again. Ari Hallmark is now a high school senior determined to share her hopeful message with the world. The Girl Who Saw Heaven is a uniquely poignant addition to near-death experience and heavenly encounter classics. Ari&’s story will leave you with a different perspective of death and more hopeful of what lies beyond.
The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust
by Noam Chayut Tal Haran"She took from me the belief that absolute evil exists in this world, and the belief that I was avenging it and fighting against it. For that girl, I embodied absolute evil ... Since then I have been left without my Holocaust, and since then everything in my life has assumed a new meaning: belongingness is blurred, pride is lacking, belief is faltering, contrition is heightening, forgiveness is being born." The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust is the deeply moving memoir of Chayut's journey from eager Zionist conscript on the front line of Operation Defensive Shield to leading campaigner against the Israeli occupation. As he attempts to make sense of his own life as well as his place within the wider conflict around him, he slowly starts to question his soldier's calling, Israel's justifications for invasion, and the ever-present problem of historical victimhood. Noam Chayut's exploration of a young soldier's life is one of the most compelling memoirs to emerge from Israel for a long time.
The Girl with More Than One Heart
by Laura Geringer BassThere are times we all feel we need more than one heart to get through. When Briana’s father dies, she imagines she has a new heart growing inside her. It speaks to her in her Dad’s voice. Some of its commands are mysterious. <P><P>Find Her! it says. Be Your Own! <P><P>How can Briana “be her own” when her grieving mother needs her to take care of her demanding little brother all the time? When all her grandpa can do is tell stories instead of being the “rock" she needs? When her not-so-normal home life leaves no time to pursue her dream of writing for the school literary magazine? When the first blush of a new romance threatens to be nipped in the bud? Forced by the loss of her favorite parent to see all that was once familiar with new eyes, Briana draws on her own imagination, originality, and tender loving heart to discover a surprising path through the storm.
The Girl with the Leica
by Helena JaneczekThe life of a female war photographer killed in action is told by three of her friends in this biographical novel by the author of Bloody Cow.Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist, and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century’s greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first female photojournalist to be killed on a battlefield.August 1, 1937, Paris. Taro’s twenty-seventh birthday, and her funeral. Friedmann leads the procession. He is devastated, but there are others, equally bereft, with him: Ruth Cerf, Taro’s old friend from Leipzig with whom she fled to Paris; Willy Chardack, ex-lover; Georg Kuritzkes, another lover and a key figure in the International Brigades. They have all known a different Gerda, and one who is at times radically at odds with the heroic anti-fascist figure being mourned by the multitudes . . .Another character in the novel is the era itself, the 1930s, with economic depression, the rise of Nazism, hostility towards refugees in France, the century’s ideological warfare, the cultural ferment, and the ascendency of photography as the age’s quintessential art form.Winner of the Strega Prize, The Girl with the Leica is a must-read for fans of historical fiction centered on extraordinary women’s lives.“A biography, a feminist parable, a declaration of love for photography, and a tableau of the 1930s: The Girl with the Leica is all this at once.” —Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy)“Janeczek creatively and seamlessly spotlights war photographer Gerda Pohorylle.” —Publishers Weekly
GirlDad: A Father-Daughter Duo Discuss Truths That Impact a Girl's Heart, Mind, and Spirit
by Jay Payleitner Rae Anne PayleitnerThe relationship between a father and daughter is profound. Jay and Rae Anne Payleitner share their own insights into this sometimes complicated but ultimately fulfilling relationship. Rooted in Scripture and full of stories, this book will deepen dads&’ and daughters&’ appreciation for one another. The relationship between a father and daughter can be uniquely close and utterly mystifying. But an active and prepared father can make all the difference in a growing daughter's life. This book helps a father see not only the princess in his daughter, but the person, the sinner, the friend, the stranger, the challenger, enabling him to accompany her on her life&’s journey.
Girlfriends' Getaway: A Complete Guide to the Weekend Adventure That Turns Friends into Sisters and Si
by Kathleen Laing Elizabeth ButterfieldIt's time for a weekend with the girls. If we are to live full, healthy, and balanced lives, we need to spend significant time with other women who understand, support, and encourage us. No one does this better than our girlfriends. Here is your complete guide to putting together a low-demand, high-reward time of refreshment, encouragement, and fun with the women you are closest to. It's all here, from selecting your getaway girlfriends to planning your activities. From making time for your getaway to deciding where to go and what you'll eat. From arranging the logistics to overcoming your girlfriends' protests. The mother-daughter team of Elizabeth Butterfield and Kathleen Laing cover every detail necessary to plan the adventure that will change your life.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Girls
by Helen YglesiasThese days the news is full of reports about the graying of America, yet it's rare that old people appear in contemporary fiction except as stock characters: the indulgent grandmother, the wicked witch. In her first novel in a dozen years, the acclaimed author of How She Died and Sweetsir gives us four grand old ladies, sisters, each unique and indelibly real, in a poignant and very funny story about the last American taboos, old age and dying. As the novel opens, Jenny, the youngest at eighty, has flown down to Miami--that gaudy, pastel-hued haven of the elderly--to look after her two failing oldest sisters: Eva, ninety-five, always the family mainstay, and Naomi, ninety, who is riddled with cancer but still has her tart tongue and her jet-black head of hair. The fourth sister, Flora, still has her black hair too, straight out of the bottle, but no head for the hard decisions facing Eva and Naomi. An energetic eighty-five, Flora spends her time dating ("He's mad about me, I only hope he can get it up!") and making the rounds of the retirement homes with her standup routine, the Sandra Bernhard of the senior set. The Girls gives us these four full-if-wrinkled-fleshed women with all their complaints and foibles, their self-absorption and downright orneriness, their unquenchable humor and immense courage. Aches and pains, wrinkles and hearing aids, wheelchairs and walkers--out of these, and out of the human spirit, Helen Yglesias fashions a novel that moves us, opens our eyes, and makes us laugh out loud.
A Girl's Best Friend
by Kristin BillerbeckThree friends. One spa. And an infinite amount of oversharing! From the outside, Morgan Malliard has it all: diamonds at her disposal, a willowy figure, a doting daddy, and all the elegance that money can buy. But money can't buy happiness--or an identity to call her own--and Morgan is realizing her perfect life has no purpose other than spectacular grooming (which isn't really a purpose at all . . . unless you're a chimpanzee). Then a falling-out with her father drop-kicks Morgan into the real world, and she is suddenly forced to get an actual job, wear affordable shoes, and cope with public transportation--not to mention deal with that mysterious hottie who may or may not be stalking her! It's time for a spa getaway with her best gals, Lilly and Poppy--because there's just something about lying under a pile of sweet-smelling papaya plaster that can help a girl figure things out. Like the fact that life isn't about living up to a perfect ideal, and that with God's grace, the beauty of it may just be in the flaws after all.
A Girl's Best Friend (Spa Girls Series #2)
by Kristin BillerbeckMorgan seems to have it all, but her etiquette-controlled, well-sculpted life has left her without an identity to call her own. Christian chick-lit.
The Girls' Book of Priesthood
by Louise RowlandJuly 2016. Bright, sparky and raring to go, Margot Goodwin arrives as the new curate at St. Mark's, Highbury. She's one part exhilarated, 10 parts terrified. The most important 12 months of her life lie ahead. Success would mean becoming a fully-fledged priest a year from now, something she feels profoundly called to do. Failure would not only prove her father right, but also delight those who consider woman priests an abomination. Can she convince everyone—herself included—that she's more than a five foot eight redhead with a PhD and a penchant for Max Factor's Mulberry Lipfinity?
Girls Gone Wise Companion Guide
by Mary A KassianIt&’s time for a change. It&’s time for a generation of women who dare to take God at His word and delight in His plan for male and female. And thousands of women are taking this challenge by studying Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild. Designed as a companion study, the Girls Gone Wise Companion Guide contains lessons that correspond to each chapter of the Girls Gone Wise book, with questions for personal reflection and application. Each lesson should take about 10 or 15 minutes, after which a lined page is provided to journal thoughts and personalize the teaching. Appropriate for group and individual study, the Girls Gone Wise Companion Guide can be custom tailored to fit an 8-week schedule or expanded to 20 weeks. This study will challenge women to the core and compel them to become part of the quiet conter-revolution of Girls Gone Wise in a world gone wild.
Girls Gone Wise Companion Guide
by Mary A KassianIt&’s time for a change. It&’s time for a generation of women who dare to take God at His word and delight in His plan for male and female. And thousands of women are taking this challenge by studying Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild. Designed as a companion study, the Girls Gone Wise Companion Guide contains lessons that correspond to each chapter of the Girls Gone Wise book, with questions for personal reflection and application. Each lesson should take about 10 or 15 minutes, after which a lined page is provided to journal thoughts and personalize the teaching. Appropriate for group and individual study, the Girls Gone Wise Companion Guide can be custom tailored to fit an 8-week schedule or expanded to 20 weeks. This study will challenge women to the core and compel them to become part of the quiet conter-revolution of Girls Gone Wise in a world gone wild.
Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild
by Mary A KassianInundated by popular culture, many women have lost their bearings and no longer trust the internal compass that intuitively affirms those things that are good, true, and noble about womanhood. As Jesus&’ favorite and most powerful teaching tactic was the parable, it is appropriate that Mary Kassian walks the reader through the compelling tale of the wild versus wise woman found in Proverbs 7. By using 20 points of contrast, she helps readers discern wild from wise, saucy from biblically savvy, and more. Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild will captivate, convict, and challenge women to become decreasingly worldly and increasingly godly, and it will equip them with truth for that journey. Includes questions for personal reflection at the end of each chapter
Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild
by Mary A KassianInundated by popular culture, many women have lost their bearings and no longer trust the internal compass that intuitively affirms those things that are good, true, and noble about womanhood. As Jesus&’ favorite and most powerful teaching tactic was the parable, it is appropriate that Mary Kassian walks the reader through the compelling tale of the wild versus wise woman found in Proverbs 7. By using 20 points of contrast, she helps readers discern wild from wise, saucy from biblically savvy, and more. Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild will captivate, convict, and challenge women to become decreasingly worldly and increasingly godly, and it will equip them with truth for that journey. Includes questions for personal reflection at the end of each chapter
A Girl's Guide to Bible Journaling: A Christian Teen's Workbook for Creative Lettering and Celebrating God's Word
by Kristin DuranDiscover how to express your love for the Lord with the creative and easy-to-follow, step-by-step techniques and projects in this inspirational Bible journaling guide for teen girls.Bible journaling is an incredible way to connect to Scripture. By creating art next to sacred text, your understanding of it will deepen, as will the meaning of your most precious hopes and prayers. But while you may be excited to start journaling, it can be hard to know where and how to start! That&’s where A Girl&’s Guide to Bible Journaling comes in. With an easy-to-follow introduction on lettering, explanations of the various tools you&’ll need, step-by-step instructions on creating the alphabet, and tips on how to design your layout, you&’ll be journaling in your Bible in no time! From colored pencil to watercoloring, you&’ll learn how to create beautiful, inspired artwork in the margins of your Bible, even if you&’re a complete beginner. Looking to delve deeper? You&’ll also learn other strategies for Bible journaling, including utilizing the margins for sermon notes, personal prayers, Bible study, Scripture meditation, and more.
A Girl's Guide to Love & Magic
by Debbie RigaudPerfect for fans of The Sun Is Also a Star and Blackout, this YA novel from Debbie Rigaud is a celebration of Haitian and Caribbean culture, and a story of first love, vodou, and finding yourself, all set against the backdrop of the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn.Cicely Destin lives for the West Indian Day Parade, the joyous celebration of Caribbean culture that takes over the streets of her neighborhood. She loves waving the Haitian flag, sampling delicious foods, and cheering for the floats. And this year? She’ll get to hang with her stylish aunt, an influencer known for dabbling in Haitian Vodou.And maybe spot her dreamy crush, Kwame, in the crowd.But fate has other ideas. Before the parade, a rogue, mischievous spirit seems to take possession of Cicely's aunt during a spiritual reading. Cicely hardly knows anything about Vodou, or how to get someone un-possessed. But it’s up to her to set things right--and the clock is ticking. She'll have to enlist the help of her quick-thinking best friend, Renee, and, as luck would have it...Kwame.Cicely, her friends, and the reckless spirit who is now their charge set off on a thrilling scavenger hunt to gather the ceremonial items they need. And along the way, will Cicely discover surprising powers of her on?Bestselling author Debbie Rigaud infuses this novel with sparkling wit, romance, and nuance that will keep readers riveted and enchanted.
A Girl’s Guide to the Outback
by Jessica KateHow far will a girl go to win back a guy she can&’t stand? This funny, sweet, and romantic story proves that opposites do attract—and that God has a sense of humor.Samuel Payton is a passionate youth pastor in Virginia, but below the surface, he&’s still recovering from the blow of a failed business and insecurities he can&’t shake. His coworker, start-up expert Kimberly Foster, is brilliant, fearless, and capable, but years of personal rejection have left her defensive and longing for a family. Two people have never been more at odds—or more attracted to one another. And every day at work, the sparks sure do fly.When Kimberly&’s ambitious plans for Sam&’s ministry butt up against his risk-averse nature, Sam decides that obligations to family trump his work for the church. He quits the ministry and heads home to Australia to help his sister, Jules, save her struggling farm. As Kimberly&’s grand plans flounder, she is forced to face the truth: that no one can replace Sam. Together they strike up a deal: If Kimberly comes to work on Jules&’s dairy farm and lends her business brains to their endeavor, then maybe—just maybe—Sam will reconsider his future with the church.As Kimberly tries her hand at Australian farm life, she learns more about herself than she could&’ve ever expected. Meanwhile Sam is forced to re-evaluate this spunky woman he thought he already knew. As foes slowly morph into friends, they wonder if they might be something even more. But when disaster strikes the farm, will Sam find it within himself to take a risk that could lead to love? And will Kimberly trust God with her future?