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Southern California, 2019. Eight-year-old African girl Daisy, adopted by a Caucasian gay couple David and Isiah, was feeling excited for her first presentation day at her local elementary school. However, her excitement and presentation were brutally dismissed when the class bully, Billy, and her other classmates shamed her for having a family dynamic that didn't exemplify the popular heteronormative model. She navigated through fighting the internal...
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Through this little journey, our magical chair helps to teach us about understating self-worth, compassion, respect, love and kindness, and working together. Also, that one's own imagination and creativity as well as faith and love for one another can conquer anything.
What we all have in common ...
That we all came from somewhere.
And, that is, how it all began.
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THE FACES OF 266
Shocking! Vivid! Factual! Dramatic!
Three young women, three friends in high school, three years after graduation, they reconnect. Meanwhile, three pregnancies, three mothers (two of them single), three decisions: birth, adoption, abortion, even suicide.
From life-supporting pregnancy care centers to unethical, self-promoting counselors at abortion sites, these three women experience the everyday workings of abortion. They deal with...
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Rosa details a very personal and inspiring memoir through her and her husband's experience to grow in faith and family. If you are expecting perfection, you will not find it here. You will only find shades of yourself and tools to help. We were never, meant to be, perfect and faith is not, belief without doubt. It is belief despite doubt, trial, failings, suffering, naysayers, and circumstances, life. And, this is very much the story of life. We know...
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Colton is going to a Wedding! In simple loving language, Colton learns about promises, gold rings, and a big white cake. Big ideas are unpacked in simple playful illustrations. The friends at the wedding, the nesting birds, an eager puppy, and dad's big shoes teach God sized concepts about love and marriage with amazing simplicity. Whimsical drawings and charming prose will captivate young children as they discover that a wedding is a place where...
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Jacob the Angel is about an angel that lives at a childcare facility. He spends his time watching over and protecting the children. He flies around from room to room and on the playground, watching over the little ones in his care and making sure they stay safe. In this book Jacob protects the children as they need to spend the night because of a snowstorm that has closed down the town. The children enjoy a slumber party at school, and Jacob finally...
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So who is Phyber, you ask, and why is he on a big adventure? Well, he is part of your life each and everyday day, and you most likely don't realize it. He is around you constantly, but you don't notice due to the simple surroundings he lives in. Now, even though you don't see him, he is there looking forward to his next adventure. He will take you on a journey to a place you've never seen. Where is this place? It is the hidden world inside recycling....
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Dear Little Black Girl is a book about young myelinated girls knowing their worth, knowing that each part of them from the inside out is special and unique. It is there for them to understand their worth and that they are special in their own way and should reach for the stars to accomplish all the goals that they set out to achieve. It is never too early to know who you are and what the basics of your makeup are. It makes you special and unique,...
11) Homeschool Hop
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Join the adventure of a sweet bunny family in a day of homeschooling.
From the authors of Wake Up, Little Pup and Stuck on Grandma, written together by a grandmother and granddaughter, Homeschool Hop will surely warm your hearts!
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Shining Through covers many personal experiences that the author has encountered in life and are honest and true. There are many feelings and openhearted stories that come straight to you from the author's heart and soul. It's all real and poetically worded just as she wanted.
Shining Through lets the author try and describe her way of telling wonderful readers to get a closer relationship with our loved ones and our Creator at a more personal level...
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Twiglet: The Little Christmas Tree is a story of discoveries, miracles, and friendships in the lives of Reuben and Rachel Oliver and their Gramma O. Set in the town of Snowflake, with horses, adventures, and a Christmas Tree farm, Twiglet: the Little Christmas Tree is full of human kindness and the results of helping those in need. Along with Gran'pa Shepherd and Bright Starr, the twins end up finding seven special trees.
Twiglet: The Little Christmas...
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The book begins with Brittie, a daddy longlegs spider, pacing back and forth across a windowsill of an old farmhouse. Her dream is to go on an adventure to meet other insects and creatures and learn about their cultures and customs as she travels the world. The question is, how can Brittie's dream become a reality? She needs a plan. Enter Blake, the owner of the farmhouse and the very windowsill where Brittie has spent hours dreaming of her great...
15) Si, Samirah
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Samirah is a bilingual little girl filled with curiosity and questions for her mommy-the most important question being about the unconditional love a mother has for her daughter.
16) My Kittie's Tale
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My Kittie's Tale provides a relevant message for parents and grandparents to give their children in respect to acceptance, togetherness, and companionship through the eyes of three cats.
The arrival of a newborn into a family could be, frightening and confusing to the child or children waiting for the arrival of a new sibling. Parents and grandparents can share and enlighten the child's experience in a compassionate, fun, imaginative, and amusing...
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Catastrophic downfalls! Heroic rescues! Daring catnappings! William and Tibby Forever depicts these and many other fur-raising events in the lives of William and Tibby, two cats who live with their beloved Second Mom and her hon in a small gray house on a hill. In spite of vets and vaccinations, cat carriers, and beasts lurking in the garage, William's and Tibby's lives are as close to idyllic as life on this earth can be. But when William is killed,...
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What is going on? What has happened since we left?
We are anguished because we don't recognize:
The condition of the family,
The condition of the church,
The condition of schools and universities,
The condition of the cities and neighborhoods,
The condition of our beloved country, the United States of America.
We are Tom and Tullos, and during our time on earth, we lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Deep South. We lived through some challenging...
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The drive from Texas to Florida, without God's hand, would not have happened. My choices showed me it was not just about me but about my mom and dad too.
My mother instinctively knew her son was spiraling out of control. The automobile crash brought him to the brink of death. God showed him heaven and then sent him back to give this testament. God watches over us, giving us free will to choose. This is about my choices and the miracles from God.
The...
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Moms, you are amazing.
Have you ever heard your child say, "Mommy, can you help me?" or "Mommy! I need you." A mom's importance is a value most cherished. A mother is the world's greatest treasure, and being a mother to a small child is both challenging and rewarding. A bond between mother and daughter is uniquely special and can never be broken.
This story tells a constant need for mother-daughter interactions that show how assisting with...
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