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What if you were forced to pack your belongings and leave your family, friends, career, home, and life behind? Could you say good-bye to everyone and everything you love, not knowing if you will see them again? That is what deportation is: permanent banishment from your home, family, friends, and job, from a life built over years. It is an extreme action that causes lasting harm to everyone it touches.
Broken Hope: Deportation and the Road...
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This picture book from a child psychologist and counselor uses a touching and relatable story about a young boy's grief to help children 4-8 understand what it means to lose a loved one and how to process their own emotions of fear, grief, and joyful remembrance.
When Grandma tells Lee she will soon be "going home," Lee is confused. Isn't Grandma already home? But as Grandma's health gets worse and her death approaches, Lee learns what it means...
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David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.
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A hopeful heart
Melanie Stewart knew her recent contest money would allow her to fulfill her dream of helping others. Until brilliant, handsome Mitch Stewart came along and claimed the prize was his! The town's matchmakers set to work, yet maybe it was God's own plan to join their two hearts in love.
A home, a heart, a husband
Widow Maggie McCarthy struggled to raise twin daughters and maintain the family farm-until Grady O'Toole showed up at her...
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Is There Something More Than This Life?
This world is full of crises and conflicts, difficulties, and troubles, but this world will not last. No matter what your age is, your earthly life is slowly slipping away. This is why Jesus encourages us not to store treasures on this earth. In other words, invest in heaven.
In “Heaven Awaits”, you will explore what the Bible says about heaven and begin to envision the wonders and glories that await you....
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Finding Home, Hope, and a Future: Achieving Integrated Social Services at Harbor Care tells the story of a trail blazing nonprofit in Nashua, New Hampshire. Originally named Harbor Homes, in July 1982 the newly incorporated organization began work in its remodeled group home supporting nine clients with persistent mental illnesses. Forty years later, the nonprofit, now named Harbor Care, owns twenty-eight facilities and is supporting over five thousand...
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An emotional memoir about a military family experiencing love, loss, and challenging times.
Always Coming Back Home uses heartfelt stories and real-time emails sent from a deployed sailor to his bride and readers quickly become invested in this young family. The couple takes readers on sailing and scuba diving adventures throughout the world. They also keep readers laughing as the couple becomes first time parents, anxious with them during military...
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This book is a profound meditation on power and love and in its wake on trust and hope. The author offers a new approach of these ancient biblical values.
If human love is fascinated by power, what is power's attraction and charm? Love is fascinated by a promise of rootedness in a real future life. This promise is experienced as a revelation of our true home. It means that human love is expecting something from the one who possesses power. Is he or...
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Playaway Products, LLC
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[2023]
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Co-qui, co-qui! The coqui frogs sing to Elena from her family's beloved mango tree--their calls so familiar that they might as well be singing, "You are home, you are safe." But home is suddenly not safe when a hurricane threatens to destroy everything that Elena knows. As time passes, Elena, alongside her community, begins to rebuild their home, planting seeds of hope along the way. When the sounds of the coquies gradually return, they reflect the...
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