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In a world consumed with quick-fixes, superficial romances, and "hookup" relationships, maybe you're asking: What's the benefit to actually waiting for God's best? Is there a perfect plan for my future - or is it just a fairy tale? Should I just settle like everyone else? With all-new insights from Jackie Kendall, a new generation will answer these questions and discover what made Lady in Waiting a life-changing encouragement to over half a million people worldwide.

Dr. Shanahan, along with her husband Luke, not only debunk traditional American dietary guidance, but also offer easy alternatives for a better, healthier life for yourself and generations to follow. This Sumoreads summary and analysis offers supplementary material to Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective.

English rose Eleanor Rigby has stared into the cold eyes of death more than once. To escape its icy grip, she flees as a mail-order bride to a new future with Samuel Johnson, a Western cowboy. But when a lost love returns from the grave to claim his broken bride, a fearful fight for Ellie's own life and sanity ensues. Can the bonds of true love bring her home, or will she be lost forever?

Clementina Rose is no stranger to tragedy. Widowed with a child, and abandoned to a life of misery at the hands of her dead husband's brother, she almost despairs. Her only lifeline are the secret letters she receives from her husband's civil war comrade Grover Ash. When the letters stop, Clementina is crushed. Stripped of everything other than her faith in God and love for her young son, she boards a Westbound train to find Grover and beg for his hand.

Don't miss this summary of Michael A. Singer's thought-provoking book, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself. In his book, Singer provides unmatched clarity in describing the roadblocks to your own happiness and how to retake control of your mental health and well-being. This Sumoreads summary includes key takeaways and analysis to help you fully understand how to overcome your doubts and insecurities and become the master of your inner mind.

Maryanne is a governess to two children, Mindy and Tracey. Their mother is not a hands-on parent so Maryanne has been as much of a mother as a governess. On a very stormy night the mother is killed in an accident. Because of the many debts incurred by Mrs. Turner there is no money left, including the children’s inheritance, so the house and all the furnishings have to be auctioned off to poay those debts. Robert, the long exiled brother of Mr. Turner, who was killed in a drowning accident some years before, shows up wanting to make amends with his brother.

In the clutches of a ruthless employer who threatens to force her into a life of sin and degradation, she decides to flee west as a mail order bride. But Clarissa's trek to Grant, Nevada, not only carries her to an unknown future, it also brings her face-to-face with the deep wounds of her past. Abandoned orphan siblings, a soul-destroying "sanctuary" of sin, a mysterious mining secret, and a cold-blooded murder, paint a dark backdrop for the light of love, faith, and forgiveness to shine their healing light in this story of redemption and romance.

Falsely tarred as a blundering baby killer by an unscrupulous doctor, Nurse Catherine is left with no other avenue of escape but to run from the city. When she arrives at Fort Peck to meet William Davis, a gentle but manly hunter-come-homesteader, her aching self-doubt threatens to dash her chances of true love. It is only through the midnight pleas of a terrified stranger that Catherine’s true courageous colors blaze through. Catherine not only experiences her own deliverance but becomes a deliverer of new life on the wild frontiers of Fort Peck!

We all experience difficulties, but we don't all flourish in those times. Even if you’re in a desert time, and you feel like a prickly cactus instead of a beautiful bloom, just remember that though a harsh, dry wind may blow into your life once in awhile, even a cactus blooms in the desert. Using metaphoric language and plenty of scripture, this audiobook is meant to sustain the weary soul and encourage us to root down in the truths of the Bible and bloom with faith.

The only distinction between people is how they use their time. Success strategist and author, Dr. Paul Crites pulls back the curtain and reveals the secret weapon of the wise and wealthy. A weapon called time.

This Sumoreads summary and analysis offers supplementary material to The Happiness Project to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not Rubin's book is for you, Sumoreads summary and analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in less than 20 minutes!

Chester and Mary Travis were Christian & Missionary Alliance missionaries to French Indo-China (today known as Vietnam) between 1925-1975. They experienced an abundant measure of Christ's indwelling and overflowing life. One of the aims of this book is to share the unusual experiences and their unshakable faith in their Lord and Savior. If this book does nothing else but generate and stimulate a continuing prayer vigil for those encountering severe trials behind the "Bamboo Curtain," it will have served well. That is all that Chester and Mary might ask of us.

This Sumoreads summary and analysis offers supplementary material to Barking Up the Wrong Tree to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, Sumoreads summary and analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 40 minutes!

Acuff takes the view of a casual observer, weaving into his narrative brief experiences from his life and the lives of other people to drive home his points about the evils of perfectionism in his book, Finish.

Nina Riggs' heartbreakingly beautiful book The Bright Hour recounts the small moments of her long journey with cancer, both watching it take her mother's life and the path from her own diagnosis to her deathbed. This SUMOREADS Summary & Analysis offers chapter synopses and analysis to help you understand the arc of grief, pain, and mortality, while providing a way to find beauty, solace, and even hope in those moments. This SUMOREADS Summary & Analysis offers supplementary material to The Bright Hour to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective.

This Sumoreads summary and analysis offers supplementary material to Man's Search for Meaning to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, Sumoreads is here to help. Victor Frankl's 1955 work Man's Search for Meaning is considered a modern-day classic - and with good reason.

In their book, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyful Life Bill Burnett and Dave Evans offer practical, actionable advice on how to change the way you look at your life, and how to design the life you've always dreamed of. (This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.)

Don't miss this summary of holistic nutritionist Kelly LeVeque's book, Body Love: Live in Balance, Weigh What You Want, and Free Yourself from Food Drama Forever. LeVeque's book proposes an alternative to restrictive dieting that lets you lead a fuller, happier, and healthier life.

Don't miss out on the unforgettable wisdom of Angela Duckworth's New York Times best-selling book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. This Sumoreads summary includes key takeaways and analysis to help you quickly soak up the essence of her deep insight. The purpose of this Sumoreads Summary & Analysis is to help you decide if it's worth the time, money and effort listening to the original book (if you haven't already). This analysis is meant as a supplement to, and not a replacement for, Grit.

Liza Ralston has had more adventure in her life than she ever wanted. Leaving her settled existence with friends and family in St. Louis to travel to the Big Sky country of wild Montana with her father, she soon wishes she could turn the clock back. When their scout is murdered and her father is severely wounded by thieves, the Pikuni tribe, led by Crying Wind, takes them in. But Liza wants nothing more than to return to St. Louis, despite her growing attraction for Red Eagle, the handsome son of a white trapper and Blackfeet mother.