Wish List
A little bit of everything
List created by Melinda G. (melindaglover04) on Sep 30, 2014
List Votes: 1 Books: 30 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 1 List Type: Open
List created by Melinda G. (melindaglover04) on Sep 30, 2014
List Votes: 1 Books: 30 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 1 List Type: Open
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Almost Amish: One Woman's Quest for a Slower, Simpler, More Sustainable Life by Nancy...
Have you ever stopped to think, Maybe the Amish are on to something? Look around. We tweet while we drive, we talk while we text, and we surf the Internet until we fall asleep. We are essentially plugged in and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Rather than mastering technology, we... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
A Survival Guide for Life: How to Achieve Your Goals, Thrive in Adversity, and Grow i...
From the world-famous survival expert,learn how to make everyday an unforgettable adventure Life in the outdoors teaches us invaluable lessons. Encountering the wild forces us to plan and execute goals, face danger, push our "limits," and sharpen our instincts. But our most important adventures... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
The Atonement Child (Walker Large Print Books) by Francine Rivers
A beautiful repackaged edition of Francine Rivers's classic novel that breaks through the many taboos surrounding abortion. In one terrifying moment, Dynah Carey's perfect life is shattered by rape, her future irrevocably altered by an unwanted pregnancy, and her doting family torn apart. Her... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Breaker's Reef (Cape Refuge, Bk 4) by Terri Blackstock
Murder and mystery continue in Book Four of the Cape Refuge series. A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Caruso, ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover House is working for the writer when she discovers that a... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Henry Lee is a 12-year-old Chinese boy who falls in love with Keiko Okabe, a 12-year-old Japanese girl, while they are scholarship students at a prestigious private school in World War II Seattle. Henry hides the relationship from his parents, who would disown him if they knew he had a Japanese... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
I Never Held You : A book about miscarriage, healing, and recovery by Ellen M. DuBois
Finally a book that speaks to the heart of women who have miscarried! If you've miscarried, you don't need medical jargon-you need someone who understands what you're going through and doesn't dismiss it. In this groundbreaking book, author Ellen DuBois tells of her painful experiences after... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Miscarriage : Women Sharing from the Heart by Marie Allen & Shelly Marks
Compassion and support from 100 women "Women who miscarry must not and need not be left in emotional isolation. I am pleased that this timely and sensitive reflection on miscarriage is now available to grieving women and to those who are involved in their lives." from the Foreword by... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Silent Grief: Miscarriage-Finding Your Way Through the Darkness by Clara Hinton
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn't know her mother?
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah
Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Once in Every Life by Kristin Hannah
Tess Gregory's brilliant career as a research scientist hides her longings for husband and child. Though deaf, she is a free spirit -- a woman full of life and love. She is struck down all too soon.But for Tess, a new life begins at her death, in post-Civil War America. She is now Amarylis... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah
New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah "touches the deepest, most tender corner of our hearts" (Tami Hoag). Her last novel, Between Sisters, was chosen by CBS's The Early Show as one of the best books of the summer. Now she returns with The Things We Do for Love--a... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Angel Falls by Kristin Hannah
The story of an ordinary man facing an incredible dilemma: to save his wife's life, he must risk losing her forever.
Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother of two, lies in a coma. It is now up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together, to care for their grieving,... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah
Annie Colewater's life fell apart the day her eighteen-year-old daughter left home and her husband of twenty years abandoned her for a younger woman. Shattered, she returns home to the small Washington town of Mystic, seeking solace to the haunting emptiness of her own soul. Here, a broken woman... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Safe Haven (Hideaway, Bk 2) by Hannah Alexander
Hideaway: The Ozark Mountains hide dangerous secrets....
A TEENAGE FUGITIVE -- Youthful master of disguise Fawn Morrison comes to charming Hideaway, Missouri, seeking refuge. Now that her dangerous game has turned deadly, she must entrust her safety to strangers.
A DOUBTING... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
The Long-Awaited Child by Tracie Peterson
"A child of my Own. Flesh of my flesh..." That is the deep yearning that fills Tess's heart. Despite years spend under a doctor's care and advances in medical technology, she and her husband have discovered their options have been exhausted, leaving them with arms empty,... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Men and Dogs by Katie Crouch
When Hannah Legare was 11, her father went on a fishing trip in the Charleston harbor and never came back. And while most of the town and her family accepted Buzz's disappearance, Hannah remained steadfastly convinced of his imminent return.
Twenty years later Hannah's new life in... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Lily's Ghost by Cheryl Drake Harris
As a doctor in Vietnam, Lily survived unimaginable terror and loss. Now, safely ensconced in a close-knit Maine town and a seemingly comfortable marriage, she no longer needs to be afraid, but she is: afraid of light, afraid of sudden sounds, afraid of seeing the wide-eyed child of war who... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Firefly Cloak by Sheri Reynolds
When eight-year-old Tessa Lee and her brother, Travis, are abandoned in a campground by their desperate mother and her boyfriend of the moment, they are left with only two things: a phone number written in Magic Marker on Travis?s back and their mother?s favorite housecoat, which she leaves... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult
Sometimes finding your own voice is a matter of listening to the heart . . . Jodi Picoult's powerful novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment...
For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult earned rave notices for her debut novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale. Now this gifted young writer turns her considerable literary talents to the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. Written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and after multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, it looks like her dream is about to come true -- she is seven months pregnant. But a terrible turn of events leads to a nightmare -- one that takes away the baby she has already fallen... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
Things break all the time.
Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
Promises break.
Hearts break.
Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
The Comfort of Lies by Randy Susan Meyers
Five years ago Tia fell into obsessive love. The only problem -- Nathan was married and the father of two boys. When she became pregnant, he disappeared, and she gave up her baby for adoption. Now, she's trying to connect with her lost daughter and former lover.
Five years ago, Caroline,... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Home Front by Kristin Hannah
In her bestselling novels Kristin Hannah has plumbed the depths of friendship, the loyalty of sisters, and the secrets mothers keep. Now, in her most emotionally powerful story yet, she explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
My Heart Remembers by Kim Vogel Sawyer
In 1886 New York City, the tenement fire killed Ma and Da Gallagher, leaving their three offspring orphaned. The oldest eight year old Maelle has no time for grief as she watches adults split the trio into different families. She gives the new parents of baby Molly the family bible and she gives... more
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
Infertility Companion, The : Hope and Help for Couples Facing Infertility (Christian ...
A Christian guide to the medical, ethical, emotional, marital, spiritual, and biblical challenges of infertility. Includes chapter questions and a workbook section with exercises ideal for individual or small-group use.
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Melinda G. (melindaglover04) |
The Ache for a Child: Emotional, Spiritual and Ethical Insights for Women Suffering ...
To anyone living with the daily ache of infertility, Debra Bridwell offers encouragement and biblical direction. Bridwell writes candidly of her struggle to have children, the cycle of hope and grief, and the sorrow of pregnancy loss. The Ache for a Child also offers insights for those who ache... more
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