Gracie came out of the womb giggling. Well, she might as well have. She was born happy, optimistic, and always giggling so much so that her nickname was Giggles. Her joy was infectious, and she made it her mission to put a smile on everyone's face. As a kid, whenever she saw someone sad, she would dance, sing, do somersaults, jump up and down, and be silly, anything it took to get a smile. Gracie and her older brother thought they had the most cool parents that they loved so much. Her happy place was being with her family and pretending they lived in one of her favorite fairy tales. As a happy innocent child that focused on making people smile, naturally she would not notice adult issues that were going on behind the scenes. Suddenly, while she wasn't looking, her whole world unraveled and fell apart overnight. "Abandoned but Not Alone" tells the true story about a little girl that lost her pure innocent joy when she was suddenly abandoned by someone she loved and idolized crumbling her perfect family dream. Discover how the error of shouldering the blame for this incident as a child shaped her life and all of her relationships. Gracie would spend the next fifty years fighting the uphill battles of trusting others with her heart, loving others, letting them love her, and trying to control relationships in her life. Enjoy traveling through her story and seeing how she found hope, healing, and happiness along the way and how she finally learned the meaning of true love. Her prayer is that her story will encourage and inspire you to find healing, hope, and happiness in your experience with abandonment.

Gracie came out of the womb giggling. Well, she might as well have. She was born happy, optimistic, and always giggling so much so that her nickname was Giggles. Her joy was infectious, and she made it her mission to put a smile on everyone's face. As a kid, whenever she saw someone sad, she would dance, sing, do somersaults, jump up and down, and be silly, anything it took to get a smile. Gracie and her older brother thought they had the most cool parents that they loved so much. Her happy place was being with her family and pretending they lived in one of her favorite fairy tales. As a happy innocent child that focused on making people smile, naturally she would not notice adult issues that were going on behind the scenes. Suddenly, while she wasn't looking, her whole world unraveled and fell apart overnight. "Abandoned but Not Alone" tells the true story about a little girl that lost her pure innocent joy when she was suddenly abandoned by someone she loved and idolized crumbling her perfect family dream. Discover how the error of shouldering the blame for this incident as a child shaped her life and all of her relationships. Gracie would spend the next fifty years fighting the uphill battles of trusting others with her heart, loving others, letting them love her, and trying to control relationships in her life. Enjoy traveling through her story and seeing how she found hope, healing, and happiness along the way and how she finally learned the meaning of true love. Her prayer is that her story will encourage and inspire you to find healing, hope, and happiness in your experience with abandonment.

A profile of the late performing artist by his brother traces their shared childhoods, Michael's meteoric rise to fame, the scandals that overshadowed his career, and the private dynamics behind his public persona and tragic early death.

This unique and vital book focuses on a topic many people struggle with but most don't speak about: anxiety disorder. The author, who suffered from anxiety disorder herself, shares her own insight, as well as professional advice and--most importantly--the Torah's perspective on coping with anxiety and other stress disorders. Beautifully written, captivating, and reassuring, this book's positive, upbeat attitude will work wonders for you or for someone else you know who suffers from this common challenge. For the first time, you are not alone.

This writer does it all. Her new wine Drunk Poet is in the making, exotic flavors to pick from inspired by her books. This writer's new perfume line can be purchased at kimmymakescents.com. This new novel, All the Fireflies in France is a one of a kind love-story reader's are going to love written by what they are calling the people's Paperdoll. Heather continues splashing ink onto blank pages collecting the hearts of readers world wide. Her next book is already in the making titled, The Leonardo da Vinci Romance Story. Miss Ramirez is also a song writer in the process of entering the U.K. song writing contest. A quote from this writer known as the peoples Paperdoll. "I was born to write, this is my purpose. To live is to write, not to live is not to write. I shall die just as I have lived, as a poetic princess, a queen in the writer's world, as a lyrical writing goddess. I am the people's Paper-doll a title I had to earn. I used to be an unknown writer living as a starving artist, with a hunger to create. I had to keep writing until they read me out. I love my reader's and supporters, I write for them for meant to be reasons, because I am their Paper-doll."

A philosophical exploration of the meaning and significance of friendship.This book explains the persistence of friendship today in the light of the history of philosophical approaches to the subject. It considers ideals of intimacy and fusion in the context of claims that such ideals are unrealistic and even dangerous. Cicero's scepticism about friendship in the public realm is compared with the Aristotelian view of friendship as a genuine political bond, and with Derrida's development of that view via an exploration of Aristotle's alleged and provocative announcement 'O my friends, there is no friend'. Tensions between love and respect, identity and difference, a focus on the self and a focus on the other are closely examined.From Aristotle to contemporary theorists, the book explores the conditions that enable the development of self-understanding in friendship, the delicate and unstable pairing of concepts like inclination and duty and distinctions between self-love, self esteem and self-concern in relations between friends.Key Features* Recognition of the variety of the term 'friend' in the history of philosophy* The treatment of the tension between identity and difference in relations between friends* Discussion of the contribution of friendship to self-understanding.

Are you struggling today? Do you look back and long for what used to be, or are you looking ahead and have no idea what's coming? Are you stuck in the middle of a mess because life has not turned out as you expected? When you run to God for answers, do you often feel like you aren't getting them--or at least aren't getting the answers you want? Are you holding on . . . but not sure how much longer you can? In times of not knowing, Sheila Walsh offers a lifeline of hope. With great compassion born of experience and hardship, Walsh comes alongside the hurting, fearful, and exhausted to remind us that we serve a God who is so much greater than our momentary troubles, no matter how insurmountable they feel. She doesn't offer a quick fix. She offers a God fix. Sharing from her own painful struggles and digging deep into biblical stories of rescue, hope, and miracles, she gives you the strength to keep going, to keep holding on to God in a world turned upside down. The accompanying study includes 10 lessons to help individuals or groups dive deeper.