This book is about my life as a young boy, how I viewed life as a teenager who felt no one understood him. Hence, it is mainly about loneliness and depression, and it’s about searching for love and loving someone from a distance. But also, it is about how I found refuge in my faith, which improved my relationship with my God. All in all, this book is a creative way of expressing my feelings and also of dealing with them as a teenage boy, but written in a way that would accommodate multitudes.

Leah's life was in shambles. She had suffered through various financial failures, emotional pain and disappointment, substance abuse, health issues and now she portrayed a bitter demeanor that no one could penetrate. Leah rejected anyone who tried to help until she crossed paths with author Maria Loveless. Although Maria would have preferred to remain in the comfort of her idyllic life, she realized God was calling her to guide Leah out of a world of darkness and despair into His kingdom of light and freedom. God showed Maria that she possessed a judgmental heart and He was going to teach Maria how to truly love the sinner and the lost as God loves. In order to do that, Maria needed to set aside 'self ' and acquire a heart after God's heart. To whom is God calling you to minister today? Are you willing to step out of your comfort zone and into a journey of obedience to save the lost and hurting around you? Follow Maria and Leah's journey of love in Tarnished Treasure and learn how you can minister to the women you meet who need God as Leah did. Walk through Leah's hurt and pain; feel the heaviness of her bondage and comprehend the coldness of her spiritual prison before she experienced freedom in Christ; know there is more to life than the pursuit of a comfortable lifestyle and personal achievement. Leah's life was transformed, but she wasn't the only one. Maria's life was also revolutionized as she learned to embrace a heart as Christ does. She is discovering what true sacrifice and commitment is, while learning to become obedient to God's voice; she is learning what it means to see past a person's sin and just to love as Christ asks us to love.

This is the first translation of this work into English since 1776, and the only English version that is complete and unadulterated. Sophie von LaRoche is credited with being the first German female novelist and author of the first German “woman’s novel.” The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim is the first German Bildungsroman with a female protaganist, the first full-fledged German epistolary novel, and the first German sentimental novel. Its autobiographical aspects, incorporating thinly disguised vignettes of Wieland, Goethe, and other great figures of the day, give the work an unmistakably true-to-life flavor and immediacy.

“A window into the words every woman wants to hear and feel in their hearts after their hope of a healthy normal pregnancy is gone.” —Education for Health Despite advancements in the care of those who are suffering from the loss of a child to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death, many parents, especially mothers, cannot or will not give themselves permission to mourn. Their feelings are real and complex, yet they are often denied a safe place to live through and ultimately befriend the grieving. A Piece of My Heart is such a friend. The moving story of a mother’s loss of her week-old son, it chronicles an amazing journey that began with denial and guilt, found its way through remembrance and reconciliation, and ended in resolution and surprising joy. A beautiful book about the necessity of grieving the loss of unlived lives, it shows readers who are going through similar experiences a shared understanding and wraps them in a warm cloak of support and friendship. Readers will be affirmed in the sacred right of all parents to mourn the loss of their children, however short their lives, and will be shown the path toward eventual healing. “This compassionate work provides an intimate journey into Fumia’s repressed grief over losing her newborn son and her ultimate reconciliation with her own guilt. Moving beyond her own circumstances, she offers direct advice to others who have lost a child to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death . . . Her key message is that all losses and grief deserve respect and should not be minimized regardless of the situation.” —Library Journal

Offers the works of Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828), the late Romantic-era novelist most famous for her affair with Lord Byron. Presenting Lamb's works in a scholarly format, this book situates her literary achievements within the context of her Whig allegiances, her sense of noblesse oblige and her promotion of aristocratic reform.

When eighteenth-century American men described "with a swelling of the heart" their friendships with other men, addressing them as "lovely boy" and "dearly beloved," celebrating the "ardent affection" that knit their hearts in "indissoluble bonds of fraternal love," their families, neighbors, and acquaintances would have been neither surprised nor disturbed. Richard Godbeer's groundbreaking new book examines loving and sentimental friendships among men in the colonial and revolutionary periods. Inspired in part by the eighteenth-century culture of sensibility and in part by religious models, these relationships were not only important to the personal happiness of those involved but also had broader social, religious, and political significance. Godbeer shows that in the aftermath of Independence, patriots drafted a central place for male friendship in their social and political blueprint for the new republic. American revolutionaries stressed the importance of the family in the era of self-government, reimagining it in ways appropriate to a new and democratized era. They thus shifted attention away from patriarchal authority to a more egalitarian model of brotherly collaboration. In striving to explore the inner emotional lives of early Americans, Godbeer succeeds in presenting an entirely fresh perspective on the personal relationships and political structures of the period. Scholars have long recognized the importance of same-sex friendships among women, but this is the first book to examine the broad significance ascribed to loving friendships among men during this formative period of American history. Using an array of personal and public writings, The Overflowing of Friendship will transform our understanding of early American manhood as well as challenge us to reconsider the ways we think about gender in this period.