Nancy: 4645 books
by Nancy Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
This is a memoir by anthropologist Nancy Sullivan about working and living in Papua New Guinea for 24 years, where she is also married and raising children. Prompted by personal memories, the essays are episodic but also invoke some basic anthropological theory in a way that makes it accessible and...
Breaking the Rule of Cool
Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2004
The Beat movement nurtured many female dissidents and artists who contributed to Beat culture and connected the Beats with the second wave of the women's movement. Although they have often been eclipsed by the men of the Beat Generation, the women's contributions to Beat literature are considerable....
Falling for Eli
How I Lost Heart, Then Gained Hope Through the Love of a Singular Horse
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Nancy Shulins had a great career, a loving husband, and was looking forward to having a family. Cheering as her friends got pregnant and dutifully bringing gaily wrapped gifts to every baby shower, she suffered bout after bout of unsuccessful infertility treatment. Devastated, she slowly heals through...
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How I Lost More than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
A moving, funny, tongue-in-cheek memoir about a woman who lost and found herself online.
Nancy Makin weighed an astounding 703 pounds in May 2000. She was forty-five and suffered from obesity-related maladies. Due to shame and logistics, she was homebound for a dozen years.
But all that...
Know Your Power
A Message to America's Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
“Never losing faith, we worked to redeem the promise of America, that all men and women are created equal. For our daughters and our granddaughters today we have broken the marble ceiling. For our daughters and our granddaughters now the sky is the limit.” —Nancy Pelosi, after being sworn in...
American Girls
Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller
Instagram. Whisper. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s...
by Nancy L. Bieber
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Stay spiritually grounded and open to divine wisdom as you shape your life.To make wise decisions, we need the aid of that wise and loving Spirit whose wisdom and light exceed our own. With the Spirit illuminating the complexities of our decisions, we can see and understand more about ourselves and our...
by Dr. Nancy Copeland-Payton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Find hope and renewal in lifes natural cycle of ordinary losses and new beginnings.When we intentionally enter into our everyday walk through small losses, the terrain of larger losses, the valley of the shadow of death, is not totally unknown. It is not completely unfamiliar, alien, terrifying, for...
by Nancy Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
We want to say or do something that helps our grieving friend. But what?
When someone we know is grieving, we want to help. But sometimes we stay away or stay silent, afraid that we will do or say the wrong thing, that we will hurt instead of help.
In this straightforward and practical...
by Nancy Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
In this paradigm-shifting book, Nancy Guthrie gently invites readers to lean in along with her to hear Jesus speak understanding and insight into the lingering questions we all have about the hurts of life: What was God’s involvement in this, and why did he let it happen? Why hasn’t God answered...
Love Thy Body
Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Why the call to *Love Thy Body? *To counter a pervasive hostility toward the body and biology that drives today's headline stories:
Transgenderism: Activists detach gender from biology. Kids down to kindergarten are being taught their bodies are irrelevant. Is this affirming--or does it demean...
by Nancy Werlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
New girl Steffie is lucky. She's friends with some of the nicest girls in seventh grade. The only problem is that every Monday afternoon, they have to report in to Olivia, the girl in charge of their little group of five. And they have to say WHO THEY LIKE.Nancy Werlin is the author of...
When a Prodigal Breaks Your Heart
... the Search for Understanding and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
By 1993, God had blessed Nancy Ferrin with six precious children. One was taken home to heaven soon after birth, but the others were her treasures here on earth. The early years were uneventful and filled with activities, family fun, and spiritual training. However, the teen years led one son on an...
Praise, My Soul
Meditating on Hymns
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Nancy Roth says, "Exploring the church's rich tradition of hymnody has been an important part of my life over the last few years. I have found myself drawn in an extraordinary way into the stories of the poets, saints, martyrs, and quite ordinary people who wrote our hymn texts. The words of...