Inspiring Voices: 427 books

NO TIME FOR POVERTY was written by Lila Wesley and JoAnn Lambert about her familys life. Lila was raised three miles from Vincennes, Indiana. Their life story will inspire you to trust God for your everyday needs. This book relates the familys hard times during the Depression. With Lilas mothers faith and love, the family survived.

Growing up in Upstate New York during the 1940s and 1950s was idyllic in many ways, with wintertime sledding and summer days spent on the shores of Lake Ontario. But even though she was involved in school activities and had friends, Diane harbored a painful secret: her father was an alcoholic. Often...

Concord Sage Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson? What made him famousa celebrity in his own town, country, and beyond? And why is Emerson still quoted today? An average student and shy young man, Emerson found his calling at the age of thirty. His gifts for writing and lecturing drew New Englands...

Sunrays, Moonbeams, and Sandstorms is a collection of poetry and short stories to engage the imagination with unique perspectives and original creativity. Award-winning poems such as The Wind, The Landing, and His Masterpiece contain qualities found most in exceptional poetry.

Many of the great one-liner thoughts of the past have gone unexplained or even unread. Contained in this volume are some of those thoughts and aphorisms, accompanied by a brief explanation of what each one means. How appropriate that early authors of aphorisms were called wisdom writers. John...

Author Barbara Yuen OConnors grandfather left the China mainland in 1877 when he was twenty years old. It was the beginning of an amazing journey that took him to San Francisco just a few years before the Chinese Exclusion Act. He ultimately went to Hawaii to work on the sugar plantations, and it...

This book was inspired by ten years of work in Acute Care Hospitals, mostly in the ICU and the ER. These poems were inspired by actual events in my life. They are my interpretation of these experiences and their aftermath. My hope is to inspire other nurses, patients, and families through these words.

For author Janice Tray, nursing has been her passion since age six. Although the job is very demanding mentally, emotionally, and especially physically, she loved it. In True Stories of an Intensive Care Nurse, she shares some of the stories gathered from her twenty-six years of nursing experience,...

Jan Blackburn grew up watching Harriet Nelson, June Cleaver, and Marion Cunningham. These women, who joyfully cleaned their houses in pantyhose and heels, embodied the characteristics of the wife and mother Jan believed she would become one day. Unfortunately, somewhere along the line, Jan thinks...

Things Only a Nurse Like Me Will Tell You offers an honest view of the Health-Care System today from the perspective of Cindy Altman, a highly skilled and respected Registered Nurse. Altman has been an RN for over thirty years working both in Critical Care and in Long-Term Care at a Nursing Home....

From Despair to Hope and Healing presents a collection of poetry written over two decades by author Barbara Mezera. It chronicles the journey of a woman struggling to keep her depression under control and searching for meaning in her job, her career, her family, and her relationships. Although...

Like oysters, women often encounter unexpected grit during their everyday lives. In response, Gods love and grace covers this grit and transforms the pain into a precious pearl that leaves a layered, luminous lining within a shell: Mother of Pearl. This brilliant luster is strong, lasting, and purposefuljust...

One day, my husband called me and said two words, lung cancer. At that moment life changed for my family, and I was in Safeway buying milk. So began Carrie Lyons most difficult year the death of her father, father in law, and grandmother. She takes us on a life altering journey as she experiences...

Are your negative experiences hitching a ride on your shoulders and affecting every area of your life? What would your life look like if you no longer carried your burdens and gave up personal control of your future? In Circling Hope, author Jena Boles shares the story of her early destructive lifehow...