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Hooked on You (A Maple Falls Romance #1)
by Kathleen FullerShe never wanted to come back. He never wants to leave. The town of Maple Falls has plans for them both.Riley McAllister is living the dream in New York City . . . if the dream means being a struggling mixed-media artist, part-time food delivery driver, and having a carefully curated social media to hide all of the above. She refuses to admit defeat and move back to small-town Maple Falls, but when her grandmother breaks her leg sliding into third base during a softball game (she was safe, by the way), Riley reluctantly agrees to go home and help the woman who raised her—while secretly hoping she can convince Mimi to sell her house and yarn shop and move in with a good friend. Then Riley can return to her new life in NYC, on her own and for good.But Mimi has her own plans, which include setting Riley up with local baseball star Hayden Price, who returned to Maple Falls after an injury ended his major league career. Now he works at his father&’s hardware store, coaches the church softball team, and worries about the declining town. It&’s not the life he dreamed of having.With a little meddling and a lot of kindness from the town, Hayden and Riley find themselves unexpectedly falling for each other as they discover the true meaning of home. Welcome to Maple Falls, where everyone knows your name and your business. &“A sweet, refreshing tale of idyllic small-town life, family, and unexpected romance, Hooked on You is the perfect read to cozy up with on a rainy day.&”—Melissa Ferguson, multi-award-winning author of The Cul-de-Sac War Sweet and delightful small-town rom-comThe first in the Maple Falls romance series.All books will be standalone but will help shape the communityBook length: 78,000 wordsIncludes discussion questions for book clubs
Hooked!: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume
by Stephanie KazaAt one time or another, most of us have experienced an all-consuming desire for a material object, a desire so strong that it seems like we couldn't possibly be happy without buying this thing. Yet, when we give in to this impulse, we often find ourselves feeling frustrated and empty. Advertisers, of course, aim to hook us in this way, and, from a global perspective, our tendency to get hooked fuels the rampant over-consumption that is having a devastating impact on the world's stability and on the environment.According to the contributors to this unique anthology, Buddhism can shed valuable light on our compulsions to consume. Craving and attachment--how they arise and how to free ourselves of them--are central themes of Buddhist thought. The writings in this volume, most of which have never been previously published, offer fresh perspectives and much-needed correctives to our society's tendency to believe that having more will make us happier.Hooked! includes a range of writings on how to apply Buddhist thought and ethics to understand and combat the problem of over-consumption as individuals and collectively. Contributors include popular Western teachers, Asian masters, scholars, and practitioners such as: * Pema Chödrön--on what is actually happening at the moment we're "hooked," and how to get beyond that. * Joseph Goldstein--on how mindfulness training can help us stop "wanting to want." * Bhikshuni Thubten Chödrön--on how consumer mentality influences spiritual practice. * Judith Simmer-Brown--on how cultivating spiritually based activism and compassionate action can help us address the negative effects of consumerism. * Rita Gross--on how understanding moderation can curb overconsumption. * Santikaro Bhikkhu--on practicing generosity in a consumer world.
Hooked: The Pitfalls of Media, Technology and Social Networking
by Gregory L. JantzThe New AddictionWhat you start out controlling can end up controlling you. From Twitter to iPhones, from Facebook to tablets, we have an endless supply of media and gadgets to hook our interest, snag our wallets, and occupy our time. Think back over the last five years. How much of your time was devoted to online activities? How much of your real life has been gobbled up or googled up in your net life? In Hooked, counselor and addiction specialist Dr. Gregory Jantz speaks enthusiastically and frankly about the gizmos and gadgets, social media magnets, and Internet sidetracks we have at our fingertips. With real-life examples and biblical applications, he presents a celebration of the positives technology offers and a cautionary tale about the negatives it unleashes, including: · The power and dangers of the web· The myth of multitasking· Overcoming disconnection anxiety· The psychology behind Internet addiction· Employing the ultimate filter and taking back control of your life
Hooligans, Ultras, Activists: Polish Football Fandom in Sociological Perspective (Football Research in an Enlarged Europe)
by Radosław KossakowskiThis book is the first comprehensive attempt to identify the deeper causes that have shaped contemporary behaviour patterns and motivations among football fans in Poland. Fan culture in Poland has long been based on a distinctively grassroots, spontaneous movements that ruled out any cooperation with local authorities and sports organizations. The activity of supporter groups has regularly failed to meet the principles set by official bodies, intentionally breaching the moral and legal standards of the day. Based on data derived from ethnographic fieldwork, content analysis of fan journals, magazines, social media and online forums, as well as a wide range of qualitative interviews conducted over the years, the book analyses the ways in which fandom culture in Poland has evolved: from its moderate beginnings in the shadows of a communist regime in the 1970’s, through the anomic, ‘uncivilized’ and pathological decade of the 1990’s, to the peculiar culture based on strong cohesion, capabilities of social mobilization and emerging 'resistance identity' in the 21st century. It thus provides a detailed analysis of Polish fandom’s multi-dimensional structure, and will be of interest to students and academics interested in the growing field of football research, as well as those researching the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, or more generally in European Studies.
Hooray for Easter! (Peter Cottontail)
by Linda KarlBased on the classic Peter Cottontail Claymation TV special from 1971! Children ages 0 to 3 will discover Easter surprises with Peter Cottontail in this colorful ebook.
Hooray for Spring! (My Little Pony)
by Louise AlexanderJoin Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and the rest of the ponies as they celebrate the beginning of spring! Includes Read-Aloud/Read-to-Me functionality where available.Book Description:It's time to clear away the clouds, plant flower seeds, and wake up hibernating critters. Illustrated with charming stills from the hit TV show, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! © Hasbro
Hooray! It's Passover!
by Leslie KimmelmanFrom singing holiday songs to playing favorite games, this first introduction celebrates all of the wonderful festivities and traditions of Passover. The loving and lovable family of Hanukkah Lights, Hanukkah Nights comes together once again, this time to celebrate Passover. They sing songs, say prayers, eat special foods, and play a special Passover game. Young readers will delight as the simple text and playful illustrations introduce them to all the traditions of this joyous and important holiday.The loving and lovable family of Hanukkah Lights, Hanukkah Nights comes together once again, this time to celebrate Passover. They sing songs, say prayers, eat special foods, and play a special Passover game. Young readers will delight as the simple text introduces them to all the traditions of this joyous and important holiday.
Hoosier Crossroads: Pursuit of Goals Lead to Romance
by Jennifer JohnsonEnjoy the three romances of the Andrews siblings in Indiana. Each pursues peace: Kylie seeks it in financial security, Chloe believes it is in reaching her athletic goals, and Gideon always thought it would follow by meeting his obligations. When love makes a surprising entry and disrupts the paths they are on, can they each turn their faith to God to lead them to the desires of their hearts?
Hop: The Chapter Book (Hop)
by Annie AuerbachEaster Island is home to the Easter Bunny's magical workshop--where do you think Santa got all his good ideas? Easter bunny Jr., aka E.B., would rather pursue his dream of becoming a rock star than hop along in his father's footsteps. Fred, an unemployed slacker, is trying to figure out what to do with his life when he accidentally injures the soon to be Easter Bunny and decides he's the one to take over the job. When these two collide, E.B. and Fred both discover what it takes to grow up.
Hope (Angels on Assignment)
by Megan L. EnglishHope has some exciting adventures to share with you. Hope always believes that the situation will get better. Hope keeps going, even when the going is hard, or there is no reason to expect anything good. Hope knows that God has lots of wonderful things in store for His children!
Hope Ablaze: A Novel
by Sarah Mughal RanaShe lost her words but found her voice.All My Rage meets The Poet X in this electric debut that explores a Muslim teen finding her voice in a post-9/11 America.Nida has always been known as Mamou Abdul-Hafeedh’s niece - the poet who will fill her uncle’s shoes after he was wrongfully incarcerated during the war on terror. But for Nida, her poetry letters are her heart and sharing so much of herself with a world that stereotypes her faith and her hijab is not an option.When Nida is illegally frisked at a Democratic Senatorial candidate’s political rally, she writes a scathing poem about the politician, never expecting the letter to go viral weeks before Election Day. Nida discovers her poem has won first place in a national contest, a contest she never entered, and her quiet life is toppled. But worst of all, Nida loses her ability to write poetry. In the aftermath of her win, Nida struggles to balance the expectations of her mother, her uncle, and her vibrant Muslim community with the person she truly wants to be. With a touch of magic and poetry sprinkled throughout, Sarah Mughal Rana's Hope Ablaze is heartbreaking, often funny, and ultimately uplifting, not only celebrating the Islamic faith and Pakistani culture, but simultaneously confronting racism and Islamophobia with unflinching bravery.
Hope After Faith: An Ex-Pastor's Journey from Belief to Atheism
by Jerry DewittAtheism's leading lights have long been intellectuals raised in the secular and academic worlds: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens. <P><P> By contrast, Jerry DeWitt was born and bred into the church and was in fact a Pentecostal preacher before arriving at atheism through an extraordinary dialogue with faith that spanned more than a quarter of a century. Hope After Faith is his account of that journey. DeWitt was a pastor in the town of DeRidder, Louisiana, and was a fixture of the community. In private, however, he'd begun to question his faith. Late one night in May 2011, a member of his flock called seeking prayer for her brother who had been in a serious accident. As DeWitt searched for the right words to console her, speech failed him, and he found that the faith which once had formed the cornerstone of his life had finally crumbled to dust. When it became public knowledge that DeWitt was now an atheist, he found himself shunned by much of DeRidder's highly religious community, losing nearly everything he'd known. DeWitt's struggle for identity and meaning mirrors the one currently facing millions of people around the world. With both agnosticism and atheism entering the mainstream-one in five Americans now claim no religious affiliation, according to a recent study-the moment has arrived for a new atheist voice, one that is respectful of faith and religious traditions yet warmly embraces a life free of religion, finding not skepticism and cold doubt but rather profound meaning and hope. Hope After Faith is the story of one man's evolution toward a committed and considered atheism, one driven by humanism, a profound moral dimension, and a happiness and self-confidence obtained through living free of fear.
Hope Again
by Charles R. SwindollFind hope to press on . . .Hope to endure . . .Hope to stay focused . . .Hope to see dreams fulfilled . . .Hope is more than mere wishful thinking. Hope is a vital necessity of life-a gift that God wants to give to you. And in a world that regularly writes dreams off as foolish and drains the hope from the heart with dark pessimism, Hope Again is a voice crying in the wilderness . . . a word of enthusiasm for life in the midst of any difficult situation you are in.Combining the New Testament teachings of Peter and the insights of one of the most popular authors of our day, Hope Again is an encouraging, enlivening, and refreshing look at why we can dare to hope no matter who we are, no matter what we face.As Charles Swindoll says, "If you want to smile through your tears, if you want to rejoice through times of suffering, just keep reminding yourself that what you're going through isn't the end of the story, it's simply the rough journey that leads to the right destination."
Hope Again: When Life Hurts and Dreams Fade
by Charles R. SwindollBACK COVER Find HOPE to press on ... HOPE to endure ... HOPE to stay focussed ... HOPE to see dreams fulfilled Hope is more than wishful thinking. Hope is a vital neccessity of life -- a gift that God wants to give to you. And in a world that regurally writes dreams off as foolish and drains the hope from the heart with dark pessimism. Hope Again is a voice crying in the wilderness -- a word of enthusiasm for life in the midst of any difficult situation you are in. Combining the New Testament teachings of Peter and the insignts of one of the most popular authors of our day, Hope Again is an encouraging, enlivening and refreshing look at why we dare to hope no matter who we are, no matter what we face. As Charles Swindoll says, "If you want to smile through your tears, if you want to rejoice through times of suffering, just keep reminding yourself that what you're going through isn't the end of the story ... it's simply rough journey that heads to the right destination."
Hope Beyond an Empty Cradle: The Journey Toward Healing After Stillbirth, Miscarriage, and Child Loss
by Hallie ScottTens of thousands of women and families every year lose a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death. The statistics are sobering--between 10% and 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, 1% in stillbirth, and nearly 23,000 babies die before their first birthday--but statistics alone miss the depth of the hurt. Each loss is personal and devastating.No woman is prepared to lose a baby, and caregivers are often unaware of how best to help. In Hope Beyond an Empty Cradle therapist Hallie Scott first shares her own story, as a mother whose only child, Abigail, was stillborn, and then leads readers through a healing process that makes space for heartbreak, despair, guilt, questions, and anger. Life is never the same in the wake of the loss, but a new normal is possible.The book will be a welcome resource for families who have lost a child, as well as for those seeking to care for them in their traumatic grief.
Hope Crossing
by Cindy WoodsmallHope Crossing...where Ada's House stands as a haven for weary souls looking for kindness, faith, and second chances. The Hope of RefugeTwo very different women are pulled by their strongest desires. Deborah Mast joined the Amish church and longs to marry her fiancé, but he is changing. Cara Moore is forced to look into a life that was meant to be hers. Will Ada's House help them realize their hearts' desires or will it force them to accept what life has done to each of them? The Bridge of PeaceLiving out her passion for teaching, Lena Kauffman's work is suddenly interrupted by a series of pranks and accidents targeted toward her and her students. When tragedy strikes her dear friend Grey Graber's family on school property, the school board begins to blame her for the trouble. As grief and confusion take their toll on Grey and Lena's friendship, they are both forced to face a new reality that may offer the peace and love they each long for. The Harvest of GraceFleeing a terrible mistake, Sylvia Fisher dedicates herself to saving the failing Blank farm. When prodigal son Aaron returns, he is surprised by this unusual farmhand who opposes all his plans. Will Aaron and Sylvia's unflinching efforts toward opposite futures mask the bigger picture--a path to forgiveness, grace, and the promise of love? This three-in-one collection includes the entirety of the best-selling Ada's House trilogy, now at a new low price!
Hope Deferred: An Amish Romance
by Linda BylerWill Daniel and Anna be able to reconcile their faith struggles and their love for each other? Beloved Amish novelist Linda Byler once again writes a compelling and surprising love story, showing that even the Plain People struggle with complex feelings, questions, and relationships. David Stolzfus and Anna Fisher have been best friends as long as they can remember. Sure, it was a bit unusual in the Amish community for a boy and a girl to be so close, but nobody questions it with David and Anna—it has just always been that way. They live on neighboring farms in Lancaster County, they walk to school together (with all their siblings) every day, and when David learns to drive a pony, Anna is the first one to ride with him. Their lives are intertwined, the way the borders of their properties are joined by the Pequea Creek. As they approach their teen years, David and Anna's friendship turns quickly to deep love and attraction. But David is headstrong and full of an insatiable hunger for knowledge and new experiences. When Anna's conservative parents require that he join the church before the two can begin dating, he rebels, eventually taking off to Australia for the adventure of a lifetime, leaving Anna to sort through her feelings alone. When Anna receives a letter from Leon Beiler, a young man she can't deny she has feelings for, everything changes again. How can she reconcile a lifetime of love for David with this new potential romance? And what will happen when David returns home?
Hope Delivered: Affecting Destiny Through the Power of God's Word
by Rob HoskinsDemonstrating the love of God…one child at a time Without help many children, families, communities, and nations in our world are destined for despair, pain, and destruction. But the most important thing we can give them is not food, medicine, education, or any other material resource. It is hope. Rob Hoskins has shared God’s good news with more than 850 million children and youth through his nonprofit, OneHope. In Hope Delivered he tells the miraculous stories of people, families, and communities whose lives have been transformed. When God’s Word is discovered, engaged, and lived out, especially by children who hold the future in their hands and have a God-given disposition toward hope it changes destinies. All royalties from the sale of this book will go to the ministry of OneHope.
Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress
by Joseph R. WintersIn Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the enduring belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress. Such notions--like those that suggested the passage into a postracial era following Barack Obama's election--gloss over the history of racial violence and oppression to create an imaginary and self-congratulatory world where painful memories are conveniently forgotten. In place of these narratives, Winters advocates for an idea of hope that is predicated on a continuous engagement with loss and melancholy. Signaling a heightened sensitivity to the suffering of others, melancholy disconcerts us and allows us to cut against dominant narratives and identities. Winters identifies a black literary and aesthetic tradition in the work of intellectuals, writers, and artists such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Charles Burnett that often underscores melancholy, remembrance, loss, and tragedy in ways that gesture toward such a conception of hope. Winters also draws on Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno to highlight how remembering and mourning the uncomfortable dimensions of American social life can provide alternate sources for hope and imagination that might lead to building a better world.
Hope Endures
by Colette LivermoreThe searing memoir of an extraordinary woman who served as a nun for eleven years in Mother Teresa's order, Hope Endures is a compelling chronicle of idealistic determination, rigid discipline, and shattering disillusionment. InÊher life's journey from certainty to doubt, Colette Livermore enters the Missionaries of Charity order in 1973 with unwavering faith and total surrender ofÊher will and intellect after seeing a documentary on the order's work in India. Only eighteen at the time, Livermore has been studying to enter medical school -- a lifelong goal -- but virtually overnight severs her many ties with family, friends, and the life she's known in beautiful, rural New South Wales in order to train as a sister to aid the poor. In the process, she also gives herself over to the order's unexpectedly severe, ascetic regime, which demands blind obedience and submission. Given the religious name Sister Tobit, Livermore serves in some of the poorest places in the world -- the garbage dump slums of Manila, Papua New Guinea, and Calcutta -- bringing hope and care to people who are desperately ill, hungry, abandoned, and even dying, and comforting whomever she can. Although she draws inspiration and strength from her humanitarian work, Livermore and other nuns risk their own physical health, as they are sent to dangerous areas while being unschooled in the languages and cultures, untrained in medical care, and sometimes unprotected by vaccines. Livermore herself succumbs to bouts of drug-resistant cerebral malaria that almost kill her and to a new strain of hepatitis. Over time she also beginsÊto notice that the order's rigid insistence on unquestioning obedience harms the young sisters mentally, emotionally, and spiritually -- and she experiences a terrible inner struggle to find the right path for herself. As she tries to respond to the suffering around her, she often falls into an incomprehensible conflict between her vow to obey and her vow to serve, between religious strictures and the practice of compassion, between authority and personal conscience. Pressured to stay with the order by Mother Teresa and other superiors, as well as by the younger nuns, Livermore nonetheless decides to leave at age thirty and attain her medical degree, continuing to take health care and relief to impoverished people in remote areas -- the isolated aboriginal communities of the Outback and war-torn East Timor. Even as she serves others as a medical doctor, she continues in a crisis of faith thatÊeventually leads her to become an agnostic. Hope Endures is the eye-opening, deeply affecting story of a brave woman's search for meaning in a world that is rent with tragedies and contradictions. It is also an unflinching critique of any faith that insists on blind obedience. For true hope to endure, Dr. Livermore demonstrates, we must always strive to question, to face the hard truths, and to discover the courage to follow our convictions.
Hope For Healing Church Wounds
by Michael GrayStatistics from George Barna Research Group reveal that twenty-five to thirty million adults stay away from the Christian church because of hurtful treatment experienced at the hands of the body of Christ. Having gone through several church hurts himself, the author has written this book to be a practice guide on how to be restored, renewed and healed from church inflicted wounds so that one’s relationship to God is joyous and fruitful.From his own experience and documented research through surveys to pastor’s, church members and non-church goers, the author provides a training manual that churches and church leaders can use to reach and restore church members to a healthy relationship with God and His church. We all want the church to be a place where we can go to worship God with freedom and joy. We all want to be encouraged to grow in our faith and walk with Christ. We all want a place where we find joy in serving others, a place of safety and unconditional love. No one wants to be part of a church that acts like the world, treating people with judgment, condemnation, lack of ompassion and love. Church wounds happen but God is a restorer of the broken hearted. God is the great healer of our pain and disappointment. The author believes that if one takes the steps outlined in the book, there will be renewal and restoration. If churches reach out to those who have been wounded in the way outlined in this book, many will come back into fellowship with the Lord and His church.
Hope For Today
by Al-Anon Family GroupsHope for Today is a collection of daily thoughts and meditations based on the sharings of Al-Anon members who grew up with the family disease of alcoholism. Al-Anon provides encouragement for families and friends of alcoholics. Members of Al-Anon who contributed to this book share their experience, strength, and hope on various aspects of their journey through recovery. Some topics include: the Twelve Steps and Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, serenity, spirituality, changed attitudes, self-love and acceptance, Al-anon fellowship, service, and other subjects involving recovery from the family disease of alcoholism.
Hope For a Hurting Heart
by Cheryl KarpenBless the heart that's filled with sorrow with these uplifting expressions of compassion and encouragement.When life throws a curveball and leads you into a state of grief, nothing helps more than being surrounded by loving acts and words of comfort. Cheryl Karpen knows this firsthand and shares from her heart how caring family and friends changed her life and helped her through a difficult time of loss. In Hope for a Hurting Heart, she tenderly imparts precious touchstones of wisdom and ways that helped her--and can help you--to keep the light of life and hope glowing on your journey back to wholeness and healing.
Hope Girl
by Wendy DunhamWith the discovery of her birth father, 12-year-old River has definite thoughts about how her life should turn out--and that certainly does not include any of the challenges that keep popping up! It's not easy to decide if she should live with Gram, who has been her family for the past ten years, or with her father, who she's over-the-moon to have just met but knows little about. When River gets diagnosed with scoliosis, she fears it will impact her hopes and dreams. River decides to ask God for help. When River makes a new friend, Carlos, she realizes that having scoliosis isn't so bad when she learns what Carlos deals with every day. As this tender-sweet story unfolds, River learns to persevere and stay hopeful that soon she will be part of a real family. Yes, her dream does come true...but not in the way she had planned!
Hope Heals: A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love
by Joni Eareckson Tada Jay Wolf Katherine WolfWhen all seems lost, where can hope be found?Katherine and Jay married right after college and sought adventure far from home in Los Angeles, CA. As they pursued their dreams, they planted their lives in the city and in their church community. Their son, James, came along unexpectedly in the fall of 2007, and just 6 months later, everything changed in a moment for this young family.On April 21, 2008, as James slept in the other room, Katherine collapsed, suffering a massive brain stem stroke without warning. Miraculously, Jay came home in time and called for help. Katherine was immediately rushed into micro-brain surgery, though her chance of survival was slim. As the sun rose the next morning, the surgeon proclaimed that Katherine had survived the removal of part of her brain, though her future recovery was completely uncertain. Yet in that moment, there was a spark of hope. Through 40 days on life support in the ICU and nearly 2 years in full-time brain rehab, that spark of hope was fanned into flame.Defying every prognosis, with grit and grace, Katherine and Jay, side by side, struggled to regain a life for Katherine as she re-learned to talk and eat and walk. Returning home with a severely disabled body but a completely renewed purpose, they committed to celebrate this gift of a second chanceby embracing life fully, even though that life looked very different than they could have ever imagined. In the midst of continuing hardships and struggles, both in body and mind, Katherine and Jay found what we all long to find...hope, hope that heals the most broken place, our souls.An excruciating yet beautiful road to recovery has led the Wolf family to their new normal, in which almost every moment of life is marked with the scars of that fateful April day in 2008. Now, eight years later, Katherine and Jay are stewarding their story of suffering, restoration, and Christ-centered hope in this broken world through their ministry Hope Heals.