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Raising Confident Children: A Biblical Parenting Guide to Building Strong Identity, Courage, and Resilience

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    Raising Confident Children: A Biblical Parenting Guide to Building Strong Identity, Courage, and Resilience Every parent wants their child to walk confidently into the world. Not loud. Not perfect. Just steady. In a culture filled with pressure, comparison, and constant evaluation, many children are growing up unsure of themselves—even when they appear successful on the outside. Parents feel it too: the quiet tension between protecting their child and preparing them, between guiding and letting go. Raising Confident Children  offers a different path. Grounded in biblical wisdom and supported by modern child-development insight, this compassionate guide shows how confidence is built quietly—through everyday moments of connection, courage, responsibility, failure, and love. Rather than quick fixes or performance-based parenting, this book walks parents through realistic, emotional scenarios they face every day, revealing how small, intentional responses shape a child’s ...

A Heart Full Of Thanks Gratitude Journal

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      A Heart Full Of Thanks Gratitude Journal A Heart Full of Love & Gratitude Journal is a beautifully designed space to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with what truly matters. Sized at a convenient 6 x 9 inches, it’s perfect for daily use—small enough to carry with you, yet spacious enough to capture your thoughts with ease. Inside, you’ll find 130 thoughtfully crafted pages waiting to be filled with moments of appreciation, personal reflections, and heartfelt intentions. Whether you’re beginning or ending your day, this journal invites you to pause and acknowledge the love, joy, and blessings in your life. With a gentle focus on positivity and mindfulness, it encourages you to cultivate gratitude, shift your perspective, and nurture a deeper sense of inner peace. Each page becomes a reminder that even the smallest moments can hold the greatest meaning. Perfect for personal growth, self-care routines, or as a meaningful gift, this journal is more than just pa...

Kader's Quest

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      Kader's Quest Middle school student Kader is on the precipice of the turbulent path to adulthood. Join him on this journey of discovery and healing through dazzling art replete with puzzles, hidden images, symbolism, reflection and silence. Award-winning artist Nadir Balan brings this deeply human story to life with stunning illustrations that invite readers to feel every emotion alongside Kader as he uncovers his past and searches for belonging. Written by psychiatrist Dr. Yener Balan and psychotherapist Duygu Balan, this graphic novel embraces raw vulnerability and authentic experiences, creating a story that feels real, digestible, and powerfully relatable. Kader's Quest  offers behavioral health specialists an invaluable therapeutic tool that resonates with young adults facing similar struggles with family dynamics, anxiety, friendship, bullies, and major life transitions. The carefully crafted narrative allows readers to process their own complex emotions ...

Swipe Left: The Savvy Woman’s Guide to Decoding Men’s Dating Profiles

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    Swipe Left: The Savvy Woman’s Guide to Decoding Men’s Dating Profiles If you’ve ever stared at a dating profile and thought, “Something’s off here… but what?”, this book was written for you. Swipe Left is the witty, no-nonsense dating guide that does what your girlfriends wish they could: call out the red flags hiding in plain sight. Author Nancy Lee Gulbrandsen spent years navigating the wild world of online dating apps, and what started as a poem she wrote on her daily walks turned into nearly 100 male dating archetypes, each one dissected, decoded, and served up with sharp humor and hard-won wisdom. Meet Catch-of-the-Day Carl, Gym Rat Jake, Ghosting Gary, Breadcrumbing Brad, and dozens more characters you’ve definitely encountered (and probably dated). Each archetype is presented in Nancy’s signature style: funny enough to make you laugh out loud, honest enough to make you wince in recognition, and practical enough to actually change how you swipe. This isn’t a boo...

A Medical Doctor Should Never Say That...: Itinerary of an AIDS specialist

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      A Medical Doctor Should Never Say That...: Itinerary of an AIDS specialist 35 million people are still infected by the HIV virus across the globe, despite undeniable scienti c progress. In France, 140,000 people are currently diagnosed HIV-positive, while 30,000 are unknowingly infected. In the words of Dr. Alain Lafeuillade, author of a work intended to shake up our certainties and take a critical look at France's public institutions, "The War Is Not Over". The title of "A Medical Doctor Should Never Say That!" is no coincidence. Dr. Lafeuillade's resolutely irreverent character even earned him an arrest. Faithful to his convictions, he was nicknamed "The Outsider" by Parisian peers astonished at his audacity: a local hospital doctor who organizes international conventions in Toulon, then Marseille and Miami, attended by acclaimed specialists such as Professor Robert Gallo, the co- discoverers of the HIV virus, Bob Siliciano and many other ...

Conversations with Paul

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    Conversations with Paul What happens when a woman who trusts science, logic and reason meets a man whose life was defined by faith? Find out when you read Conversations With Paul. Professor Elizabeth Carpenter is confident, disciplined and firmly grounded in what she can measure and explain. God, in her view, is a question that science should be able to answer, but then she meets Paul—not a metaphor, not a dream, but the Apostle Paul, sent across time for a promise she never expected. Conversations With Paul is a powerful, personal encounter between a modern skeptic and one of history’s most persuasive voices of faith. It’s not a sermon, it’s a dialogue; honest, challenging and quietly transformative. As Beth walks her own modern Damascus Road, she begins to see that faith doesn’t silence reason—it deepens it—and that the answers she finds might be much more than she ever asked for. Click here to get Conversations with Paul on Amazon / Kindle 

Astara is Born: Under the Hollywood Sign…the Quantum Novel

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  Astara is Born: Under the Hollywood Sign…the Quantum Novel Quantum narrative of the 80s indie film/New Age zeitgeist. This is the second volume in the Kundalini Awakening trilogy following “Champagne Tango” (1992) and preceding “Wolf in the Bottle”. There will be a promotion on NetGalley in April. A reluctant Icon tries out her new name Astara Dawn on an irresistible English actor while stuck in a holding pattern on a flight into Los Angeles. Awaiting her on the ground is a Hollywood studio sublet filled with mystical books and a freelance job as a script reader. As she settles into her new home and starts to explore the city, Astara stumbles into the zeitgeist of 1980s New Age Movement and the birth of a dynamic new Hollywood era of the indie film. Astara’s freelance lifestyle is guided by a universal vision—to become the writer, director, producer, and star of her own movie. However, she learns that outer success in achieving this goal is predicated by the inner process of a...