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Ashlee Kirschner

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Born

Canada

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Nonfiction, Biography, Christian

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CS Lewis, Kate Morton, Karen Hancock, Brennan Manning

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March 2019

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ashlee kirschner is writer and author of "Longevity: Creating and Sustaining a Lifelong Faith" and weekly blogger on ashleekirschner.com.

From years of insatiable reading and study, her writing is honest, varied, engaging and captivating. She earned a Bachelor of Religious Education from Peace River Bible Institute in 2009 and a Certificate of Horticulture from Thompson Rivers University in 2012. She has done cross-cultural work in India, lived among Punjabis in the Okanagan Valley and WWOOFed in Hana, Hawaii.

She and her husband, Josh, live in northern B.C. and keep busy running their woodworking and landscaping companies while raising four wild children. In between work and kid time, you’ll find her writing, gardening or reading until the ...more

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	Longevity Creating and Sustaining a Lifelong Faith 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Backyard Food Security for the Common Person - The Ignored Resource by Ashlee Kirschner (Goodreads Author), Josh Kirschner, Jamie Giesbrecht it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Backyard Food Security for the Common Person: The Ignored Resource by Ashlee Kirschner (Goodreads Author), Joshua Kirschner, Jamie Giesbrecht it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Death has changed. He went from far future to staring me in the face – from distant relative to common bedfellow. My sweet friend left and I’ve been wading in mysteries and ideas too deep. God went from a sweet gentleman intent on loving me to a ferocious, wild being I didn’t understand. A God who spoke and waves rose and mountains formed. A God who stood behind storms that terrified me. And I kep Read more of this blog post »

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The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)

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Ashlee Kirschner said: " I LOVED and hated this book. Living in the north, it gave me so much pride and feelings of gratitude for where I lived (which did not exist beforehand). I loved how Kristin painted the north as a place of fiercely determined, independent and capable ...more "

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The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

by Philippe Sands

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The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline

by Dale E. Bredesen

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