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Joy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Joy Neal Kidney’s Followers (61)
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Joy Neal Kidney
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in Dexter, Iowa, The United States
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More books by Joy Neal Kidney…
Hank the Rescue Dog, books by Susan R. Lawrence
A new book has joined the Hank the Rescue Dog series. This time It’s the Cat’s Fault, but we’ll introduce Hank and his human first.
It’s the Dog’s Fault
From Amazon: A boy with ADHD. An unwanted shelter dog. And a very busy family. A combination that spells disaster. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, the entire family learns valuable lessons about the Fruit of the Spirit, particul
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Amanda in Malta: The Sleeping Lady (An Amanda Travels Adventure)
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| Amanda Ross, a girl in Canada, gets a mysterious note from her BFF Leah Anderson from Malta where she is with her aunt. Amanda has a chance to visit there with a friend and his parents, but it turns into a scary mystery, with a missing ancient artifa ...more | |
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| Step into a dream, wake up elsewhere. That ability caused the FBI to contact Zach about helping them take down bad guys. But just who are the bad guys? A little knowledge of computers will help you keep up with the action, with gritty language, bars, ...more | |
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| Zach Amstead, as an adult, tells his growing-up stories to his adult daughter, who regularly makes comments or asks questions. Zach's best friend Billy is considered by most to be retarded, but his life was a "series of paradoxes," and it was easier ...more | |
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Amanda in Holland: Missing in Action (An Amanda Travels Adventure)
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| Amanda from Canada meets her friend Leah from England in Amsterdam, where Leah's father is conducting business. So the girls take tours (a canal tour boat, a working windmill, the Ann Frank House), meet interesting people, and learn about the Canada ...more | |
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| Told from Hank the Rescue Dog's point of view, and even that of the stray cat that moves in. Mayhem ensues, complicating the life of Kaden who's learning to live with ADHD and now a Down Syndrome boy on his basketball team who will cause them to lose ...more | |
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“I believe that ugly childhoods make pretty people.”
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“I’ll be honest with you. The variables that construct my existence are confusing. Like handwritten math equations jammed together on a sloppy page of homework. They don’t make any sense. One math problem leads to another, and then another and so it goes.
One day you realize that your life is one whole page of problems and nothing ever gets solved. One ongoing equation with no equal sign at the end. But it occurred to me, beneath the canopy of a starlight heaven, that I’d been looking at my life all wrong. It wasn’t a math equation. Things weren’t supposed to add up. There was no solution. In fact, there was no problem. Life’s variables and numbers and pages of chicken scratch weren’t mathematical marks. They were art. A drawing. An abstract painting. It was meant to be beautiful, not sensical. And embedded within the mess of it all were miracles. Small ones. I’d never paid attention to them because I was too busy, but it didn’t make them less real.” Sean Dietrich |
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| "A good story can do a lot for a lonely child." Sean Deitrick should know. After his father shot himself, Sean went from being a 12-year-old worried about baseball tryouts to the man of the family. He writes dozens of stories about second chances and ...more | |
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| This is such a delightful romance between an Irish maid (Keely) fleeing a difficult situation where she works in England--now a liar and a thief--and the kind owner (William) of a cattle ranch in Idaho. England's rules and strict title system by line ...more | |
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
“Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
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