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Cathy LaGrow

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Cathy LaGrow first fell in love with books as a young girl, when she often chose to lose herself in a story rather than play outside. That love has never waned. She estimates that she's read more than two thousand books, and she habitually collects new titles much faster than she can read them.

Her writing endeavors include her blog, Windows and Paper Walls; a story for Chicken Soup for the Soul titled "A Good Mother"; and a weekly column for All the Church Ladies on a website created by journalist Karen Spears Zacharias.

In 2006, just after the birth of her first baby, Cathy and her family learned the secret her grandmother Minka Disbrow had been carrying for almost eighty years—that at age seventeen, she'd given up a baby for adoption. Cath ...more

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4.51 avg rating — 4,067 ratings — published 2014 — 17 editions

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The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

by Peter Enns

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Vincent by Himself

by Vincent van Gogh

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“How could she understand it then——that one of her greatest blessings would come only through her greatest wound?”
― Cathy LaGrow, The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up

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“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”
― Martin Luther

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