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Disciplines of a Godly Woman

by Barbara Hughes

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Writing Poetry from the Inside Out: Finding Your Voice Through the Craft of Poetry

by Sandford Lyne

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The Well-Watered Woman: Rooted in Truth, Growing in Grace, Flourishing in Faith

by Gretchen Saffles (Goodreads Author)

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A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean

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We just wanted to survive. That’s all. Your house could be bombed, and you could lose everything you owned in a matter of seconds, but it wouldn’t matter if you still had the people you loved. If they survived, that was all the riches you ...more

Writing Poetry from the Inside Out: Finding Your Voice Through the Craft of Poetry

by Sandford Lyne

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Joanna’s Quotes

“I couldn't imagine it was possible for something so beautiful to exist in the same world as me.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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“I was beginning to realize that all the food in the world, and all the running shoes, could not make me happy. The material things were worthless. I had lost my family. I wasn’t loved, I wasn’t free, and I wasn’t safe. I was alive, but everything that made life worth living was gone.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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“I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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“and I particularly loved biographies because they were about people who had to overcome obstacles or prejudices to get ahead. They made me think I could make it when nobody else believed in me, when even I didn’t believe in myself.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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“when you have more words to describe the world, you increase your ability to think complex thoughts.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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