Kate's Journey

Kate's Journey

Author: Kate Adamson

Publisher: Insight Publishing Company

Published: 2002-10-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781885640789

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This is a story about an ordinary woman with an extraordinary experience. She was called upon to face odds that would have stopped even the most optimistic person. Kate's unbreakable spirit and incredible will to survive transformed her from a helpless victim into a powerful champion. She overcame one-in-a-million odds to survive and prosper. Kate suffered a double brain stem pons stroke that left her in a vegetative state. Her only means of communication was blinking her eyes. Her chances of survival were bleak, the medical profession wanting to stop life support. How Kate fought back from overwhelming weakness to obtain amazing grace, is a story that will inspire the reader to take on the challenge of their own life. Kate's book takes you through her journey, capturing your attention page after page. Her journey is a powerful story of determination, perseverance and prayer. The narrative is rich, providing the reader with the feeling that we are going through the stages of recovery with her. The first step to simply learn to blink her eyes leads her to being able to communicate and then discovering more things she can do. Her message - focus on what you can do - is so simple yet so powerful. The greatest triumph comes when Kate transforms the pain into something of value to other people. This is a book about hope, triumphing over adversity and making a difference in other people's lives.


Everything Happens for a Reason

Everything Happens for a Reason

Author: Kate Bowler

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0399592075

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi “Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.”—Bill Gates NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.” She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with “a surge of determination.” Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you “can’t do” and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live. Praise for Everything Happens for a Reason “I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, elegant, and gripping—she’s like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kate’s story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and president of Together Rising


The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Author: Kate DiCamillo

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 076364367X

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Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories. Jr Lib Guild. Teacher's Guide available. Reprint.


Journey Through Ash and Smoke

Journey Through Ash and Smoke

Author: Kate Messner

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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#5: Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever, has landed in Viking age Iceland, where he meets a girl named Helga, who seems perfectly able to take care of herself--until an erupting volcano and an early arriving baby forces Ranger and Helga to journey through the ash and smoke to find her father and bring him home.


Kate’s Journey

Kate’s Journey

Author: Lela Jean Clendaniel

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1973644789

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Kate Remington is living a seemingly normal life in Maryland with her husband, Jake, and two grown children. But what no one knows is that four years earlier, Kate was beaten, kidnapped, and left for dead by two thugs. While suffering from amnesia, Kate found work—and love—on a Wyoming ranch until Jake found her and brought her home. As her memory loss lingers, Kate and Jake are still facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles. She cannot remember loving him—only the Wyoming ranch owner, Brad Crawford. When Jake is run over and killed by a disgruntled employee who snatches his wallet out of his pocket before leaving the body, Kate has no idea he is about to go after her. As she grieves and relies on her faith for strength, the killer lurks in the shadows and waits for the perfect moment to exact his revenge. When he finally finds the right time to confront Kate, she is left with no other choice than to kill in self-defense. Traumatized, Kate returns to the ranch in Wyoming where she learns the power of gossip and her faith as she attempts to find a new path to happily-ever-after. Kate’s Journey is a story of hope and strength through faith as a Christian woman attempts to move forward after two tragedies rock her world and propel her toward a new beginning.


And Still She Laughs

And Still She Laughs

Author: Kate Merrick

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0718093097

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Kate Merrick examines the Bible’s gritty stories of resilient women as well as her own experience losing a child—a journey followed by more than a million on prayfordaisy.com—to reveal the reality of surprising joy and deep hope even in the midst of heartache. Is it possible live fully—even joyfully—in the middle of overwhelming pain? In the excruciating aftermath of her young daughter’s death from cancer, Kate Merrick struggled to find a way to live. Not just to survive or go through the motions, but to live fully. Faithfully. With real joy amid inevitable tears. To discover how, Kate delved into the stories in the Bible of real women who suffered deeply and emerged somehow joyful. How did Sarah, after twenty-five years of achingly empty arms, learn to laugh without bitterness? How did Bathsheba, defiled by the king who then had her husband killed, come to walk in strength and dignity, to smile without fear of the future? In her encounters with these heroines of the faith, Kate discovered how to have contentment—and even joy—whatever the circumstances. By turns heartbreaking and humorous, And Still She Laughs reveals the secret to finding hope in the midst of devastation. In the end, no matter what hardships we face, we can smile, cry, and come away full—laughing without fear and eagerly looking for what is to come. “And Still She Laughs is the terrifying, tearful, heartbreaking, heart healing and humorous, definitive true story of survival and triumph.” —Kathy Ireland, chair of Kathy Ireland Worldwide “Kate Merrick is one of those women that I always wish I had more time with—her honesty, sincerity, and messy straightforwardness are different, in the very best way. Her book, And Still She Laughs, is the same way. It’s one of those books I will keep coming back to it for truth and inspiration.” —Lindsey Nobles, COO of the IF:Gathering


Here, Now

Here, Now

Author: Kate Merrick

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0718093127

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What if our truest life is the one right in front of us? Does life sometimes seem to be passing you by? Are you so busy—with email to check, Instagram to scroll through, and friends to be envious of—that you’ve become disconnected from your actual life? You know, the one you are living right here, right now? With hilariously relatable confessions and profoundly beautiful insights, Kate Merrick invites us to stop running away from the lives we’re living today and instead walk in the peace and fullness God offers moment to moment. She shows us how to kill your Wi-Fi, put down the tech, and find deeper contentment, redirect the FOMO so you don’t miss out on your own life, and go on a diet of fewer choices to discover the blessings of the quiet, the slow, and the intentional. Only when we look honestly at our hearts and have the courage to live truly present do we receive the gifts of God found in all of life’s seasons—the painful ones, the big and beautiful ones, and even the ordinary ones.


No Cure for Being Human

No Cure for Being Human

Author: Kate Bowler

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0593230787

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn’t choose? “Kate Bowler is the only one we can trust to tell us the truth.”—Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed It’s hard to give up on the feeling that the life you really want is just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. Everyone wants to believe that they are headed toward good, better, best. But what happens when the life you hoped for is put on hold indefinitely? Kate Bowler believed that life was a series of unlimited choices, until she discovered, at age thirty-five, that her body was wracked with cancer. In No Cure for Being Human, she searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdom (and absurdity) of today’s “best life now” advice industry, which insists on exhausting positivity and on trying to convince us that we can out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. We are, she finds, as fragile as the day we were born. With dry wit and unflinching honesty, Kate Bowler grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith as she tries to come to terms with her limitations in a culture that says anything is possible. She finds that we need one another if we’re going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in between—and there’s no cure for being human.


Progress Not Perfection

Progress Not Perfection

Author: Kate Larsen

Publisher: Expert Pub Incorporated

Published: 2006-12-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9781931945516

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This book is for you if you want a stronger feeeling of mastery over your choices and a deeper sense of fulfilment that permeates your life.


Kate's Stupid Journey Through Upside-Down World

Kate's Stupid Journey Through Upside-Down World

Author: Charles Bryan

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1329781791

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Kate is your average cynical Western New York girl who gets sucked into an alternate version of our World when Leprechaun-Pirates led by a Magician attack her and kill her date in the Park. We've all been there. Join her and her friends in Upside-Down World, where nothing is quite right, in this tale of hilarious tragedy. When Kate finds a mysterious map that leads her to a handful of Ancient Relics left by the Gods, she starts getting everyone's attention in the worst way. Her meddling will change Upside-Down World forever, and with her growing obsession she's not going to let a thing like Hog People or Miami Dolphins fans get in her way.