Tattoos on the Heart
Tattoos on the Heart

Author: Greg Boyle

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-02-08

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1439153159

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How do you fight despair and learn to meet the world with a loving heart? How do you overcome shame? Stay faithful in spite of failure? No matter where people live or what their circumstances may be, everyone needs boundless, restorative love. Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the Heart amply demonstrates the impact unconditional love can have on your life. As a pastor working in a neighborhood with the highest concentration of murderous gang activity in Los Angeles, Gregory Boyle created an organization to provide jobs, job training, and encouragement so that young people could work together and learn the mutual respect that comes from collaboration. Tattoos on the Heart is a breathtaking series of parables distilled from his twenty years in the barrio. Arranged by theme and filled with sparkling humor and glowing generosity, these essays offer a stirring look at how full our lives could be if we could find the joy in loving others and in being loved unconditionally. From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at JCPenney fresh out of prison, we learn how to feel worthy of God’s love. From ten-year-old Lula we learn the importance of being known and acknowledged. From Pedro we understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue someone from the darkness. In each chapter we benefit from Boyle’s wonderful, hard-earned wisdom. Inspired by faith but applicable to anyone trying to be good, these personal, unflinching stories are full of surprising revelations and observations of the community in which Boyle works and of the many lives he has helped save. Erudite, down-to-earth, and utterly heartening, these essays about universal kinship and redemption are moving examples of the power of unconditional love in difficult times and the importance of fighting despair. With Gregory Boyle’s guidance, we can recognize our own wounds in the broken lives and daunting struggles of the men and women in these parables and learn to find joy in all of the people around us. Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another.

Red Heart Tattoo
Red Heart Tattoo

Author: Lurlene McDaniel

Publisher: Ember

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0440240190

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In the vein of This is Where It Ends, this exploration of grief and tragedy in the aftermath of a bomb explosion at a high school is sadly topical and powerfully heartrending. At 7:45 a.m. a bomb goes off at Edison High. Nine people die instantly. Fifteen are critically wounded. Twenty-two are injured. One is blinded. In the aftermath of the violent tragedy, survive struggle to cope and heal as a result of something they may never understand. Told in alternating points of view, Red Heart Tattoo deals with issues of violence, death, and trauma in the lives of five teens.

Tattoos Of A Broken Heart
Tattoos Of A Broken Heart

Author: D. A. Anderson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0359144209

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A concept book exploring heartbreak and heartache thru poems and short stories. It hopes to inspire a foster a relationship between pain and love, and hopefully brings the message, that all you need is love, and faith, and a belief in one another to get you thru life's roughest moments.

The Tattooed Heart
The Tattooed Heart

Author: Jezra Kaye

Publisher: 3ring Press

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780979352782

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Early in the AIDS epidemic, Gracie -- a hard-luck girl with a haunting secret -- loses her best friend and lover, Marcus. But just before he dies, Marcus makes her promise to get pregnant and bear a child in his memory. He knows she'll need someone to live for when he's gone; but he can't know how tough and twisted Gracie's journey will become.

The Crying Heart Tattoo
The Crying Heart Tattoo

Author: David Lozell Martin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-12-30

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1416556095

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An international cult classic and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, The Crying Heart Tattoo follows the unlikely romance between a young man and a woman more than twice his age. Beginning their relationship when Sonny is just fourteen and Felicity thirty-four, the couple share a poignant history together that ends only upon Felicity's passing -- despite four marriages, numerous obstacles, and enough misadventures to challenge the most loyal of lovers. At once heartbreaking and euphoric, their story mirrors the tale that Felicity has passed down to Sonny, a story uncanny in its similarity to their own: when a prehistoric outcast locates her former tribe, she falls in love with a young boy. A masterful novel first published a quarter of a century ago, The Crying Heart Tattoo keeps the impossible within reach, proving once and for all that the struggle for true love is worth everything.

The Arm
The Arm

Author: Clark Howard

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1504060644

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An ambitious gambler may lose it all in this novel by an Edgar Award–winning “superlative storyteller” (Publishers Weekly). He was known as Cully the Arm—the best crapshooter in Chicago. Life was a game of both skill and luck, and he’d made his way to the big city seeking his chance to be a winner. Before long he was moving between bars, backrooms, brothels—anywhere a man could gamble. Then he met a seductive woman named Lorry, who was playing a game of her own, and she wasn’t about to let any rules get in her way . . . The inspiration for the film The Big Town, The Arm is a hard-edged crime novel that captures the gritty atmosphere of mid-twentieth-century Chicago as one man’s pursuit of a dream leads him into a nightmare.

Losing Gabriel: a Love Story
Losing Gabriel: a Love Story

Author: Lurlene McDaniel

Publisher: Ember

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0385744226

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When baby Gabriel's health takes a turn for the worse, the lives of those involved are forever changed.

The Year of Chasing Dreams
The Year of Chasing Dreams

Author: Lurlene McDaniel

Publisher: Ember

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 038574174X

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“Readers will swoon over this story of love despite impossible odds.” —Romantic Times From the author of Don’t Die, My Love comes this young adult novel that intertwines a family saga with a grand love story. This novel stands alone or can be read as the companion to The Year of Luminous Love and Wishes and Dreams. For fans of Sarah Dessen’s The Moon and More and Ann Brashares’s Forever in Blue. Ciana Beauchamp hasn’t seen or heard from Jon Mercer in months. Until now. He’s back in Windemere to see her. Deep down Ciana is filled with joy and relief. She has never stopped loving him. It’s proof of Jon’s love that he has returned, but what will their future be? When tragedy strikes, almost no one in town is left unscathed. Tragedy has a way of bringing people together, but it can also tear them apart. Ciana can hardly face her choices, but she knows she must, and there are now people who she can turn to if only she is willing.

The Year of Luminous Love
The Year of Luminous Love

Author: Lurlene McDaniel

Publisher: Ember

Published: 2014-05-13

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0385741723

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For fans of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, this inspirational novel is set in Tennessee horse country, as well as the historic cities and picturesque countryside of Italy. As the story unfolds, three girls, recently graduated from high school, plan the next phase of their lives while dealing with complicated issues. Author Lurlene McDaniel subtly explores the many types of love--including love for one's family and friends, and intimate love--and the sacrifices the girls face.

Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever
Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever

Author: Lurlene McDaniel

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 2010-10-27

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 0307776239

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Jory Delaney has always had lots of money. But there's one thing she knows she cannot buy--and that's her best friend Melissa's life. Although Melissa's leukemia is in remission, it's hard for both girls to hold on to the possibility of a very bright future. When Melissa's health begins to deteriorate, Jory watches her friend's courageous battle and is overwhelmed by a sense of loss. Distanced from her parents, Jory grows closer to Melissa's mother and older brother, Michael, as they give each other untold strength in the face of tragedy. As she grapples with the unfairness of Melissa's imminenet death, can Jory find a way to turn her anger into the hope and inspiration that Melissa wanted to leave behind?