Better with Friends: A Women's Friendship Series, Book One
Better with Friends: A Women's Friendship Series, Book One

Author: Kimberly Diede

Publisher: Kimberly Diede

Published: 2022-11-15

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 173513435X

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Welcome to the stories of a fun group of old friends as they navigate the challenges of midlife together. Life is hard, but forever friends make it better. Jackie Turner has never felt so invisible. As a top performer, the forty-eight-year-old is shocked when she’s passed over for a promotion at work. Has she become irrelevant? It’s a bitter pill, but she vows to keep her disappointment to herself as she travels back home to Minnesota for her thirty-year high school reunion. She deserves this unspoiled time to reconnect with her lifelong best friends. Their special friendship kicked off at summer camp when five young girls bonded over butterflies, a troubling accusation, and a simple craft project. They dubbed themselves the Kaleidoscope Girls, and not even their turbulent high school years could tear them apart. They promised to stay close, but life can thwart even the best of intentions. Decades later, Jackie realizes she needs her lifelong friends now more than ever. Who better to turn to for advice on navigating the highs and lows of midlife? Her career feels stale, her nest is empty, and her father is fighting a battle he can’t win. She needs a fresh start, and together with the rest of the Kaleidoscope Girls, Jackie will hit the road and experience what it feels like to have fun again. Experience the magic of female friendships in Better with Friends, the first book in The Kaleidoscope Girls women’s fiction series. Let Kimberly Diede, best-selling author of the popular Celia’s Gifts Whispering Pines series, give you a glimpse into the early years and bring you along as the next chapters unfold for these five amazing women. Their future journeys will be even richer, thanks to old friends. Let the Kaleidoscope Girls remind you that the best is yet to come. If you enjoy books by Hope Holloway, Fiona Baker, or Rebecca Regnier then join along in the fun with The Kaleidoscope Girls. THE KALEIDOSCOPE GIRLS series, in order Better with Friends Sunshine and Friends Five Golden Friends Gift of Friends (coming May 2024) Also by Kimberly Diede is the uplifting Gift of Whispering Pines women’s fiction series, where you will feel like part of an amazing family. GIFT OF WHISPERING PINES series in order Whispering Pines Tangled Beginnings Rebuilding Home Capturing Wishes Choosing Again Celia’s Gifts Celia’s Legacy First Summers at Whispering Pines (FREE novella, visit her website for more)

The Girls' Book of Friendship
The Girls' Book of Friendship

Author: Gemma Reece

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1780550634

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The Girls' Book of Friendship is every girl's guide to getting along and having the best fun together.

Text Me when You Get Home
Text Me when You Get Home

Author: Kayleen Schaefer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1101986123

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'Text me when you get home.' After joyful nights out together, female friends say this to one another as a way of cementing their love. It's about safety but, more than that, it's about solidarity. A validation of female friendship unlike any that's ever existed before, Text Me When You Get Home is a mix of historical research, the author's own personal experience, and conversations about friendships with women across the country. Everything Schaefer uncovers reveals that these ties are making us, both as individuals and as society as a whole, stronger than ever before.

Best Friends
Best Friends

Author: Terri Apter

Publisher: Harmony

Published: 1999-10-26

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0609804723

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Best Friends provides the missing link to understanding and recognizing the impact of some of the most important relationships in girls' and women's lives. Every woman remembers the sting of betrayal of a girlfriend, and every parent of a daughter has seen her come home from school in tears because a girl she thought was her best friend suddenly and inexplicably became her enemy. While boys hash out differences with fists and kicks, girls' societies are marked by secrets and whispers and shifting affection. The lessons learned as an adolescent girl are often carried into adulthood, making women fear confrontation--especially with other women. But the intensity of the struggles reflects the support and healing to be found within these friendships. Girls find themselves in the mirror of other girls, hence the power each has to influence the other. Ruthellen Josselson and Terri Apter's many years of working with hundreds of girls and women have given them insight into the emotionally important relationships that are integral to a girl's self-image. Best Friends explores the bonds of friendship between girls and between women and the sorrows and joys they experience together, from early adolescence and throughout their lives.

Friend-ish
Friend-ish

Author: Kelly Needham

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1400213525

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For so many of us, our friends are like family members--we lean on them through our highest highs and our lowest lows--but sometimes those friendships don't turn out quite as we hoped. Bible teacher Kelly Needham debunks our world's constricted, narrow view of friendship and casts a richer, more life-giving, biblical vision for friendship. In Friend-ish, Kelly Needham reminds us that we were called to more than halfhearted friendships and lukewarm connections. We need something more stable, secure, and sacred. We were designed for real friendship--but the difficult truth is that too many of us are settling for less. Kelly deconstructs what Scripture says about the gift of friendship and takes a closer look at the distorted view that most of us have instead. As she shares the lessons she's learned from experience, Kelly paints her own glorious vision of what Christian friendship could look like. With hard-fought wisdom, a clear view of Scripture, and a been-there perspective, Friend-ish teaches us how to: Recognize symptoms of idolatry and toxic dependency Boldly ask for what we need from our community of friends Understand and address the problems that arise in friendship--from neediness to discord Recognize when it's time to end an unhealthy friendship Reorient toward the purposeful, loving relationships we all crave that ultimately bring us closer to God Find the friends you need and start to become that friend for others Join Kelly as she challenges you to view your chosen family in a new light, gain a vision of friendship according to Jesus, and finally enjoy friendships as God intended.

You're the Only One I Can Tell
You're the Only One I Can Tell

Author: Deborah Tannen

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0349010242

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A Washington Post Notable Book of 2017. Deborah Tannen's bestselling You Just Don't Understand: Conversations Between Women and Men made us aware of the deep and subtle meanings behind the words we say. She has since explored the way we talk at work, in arguments, to our mothers and our daughters. Now she turns to that most intense, precious and potential minefield: women's friendships. Best friend, old friend, good friend, new friend, neighbour, fellow mother at the school gate, workplace confidante: women's friendships are crucial. A friend can be like a sister, daughter, mother, mentor, therapist or confessor. She can also be the source of pain and betrayal. From casual chatting to intimate confiding, from talking about problems to sharing funny stories, there are patterns of communication and miscommunication that affect friendships. Tannen shows how even the best of friends - with the best intentions - can say the wrong thing, how the ways women friends talk can bring friends closer or pull them apart, but also how words can repair the damage done by words. She explains the power of women friends who show empathy and can just listen; how women use talk to connect - and to subtly compete; how fears of rejection can haunt friendships; how social media is reshaping relationships. Exploring what it means to be friends, helping us hear what we are really saying, understanding how we connect to other people; this illuminating and validating book gets inside the language of one of most women's life essentials - female friendships.

Gift of Friends: A Women's Friendship Series, Book Four
Gift of Friends: A Women's Friendship Series, Book Four

Author: Kimberly Diede

Publisher: Kimberly Diede

Published: 2024-05-01

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1961305011

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There is no greater gift than friendship. For the first time in fifty years, Lynette Howe’s financial struggles are behind her. Her wildly prosperous online boutique is now someone else’s headache. It wasn’t hard to bid farewell to the fast-paced lifestyle of New York City, but designing her new life in the quiet town she left decades ago isn’t working. Men used to find her intriguing—mysterious, even—when her role as a stylish CEO demanded most of her time. Women’s desire to emulate her only helped fuel her success. But now? Now she spends her days poking around the small town of Ruby Shores, talking to a cat. She isn’t the only one struggling. Her mother, Donna, remains by her side, but sometimes it feels like their roles have reversed. Even though they’ve accomplished great things together, both women harbor unspoken dreams. Will their codependency lead to regrets? Lynette welcomes the distraction of her annual girls’ trip with her four best friends. This year’s destination isn’t a plane ride away. Instead, they’ll go back to the peaceful solitude of Whispering Pines. It’ll feel like summer camp all over again . . . except for adults. She could use some girlish giggles, along with coffee on the dock at sunrise or wine around a sunset campfire. But unexpected guests bring turmoil to the resort. When long-hidden secrets come to light and unsettling news arrives from New York, not even the tranquility of Whispering Pines or the reassuring presence of her girlfriends can stop Lynette from questioning every decision she’s made during the past two years. Slip away with this uplifting group to the restful Minnesota lake resort of Whispering Pines in Gift of Friends by Kimberly Diede. You’re sure to catch their laughter floating on a warm lakeside breeze in this fourth book of the Kaleidoscope Girls women’s fiction series. Hopeful expectations, mixed with delicious surprises and shocking truths, will have you cheering on both daughter and mother in this colorful celebration of female friendships. If you enjoy books by Hope Holloway, Fiona Baker, or Rebecca Regnier then join along in the fun with the Kaleidoscope Girls. THE KALEIDOSCOPE GIRLS series, in order Better with Friends Sunshine and Friends Five Golden Friends Gift of Friends Life with Friends (available December 2024) Also by Kimberly Diede is the uplifting Gift of Whispering Pines women’s fiction series, where you will feel like part of an amazing family. GIFT OF WHISPERING PINES series in order Whispering Pines Tangled Beginnings Rebuilding Home Capturing Wishes Choosing Again Celia’s Gifts Celia’s Legacy First Summers at Whispering Pines (FREE novella, visit her website for more)

Made for Friendship
Made for Friendship

Author: Drew Hunter

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 143355822X

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God made you for friendship. Friendship is one of the deepest pleasures of life. But in our busy, fast-paced, mobile world, we've lost this rich view of friendship and instead settled for shallow acquaintances based on little more than similar tastes or shared interests. Helping us recapture a vision of true friendship, pastor Drew Hunter explores God's design for friendship and what it really looks like in practice—giving us practical advice to cultivate the kinds of true friendships that lead to true and life-giving joy.

The Best of Friends
The Best of Friends

Author: Sara James

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0061844667

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From sharing secrets as children to chasing unconventional dreams as adults, network correspondent Sara James and wildlife filmmaker Ginger Mauney explore their learning curve on life through the lens of their thirty-year friendship Transplanting southern roots to southern Africa, Ginger Mauney has earned the acceptance of a troop of baboons, unraveled mysteries of life and death in an elephant herd, and raised her young son in the wilds of Namibia—but has often felt the pull of the country she once called home. As a local television anchor, Sara James paid her own way to cover the war in Nicaragua, a gamble that later propelled her to NBC. At the network, James exposed slavery in Sudan and plunged to the gravesite of the Titanic, but struggled to balance her demanding career with marriage and motherhood. Though the two lead seemingly opposite lives, there is much they share: a hometown in Richmond, Virginia, an attraction to life on the razor's edge, a weakness for men with foreign passports and accents, and a past. Now, in their heartfelt memoir, Mauney and James alternately narrate the story of how, they, two women separated by thousands of miles, have found themselves bound together through temperament, circumstance, and serendipity. The Best of Friends uses the example of their lives to explore such universal questions as: When your heart is broken, how do you heal? How do you realize your dreams without compromising yourself? How do you tame ambition to make room for love and family? And what does it mean as an adult to be a "best" friend? The Best of Friends is James and Mauney's story, but it is also the story of so many women in their twenties, thirties, and forties who, with the help of friends, dared to reinvent their lives just when it seemed that everything was falling apart.

How Should a Person Be?
How Should a Person Be?

Author: Sheila Heti

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2010-09-25

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0887842798

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A brilliant portrayal of finding a beautiful life by one of Canada's most exciting literary talents, now available as an Anansi Book Club edition featuring discussion questions. How Should a Person Be? is an unabashedly honest and hilarious tour through the unknowable pieces of one woman’s heart and mind, an irresistible torn-from-life book about friendship, art, sex, and love. Part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part racy confessional, it is a fearless exploration into the way we live now by one of the most highly inventive and thoughtful young writers working today.