The Masterpiece

The Masterpiece

Author: Francine Rivers

Publisher: NavPress

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1496418956

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A New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller “This character-driven romance will enthrall [Rivers’s] many fans.” —Library Journal The New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing tale that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet stunning masterpiece. A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want—money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman’s past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn’t know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious but unidentified graffiti artist—an alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison. Like Roman, Grace is wrestling with ghosts and secrets of her own. After a disastrous marriage threw her life completely off course, she vowed never to let love steal her dreams again. But as she gets to know the enigmatic man behind the reputation, it’s as if the jagged pieces of both of their pasts slowly begin to fit together . . . until something so unexpected happens that it changes the course of their relationship—and both their lives—forever. “Rivers deftly threads Roman’s and Grace’s lives together as they tiptoe around their emotional scars, eventually shifting into a dance of tentative steps toward a love neither can resist. Fans of Christian romance will delight in this tale of salvation through love.” —Kirkus Reviews “Richly detailed characters with traumatic pasts are woven together with biblical truths and redemptive themes. . . . This is an amazing, beautifully written tale to be savored and pondered and shared with others.” —Romantic Times “Readers will marvel at Rivers’s storytelling arc encompassing the reconciliation of gritty past misdeeds and the work in progress of a life of forgiveness.” —Booklist “Fans of Francine Rivers will eagerly devour The Masterpiece and find exactly what they are looking for: a beautifully written story of faith, romance, and the power that true freedom can bring.” —Bookreporter


The New Dad's Playbook

The New Dad's Playbook

Author: Benjamin Watson

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1493404962

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When it comes to the unknown territory of having a baby, moms-to-be have nearly unending resources to plan and execute a healthy pregnancy and navigate those first months and years as a parent with confidence. New dads? Not so much. They want to get in the game too, but, says Super Bowl champion Benjamin Watson, "I could find clearer direction for putting together a baby swing than for taking care of a newborn child." The New Dad's Playbook is every man's game plan to being the best partner and the best father, from pre-season (preparing for fatherhood) to Super Bowl (birth) to post-season (after baby is home). It helps men understand what their wives are going through physically and emotionally during and after pregnancy, allowing them to support their most important teammate. It tells men what to expect when their baby is home--and what to do when the unexpected happens. This tell-it-like-it-is book will take men from just winging it to winning it.


Dad's Maybe Book

Dad's Maybe Book

Author: Tim O'Brien

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0618039708

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A bestselling author shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned inwartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.


One-Minute Prayers for Dads Milano Softone

One-Minute Prayers for Dads Milano Softone

Author: Nick Harrison

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2017-03-28

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0736966633

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Dads, Lift Up Your Children in Prayer Thank You, Lord, for the privilege of being a praying dad. I have faith in You, not only as my Savior, but as my heavenly Father, my counselor, my helper—my everything. Give me fatherly wisdom today, help me express love to my children, and help me keep them surrendered to Your care as their ultimate Father. Your heart is filled with hopes and dreams for your children, giving you much to pray about each day. These daily prayers and words of encouragement will renew your soul as you intercede in key areas of your child's life, such as Learning to forgive Dealing with bullies Accepting discipline Growing spiritually Developing friendships Take a minute out of your day to thank God for your children and let Him equip you for the challenges of fatherhood with these brief but powerful prayers that will easily fit into your busy schedule.


Great Plan, The #1

Great Plan, The #1

Author: Chase Wheeler

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-01-31

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1101175222

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Speed Racer enters the high-octane Sword Mountain Race, but not everyone is in it to win. Some of the competitors are more interested in stealing the new plans for Speeds car, the Mach 5, than crossing the finish line. Can Speed save the top-secret plans and still win the race?


Great Dads

Great Dads

Author: Jonathan p Decker

Publisher: Adams Media Corporation

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781580622776

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GREAT DADS features short vignettes by well-known personalities who reflect on the roles that their fathers played in their upbringing. Among the 100 celebrities who share their reminiscences about their fathers are Al Gore, Cokie Roberts, Sammy Sosa, Jesse Ventura, Katherine Graham, and Joan Rivers.


Mansfield

Mansfield

Author: Keith R. Long

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1475986564

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As the snow falls outside his ambulance window, Steve Dobbs drives to check on his ninety-year-old grandmother, who lives in a mansion haunted by ghosts from her past. After Marsha Winthrop is found dead, Steve is bequeathed the mansion where he eventually starts a new life. But one night after his ambulance crashes in the mansions courtyard, Dobbs is found more dead than aliveand dies shortly thereafter. Ted Mansfield, who was Marshas second husband, has hallucinated an entire fictitious lifetime for Steve and from his point of view that indirectly reveals everything Ted knows of the Winthrop family and Marshas life after their divorce. Ted has fallen into a twisted, upside-down world driven by his bizarre dreams. As he moves from one dream to the next, ninety years of events are twisted and replayed in disguise as his subconscious mind reviews his perceptions of reality. As his nights of fitful dreams continue, Ted embarks on more intoxicating adventures as Red, a time traveler hoping for success in a strange, dystopian future. Mansfield continues the tale of one mans journey through life as he fitfully dreams about his experiences through alternate realities in one last attempt to make sense of his life and the confusing social, political, and economic events that occurred around the world during the opening years of the twenty-first century.


Masterpiece

Masterpiece

Author: Elise Broach

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-09-30

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0805082700

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In this follow-up to "Shakespeare's Secret," Broach delivers a fast-paced mystery in which a young boy and a beetle attempt to pull off a staged art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Illustrations.


Send Me

Send Me

Author: Nicola Di Matteo

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-05-26

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1514465302

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All over the world, like a train that first comes to a halt, then goes back again, the progress of the civil societies strangely and mysteriously stops and returns to a sort of obscure high middle age. One day, the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, together with the Seraph Daniel, appear to four young farmers, the Oeedah brothers, and ask them go to the earthly paradise and accomplish a difficult and dangerous mission.


The Graphic Lives of Fathers

The Graphic Lives of Fathers

Author: Mihaela Precup

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-02-21

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 3030362183

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This book explores the representation of fatherhood in contemporary North American autobiographical comics that depict paternal conduct from the post-war period up to the present. It offers equal space to autobiographical comics penned by daughters who represent their fathers’ complicated and often disappointing behavior, and to works by male cartoonists who depict and usually celebrate their own experiences as fathers. This book asks questions about how the desire to forgive or be forgiven can compromise the authors’ ethics or dictate style, considers the ownership of life stories whose subjects cannot or do not agree to be represented, and investigates the pervasive and complicated effects of dominant masculinities. By close reading these cartoonists’ complex strategies of (self-)representation, this volume also places photography and archival work alongside the problematic legacy of self-deprecation carried on from underground comics, and shows how the vocabulary of graphic narration can work with other media and at the intersection of various genres and modes to produce a valuable scrutiny of contemporary norms of fatherhood.