One Woman's Life

One Woman's Life
Author: Irena Praitis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781935290155

Ona Kartanas was orphaned at an early age, experienced the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Lithuania during World War II, lived in displaced persons camps in Germany after the war, immigrated to Colombia and later the United States. This book is a series of prose vignettes that chronicle her story of loss, war, displacement and struggle.

A Woman's Book of Life

A Woman's Book of Life
Author: Joan Borysenko
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1998
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781573226516

The bestselling author of "Minding the Body, Mending the Mind" reveals the interconnected loop of the mind, body, and spirit in a pioneering book that will teach women how to maximize their health and well-being as well as discover the extraordinary power that comes with each stage of the feminine life cycle.

Seasons of a Woman's Life

Seasons of a Woman's Life
Author: Lois Evans
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2013-01-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802484204

Are you afraid that . . you'll never reach the end of dirty diapers? You'll never be free of carpool duty? Your teenager's rebellion will never end? The empty nest is just a little too empty? Fear not, seasons change. You blink twice and find yourself in another situation. Maybe longing for the "old days" or maybe grateful for the freshness of a new season. But like it or not, the seasons will come, each in its sequence and each in its own time. Using lively examples from her own life and those of other women - including Esther - Lois Evans challenges you to to discover the purpose of your life and to depend on Him as He teaches the lessons of each season. In this book, you will find helpful priniciples, recognize familiar emotions, and take to heart encouraging promises from the pages of God's Word. In this edition a new chapter on the grandparenting season has been added. And to help you dig deeper - whether alone or with friends - chapter study questions are included.

One-Woman Farm

One-Woman Farm
Author: Jenna Woginrich
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 160342718X

A popular blogger and homesteader shares the joys, sorrows, trials, tribulations and blessings she experienced during a year spent farming on her own land, during which she found deep fulfillment in the practical tasks and timeless rituals of agricultural life.

The Seasons of a Woman's Life

The Seasons of a Woman's Life
Author: Daniel J. Levinson
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2011-10-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0307807142

Firmly grounded in scientific research, this book reveals that women follow a predictable developmental course through adulthood. Work and marriage relationships, personal crisis, emotional states, and behavior can all be related to this grand pattern. But in the case of women, the situation is made far more complicated by gender biases.

Mob Girl

Mob Girl
Author: Teresa Carpenter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2016-12-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501166123

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of Missing Beauty comes a fascinating inside look at the mafia. Growing up among racketeers on the Lower East Side of New York City, Arlyne Brickman associated with mobsters. Drawn to the glamorous and flashy lifestyle, she was soon dating "wiseguys" and running errands for them; but after years as a mob girlfriend, Arlyne began to get in on the action herself—eventually becoming a police informant and major witness in the government's case against the Colombo crime family.

Only One Life

Only One Life
Author: Jackie Green
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310352703

Life keeps us running so fast and frenzied that we often lose sight of each day’s holy potential. Yet as a woman loved and called by God, your ordinary everyday matters more than you could possibly imagine. Your choices today shape the legacy you leave for future generations. You are part of a story that has existed long before you and will long outlast you. And you can play a unique and irreplaceable role. In Only One Life, mother-and-daughter team Jackie Green and Lauren McAfee invite you to join the company of women God is using to change the world. Through vivid portraits of women of the Bible, women of history, and women shaping the world today, you will discover how God multiplies seemingly small daily offerings of faithfulness. Come and see your own story reflected in the lives of women such as: Mary Magdalene, the first witness to Jesus’s resurrection. Catherine Booth, an early apologist for women’s rights and co-founder of the Salvation Army. Christine Caine, a contemporary speaker and human rights activist And other ordinary women who have done extraordinary things, including Harriet Tubman, Queen Esther, Lottie Moon, and Joni Eareckson Tada. Building a legacy through your “only one life” is not a calling for the elite few. It is a calling for you—as a woman with unique capacity to shape the future through your faith, family, gifts, and leadership. Only One Life will encourage and empower you to develop grit, grace, and the long view—able to change your world forever—starting today.

Seasons of a Woman's Life

Seasons of a Woman's Life
Author: Normajean Hinders
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780805461428

A woman's life is a recurring series of emotional, biological, and spiritual transitions. Helps women feel at peace with the way they experience life as distinct from men.

Crossing Over

Crossing Over
Author: Ruth Irene Garrett
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062277103

A work Booklist called ଯving and life–affirming, Crossing Over is the true story of one woman's extraordinary flight from the protected world of the Amish people to the chaos of contemporary life. Ruth Irene Garrett was the fifth of seven children raised in Kalona, Iowa, as a member of a strict Old Order Amish community. She was brought up in a world filled with rigid rules and intense secrecy, in an environment where the dress, buggies, codes of conduct, and way of life differed even from other Amish societies only 100 miles away. This Old Order community actively avoided all interaction with ೨e Englishߜ'96 everyone who lived on the outside. As a result, Ruth knew only one way of life, and one way of doing things. This compelling narrative takes us inside a hidden community, offering a striking look as one woman comes to terms with her discontent and ultimately leaves her family, faith and the sheltered world of her childhood. Unsatisfied, she bravely crosses over to contemporary life to fully explore the foreign and frightening reality in hope of better understanding her emotional and spiritual desires. What emerges is a powerful tale of one woman's search for meaning and the extraordinary lessons she learns along the way.