The Ashes of a Broken Life

The Ashes of a Broken Life
Author: Roberta Kennedy
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2015-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1478739509

When Flannery O’Connor Larkin, age thirty, returns to the Chicago area to spend time with her Granny Anne, who raised her, she also hopes to reconnect with her ex-fiancé. Derek is going through a messy divorce from his wife, Chloe—a vengeful, selfish, and abusive mother to their two children, Jack and Lucy. Derek never loved Chloe, but married her when she tricked him into believing she was pregnant with his child. Throughout their six-year marriage, Chloe has continued her affair with Derek’s brother, Sean, who is Jack’s biological father—and everyone knows that Derek has been caught in Chloe’s web of deception. When Derek and Flannery meet again, it’s clear their love for each other never waned. They are married only months after Derek’s divorce is finalized from Chloe, who is Flannery’s younger half-sister. But Chloe is furious and determined to tear them apart. And she will go to any lengths to satisfy her warped need for revenge…

Restored Out of the Ashes of a Broken Life

Restored Out of the Ashes of a Broken Life
Author: Loren E. McWilliams, Sr
Publisher: Loren McWilliams
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Loren McWilliams was born disabled with a rare muscular disease and became hopelessly addicted to narcotics. After being bullied as a child, he was a late-stage alcoholic by adolescence. At 46, he was addicted to heroin and living in his car. None of his family would even talk to him. At his darkest moment of despair, he cried out and was saved.

Life from the Ashes

Life from the Ashes
Author: Shari O’Loughlin
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1683507320

How does life go on after losing a child? Life from the Ashes shares the dark and raw story of Shari O’Loughlin’s loss of her 14-year-old son, Connor, who was shockingly killed in an airplane crash on his way home from a four-day vacation. Like all parents, Shari was struck with the most unimaginable nightmare when her family received the soul-numbing news. Parents trying to navigate the perilous journey of traumatic loss know the path is agonizing. Happiness, faith, and wholeness seem reserved for everyone else but them. Shari shares her story to help bring the same unexpected hope and healing she experienced to parents alike. She helps answer questions on how parents can trust again, feel happiness, and have faith after God let their child die. She addresses how to live with this new life, take steps toward healing, and live a more purposeful life after loss. In honor of Connor and her family, Shari shares her path from darkness to light so other parents may better find their way. Although Shari’s story shares the journey after the loss of a child, it contains tools that can help anyone who has suffered a loss of any type move forward in life.

Teen Mom

Teen Mom
Author: Tricia Goyer
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0310339065

Being a mom is hard. Being a young mom has unique challenges. From a teen mom herself, Teen Mom speaks to your heart, sharing insight, encouragement, and practical advice to help you create a better life for yourself and your child. Everything changes the day you discover you're going to be a mom. It's not just yourself that you think about--you have a child to care for, too. While you wouldn't trade your child for the world, some days are just hard. Baby-daddy drama, dealing with your parents, and worries about school, work, and your future slam you. Your friends can't relate to your little family, and you wonder if God has turned His back on you, too. Tricia Goyer understands. A mom at age 17, Tricia remembers what it felt like to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, and she's here to help you through it too. In this book, she pours out her heart and shares practical advice on: Making decisions about work and school Dealing with changing relationships with friends Finding support as a single mom Relating to the baby daddy Handling hard days . . . and more! You are the great mom your child deserves! And you are stronger than you think. This book was previously titled Life Interrupted.

The Beautiful Ashes

The Beautiful Ashes
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Publisher: HQN Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0373779054

When her sister is trapped in a parallel realm, Ivy turns to Adrian, the only person who believes her, but who, unbeknownst to her, is destined to betray her, and together they search for a powerful relic that can save her sister.

From the Ashes

From the Ashes
Author: Jesse Thistle
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1982101210

*#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER *Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction *Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards *Winner, High Plains Book Awards *Finalist, CBC Canada Reads *A Globe and Mail Book of the Year *An Indigo Book of the Year *A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the Year In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is. If I can just make it to the next minute...then I might have a chance to live; I might have a chance to be something more than just a struggling crackhead. From the Ashes is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, whose tough-love attitudes quickly resulted in conflicts. Throughout it all, the ghost of Jesse’s drug-addicted father haunted the halls of the house and the memories of every family member. Struggling with all that had happened, Jesse succumbed to a self-destructive cycle of drug and alcohol addiction and petty crime, spending more than a decade on and off the streets, often homeless. Finally, he realized he would die unless he turned his life around. In this heartwarming and heart-wrenching memoir, Jesse Thistle writes honestly and fearlessly about his painful past, the abuse he endured, and how he uncovered the truth about his parents. Through sheer perseverance and education—and newfound love—he found his way back into the circle of his Indigenous culture and family. An eloquent exploration of the impact of prejudice and racism, From the Ashes is, in the end, about how love and support can help us find happiness despite the odds.

Endurance Race of Life and Addiction

Endurance Race of Life and Addiction
Author: Lisa Heyer
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1645690482

This is written for my son, Nathan, and all those that struggle with addiction. Addiction must be the worst stronghold anyone faces. While our country fights the epidemic of opioids, so many of our families are losing their battles to overdoses, deaths, and mental health illnesses. This needs to stop. To the families of those addicted, I encourage you to find your role in your family members' addiction. Don't enable, disable, or just tolerate. You have a role to play, and it can be a healthy, loving role with many rewards including a healthy, happy, and hopeful family member and a successful recovery someday. Also, this is written for all the women out there that hit their midfifties and think they are "too old" to do anything active. Don't believe those lies. The devil would like to keep you right where you are. Think again! When your desires to be better become hard, push through it and "do it anyway"! You will love the results. And for any of you that have ever wanted to complete or compete in a race, a bike ride, a 5K, 10K, or an IRONMAN, go for it. Step out in faith, get moving, and when it is hard, do it anyway! There is hope. Don't stop fighting. The battle is real, but there is hope""hope to win the race. This endurance race for life is not easy, but it's available to you. God has a plan for you and me. Be willing to work His plan. There is freedom waiting for you there. In sincere love, faith, and hope, Lisa Heyer

Broken Ashes

Broken Ashes
Author: Jaquelyn Driscoll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Automobile mechanics
ISBN: 9781432771300

Three important things passed through my mind as thoughts but soon turned into tasks. My first thought was, if I was to save my friend's lives, I was going to risk mine. Secondly, I had to win this race, and finally, I was going to kill the man who had killed my father. Annabelle Phoenix Ayers is in for the ride of her life- literally. After being harassed until she finally snapped and committed a brutal murder, she is sent to a privately owned anger management facility called Broken Ashes. This place is not for the faint of heart. The rules in this place are strict and similar to those of a prison; and the people are just as cruel. As if that wasn't enough, chosen students there must participate in a life threatening two-day race in an attempt to escape or be held at the facility until their full term has ended. Annabelle's glamorous life in the world of auto mechanics and racing has put her team at a definite advantage, and it seems there is no doubt they will be released from this hellhole. Until she meets Blaze Pyerre, a sexy mechanic on her appointed team. Their romance when revealed puts a dent in their plans of victory; and when Annabelle's past comes back with Vengeance, her life, -and the life of her friends, -could end before the race even begins.

Beauty For Ashes

Beauty For Ashes
Author: Zac Poonen
Publisher: CFCINDIA Bangalore
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2002
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 819056580X

The Simple Power of a Broken Life

The Simple Power of a Broken Life
Author: J. Daniel Moore
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2019-05-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532679661

The Simple Power of a Broken Life serves to bring meaning to and ultimately healing from the suffering and pain that accompanies the broken seasons of our lives. Drawing upon the brokenness of seven individuals from the Scriptures and their respective pain, a picture of hope and usefulness emerges that serves to begin to make sense of the mysteries, betrayals, rejections, heartaches, and disappointments that we all eventually come into contact with in one form or another. Not only do we each matter to God, but our brokenness actually sets us apart as being more likely to be used to impact other lives. Being fully convinced that God uses broken things, we find that our brokenness is the starting point in a deeper, more intimate experience with God. Broken lives may experience a beautiful and simple power in the midst of their pain and suffering that the Father can use as a rich blessing for other wounded souls. My strong desire is that the purpose of your pain and the healing of your heart will lead you into deeper waters of God’s grace than you have ever known before and that multitudes of people will be helped on their journey because of your brokenness. Here’s to believing that the simple power of your broken life will gloriously transform both you and all the lives God wants to touch through you!