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In a world consumed with quick-fixes, superficial romances, and "hookup" relationships, maybe you're asking: What's the benefit to actually waiting for God's best? Is there a perfect plan for my future - or is it just a fairy tale? Should I just settle like everyone else? With all-new insights from Jackie Kendall, a new generation will answer these questions and discover what made Lady in Waiting a life-changing encouragement to over half a million people worldwide.

This Sumoreads summary and analysis offers supplementary material to The Happiness Project to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not Rubin's book is for you, Sumoreads summary and analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in less than 20 minutes!

In 13 fascinating chapters, Robin Sharma allows his audience to accompany him on a journey of self-improvement that begins with introspection, discipline, and a determination to actually work on oneself in The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. This SUMOREADS Analysis offers supplementary material to The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari to help you distill the key takeaways, review the content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective.

This Sumoreads summary and analysis offers supplementary material to Barking Up the Wrong Tree to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, Sumoreads summary and analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 40 minutes!

Maryanne is a governess to two children, Mindy and Tracey. Their mother is not a hands-on parent so Maryanne has been as much of a mother as a governess. On a very stormy night the mother is killed in an accident. Because of the many debts incurred by Mrs. Turner there is no money left, including the children’s inheritance, so the house and all the furnishings have to be auctioned off to poay those debts. Robert, the long exiled brother of Mr. Turner, who was killed in a drowning accident some years before, shows up wanting to make amends with his brother.

In their book, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyful Life Bill Burnett and Dave Evans offer practical, actionable advice on how to change the way you look at your life, and how to design the life you've always dreamed of. (This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.)

English rose Eleanor Rigby has stared into the cold eyes of death more than once. To escape its icy grip, she flees as a mail-order bride to a new future with Samuel Johnson, a Western cowboy. But when a lost love returns from the grave to claim his broken bride, a fearful fight for Ellie's own life and sanity ensues. Can the bonds of true love bring her home, or will she be lost forever?

Clementina Rose is no stranger to tragedy. Widowed with a child, and abandoned to a life of misery at the hands of her dead husband's brother, she almost despairs. Her only lifeline are the secret letters she receives from her husband's civil war comrade Grover Ash. When the letters stop, Clementina is crushed. Stripped of everything other than her faith in God and love for her young son, she boards a Westbound train to find Grover and beg for his hand.

Chester and Mary Travis were Christian & Missionary Alliance missionaries to French Indo-China (today known as Viet Nam) between 1925-1975. They experienced an abundant measure of Christ’s indwelling and overflowing life. One of the aims of this book is to share the unusual experiences and their unshakable faith in their Lord and Saviour.

In the clutches of a ruthless employer who threatens to force her into a life of sin and degradation, she decides to flee west as a mail order bride. But Clarissa's trek to Grant, Nevada, not only carries her to an unknown future, it also brings her face-to-face with the deep wounds of her past. Abandoned orphan siblings, a soul-destroying "sanctuary" of sin, a mysterious mining secret, and a cold-blooded murder, paint a dark backdrop for the light of love, faith, and forgiveness to shine their healing light in this story of redemption and romance.

Falsely tarred as a blundering baby killer by an unscrupulous doctor, Nurse Catherine is left with no other avenue of escape but to run from the city. When she arrives at Fort Peck to meet William Davis, a gentle but manly hunter-come-homesteader, her aching self-doubt threatens to dash her chances of true love. It is only through the midnight pleas of a terrified stranger that Catherine’s true courageous colors blaze through. Catherine not only experiences her own deliverance but becomes a deliverer of new life on the wild frontiers of Fort Peck!

The only distinction between people is how they use their time. Success strategist and author, Dr. Paul Crites pulls back the curtain and reveals the secret weapon of the wise and wealthy. A weapon called time.

Chester and Mary Travis were Christian & Missionary Alliance missionaries to French Indo-China (today known as Vietnam) between 1925-1975. They experienced an abundant measure of Christ's indwelling and overflowing life. One of the aims of this book is to share the unusual experiences and their unshakable faith in their Lord and Savior. If this book does nothing else but generate and stimulate a continuing prayer vigil for those encountering severe trials behind the "Bamboo Curtain," it will have served well. That is all that Chester and Mary might ask of us.

Acuff takes the view of a casual observer, weaving into his narrative brief experiences from his life and the lives of other people to drive home his points about the evils of perfectionism in his book, Finish.

Don't miss this summary of holistic nutritionist Kelly LeVeque's book, Body Love: Live in Balance, Weigh What You Want, and Free Yourself from Food Drama Forever. LeVeque's book proposes an alternative to restrictive dieting that lets you lead a fuller, happier, and healthier life.

Don't miss out on the unforgettable wisdom of Angela Duckworth's New York Times best-selling book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. This Sumoreads summary includes key takeaways and analysis to help you quickly soak up the essence of her deep insight. The purpose of this Sumoreads Summary & Analysis is to help you decide if it's worth the time, money and effort listening to the original book (if you haven't already). This analysis is meant as a supplement to, and not a replacement for, Grit.

Liza Ralston has had more adventure in her life than she ever wanted. Leaving her settled existence with friends and family in St. Louis to travel to the Big Sky country of wild Montana with her father, she soon wishes she could turn the clock back. When their scout is murdered and her father is severely wounded by thieves, the Pikuni tribe, led by Crying Wind, takes them in. But Liza wants nothing more than to return to St. Louis, despite her growing attraction for Red Eagle, the handsome son of a white trapper and Blackfeet mother.

What would you do if you were faced with a life-threatening illness? Would you distance yourself from God or grasp His hand, cling to His promises, and develop an unwavering trust in His goodness? In Only by God's Grace Norma Kennett lovingly shares how choosing the latter helped her uncover the infinite, nearly unfathomable love of God while battling a debilitating tumor. Through the fight for her life and other experiences, she recounts how each event led her closer to the heart of Jesus.

Amanda Barnhill knew it wasn't fair; these sorts of things rarely were. However, the Corinth's had made a promise to her ailing mother and so they were determined to follow through in their own deceptive way. Would Amanda ever find the life she only dreamed possible after all the heartache and deception she faced? Still, she took the chance and defied the odds to find the life she desperately wanted.