This author delves into profound themes, exploring everything from the theology of the body to motherhood and culture, often drawing from the contrasts of life in the Alaskan wilderness and her experiences on speaking tours. Her writing is characterized by a strong voice and an ability to connect personal reflections with broader philosophical and spiritual questions. She enthusiastically discusses the topics that move her most, whether through essays that have garnered various awards or in face-to-face interactions with readers. Her works engage with the essence of human life, faith, and our relationship with the natural world.
Set against the stunning backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness, the memoir chronicles a woman's journey as she navigates the challenges of isolation and the search for belonging. Through her experiences of hard work and the inherent risks of living in such a remote area, she discovers the profound beauty of her surroundings and the resilience within herself. This inspiring narrative highlights the deep connection between personal growth and the natural world, making it a compelling exploration of finding home in unexpected places.
Derek and Juliet Dell live in French Polynesia. Derek, now retired, owned an underwater photography and scuba diving business in the South Pacific for decades. The family arrives to celebrate Christmas and Derek teaches them the basics of diving. While hunting lobster for a beach barbecue, Derek's dive goes spectacularly wrong. He finds himself alone at the bottom of the sea. As he lay motionless and drowning, Derek's life begins to flash before his eyes. He recalls his experience with shark wrangling and other pioneer diving in the early South Pacific. Derek dives to the South Pacific's highest adventures while working to keep its deepest secrets. Clandestine activities born of post-Cold War fears. Derek must face the difficulties of this work and balance his family life as a single parent to a loving daughter. In these final moments what does he think? How can there be a happy ending?
Through the authors' own compelling personal stories combined with a fresh
look at the Scriptures, Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers illustrates and
instructs in the practice of authentic forgiveness, leading you away from hate
and hurt toward healing, hope, and freedom.
Exploring the myths that create unrealistic expectations, Leslie Leyland Fields offers a candid examination of how these beliefs can divert us from understanding God's true intentions for our children and ourselves. The book encourages readers to confront these misconceptions with honesty, fostering a deeper connection to faith and purpose.
Presents the history of twentieth-century lingerie. This book examines the
ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the 'fashion-industrial complex,'
and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive
meaning from these everyday, yet significant, intimate articles of clothing.
Unplanned pregnancies happen to women in every season of the newly married, the never-married, the empty-nester, the teenager, the overworked mother, the career woman. Yet we rarely talk about how lonely and confusing this experience can be.In Surprise Child, Leslie Leyland Fields, who experienced two unplanned pregnancies in her forties, lyrically weaves her own story with the stories of other women who understand the isolation you face as expectations and plans are turned upside down to make room for a child.“Each year, more than three million women discover themselves pregnant–at a hard time, the wrong time, at a difficult place in their lives. I am one of those women.…”Together, these women walk with you month-by-month through the physical and emotional stages of pregnancy, voicing with startling honesty their own anxieties and struggles. Here you will find the companionship and hope you need to journey toward new life.
Out on the Deep Blue is the first collection of dramatic, first-person accounts of commercial fishing written by the men and women who work in the nation's most dangerous occupation.Nineteen diverse fisher-writers, from the famous to the unknown, take the reader swordfish harpooning on the Georges Banks, winter crabbing in the Bering Sea, sea-urchin diving off Maine, herring fishing in Alaska, shark-harpooning off Scotland and points between. Together, they plumb the extremes of living, working, and sometimes dying at sea, creating the most intensely personal portrait of fishing and fishermen to date.The best writing on commercial fishing is gathered here, blending the voices of such well-known writers as Peter Mathiessen, Gavin Maxwell, Linda Greenlaw, Spike Walker, and John Cole, together with experienced and emerging writers, many of whom have spent much of their lives on the water. With its layers and rich textures, this collection will have strong, enduring appeal to loves of nonfiction.Marie BeaverJohn ColeMichael CrowleyWendy ErdLeslie Leyland FieldsRobert FritcheyJoel GayLinda GreenlawSeth HarknessNancy LordPeter MatthiessenGavin MaxwellWilliam McCloskeyPaul MolyneauxDebra NielsenToby SullivanMartha SutroJoe UptonSpike Walker
