She is Elle Graves. She is 14. She is a captive. She is alone. She is frightened. She is no better than a slave. But she is not a red savage. Her story is wrapped within the historical facts of the Cherokee Nation in the early 19th century at a time when they were at their best and ultimately driven to their worst. Elle experiences the worst of hatred and the best of love as she travels down her life path and strives to reconcile the two worlds that she knows; her white one that she can never escape and the red one that she has chosen to embrace. Elle discovers that family has nothing to do with blood. She learns that a life well lived involves difficult choices that transform you, making you not red, not white, but more closely pink. As she travels her life journey, which involves her head, her heart, and most importantly, her soul, she finds out that she was always a powerful woman even before she knew it.

Call Me Bear (Garden Walled Around Triology, Vol. 1)

Literature & Fiction

McGeown, Susan

Contemporary

Faith Inspired Books

She is Bear, the mate of Bright Feather. She has matured from a frightened, captive, white girl to a wife, mother, and perhaps most importantly, Powerful Indian Woman. She is eighteen years old. Wrapped within the historical facts of the Cherokee Nation during the early 19th century, we watch The Nation struggle inside and outside its borders. During this period, Andrew Jackson becomes president and under this presidency we see their forced migration to land west of the Mississippi and the tragic Trail of Tears in 1839. We see deprivation and deception, broken promises and sorrow. But we also see determination, hope, faith and honesty. As the white world presses in on Bearâ¿¿s precious garden walled around and all those she holds dear, she must fight to be able to call herself a survivor. For her ability to walk in both the white and the red world might be the best weapon they have to save them all.

Call Me Survivor (Garden Walled Around Trilogy, 3)

"There is no darkness so great that it can extinguish the light of even one tiny flame." It's April, 1912, and with her mother's death, fifteen year old Liliana Alvaro must face the difficult fact that she and her nine year old brother, Jossue, and her six year old sister, Maravilla, are now orphans. Swept up by a tide of circumstances she cannot control, Liliana struggles to keep her family together. When the three agree to board a train for an unknown destination to be "placed out west" Liliana knows that even with her fierce determination, Jossue's shrewd schemes, and Maravilla's childlike faith there is little hope that they will stay together. Yet Maravilla has a secret or two to tell and it seems as if Mamá and Papá have left behind more than just loving memories. Ideas of treasure and wealth and long-lost family fire Liliana's hopes and dreams. With single minded focus, Liliana forges ahead becoming a young woman willing to sacrifice everything to recover what her family has lost. When the chance to claim her birthright is within her grasp at last, Liliana is forced to face the hardest of all questions: what was the true treasure that her parents wanted her to have?

No Darkness So Great

McGeown, Susan Lee

Genre Fiction

Joining The Club was her mother Elaine's story ...Embracing The Truth is Olivia's.Here I am in psychologist Aileen Burkart's office. It's my very first visit to this therapist. I've dragged myself here out of desperation and as a last resort. Aileen reminds me a little of Jabba The Hutt sitting in her big throne-like chair as she oozes power and superiority. I feel like Princess Leia must have felt in the wire mesh bikini with the slave collar chained around her neck. Yes, I'm here of my own volition, but only just. Kind of as if you feel yourself sliding off a cliff, and in desperation and panic you grab the vicious looking cactus to save yourself; it hurts like hell but it's better than the alternative.This is a story of discovery, of transformation, of acceptance, and of faith.But most of all, despite Olivia's best attempts to the contrary, this is a story of love.

Embracing The Truth

Jochebed (Moses' mom) decided to fashion a basket and float her baby down a crocodile infested river trusting that God would keep him safe. I decided to put my child in a locked-down psychiatric hospital trusting that God would keep that child safe.\nEndless prayer, helpful medication, intense individual therapy, painful joint therapy, hours of personal research, and the addition of new and improved coping techniques to my personal survival toolbox became essential components to making it through daily life. While I make no claims regarding formal education in the field of psychology or therapy, I do claim to be a survivor of raising three adolescents. I've got a toolbox full of survival techniques that work.\nWho would have thought that such a family crisis could result in a positive outcome? But I can already be thankful that they brought us to the place we are today: better, stronger, wiser, and better prepared. I can look at my teen and feel ? hope again. I look at myself and feel ? optimism again. \nLet me share with you some of my teen survival tools. See if you find them to be as helpful (and as easy to use) as I did.

A Parent's Toolbox: Surviving the Teen Years

Parenting & Relationships

Brooks, Lee

Parenting

She was Elle Grave, a captive white girl, alone, frightened and no better than a slave. She is now Bear, daughter of One Who Knows, the mate of Bright Feather, and a powerful woman of the Real People of the Maple Forest. She is eighteen years old. Wrapped within the historical facts of the Cherokee Nation in the early 19th century, Bear experiences the worst of hatred and the best of love. Striving to reconcile the two worlds that she knows - her white one that she can never escape and the red one that she has chosen to embrace - Bear discovers that a life well lived involves difficult choices that transform you, making you not red, not white, but more closely pink. As she travels her life journey, which involves her head, her heart, and most importantly, her soul, she finds out that she was always a powerful woman even before she knew it.

A Garden Walled Around

Windermere Plantation

A study in the New Testament book of Colossians.Chapter by chapter explore the letter that the Apostle Paul wrote to the church of Colossae. Get to know the culture of the times, the struggles the church faced, and Paul's wise advice on how to walk in the wisdom that is the truth of Jesus Christ.Questions both for group discussion as well as personal reflection are included to help apply this to our own lives. What things are worth praying for? What are the keys to success for believers? What does new life in Christ mean?Also included in an appendix which compares many of the major religions of today with Christianity.

Colossians: Walking In Wisdom: A Bible Study on the New Testament Book of Colossians

Religion & Spirituality

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