Loving my actual Neighbor ~Alexandra Kuykendall

This Book is all about communicating with people and making time for them just like Jesus did.  You learn how to do small adjustments to the way you think that will change your life.  Alexandra covers seven topics from the what Peter and others speak of from the Bible.  Subjects covered are: humility, listening, learning, awkwardness, accepting, lightening up, giving freely.  Each chapter has a bible verse, questions, practice steps and scripture.  This is not just for your neighbors, it teaches dealing with co-workers, diversity, differences of cultures and how to accept each other in today's world.

I would recommend this to anyone that wants a good read that will open your mind to how the bible reached people and how Jesus taught to love each and everyone of us.  It is a great way to understand how everyone can be different but have the tolerance to accept others for what they believe in.  This is a book for all ages that want to reach out to others.

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NIV, Maxwell Leadership Bible, 3rd Edition, Hardcover, Comfort Print ~ John Maxwell

This bible is based on John Maxwell's leadership teachings.  John takes his  21 laws of leadership, 21 qualities of a leader and explains how the bible relates.  You not only can use this in teaching in the church but also in your everyday life.  The font and pages are high quality with side teachings and inserted text are inspiration and the relation to how you being a leader fits into the bible meaings.

I would recommend this to anyone that is in a leadership role either in the church or at your everyday job..  This bible has so much information and ways to share your faith that it can be used as a tool for sharing your faith or being a witness in a professional way.  It is very easy to understand and read, each side article pertains to the information that is one the same way.  The font size is easy to see and the pages are sturdy enough for many days of page turning and studying.

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I Think You're Wrong (but I'm Listening) ~ Sarah Stewart & Beth Silvers

Sarah and Beth are on the opposite sides of each other in the political world.  They don't agree with each other on political issues but, listen to each others sides and choose to show grace and respect to each other.  They have a podcast called "Political Pantsuits" and talk about the issues in today's world and listen to each others views and points.  They wrote this book to teach all of us to listen and hear the sides of everyone's concerns and beliefs.  The only way to get results in today's world is to stop the hate, yelling, protesting and start listening and work with each other with grace.  Each chapter of the book is about one way to work with political view in today's society and talk with both sides to get results. At the end of each chapter are questions to keep the conversations going and to get results of respectful learning and listening.

I would recommend this book to everyone of every age to read this book.  It is about dealing with politics but you could take the points and ideas of this book to know how to deal with other difficult and uncomfortable situations.  This is a short read, but packed with so much information..... you will want to read this book and share with everyone. 

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Character Carved in Stone ~ Pat Williams with Jim Denney

This is a short read, but very big on contents.  In this book we learn about leadership from the teachings of 12 key point virtues taught at West Point Military Academy.  As each chapter covers one of the 12 virtues, it also gives us examples of leaders in history and how the virtues shape leaders and the character of our personal journey in life.  The stories are easy to read and very interesting of how they shaped our country.

I would recommend this to anyone that wants to be a great leader or improve on living a better life.  This is a book that anyone can read.  If you are interested in history, this will be a good read.  The explanation in each chapter also covers interesting information of West Point.  I would recommend this to anyone that wants to become a better person.

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Secrets at Cedar Cabin ~ Colleen Coble

This one is book 3 in the Lavender Tides series and just as good as all of Colleen Coble books.  This story continues with Bailey Flemming trying to save her life and find out who is the murderer.   Bailey needs time away and chooses to move to a secluded cabin in Lavender Tides.  Here she befriends her neighbor, Lance and the suspense, drama and romance begins...... 

You won't be able to put this book down, as usual from Colleen's books.  I would recommend this to all Colleen fans and anyone that wants to have a great read that will keep you guessing until the end..... Love this book and any age can read it.  This is a page turned from beginning to end.

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Feel Better Fast and Make it Last~ Daniel G. Amen, MD

Dr. Amen's new book is about how to change your brains thinking to overcome negativity, anxiety,

anger, stress and trauma.  This book has so much detail in it, you will need to read it slow and take your time to digest the contents.  There are 7 parts in the book that will teach you how to take a negative and hurtful situation into a positive and controlled emotion.  Dr. Amen teaches by explaining and examples of easy to read material and little quick sayings to help you remember.  He also goes into depth of the affect of your moods have to how you will behave in situations.  Diagrams and charts give you that added explanation of what he is trying to teach.   He gives you a list of negative circumstances and how you can turn them into a list of positive, example:  See problems as permanent.... instead..... see problems as temporary, thinking this way will give your brain the attitude and mood to stay in the happy mood, not sad and angry mood.   

I would recommend this book to any one that wants to become a better person or would like to be able to positive for any situation.  This book is so easy to understand with tons of information that it will take time to read it all.  I found that you can pick this book up, open it and where ever you opened to if you start reading it will effect you.  This is a book that will be kept on my shelf and read for years.   

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Simple Joys ~ Candace Payne

This is a small book with alot of spunk.  Candace tells us of simple situations that are upsetting, emotional, or not planned but, have a reason for happening.  She makes you realize that everything happens for a reason and that there are blessings to every situation.  You just need to stop and take a moment to see the situation as a learning experience and what is GOD trying to tell us.

I recommend this book to anyone that just wants to smile and feel that, "hey this has happend to me" and know that you can smile at the situation because it was meant to be.  This is a small, hardcover book that is an easy read and can be enjoyed by any age.  It can be read all in one sitting or picked up and read whenever you feel like smiling.  I really enjoyed the positive and happiness the book provides to the reader.

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