Benbrook Public Library

"A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant,...

Poetry based on the true loves and true failures with love by Shatieka Ross.

After losing her virginity at the age of 17, Allie Borden began to have a lot of sex with a variety of partners, earning her nicknames ranging from "The Female Tucker Max" to "Allie Whoreden." Ten years later she decided it was time to take a break because Plan B was getting expensive. So she declared herself celibate for three months and blogged about the experience. For the next 12 weeks, she analyzed every aspect of her promiscuous past from her...

A teenager teams with a friend and start selling drugs trying to help his mother.

"In our outcome-based, technologically driven society, it is easy to lose sight of the innocence and uniqueness of each child. Sally Clarkson helps parents unearth the hidden potential of their child's imagination, learning capacity, and ability to engage authentically with the world using the same principles that guided her"--

Do you know what your heart truly wants? And if you did, would you know how to communicate it and be heard?Psychological surveys have found that 95% of people think they're self-aware… but only 15% really are. We live in a high-energy world, but every new technological advancement takes us further from ourselves. We have learned how to cut ourselves off from our true selves.But there's a solution, and your body already knows it. When our Heart and...

Meditations that beautifully articulate a contemporary Christian wisdom Through a series of short, thoughtful meditations, Learning to Dream Again shows what true wisdom - wisdom shaped by Jesus' earthy humility, shameful suffering, and effervescent joy - might look like for Christians today. Through the lens of this Christian wisdom, Samuel Wells addresses a number of difficult personal and social issues, including taxes, abortion, torture, hunger,...

Loving God has its challenges, but it's possible to grow through the clutter that has gotten in the way and love Him with all our heart. Doesn't everyone want to feel deep love and intimacy? As followers of Christ, Jesus reminds us that we are to love God with ALL of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Often, past events or people have hurt us and interfered with our ability to fully give and receive love. Left unhealed, a search for love through...

What does it feel like to be in a hard place and receive a word from God? It's energizing and encouraging! Did you know that you can be a voice to share with others what God wants to say to them? In the same way Joan Hunter teaches how to pray for the sick with child-like faith and see them recover, she demonstrates how simple it can be to prophesy. You Can Prophesy shows you how to hear God's voice clearly and then share that message effectively...

And God said, let us make man. So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them (Genesis 1:26-27). There was a reshaping of he him and he them. This became a learned behavior, a pattern that was set, yet could be changed. If you continue to do what you have always done, you will be what you always have been. The world that you create will be viewed by what you have always done. All the patterns...