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101
Tips for a Happier Marriage
Simple Ways for Couples to Grow Closer to God and to Each Other
Author: Jennifer Roback Morse
Author: Betsy Kerekes
Price: $14.95
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Format: Paperback
101
Tips for a Happier Marriage: Simple Ways for Couples to Grow Closer
to God and to Each Other offers Catholic couples concise, practical,
and at times humorous suggestions for creating and sustaining a
more joyful, peace-filled marriage that is steeped in the beauty
and mystery of Catholic faith.
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Just
Married
The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First Five Years
of Marriage
Author: Gregory K. Popcak
Author: Lisa Popcak
Price: $15.95
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Format: Paperback
In Just
Married: The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First
Five Years of Marriage, nationally syndicated radio hosts and international
family life speakers Greg and Lisa Popcak combine decades of counseling,
the latest findings in marriage research, more than twenty years of
marriage, and the wisdom of Catholic teaching to offer couples the
most up-to-date look at what it takes to create and sustain an incredible
Catholic marriage that will last a lifetime.
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Are
You Really Listening?
Keys to Successful Communication
Author: Mary Siegel
Author: Paul Donoghue
Price: $16.95
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Format: Paperback
Listening
is an essential skill worth every effort to learn and to master. Listening
takes us out of our tendency toward self-absorption and self-protection.
It opens us to the world around us and to the persons who matter most
to us. When we listen, we learn, we grow, and we are nourished.
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The
Good Listener
Author: James Sullivan
Price: $10.95
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Format: Paperback
The power
of everyday interactions, says James Sullivan, is much greater than
we suspect. We have the power to offer profound healing, comfort,
and affirmation, or to create deep wounds.
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Healing
the Wounds of Divorce
A Spiritual Guide to Recovery
Author: Barbara Shlemon Ryan
Price: $14.95
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Format: Paperback
After
30 years of marriage, Barbara Leahy Shlemon’s (now Ryan) divorce
was a jolting experience, a tragedy that plunged her into psychological
and spiritual isolation. “To feel cut-off, dis-owned or condemned
by the Father adds a heavy burden to a heart already weighed down
with sadness,” she writes.
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Finding
Your Way After Your Spouse Dies
Author: Marta Felber
Price: $14.95
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Format: Paperback
There
is nothing you need more than the warm, reassuring voice of one who
has traveled this path before. . . and survived after suffering the
death of a spouse. In Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies, Marta
Felber offers just such a voice-caring, hopeful, always pointing ahead
to a tomorrow that will be a little easier than today.
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When
Your Spouse Dies
A Concise and Practical Source of Help and Advice
Author: Cathleen Curry
Price: $11.95
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Format: Paperback
Writing
about her own journey as a widow, Cathleen Curry helps others deal
with theirs. She establishes eight practical guideposts for getting
through the first year and deals with a variety of topics including
the stages of grief for adults and children, the expressions of mourning,
loneliness and sexuality, financial priorities and planning, good
health practices, and the importance of spiritual growth to the healing
process.
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Finding
Your Way After Your Parent Dies
Hope for Grieving Adults
Author: Richard Gilbert
Price: $13.95
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Format: Paperback
Rev.
Richard Gilbert has created a compassionate guide for those struggling
with the loss of a parent. Bringing many years of experience in bereavement
counseling, Gilbert sketches out some of the issues that arise in
the wake of a parent's death and offers practical suggestions for
navigating these difficulties.
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Should
We Marry?
Author: Joseph M. Champlin
Price: $7.95
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Format: Paperback
This
book challenges couples to seriously ponder the questions "Is
this really love?" and "Is this the person for me?"
And it speaks directly to the church's teaching on cohabitation! It's
must reading for those anticipating marriage and a superb resource
for all Marriage Preparation Ministers. We all know the statistics.
In fact, we've heard it so often that we may have become resigned
to the fact that better than 50% of marriages will not endure. Yet
thousands of people in churches across the country continue to labor
in the ministry of marriage preparation, doing their utmost to prepare
couples for the significant sacramental commitment of marriage.
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Fun?
But We're Married!
A Wise and Witty Guide to a Lasting Marriage
Author: Lois Davitz
Author: Joel Davitz
Price: $14.95
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Format: Paperback
Co-authored
by long-married Columbia University professors of psychology, Fun?
But We're Married is about what it takes to sustain a healthy and
happy marriage. Emphasizing the value of having fun together, Lois
and Joel Davitz also suggest that: more communication is not always
better; you can be just too sensitive; your marriage can survive a
few good fights—if you know the rules; getting out of sync is
not necessarily fata
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Courage
to Love ... When Your Marriage Hurts
Author: Gerald Foley
Price: $13.95
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Format: Paperback
Your
Marriage Hurts offers help and hope instead. Building on the experience
of Retrouvaille, a successful church-sponsored ministry, it focuses
on building relationships.
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Your
Sexual Self
Pathway to Authentic Intimacy
Author: Fran Ferder
Author: John Heagle
Price: $17.95
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Format: Paperback
The authors
invite us to understand and accept our sexuality as the energy and
power that enables us to share real intimacy; that enables us to look
closely at the process of personal growth that we must pursue to fulfill
the hunger for love.
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Walking
Together
Discovering the Catholic Tradition of Spiritual Friendship
Author: Mary DeTurris Poust
Price: $13.95
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Format: Paperback
In Walking
Together: Discovering the Catholic Tradition of Spiritual Friendship,
author, journalist, and speaker Mary DeTurris Poust examines rich
and nurturing examples of spiritual friendship from well-known saints,
writers, and spiritual Catholic leaders who serve as exemplars for
cultivating meaningful Catholic friendship in a world of Twitter and
Facebook.
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Closer
Musings on Intimacy, Marriage, and God
Author: Valerie Schultz
Price: $11.95
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Format: Paperback
In this delightful and heartfelt appreciation of intimacy in marriage,
award-winning essayist, wife, and mother Valerie Schultz explores
how the bonds between husband and wife, and parent and child draw
us ever closer to God and one another.
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Once
More with Love
A Guide to Marrying Again
Author: Bobbi Coyle-Hennessy
Price: $17.95
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Format: Paperback
Once
More with Love takes readers on a journey of growth and awareness
as they examine the complexities and issues of remarriage. It is a
book born out of the author's own painful experiences of divorce and
the challenges of remarriage. And it has been developed and refined
over ten years of use with those who have remarried or are planning
to do so, drawing on the personal experiences of the author along
with over four hundred people who have participated in her remarriage
preparation sessions.
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Sex,
Love & You
Making the Right Decision
Author: Tom Lickona
Author: Judy Lickona
Author: William Boudreau, MD
Price: $14.95
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Format: Paperback
The pressure
on teens to be sexually active only increases and multiples as the
years go on. Today, teens are under enormous pressure to be sexually
active. Popular culture tells them that uncommitted responsible sex
is possible.
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God
Knows Marriage Isn't Always Easy
12 Ways to Add Zest
Author: Maureen Law
Author: Lanny L. Law
Price: $14.95
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Format: Paperback
Is there
a secret to a good marriage? Lanny Law and Maureen Rogers Law don't
propose any hidden formula for success. Rather, they retrace the steps
of a loving relationship that all couples pledge to at the time of
their wedding and remind husbands and wives of twelve essential ways
to improve their relationship.
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The
Bride's Bible
A Treasury of Inspirational Verses from the Bible
Price: $16.95
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Format: Hardcover
An ideal
bridal shower or wedding gift, The Bride's Bible is an anthology of
scripture readings drawn from a variety of translations of the Bible,
plus inspiring reflective quotations from spiritual teachers such
as Henri J. M. Nouwen, Thomas a Kempis, and Mother Teresa. Each two-page
spread combines full color reproductions of artistic masterpieces
(including works by Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Monet, Renoir, and Gainsborough)
along with text chosen to suit the needs and emotions of couples from
the early days of marriage and on through their many years of family
life together. The Bride's Bible includes a presentation page and
an attractive and durable slipcase.
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One
Day He Beckoned
One Woman's Story of the Difference Jesus Made
Author: Antoinette Bosco
Price: $14.95
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Format: Paperback
One Day
He Beckoned is the story of the difference that Jesus has made in
journalist Antoinette's Bosco's life. It's a story of adversity and
heartache most of us can only imagine. It takes us through a childhood
cut short as she helped care for her younger siblings when her troubled
mother could not. Through a disastrous marriage arranged by her traditional
Italian father. Through life as a single mother of six children. And
through the unspeakable pain of losing two children, one to suicide
and one to murder.
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Facing
Forgiveness
A Catholic's Guide to Letting Go of Anger and Welcoming Reconciliation
Author: Loughlan Sofield, S.T.
Author: Carroll Juliano, S.H.C.J.
Author: Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond
Price: $10.95
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Format: Paperback
Out of
the wealth of their shared experience, authors Sofield, Juliano, and
Aymond have fashioned an inviting exploration of the process of forgiveness
that blends compelling personal narrative, wise spiritual guidance,
and sound practical suggestions.
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Finding
Your Way to Say Goodbye
Comfort for the Dying and Those Who Care for Them
Author: Harold Ivan Smith
Price: $14.95
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Format: Paperback
Written
by a person who has been comforting and counselling terminally ill
people for years, this book offers guidance, support, and encouragement
for both those who are approaching death as well as their families,
friends, counselors, medical and hospice practicioners, and chaplains.
Consisting of short "chapters," each including a spiritual
reflection, Smith moves the reader or caregiver from "admitting
that you know" to "finishing the race.
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From
Hurting to Happy
Transforming Your Life After Loss
Author: Barbara Bartocci
Price: $14.95
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Format: Paperback
Barbara
Bartocci has been widowed, divorced, fired from a job, lost both of
her parents at a young age, and raised three children with special
needs. With each loss—because she had to—she got beyond
her grief and went on with living.
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Finding
Your Way After Your Child Dies
Author: Kenneth Wezeman
Author: Phyllis Vos Wezeman
Price: $14.95
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Format: Paperback
Finding
Your Way After Your Child Dies offers parents a comforting way to
grieve whenever the need arises, whether occasioned by the passing
of a school bus or a glance at a family portrait.
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The
Fabric of Friendship
Celebrating the Joys, Mending the Tears in Women's Relationships
Author: Joy Carol
Price: $17.95
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Format: Paperback
Exploring
the emotional hurdles that women face in their relationships, The
Fabric of Friendship reveals a simple truth: friendship is never simple.
Weaving her own experiences together with real-life stories of other
women, Joy Carol will remind readers of the amazing gifts friendship
holds and inspire them to reclaim the power of their relationships.
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God
Knows Grandparents Make a Difference
Ways to Share Your Wisdom
Author: Cynthia Tambornino
Author: Priscilla Herbison
Price: $11.95
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Format: Paperback
Grandparents
have always tackled a mixed bag of joy, sorrow, energy, exhaustion,
fear, laughter, anger, and peace. And today there are new challenges,
too—providing one-parent families with emotional and financial
support, adjusting to ethnic, racial, and religious diversity, even
taking on the parenting of a grandchild.
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Finding
Your Way through Divorce
Author: Kathy Brewer Gorham
Price: $10.95
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Format: Paperback
Blending
theory, stories, and spiritual components with tools for recovery,
Kathy Brewer Gorham takes a Christian perspective in Finding Your
Way through Divorce to guide readers through the myriad emotions and
difficulties that surround any divorce
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Your
Truest Self
Embracing the Woman You Are Meant to Be
Author: Janice Lynne Lundy
Price: $18.95
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Format: Paperback
Within
every woman there is an essential Truth waiting to be claimed, a Truth
that will empower her to claim a spiritual life that is real and authentic,
one that will nourish and sustain her every day. Drawing from her
personal encounters with twelve spiritual mentors—activists,
artists, writers, and teachers, including Frances Moore Lappé,
Iyanla Vanzant, Naomi Judd, and Joyce Rupp—author Janice Lynne
Lundy has created twelve Transformational Truths to guide and enable
women to live more peaceful, confident, and open-hearted lives. Each
chapter includes peaceful pauses for meditation and reflection questions
that will help readers unpack their own personal meaning from each
Transformational Truth's profound wisdom.
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We
Really Need to Talk
Steps to Better Communication
Author: Paul Donoghue
Author: Mary Siegel
Price: $16.95
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Format: Paperback
In We
Really Need to Talk: Steps to Better Communication Paul J. Donoghue
and Mary E. Siegel, Best selling authors of Sick and Tired of Feeling
Sick and Tired, expertly guide readers past the pitfalls of poor interaction
and offer six steps to communication for healthy, honest, and constructive
relationships with spouses, family, friends, and coworkers.
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Finding
Your Way Through Domestic Abuse
A Guide to Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Healing
Author: Connie Fourre
Price: $14.95
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Format: Paperback
All too
often resources for coping with domestic violence and physical abuse
overlook the equally painful aspects of emotional and verbal abuse.
Even fewer address the ongoing dynamics after a relationship ends,
the long process of grieving, and the role of forgiveness. In Finding
Your Way through Domestic Abuse, Connie Fourre offers victims of domestic
abuse the information they need to move through this difficult, painful
time. Fourre, a survivor of domestic abuse, guides readers through
every step of the journey, from realizing the warning signs of an
abusive relationship, to leaving the abuse behind, to coping with
the aftermath.
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