When Craig Cooper and Walker Hayes met, Walker was an alcoholic atheist reeling from the backlash of a failed music career. Through their unlikely friendship, Craig’s life demonstrated the love of Christ in a way that shattered Walker’s misconceptions of Christianity, ultimately leading him down the path to a dramatic conversion. The two are now close as brothers, choosing to be next-door neighbors and ripped out the fence between their homes as a testament to the power of the gospel to break down barriers and unite people together in Christ. Glad You’re Here helps us discover how building relationships, sacrificing for the good of others, and drawing near in times of need can lead to powerful transformation. Through story and biblical reflections, Glad You’re Here helps readers see how God works in the everyday lives of those who love him.

I’m So Glad You’re Here is the story of a family disrupted by ramifications of a father’s mental illness. The memoir opens with a riveting account of Gay, age eighteen, witnessing her father being bound in a straitjacket and carried out of the house on a stretcher. The trauma she experiences escalates when, after her father has had electroshock treatments at a state mental hospital, her parents leave her in a college dorm room and move from Massachusetts to Florida without her. She feels abandoned. Both her parents have gone missing. Decades later, when Gay and her three much-older siblings show up for their father’s funeral, she witnesses her sundered family’s inability to gather together. Eventually, she is diagnosed with PTSD of abandonment and treated with EMDR therapy—and finally begins to heal. Poignant and powerful, I’m So Glad You’re Here is Gay’s exploration of the idea that while the wounds we carry from growing up in fractured families stay with us, they do not have to control us—a reflective journey that will inspire readers to think about their own relational lives.

Key Selling Points There are many paths to becoming a family, and readers from a range of family experiences will find themselves represented in this inclusive picture book that gives nods to surrogacy, adoption, single parenting and alternative family structures. Thoughtful, simple text leaves room for readers to bring their own experiences and meaning to the story, while contemporary illustrations depict a variety of diverse families and the people who support them. Illustrator Brady Sato's first picture book, Kunoichi Bunny , was selected as one of NYPL's Best Books for Kids in 2022.

A lot can change in twenty years… Emma Garrett's honoring her father's last request—find Jimmy Falcon and give him a medallion that rightfully belongs to him and his people. It's been more than twenty years since Emma last saw Jimmy, and she looks forward to seeing him again. But when she tracks him down she discovers that this Jimmy bears very little resemblance to the proud young Sioux she'd once been in love with. This Jimmy's cynical about his roots and wants nothing to do with the gift—or its secret. But Emma's changed, too. Years ago she gave up on Jimmy too easily. This time the stakes are higher….

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