"A powerful and beautiful story of the strength of a mother's faith, an inspiration for everyone, filled with hope and love." --Anne D. Meyer, past President of Nancy Reagan's National Family Partnership and drug strategy advisor to President George H.W. Bush "Just Keep Going is an insightful and practical devotional, showing the unwavering love of a mother and her journey through the pain of a son struggling with an addiction. Sarah's personal experience shows how you, too, can let go of regret and blame, holding onto the wisdom, strength and comfort of God's Word." --Pam DeRosa, President and co-founder of the InFormed Foundation (eating disorder education) and nationally-known author, speaker and radio show host "What lies between the covers of this book is the gut wrenching story of a mothers' love, anchored in a faith that challenges her reality of who God is and what He promises. Listen to Sarah's conversation with God as she battles for her son. This story belongs to me. It has been my reality." --Elizabeth Neary, nurse and the mother of a son in recovery from addiction "This book is powerful, encouraging and inspirational. You will be deeply touched by Sarah's determination to listen to God while going through circumstances that have devastated many families." --Sandi Lybert, co-founder of Your Choice and program coordinator for Addiction Resource Council Sarah Nielsen is a wife and mother of three. As a parent speaker with Your Choice, a drug education, prevention and awareness program, she shares her knowledge and experience with students, parents and teachers. Sarah also manages a publishing company in Wisconsin.

The Right Message Will Find You This book is unlike any other. It offers direction, guidance and reassurance with just ONE turn of a page to receive an INTUITIVE Message that will answer your most pressing questions. It will give you what you need immediately, without having to read page upon page to find what you’re looking for. The right Message will find you. None of us are immune to the difficulties and challenges of life. We all experience heartache, loss, illness, fear, uncertainty and disconnection during the course of our lifetime. And it is during these dark moments, some may question life itself. When author Stephanie Reef faced her dark moments, the depression, anxiety, and worthlessness she felt led to addictions and thoughts of helplessness. At that time, she didn’t realize she could either choose to believe and accept those thoughts, or not. Then on one fateful day, when giving up seemed the only way out, she experienced something unexplainable that would change her life. That was the minute she surrendered and accepted a Presence within. Recognizing and accepting the Presence is what led her through the dark moments, and still directs her today. YOU WILL MAKE IT . . . JUST KEEP GOING is a collection of over 150 short and poignant essays that have sprouted from the Presence, each filled with motivation, inspiration, affirmations, and words of tough love for those challenging dark moments. The Messages received on Stephanie’s path to self-discovery and healing, are what kept her moving forward in a peaceful, sustainable direction. Readers will learn that The Presence is within everyone, waiting to be called upon and accepted.

The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. And nothing is getting any easier! In his previous books—Steal Like an Artistand Show Your Work!, New York Times bestsellers with over a million copies in print combined—Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock their creativity and then showed them how to share it. Now he completes his trilogy with his most inspiring work yet. Keep Going gives the reader life-changing, illustrated advice and encouragement on how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself in the face of personal burnout or external distractions. Here is how to Build a Bliss Station—a place or fixed period where you can disconnect from the world. How to see that Every Day Is Groundhog Day—yesterday’s over, tomorrow may never come, so just do what you can do today. How to Forget the Noun, Do the Verb—stop worrying about being a “painter” and just paint. Keep working. Keep playing. Keep searching. Keep giving. Keep living. Keep Going. It’s exactly the message all of us need, at exactly the right time.

The poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkansas and North Louisiana surrounding El Dorado, and the fates of many related companies and farms depended on its continued financial success. We Just Keep Running the Line is the story of the rise of the poultry processing industry in El Dorado and the labor force -- composed primarily of black women -- upon which it came to rely. At a time when agricultural jobs were in decline and Louisiana stood at the forefront of rising anti-welfare sentiment, much of the work available in the area went to men, driving women into less attractive, labor-intensive jobs. LaGuana Gray argues that the justification for placing African American women in the lowest-paying and most dangerous of these jobs, like poultry processing, derives from longstanding mischaracterizations of black women by those in power. In evaluating the perception of black women as "less" than white women -- less feminine, less moral, less deserving of social assistance, and less invested in their families' and communities' well-being -- Gray illuminates the often-exploitative nature of southern labor, the growth of the agribusiness model of food production, and the role of women of color in such food industries. Using collected oral histories to allow marginalized women of color to tell their own stories and to contest and reshape narratives commonly used against them, We Just Keep Running the Line explores the physical and psychological toll this work took on black women, analyzing their survival strategies and their fight to retain their humanity in an exploitative industry.

What started out as one person's bike ride to lose some weight became the story of a slice of America from the Pacific Northwest to the Florida Keys. There were big cities, rural towns and great stretches of open land. Heroes and villains are out there too, but mostly it's fine people living day-to-day and unknowingly impressing strangers. The weather wasn't left out either. From the first winter storm in the mountains of Washington through the tailwinds in Idaho to the heat and storms of the South, weather kept things from getting boring. Seeing America at ten miles an hour without the protective shell of a car allows all of the senses to get to know the country. It was an interesting ride with insights into culture and sore muscles. And then there was the awesome chocolate sundae in a ranch town in Utah This personal narrative also has an appendix that acts as a guide for others that might want to try their own adventure. There are details on gear, route selection, and expenses and most of all encouragement. You don't know what you'll find out there on the road until you get there.

The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL “A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” —NPR “A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.” —The Boston Globe “Powerful essays on loss, endurance, and renewal.” —People For fans of Glennon Doyle, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne Lamott, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life’s challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience. When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem “Good Bones,” started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next?

Just as Jeanie decides to leave her job as a horse trainer, deferring to her husband's movie industry career, one of the principals of the race track where she works is murdered and she is thrown back into the maelstrom of racetrack politics and the care of the valuable horses.