There are over seven billion people in the world today. Why is it that so many of us still feel alone, forgotten, or abandoned? We long to be noticed, loved, and protected. We spend countless hours filling the emptiness with our careers and outside activities; and yet at the end of the day we still feel like orphans; our hearts cry out for a sense of belonging. No Longer an Orphan reveals God’s desire to give us that sense of belonging. The book shares twenty-seven distinct character traits of God that will bring clarity and understanding to the truth that we are never alone. Using real life examples, the reader has the opportunity to fully embrace and understand God’s true capacity to love, nurture, and protect us.

"Once an orphan, always an orphan!" became the mantra of her childhood. Orphan No More is a gripping first-hand account of a child who survives the horror of sexual abuse and abandonment in a society that turns a blind eye to the stark reality of molestation, child abuse, and sexual exploitation. Frightened and confused, she struggled to understand the death of her mommy and why her daddy did such horrible things to her. The state removed her from the only home she knew and tossed her from one foster home to another. What does the future hold for one abandoned little girl whose soul had been traumatized, tormented, repeatedly abused, and abandoned on so many levels?

Every generation has a Songkeeper--one chosen to keep the memory of the Song alive. And in every generation, there are those who seek to destroy the chosen one.

A National Book Award Longlist title! "A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon "This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical." —Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them—and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. Today’s Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been. But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back—and take her away forever from the only home she’s known? "A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book" (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).

No one likes to feel weak. Just thinking about our inadequate can fill us with fear and hopelessness. But Rose Marie Miller has a different perspective. For her, true weakness is a gift—born out of a deep sense of need, it drives us to Christ and unleashes all the redeeming energy of God's grace in our lives and others. Rose Marie Miller ...

Even though fully adopted by God the orphan spirit often remains in a Christian. This is the story of a man who struggled with this old identity and overcame it to fully embrace his sonship that God had given to him.

This story of Rodney the rooster, who wants to be a father more than anything, and Jordy, the orphan duckling he adopts, parallels the real life story of Jerry Windle and his son Jordan, the Cambodian orphan he adopts. Together they face the obstacles of being a different sort of family.