Dreams for a shared future united a modern rodeo cowboy and a nurse in West Texas. Grief and guilt from their separate pasts, debt, drought, constant hard work, and infidelity threaten their present. What will it take to bring them back together, if that's even possible? Maybe an old man and his dog can help.

Young orphaned Carrie Marie, angry at God for her mothers death, imagines her exodus to her celestial city, Los Angeles. Both a dreamer and doer her simple, one road, three-day journey to freedom, becomes a reality. Convinced her liberation lies in riches, fame and a law degree, her expectations control her every emotion, her every action. Her fresh journey is quickly detoured. Like a pilgrim on the Kings highway, she fights to maintain her forward momentum, focused on her expectations but continually slammed back. Carries failures become faith setbacks and reasons to deepen her anger at God. Along with her unintentional way, the attractiveness of evil calls to her with all that she thirsts after, while the hand of the Master Gardner tends to her for a prophetic future. Married with children, her talents soar, and fame surges. Increasing to the pinnacle of her success, past choices, present-day anger, and her unfulfilled expectations force her full circle until, at the powerful River under the bridge, once Carries hallowed God spot, good and evil face off. A battle of titans. Carries inspirational story now in jeopardy. Will she trade her life, for a life, will she give in and give up saving her daughter? The kingdom stands still in anticipation of the God that she will serve.

You can go to a mirror to find our how your body is doing, but how can you get a picture of your soul? A Well-Tended Soul holds a mirror up to your life for a refreshing, unabashedly feminine look at spiritual formation. Valerie Bell shows how to start building a life of incredible richness as you become more internally focused, forming your soul to God's own heart. A well-tended soul is a woman's beautifier. Soul-care weeds out what is malignant and false and builds in what is lovely, worthy, and redemptive. With refreshing candor, empathy, and earthiness, Bell uses her own experiences to help you - Live a deeper, more genuinely connected life - Pursue your truest dreams - Shape the world around you with an authentic spirituality - Discover the power of thankfulness to uproot envy and loss - Build confidence, joy, and beauty into your life - Transcend the fears and losses of aging . . . and much more.

With more than 130,000 copies sold since its original publication, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has proven itself to be one of the most useful tools a gardener can have. Now, this new, expanded edition promises to be an even more effective ally in your quest to create a beautiful, healthy, well-maintained perennial garden.

With more than 180,000 copies sold since its original publication, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has proven itself to be one of the most useful tools a gardener can have. Now, in this expanded edition, there's even more to learn from and enjoy. This is the first, and still the most thorough, book to detail essential practices of perennial care such as deadheading, pinching, cutting back, thinning, disbudding, and deadleafing, all of which are thoroughly explained and illustrated. More than 200 new color photographs have been added to this revised edition, showing perennials in various border situations and providing images for each of the entries in the A-to-Z encyclopedia of important perennial species. In addition, there is a new 32-page journal section, in which you can enter details, notes, and observations about the requirements and performance of perennials in your own garden. Thousands of readers have commented that The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is one of the most useful and frequently consulted books in their gardening libraries. This new, expanded edition promises to be an even more effective ally in your quest to create a beautiful, healthy, well-maintained perennial garden.

Just as a garden needs nurturing to grow and thrive, so does your relationship with God. Flourish: Devotions for a Well-Tended Heart, features 75 devotions to help you dig deeper into your faith and cultivate trust in God's promises for your life. Every reading is accented with a flower from the cottage garden so you can admire God's beautiful handiwork as you reflect on Him. A short description or interesting fact about each flower is included with each devotional reading.

“This practical guide is lush with clear, step-by-step advice.” —Real Simple Whether you are a new gardener or a green thumb, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is here to help you successfully plan, plant, and tend your garden. This hardworking guide includes thorough details on the essential practices of perennial care—included deadheading, pinching, and thinning—along with growing information for specific species and cultivars, on-trend garden design advice, a monthly planting and maintenance schedule, and details on native plants and gardening for wildlife. The Well-Tended Perennial Garden will be your ally in the quest for a beautiful, well-maintained garden.