Have you ever been told to “just pray about it” as you wrestled with raw emotions and difficult circumstances? With empathy, honesty, and faith, While You Are Steeping invites you to not only pray but also to feel and heal. Author Rebecca Pearce offers a series of devotionals that takes you on a journey through the ordinary challenges of daily living as well as the extraordinary battles with grief, loneliness, discontent, depression, and injustice. Reflecting Rebecca’s desire to see women connect with God right in the trenches of life, While You Are Steeping presents a compilation of insights she received from the Lord, providing clarity in the middle of her own trials. Through each thought-provoking piece and the questions that follow, you’re encouraged to “steep” in the Lord’s presence and listen for His life-giving words. It is her prayer you will be inspired by her openness and will renew your faith and hope.

Modern processed foods are, literally, making us sick and overweight. Eating Pure in a Processed Foods World® is designed to help you turn back the hands of time and discover the original, healthy way of eating delicious, pure and natural foods.This resource book is packed full of gardening tips, step-by-step directions for canning, freezing and dehydrating; and over 300 recipes that are good for you and delicious, too! Learn why and how to avoid the foods that can adversely affect your health, and discover the many benefits of home-style cooking by planning your meals around fruits and vegetables.Authors, Joyce Kaping and Colleen Anderson, have put their heart and soul into this book and share with you years of gardening and preserving experience, as well as hundreds of healthy, tasty recipes they have created while on their own personal journey to better health.

Originally published under title: Life by the cup: ingredients for a purpose-filled life of bottomless happiness and limitless success by Atria in 2014.

This pocket-sized handbook to all things tea is the perfect gift for tea connoisseurs, tea newbies, and anyone who appreciates a good cuppa. Tea is one of the most popular beverages in the world—second only to water. And there's so much to learn and try beyond the colorful boxes in the grocery store. Like wine and beer, each tea variety has its own distinct history, source, and flavor profile, from Darjeeling to matcha to Silver Needle. Tea is also embedded in the traditions of many cultures around the world and is shared with others through distinctive ceremonies that include unique customs, foods, and accessories. Within the pages of this pocket-sized guide, you’ll find information, how-tos, and trivia for tea lovers of all levels. Experts and newbies alike will learn about • Tea Bags vs. Loose Leaf • Anatomy of a Tea Plant • How to Prepare Tea • Tea Families and Common Varieties • Types of Teapots and How to Use Them • Tea Traditions Across the World Plus an illustrated guide to tea accessories, terms every tea lover should know, highlights from tea history, a tea tasting guide, tips for throwing tea parties, and much more!

“Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties—each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious.”—Maxine Hong Kingston The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history—Japan as it opens its doors to the West. It was a period when wearing a different color kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped blackening their teeth to profess an allegiance to Western ideas, and when Japan’s most mysterious rite—the tea ceremony—became not just a sacramental meal, but a ritual battlefield. We see it all through the eyes of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by the Shin family, proprietors of a tea ceremony school, after their daughter, Yukako, finds her hiding on their grounds. Aurelia becomes Yukako’s closest companion, and they, the Shin family, and all of Japan face a time of great challenges and uncertainty. Told in an enchanting and unforgettable voice, The Teahouse Fire is a lively, provocative, and lushly detailed historical novel of epic scope and compulsive readability.

The Seven Things Cookbook 42 Charmingly Illustrated and Sarcastically Explained Recipes and Preparations for the New Cook Written and illustrated by Amy-Elyse Neer Everyone should know how to feed themselves, this book is for the beginner or young person just starting out on their own, who needs to learn some basic lessons in "How To Feed Yourself". On the theory that everyone should be able to make seven of each meal, this book gives you complete instructions in preparing 7 breakfasts, lunches,dinners,slow cooker meals, and desserts. As well as 7 extra little things you may find handy. Completely illustrated for ease of reference, and with handy instructions on kitchen tools and ingredient shopping. This is an excellent book for your graduate, or housewarming gift for your brand new adult living alone for the first time.