It seems Lydia's greatest accomplishment is not her academic credentials (three master's degrees and a dissertation shy of a Ph.D.), nor her professorships, nor her love of the languages (including Croatian, English, Russian, French, Latin, Spanish and probably more), nor her Fulbright scholarship, nor even her skills as a gifted artist and painter. Neither does she rest in the rich cultural experiences she has acquired by traveling the world over. It seems her greatest accomplishment by far is something that God gave her: a relationship with him through Jesus Christ that brings her happiness and purpose not found in world. Reading through her life and experiences, it seems that the theme of her life is: never look to oneself for happiness but look to the Lord for happiness and purpose. She has lived that purpose out with distinction during her now 87 years of living on this earth (as of this writing). As you read her story, you see that whether she is being driven around by the Swiss President, meeting Corrie ten Boom, working for an Ambassador in Moscow, Russia, or teaching missionaries at an international missions' agency, this profoundly accomplished woman is really just a simple child of God who loves her Lord Jesus.

On Jennifer Haynes, who was trafficked out of India under the garb of adoption, as an eight-year-old into the United States; sexually abused by two white American fathers; and deported back to India after over 2 decades time as an illegal immigrant, as her papers were never processed.

A woman artist struggles to successfully raise her children during desperate times. A recreation of the stories Sheila Buchanan Buell told to her daughter the author, Patsy Buell Stierna.

Childless in her early forties, time was running out for Arnelle Kendall to have the baby she desperately wanted. Her work as a public relations executive required that she travel internationally much of the year, leaving little time for romance. In this memoir, Arnelle describes the long and often painful path to her daughter’s birth—a path she says that was strewn with more obstacles than a mountain road after an avalanche. A Tale of Two Continents describes the many hurdles that Arnelle overcame to be a mother. A health scare added urgency to her wish and narrowed the timetable, and a life-threatening illness from twenty years earlier made pregnancy hazardous. Defying the danger, she decided to have a baby through in vitro fertilization. What followed was a heroic, painful, and numbingly discouraging ordeal that involved a series of trips from her home in South Florida to her native Johannesburg, South Africa, to become impregnated. Tragedy struck along the way, but Arnelle finally prevailed; she is now the mother of a bright, little girl. A story of perseverance, A Tale of Two Continents shows the extraordinary efforts of one woman’s quest to have a child.