Alexander Bowman, a writer, leaves his brother George and the family trading post, to start a new life with Perrette, his brother's wife....

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." -Matthew 5:4We can never prepare for it.Loss can be overwhelming, and it builds as much as it breaks-causing us to crumble into teary, pain-filled balls of agony or to fall into bottomless pits of despair-while tightly holding onto... anything. Many of us have prayed for something special, something only God can manifest. For me, my prayer was for a child who had my beautiful hair, my husband's awesome wit, and a long life we could enjoy together. I held onto this prayer... this dream... for years. Yet, our desire would never take her first steps, never say her first word, and never get the chance to grow or shine.During this season of loss my entire world crumbled, my spirit broke, and I had no idea how I would be able to move beyond it. I began to question who I was and who God was to me. Was He mad at me? Did He even have a plan for me? This started me on a journey to really understanding the truth of who God is and how I could have a more intimate relationship with Him.Wrapped up in His embrace and comforted by Divinely-assigned relationships, God showed me that it is through our toughest times that we are re-forged with resilience. And, that The Beauty in Letting Go is transforming into the best version of ourselves. The version He initially designed us to become.

"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--

Fear. Insecurity. Low self-esteem. Regret. These things leave people feeling invisible to the people around them. Many people hide their true self for fear of what others will think of them. They try to be picture-perfect when people look at them, but inside they feel lonely and invisible. In Becoming Visible, Sue McGray gives readers the courage to step out of their personal prisons and fully embrace and love themselves. Readers will learn the success principles and life lessons that helped a woman who was so shy and insecure that she was afraid to call a stranger to order pizza, become a National Sales Director for one of America's most trusted and beloved cosmetics companies.

It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls - and their foray into the spiritual world - lead to?

The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how today's global giants grew. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built brands which shaped perceptions of beauty, and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and its association with a handful of cities, notably Paris and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into China, Russia, and India, but at the same time, these brands are having to respond to a far greater diversity of cultures and lifestyles as new markets are opened up worldwide. In the twenty first century, beauty is again being re-imagined anew.