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The products in the LifeLines Shop are ones I have personally read or used or written or purchased or subscribed to, and I feel confident about recommending them to others. In cases where I earn a commission from your purchase, I indicate that.

I appreciate any purchases you make using the links on my site, and I want to assure you that commissions have no impact on my opinion of the product.

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Audiobooks

The Help (Kathryn Stockett), available from Amazon.com

By the way, my mother recommended this audiobook to me, and I thanked her in this Mothers Day blog

The Hiding Place (Corrie ten Boom), available from ChristianAudio.com

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The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafón), available from Amazon.com

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Biographies and Memoirs

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: how I learned to live a better story (Donald Miller)

Cancer Freedom: one person’s journey of faith (Bea Hoek and Melanie Jongsma)

Reader endorsement: “I just read the book today. (I was too scared before.) It was perfect timing and a WONDERFUL book. Everyone who knows someone with cancer should read it!”

Bea Hoek’s memoir of her journey from cancer to freedom is taken from her own journal entries—the story is honest, gritty, and inspiring. If you are facing cancer yourself, buy Cancer Freedom for on-target encouragement from someone who’s been there. If you are the friend or family member of a cancer patient, read Cancer Freedom for the sympathetic help it contains.

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Learning to Love Olivia: a daughter’s journal of her mother’s journey through Alzheimer’s (Ardella Perry-Osler)

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Significant Grandfathers (George Griffiths)

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The Geertsema Chronicles (John Geertsema)

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Christianity and Church

Being a Lifeboat Church in a Cruise Ship World (Steve Elzinga)

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Breaking Down Walls: a model for reconciliation in an age of racial strife (Glen Kehrein and Raleigh Washington)

Divine Duct Tape (Kelli Ra Anderson)

The Gospel According to Lost (Chris Seay)

The Hiding Place (Corrie ten Boom)

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Reclaiming the Sacred in our Worship Space (Jason L. Perry)

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When Helping Hurts: how to alleviate poverty without hurting the poor and yourself (Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett)

Christmas

Diary of a Mall Santa (Stewart Scott)

Freelancing and Business

31 Days to Build a Better Blog (Darren Rowse)

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Design is a Job (Mike Montiero)

FatCow.com website hosting services

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Knockout Entrepreneur (George Foreman and Ken Abraham)

Lulu.com self-publishing services

I use Lulu.com to print all my clients’ books—because Lulu can print small quantities at a reasonable price, and the quality is excellent. People who hire LifeLines depend on me to give their book a professional layout, and I depend on Lulu to make my work look good.

A lot of details are involved in preparing files for press, and that’s why people are willing to pay me to handle that part of the process. For those who want to do it themselves, Lulu makes the process as painless as possible.

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The Well-Fed Writer, The Well-Fed Self-Publisher, and Back For Seconds (Peter Bowerman)

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Health and Fitness

My Big Bottom Blessing: how hating my body led to loving my life (Teasi Cannon)

Why We Get Fat: and what to do about it (Gary Taubes)

History

Glimpses of Lincoln: stories related by himself and others (edited by LifeLines)

A wealth of stories that give depth and dimension to America’s iconic 16th president. Re-published from a 1904 book, and edited for clarity and current grammatical norms, Glimpses of Lincoln includes anecdotes, line drawings, war stories, Lincoln’s best-known speeches, and even the firsthand account by Walt Whitman of the events at Ford’s Theater on the night of Lincoln’s assassination.