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Publication Date
2025.
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English
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There is a dilemma that faces us all when we walk the complex and difficult path of life. Everywhere we look, the world seems awash in unspeakable cruelties. The list is endless, and, with every revelation, the caring heart breaks a little more. What are we to do? How do we deal with cruelty and evil in this world when we are taught to turn the other cheek and to forgive not seven times, but seventy times seven? How do we acknowledge the darkness...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
xi, 268 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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A deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world In this sensitive and probing book, Matthew Ichihashi Potts explores the complex moral terrain of forgiveness, which he claims has too often served as a salve to the conscience of power rather than as an instrument of healing or justice. Though forgiveness is often linked with reconciliation or the abatement of anger, Potts resists these associations,...
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English
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"Mallory Graham is returning home to the heat and vines of Southern California in search of the peace she can't find in the city. Her parents' vineyard is an escape for tourists, but full of mixed memories for Mallory. It may also be the one place she can find the forgiveness she seeks. But can things ever go back to the way they once were--in the days before that long, hot, heartbreaking summer? Growing up, it was Mallory and Kelly. Kelly and Mallory....
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Publication Date
2014
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English
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"Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has witnessed some of the worst crimes people can inflict on others. So wherever he goes, he inevitably gets asked this question. This book is his answer. Writing with his daughter, Mpho, an Anglican priest, they lay out the simple but profound truths about the significance of forgiveness, how it works, why everyone needs to know how to grant it and receive it, and why granting forgiveness is the greatest gift...
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English
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Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their rifles for white-tailed deer. When the muffled crack of a gunshot rings out, Jesse unaccountably knows something is wrong-and he races through the trees to find his dad dead of a rifle...
8) Island girls
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Publication Date
2013
Language
English
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When the will of a recently deceased ladies' man mandates a summer-long reunion for his daughters from different marriages at his posh Nantucket house, the three sisters are forced to confront long-festering resentments and misunderstandings as well as challenges in their private and professional lives, a situation that is complicated by a shocking revelation and the arrival of their mothers.
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Publication Date
2021.
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English
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"On her own since the age of eighteen, Cass Macklin dated brilliant, troubled Ben McGreavy.They partied their way through their twenties ... Now Ben is dead, and Cass is broke, homeless, scared, and pregnant. Determined to have a healthy pregnancy and raise Ben's baby ... Cass turns to the only person with the means to help her: Ben's brother Scott, third basemen for the Boston Red Sox, a man with a temper and problems of his own"-- Provided by publisher....
10) How to hold a grudge: from resentment to contentment : the power of grudges to transform your life
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Publisher
Scribner
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
vi, 260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Argues that readers can use grudge-holding to be their happiest, most optimistic, and most forgiving selves.
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Warner Home Video
Publication Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Two family films about a remarkable beagle named Shiloh who is rescued from an abusive owner by Marty, but it's Shiloh who teaches Marty about kindness and forgiveness when he heroically saves the life of the man who mistreated him.
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Publisher
New Forums
Publication Date
c2009
Physical Desc
56 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Bad things really do happen to people and it is unreasonable to think we can always simply forgive and forget. Learn about the misconceptions surrounding forgiveness, examine the Biblical precedents about forgiveness, and consider the guidance offered on dealing with life's injustices.
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English
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When widower Yost Beiler, who broke Martha Sue Helmuth's heart, comes to Huckleberry Hill to win her back, his thirteen-year-old son is determined to drive her off for good, but when he goes too far, the couple must find forgiveness and overcome differences to be a forever family.
14) Heart strings
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English
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"She doesn't do second chances. But he's not done writing their song. Cielo "Lo" Valdez doesn't believe in second chances. Surviving cancer at seventeen taught her life is too short to spend time on someone who wronged you. But Aidan O'Toole is determined to show her life is too long not to spend it together. When the tough-as-nails Texan moved to Galway for medical school, she wasn't looking for love. Aidan, the tattooed, guitar-playing lawyer who...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 227 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Sages from Cicero to Oprah have told us that forgiveness requires us to let go of negative emotions and that it has a unique power to heal our wounds. In Failures of Forgiveness, Myisha Cherry argues that these beliefs couldn't be more wrong--and that the ways we think about and use forgiveness, personally and as a society, can often do more harm than good. She presents a new and healthier understanding of forgiveness--one that will give us a better...
16) Gone south
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Publisher
Multnomah Books
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Leaving frosty Michigan for the Deep South was never a blip in the simple plans Tish McComb imagined for her life, dreams of marriage and family that were dashed five years earlier in a tragic accident. Now an opportunity to buy her great-great-great-grandparents' Civil War era home beckons Tish to Noble, Alabama, a Southern town in every sense of the word. She wonders if God has given her a new dream - the old house filled with friends, her vintage...
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Burgess Adams Pub
Publication Date
c2010
Physical Desc
142 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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English
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Every school has its legend; Ben Jackson was Maple Grove Elementary's. He has been held back five years in a row; he was exposed to nuclear radiation as a child; he was raised in the woods by bears. So went the many assessments of Ben Jackson by his sixth-grade peers. Over-sized and under-niced , Ben was the school bully. As the school year begins, new student Scott stands up to Ben, and as a result, becomes Ben s new daily target. From the annoying...
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Publication Date
2025.
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English
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Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage into a tailspin. And that's before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences elemental kinship with a prison librarian, tender-hearted cellmate, and a troubled teen desperate...
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English
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"Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the "funeral ladies," she and her cohort have worked hard to keep the mourners of Ellerie County fed-it is her firm belief that there is very little a warm casserole and a piece of cherry pie can't fix. But, after falling for an internet scam that puts her home at risk, the proud Larson family matriarch is the one in need of help these days....
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Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (28 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Explores how children can work through hurt feelings, including those they cause someone else to feel. Provides tips for apologizing, forgiving, and moving on. Includes a glossary and color photographs.









