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From 2013 to 2019, J. Anton Davis served as a North Carolina Magistrate Judge in Raleigh, North Carolina. From his ninth-floor courtroom in the towering Wake County Justice Center, he performed nearly 6,000 civil wedding ceremonies. While there are countless stories Davis could share from his tenure as a magistrate, Love Is focuses on the most memorable aspect of the many ceremonies he officiated: Love. The memories found in this collection of poems are all firsthand accounts of love shared between couples, family, friends, and even strangers, all set in the context of a North Carolina civil wedding ceremony. At a time when the world and the relationships that shape it can feel strained and adversarial, Davis offers a refreshing renewal of hope in this thoughtful depiction of love and marriage in a county courthouse.
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I'd Like You More If You Were More like Me
- Getting Real About Getting Close
- By: John Ortberg
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story5 out of 5 stars 71
I'd Like You More If You Were More like Me takes on one of life's most important questions: How can I get closer to God and other people? We were created for deep connections. When people have deep connections, says John Ortberg, they win in life. When they don't have deep connections, they cannot win in life. I'd Like You More If You Were More like Me offers help in overcoming one of the biggest obstacles to making deep connections: the fact that we're so different. Different from God and different from each other.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Terrible Title Fabulous Book!
- By 3boymama on 10-03-18
By: John Ortberg
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The Hardest Peace
- Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard
- By: Kara Tippetts
- Narrated by: Patty Fogarty
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Story5 out of 5 stars 141
Finding grace in the everyday…Kara Tippetts knows the ordinary days of mothering four kids, the joy of watching her children grow . . . and the devastating reality of stage IV cancer. In The Hardest Peace, Kara doesn’t offer answers for when living is hard, but rather she asks us to join her in moving away from fear and control and toward peace and grace. Most of all, she draws us back to the God who is with us in the mundane and the suffering, and who shapes even our unmet expectations and pain into beauty.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is a story about living more than dying.
- By vlSchlegel on 03-28-15
By: Kara Tippetts
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Crazy Little Thing Called Marriage
- 12 Secrets for a Lifelong Romance
- By: Greg Smalley, Erin Smalley
- Narrated by: Jon Gauger
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27
Learn to navigate life's twists and turns to find God's best for your marriage with the help of Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley. They'll lead you and your spouse to discover true love as described by God in the Bible. With candor and grace, these beloved marriage experts share the secrets of a strong marriage that yield a lifetime of adventurous and cray-zee love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!!
- By Andrew Bratton on 01-10-24
By: Greg Smalley, and others
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What's It Like to Be Married to Me?
- And Other Dangerous Questions
- By: Linda Dillow
- Narrated by: Kathy Garver
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80
This isn’t what I dreamed about. Can’t my marriage be better than this? Yes! Who you become as a wife can impact the intimacy, passion, and joy in your marriage. But how do you get there? In What’s It Like to Be Married to Me?, Linda Dillow challenges you to ask yourself risky questions: What does it feel like to be my husband? What is it like to make love with me? Why do I want to stay mad at him?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Changing!
- By kiwimum on 05-05-12
By: Linda Dillow
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Happily Ever After
- The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart
- By: Trista Sutter
- Narrated by: Trista Sutter
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Whether or not you remember Trista (Rehn) Sutter from her heartbreak on the first season of The Bachelor reality show or as the original Bachelorette, you’ve probably seen her on the cover of magazines like People and US Weekly or on shows like Ellen and Dancing with the Stars. She has rarely been out of the public eye since falling in love with Ryan Sutter on The Bachelorette more than ten years ago.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I was expecting
- By marcie on 01-09-17
By: Trista Sutter
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Turn Your Mate into Your Soulmate
- A Practical Guide to Happily Ever After
- By: Arielle Ford
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Internationally best-selling author and relationship expert Arielle Ford offers the keys to rediscovering love, passion, respect, and renewed commitment years after the simple act of falling in love and getting married. It's one thing to fall in love and get married. It is quite another thing to have a marriage you love. This is the true purpose of Turn Your Mate into Your Soulmate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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SO Hard To Listen To!
- By froglover on 12-03-16
By: Arielle Ford
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Love, InshAllah
- The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
- By: Ayesha Mattu, Nura Maznavi
- Narrated by: Lameece Issaq, Piper Goodeve, Lauren Fortgang, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Romance, dating, sex and - Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, 25 American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love openly for the first time, showing just how varied the search for love can be - from singles' events and online dating, to college flirtations and arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist. These compelling stories of love and romance create an irresistible balance of heart-warming and tantalizing, always revealing and deeply relatable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sex, Love, & Feminism, in the Muslim Women's World
- By Susie on 03-06-13
By: Ayesha Mattu, and others
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Committed
- A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,488
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,722
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,713
At the end of her best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Perfect timing
- By Nancy on 01-15-10
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Secrets of the Monarch
- What the Dead Can Teach Us About Living a Better Life
- By: Allison DuBois
- Narrated by: Renee Raudman
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
If you want to understand life, you must understand death. In Secrets of the Monarch, DuBois shows how communicating with the dead has taught her important lessons about life and how listeners can apply those principles to their own lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Secrets of the Monarch
- By MikeH on 07-28-11
By: Allison DuBois
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Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
- Seven Questions to Ask Before - and After - You Marry
- By: Les Parrott, Leslie Parrott
- Narrated by: Les Parrott, Leslie Parrott
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 398
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 329
More than a million couples can't be wrong! And with this updated edition of their award-winning book, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott help you launch lifelong love like never before. This is more than an audiobook - it's an experience. Get ready for deeper intimacy with the best friend you'll ever have. Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts, in more than 15 languages, is the most widely used marriage prep tool in the world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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basically just a long advertisement
- By J. Sullivan on 07-06-16
By: Les Parrott, and others
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Preparing Your Heart for Marriage
- Devotions for Engaged Couples
- By: Gary Thomas
- Narrated by: Michael Axtell
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
The wedding is planned, but are you spiritually prepared for your wedding day? Trusted relationship author Gary Thomas coaches engaged couples on how to grow closer to the Lord in the days leading up to the wedding as a means of preparing them for all the days after the wedding. Providing encouraging entries that will help you deal with common issues such as what real intimacy means, how to celebrate your differences, and remembering to laugh together, Preparing Your Heart for Marriage will help you grow in your relationship as a couple as you become closer to God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a blessing in disguise
- By Althea on 03-26-19
By: Gary Thomas
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The Power of a Woman's Words
- How the Words You Speak Shape the Lives of Others
- By: Sharon Jaynes
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story5 out of 5 stars 54
Words are one of the most powerful forces in the universe, and they can be used for good or evil. When God created our world, He did so with words. He said Let there be...and it was so. While our words cannot bring into existence things that are not, they do have the power to build courage into a husband's life, instill confidence into a child's heart, fan into flames the dying embers of a friend's smoldering dreams, and draw the lost to Christ. This book is for every woman who desires to use her words to build up rather than tear down....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life changing!
- By paris Cuevas on 05-19-20
By: Sharon Jaynes
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How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People)
- Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships
- By: Lodro Rinzler, Meggan Watterson
- Narrated by: Lodro Rinzler, Meggan Watterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People) is a smart, hip guide for spiritual seekers who want to experience more love and stability in all forms of relationships. Told from the unique vantage points of authors Meggan Watterson and Lodro Rinzler, this book explores staying anchored in the foundation of self-love as you navigate the natural (and often stormy) cycle of a relationship. Their dual perspectives as teachers and scholars of Christian mysticism and Buddhism make for a rich and fascinating dialogue that covers everything from sex to breakups.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Felt shallow and not quite on-topic
- By barefoot rabbit on 09-03-20
By: Lodro Rinzler, and others
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Bad Girls of the Bible
- And What We Can Learn from Them
- By: Liz Curtis Higgs
- Narrated by: Liz Curtis Higgs
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 174
Ten of the Bible's best-known femmes fatales parade across the pages of Bad Girls of the Bible with situations that sound oh-so-familiar. Eve had food issues. Potiphar’s wife and Delilah had man trouble. Lot’s wife and Michal couldn’t let go of the past, Sapphira couldn’t let go of money, and Jezebel couldn’t let go of anything. Yet the woman at the well had her thirst quenched at last, while Rahab and the sinful woman left their sordid histories behind.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not for the pure and sensitive.
- By Mary & Scott on 01-03-19
By: Liz Curtis Higgs
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Loveable
- Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life
- By: Kelly Flanagan
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Story5 out of 5 stars 131
It's time to remember. Dr. Kelly Flanagan is known to millions for the letters he writes to his children and shares on his blog. Loveable is written to the little one in each of us, who is all too ready to be reminded: You are enough, you are not alone, and you matter. In Loveable, Dr. Flanagan reveals the core insight gleaned from his years of clinical work - you are here for a reason, yet you cannot truly awaken to it until you have first embraced your truest, worthiest self and then allow yourself to be truly embraced by others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rediscover YOU!
- By Hmm on 03-25-17
By: Kelly Flanagan
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Life of the Beloved
- Spiritual Living in a Secular World
- By: Henri J. M. Nouwen
- Narrated by: Henri J. M. Nouwen
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 516
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 419
How does one live a spiritual life in a secular world? Henri Nouwen responds from the depths of his heart to this dilemna posed by his friend Fred Bratman. Nouwen's own interpretive reading of the text lends a sense of immediacy to the audiobook.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listening Is Life Changing
- By Rich S. on 12-27-13