“I hope because I was open about what happened to me, my children will insist on intimacy, on knowing their partner deeply, on being known deeply. I hope they will talk to their partners about money, about what will happen if the partnership ends. I hope that as they build trust in their relationships, they never lose sight of their own authority, their own voice, their own intuition. I hope they will move toward people who are in pain, rather than away. I hope they will understand that every person has experiences that make them who they are. I hope they will fall in love with abandon as I did with their father. I hope they will know, from watching me, that if everything falls apart, they can get up and piece together something new.”
― Belle Burden, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden
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New Soccer Books for Children
Are you a fan of soccer? Are you looking for any new children’s books. Below we have gathered a list of new picture books, chapter books and juvenile nonfiction all about soccer. As of this writing, all of these books are owned by the Davenport Public Library. Descriptions are provided by the publishers.
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Conversion Therapy Dropout by Timonthy Schraeder Rodriguez
“God’s love is bigger than any institution’s walls, wider than any doctrine’s boundaries, and deep enough to hold all of who we are.”
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― Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez, Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Queer Story of Faith and Belonging