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SANITY SUPPORT IS COMING BACK!

After a season of redevelopment, we’re excited to announce that SANITY is making a comeback! Over the next few weeks we’ll be rolling out a series of new and improved materials and products to help you set healthy boundaries and find much needed SANITY in your life. We’ll have material you can purchase as well as lots of FREE resources you can download onto your computer, reader, notebook, and iPod! In the mean time, we encourage you to order your Setting Boundaries books here, or at your favorite Christian or secular bookstore.

Setting Boundaries(TM) with Difficult People: Six Steps to SANITY for Challenging Relationships

Continuing her popular Setting Boundaries series, Allison Bottke offer her distinctive “Six Steps to SANITY” to readers who must deal with difficult people.

S…Stop your own negative behavior
A…Assemble a support group
N…Nip excuses in the bud
I…Implement rules and boundaries
T….Trust your instincts
Y…Yield everything to God

Whether it’s a spouse, in-law, boss, coworker, family member, neighbor, or friend, readers who have allowed others to overstep their boundaries will learn how these six steps can help them reset those boundaries and take back their life…for good.

Setting Boundaries(TM) with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

This important and compassionate new book from the creator of the successful God Allows U-Turns series will help parents and grandparents of the many adult children who continue to make life painful for their loved ones. Writing from firsthand experience, Allison identifies the lies that kept her, and ultimately her son in bondage—and how she overcame them. Additional real life stories from other parents are woven through the text. A tough–love book to help readers cope with dysfunctional adult children, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children will empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y.—a six–step program to help parents regain control in their homes and in their lives. S = STOP Enabling, STOP Blaming Yourself, and STOP the Flow of Money A = Assemble a Support Group N = Nip Excuses in the Bud I = Implement Rules/Boundaries T = Trust Your Instincts Y = Yield Everything to God Foreword by Carol Kent (When I Lay My Isaac Down)

Setting Boundaries(TM) with Your Aging Parents: Finding Balance Between Burnout and Respect

This important book from the author of Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children (more than 40,000 sold) will help adult children who long for a better relationship with their parents but feel trapped in a never-ending cycle of chaos, crisis, or drama. With keen insight and a passion to empower adult children, Allison charts a trustworthy roadmap through the often unfamiliar territory of setting boundaries with parents while maintaining personal balance and avoiding burnout. Through the use of professional advice, true stories, and scriptural truth, readers learn how to apply the “6 Steps to SANITY”: S-STOP your own negative behavior A-ASSEMBLE a support group N-NIP excuses in the bud I-IMPLEMENT rules and boundaries T-TRUST your instincts Y-YIELD everything to God

You Make Me Feel Like Dancing: A Novel (Va Va Va Boom Series)

Successful fifty-something, Susan Anderson owns and operates a hip hair salon on the Las Vegas strip, decorated with her collection of disco memorabilia accumulated decades ago when she was one of the beautiful people on New York’s disco scene. Now happily married, Susan is known for her business savvy, her fabulous vintage ensembles, her faith, her big heart and the impromptu disco dance numbers salon staff and clients join in when the spirit moves. If life is a dance, Susan’s mastered all the moves. But an exciting business opportunity and her husband’s impending retirement rock her world, shaking Susan’s foundation and revealing regrets and painful memories she thought she’d dealt with. Will Susan be able to face her past, reinvent her marriage, build her dream … and keep on dancing?

God Allows U-Turns for Teens: The Choices We Make Change the Story of Our Life

Allison Bottke has a focused purpose in life: to share the good news that God Allows U-Turns for all who come to Him. She discovered God’s wonderful love in 1989, and her life turned around. In these two books she gives voice to many people who have also made U-Turns—some major life-altering turnarounds and some touching, highly personal changes. In God Allows U-Turns for Teens, written by and about teens, each eye-opening story offers encouragement and guidance for thirteen- to twenty-year-olds whose own lives are headed down the wrong path, as well as insight for parents and mentors into the hearts and minds of an often misunderstood generation.

God Allows U-Turns for Women: The Choices We Make Change the Story of Our Life

These affirming stories of powerful and passionate faith–perfect for devotional readings–inspire women to live their daily lives for the Lord. Real-life stories of love, forgiveness, prayer and more inspire and encourage.

A Stitch in Time

Can a middle-aged Christian woman be faithful, fashionable, and fabulous? As a successful fundraising executive in Southern California, Dee Decker’s glamorous job revolves around one gala event after another. In a world populated by highly competitive, impossibly thin, perfectly coiffed, designer-outfitted women who lunch-for-a-living, Dee is overweight but nonetheless has a well-earned reputation of being cool, calm, and collected. That is, until she discovers her husband has been having an affair. Dee embarks on a journey of transformational change and self-discovery. She undergoes gastric bypass surgery and in less than one year loses 150 pounds. She becomes a new person inside and out, and the future looks bright. But then a job offer sends her life in a direction she hadn’t expected. Her past and present are about to collide in a major way. Will Dee discover how to balance the fast-paced Southern California lifestyle with her new values?

God Allows U-Turns a Woman’s Journey: True Stories of Hope and Healing

Anyone can make a wrong turn in life–and, by God’s grace, anyone can make a U-turn. This brand-new collection of stories, the third in the acclaimed God Allows U-Turns series, focuses on stories by, about, and for women. “My heart broke time and again while I read stories of abuse, addiction, shame, guilt, and fear,” writes series creator Allison Gappa Bottke in her introduction. “In equal measure I rejoiced with thanksgiving as contributors shared how faith in God brought hope and healing to a hurtin heart and soul.” Readers will be encouraged to know that their trials are not unique–and that circumstances can, by God’s grace, change for the better

One Little Secret

Welcome to the story of a suburban housewife whose life gets flipped upside down because of one little secret. Ursula Rhoades has never questioned the value of the choice she made to stay home to take care of her children and support her husband in his high-powered career. She has taught piano and voice lessons off and on, but her life revolves around her children, husband, and volunteer work–and she loves it! Then a singing gig at an upscale wedding changes everything. Ursula meets Nik Prevelakis, heartthrob pop singer and son of an equally famous singer. Awed by her talent, Nik asks Ursula to sing on his new record, a collection of classic American love ballads. When she hesitates, he insists they’ll use a stage name so Ursula’s happy family life is not disrupted. It’s the stuff dreams are made of . . . but the dreams turn into nightmares for Ursula when the album is nominated for a Grammy and Ursula’s true identity is revealed.

More God Allows U-Turns: True Stories of Hope and Healing

By Allison Gappa Bottke, Cheryll Hutchings, Ellen Regan

Bad choices…negative attitudes…destructive decisions… All lead us down the wrong road in life. Thankfully, God allows U-turns! His promises of forgiveness and restoration welcome us back to the fold of grace and guide us lovingly along the path of obedience. This inspirational collection, the second in the U-Turns series, is filled with true stories of people from all walks of life who have made U-turns in their lives. These stories show how faith in God can inspire, heal, and give hope. From God’s Love to Life Lessons to Thankfulness – all share the very personal message that God works every day in each of our lives…and His never-ending love, forgiveness, and redemption are freely given to us all, if we only ask.

God Allows U-Turns American Moments: True Stories of Hope and Healing from Times of National Crisis

September 11…Columbine High School…Vietnam…the Great Depression. There are many terrible moments in American history that horrified us as a nation-but that also turned people’s hearts toward God. In this special God Allows U-Turns book, the fourth in Allison Gappa Bottke’s acclaimed series, Americans relate how national trials brought them to their knees-first in shock, then in prayer. Dramatic stories relate how even the worst imaginable occurrences can be used by God for His purposes. God Allows U-Turns: American Moments is an important reminder of His sovereignty in world affairs-as well as in the lives of individual people.

Laughter and Love (God Allows U-Turns (for Kids) Series)

By Allison Bottke, Heather Gemmen

When the kids are fighting over the cereal box, yelling at the top of their lungs, and hogging the remote control, it’s time for them to read Laughter and Love!

This cleverly written book is an interactive story about an anthropomorphic little dog who struggles as he learns to love his sister through every situation. Illustrations by former Disney artist and Christian author Matt Whitlock create an endearing character universe and Heather Gemmen’s limerick rhymes lend a captivating style that will capture your child’s attention.

Faith Kidz has created a series to help parents cultivate the fruits of the Spirit in their young children–God Allows U-Turns for Kids. Based on the God Allows U-Turns ministry of Allison Gappa Bottke, these nine adorably illustrated books teach kids that they can make U-Turns toward positive attitudes and behavior! This series teaches the Fruits of the Spirit, one by one, through great rhyming stories, all built around puppy siblings Jessie and Tyler.

Pastrami Project (God Allows U-Turns for Youth Series)

By Allison Bottke, Heather Gemmen

This is a test! The good kind of test. Here it is. You (yes, you!) are the main character in this story about how you live and relate to your four best friends. As you read, you’ll make choices, and those choices determine whether you get caught up in your own world, or if you’ll remember how your choices affect others, especially the group you hang out with–Five Alive. Can you and your friends make it through middle school and still live out 1 Corinthians 13? Can you figure out how to handle friendships and your faith without messing up? It’s a challenge, but the good news is, even if you do mess up, God allows U-turns!

Friend or Freak (God Allows U-Turns for Youth Series)

By Allison Bottke, Heather Gemmen

This is a test! The good kind of test. Here it is. You (yes, you!) are the main character in this story about friendships. It’s about how honest you are with your friends and how willing you are to share the real you. As you read, you’ll make choices, and those choices determine what happens. Can you and the friends you hang out with–Five Alive–make it through middle school and still live out 1 Corinthians 13? Can you figure out how to handle friendships and your faith without messing up? It’s a challenge, but the good news is, even if you do mess up, God allows U-turns!

Get Real (God Allows U-Turns for Youth Series)

By Allison Bottke, Heather Gemmen

This is a test! The good kind of test. Here it is. You (yes, you!) are the main character in this story about trust. It’s about trusting your four best friends, helping them make good decisions, and being the kind of friend others trust. As you read, you’ll make choices, and those choices determine what happens. Can you and the friends you hang out with–Five Alive–make it through middle school and still live out 1 Corinthians 13? Can you figure out how to handle friendships and your faith without messing up? It’s a challenge, but the good news is, even if you do mess up, God allows U-turns!

God Answers Prayers: Inspiring True Stories of Faith and Hope

Offering practical guidance and emotional support, these moving narratives highlight God’s faithfulness in every circumstance. Readers will meet people who learn to put their confidence in God, call on Him to calm their storms, and find peace in His presence. Some stories describe God at work in everyday experiences, and others describe His intervention in once–in–a–lifetime situations.

“God’s Most Precious Gift”—A daughter helps her father to know the Lord at the end of his life.

“Perfect Strangers”—Lifelong friends become lifelong prayer partners.

“Beautiful Feet”…Praying through physical handicaps.

These testimonies focus on timeless, universal themes such as love, forgiveness, salvation, and hope, and provide a powerful and passionate look at how prayer can inspire, encourage, change, and heal.

God Answers Moms’ Prayers: Inspiring True Stories of Faith and Hope (God Answers Prayers)

Few emotions run as deep as a mother’s love for her children. This collection of brief, touching narratives inspires women to combine their love with faith and hope, praying with confidence and thankfulness. The settings include…

“Mom, I’m pregnant’…the words no parent wants to hear from her unmarried teen

“Tying My Son’s Shoes”…a mom thinks back on her grown son’s life

“An Urge to Pray”…when God prompts a mom to intercede right now

“Shattered Dreams”…when a child is born handicapped

“Gideon’s Bride”…a mom prays for her son’s future wife

Readers will be reminded that whether moms offer prayers of praise and thanksgiving or desperate cries for help during trial and tribulation, God often answers in profound and poignant ways.

God Answers Prayers–Military Edition: True Stories from People Who Serve and Those Who Love Them

More than one million men and women presently serve America in the Armed Services. Many millions more are veterans, having done their part to keep our nation secure. And in many cases, these brave soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen have remarkable stories to tell about their experiences in uniform.

Here are their stories of how God was with them during often life–threatening situations. Each story is a recollection from a past or present serviceman or woman or their loved one, sharing their story of how God answered their prayer. Stories range from our current struggle in the mideast to past conflicts such as World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

I Can’t Do It All: Breaking Free from the Lies that Control Us

By Tracie Peterson, Allison Bottke, Dianne OBrian

Writing from their hearts, this trio of writers, led by popular fiction author Tracie Peterson, brings women face-to-face with the lies women believe. In a transparent, vulnerable style, they address the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of life common to women. After exposing the lies, readers are nurtured in ways to eliminate the fallacies and rebuild their lives based on godly, grace-based truths revealed in Scripture. Included are frank discussions about health, aging, body image, choices, trust, and the need for God.

Journeys of Hope: 30 True Stories of Faith in Adversity

Many people will tell you that the very best things in life are love, friendship, hope, and joy. But sometimes the trials of life-tragic losses, bad decisions-can make those treasures feel distant and out of reach. In this encouraging series of four books, God Allows U-Turns Project founder Allison Gappa Bottke offers true stories of life-changing experiences-those that open hearts to life’s captivating joy and surprising hope. These beautifully woven life stories align our longing to connect and be understood with God’s deepest desire to gather us together as brothers, sisters, and families, revealing truth and beauty.

Journeys of Friendship: 30 True Stories of Kindred Connections

Journeys of Joy: 30 True Stories of Abundant Living

A Stitch in Time {Unabridged} {Audio} {Cd}

In the past year, Dee Decker lost 150 pounds and gained a whole new wardrobe filled with designer shoes–and became a Christian. But a job offer could cause her past and present to collide in a flash of Manolo Blahniks and Prada handbags. Dee thought she had it all figured out–but can a person really be both fashionable and faithful?

Journeys of Love: 30 True Stories of Undeniable Devotion

Jingles and Joy (God Allows U-Turns Series)

By Allison Bottke, Heather Gemmen

Naturally, your kids never act like it’s the end of the world when they don’t get the toys, candy or money they demand. Okay, let’s have a reality check. We know that every child is born with the tendency to want stuff and to think that they have to have it to be happy. But thankfully–they don’t have to stay that way!

God Allows U-Turns for Kids books help kids make a real U-turn away from the negative behaviors like needing things to be happy toward Spirit-filled living and allowing Jesus to be the joy of their lives.

In Jingles and Joy, kids will appreciate Jessie’s revelation as she learns the value of toys. Parents will love the interactive storytelling and being able to effectively communicate the second fruit of the Spirit: Joy! The limerick-style rhyming story tells about a cute puppy named Jessie and her brother Tyler as Jessie makes her U-turn choice to live in joy! The rhythms and rhymes make the story fun for parents to read! The interactive story is illustrated by former Disney artist, Christian author/illustrator Matt Whitlock.