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Shawnna's Picks |
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| I read constantly and also love music. I am often asked by others to recommend a good book or artist. I decided to use this page to keep a list of some of my favorite things. Then later I decided to try the Amazon affiliate program, so I've added links to Amazon for the various items. |
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Books |
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| Authors | Encouragers | |
Douglas Adams  |
Ken Merrihew (Calvary Chapel OKC Pastor) | |
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Daniel Silva |
Joel Osteen |
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Jeff Shaara |
Joyce Meyer |
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Michael Connelly |
John Maxwell |
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| Books - Fiction | Books - Non-fiction | |
The Art of Racing in the Rain  - Garth Stein |
The Hiding Place  - Corrie ten Boom |
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Ice  - Shane Johnson |
Last Chance to See  - Douglas Adams |
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| The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley |
I Dare You: Embrace Life with Passion  - Joyce Meyer |
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| Total Truth - Nancy Pearcey | ||
| I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist - Norman Geisler & Frank Turek | ||
| Audio Books (I get mine from Audible.com) | Book Series | |
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul  - Douglas Adams |
Inspector Lynley book series by Elizabeth George |
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The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel  - Diane Setterfield |
Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich |
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The Company a Novel of the CIA  - Robert Littell |
Love Comes Softly series by Janette Oke |
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Paul  - Walter Wangerian, Jr. |
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Music |
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| Music Artists - Secular, well-known | Music Artists - Christian | |
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Hootie & the Blowfish |
Warren Barfield |
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Matchbox 20 |
Shawn McDonald |
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Sting |
Jars of Clay |
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Susan Tedeschi |
Third Day |
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Radney Foster |
Mercy Me |
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Sara Groves |
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| Music Artists - Secular, not so well-known | ||
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Marcia Ball |
Songs - Christian | |
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Robert Earl Keen |
Frail - Jars of Clay (iTunes original version) | |
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Cowboy Mouth |
You Did That For Me - Sara Groves | |
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The Iguanas |
To Know Your Name - Hillsong | |
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Charlie Robison |
Love is Not a Fight - Warren Barfield | |
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Keb' Mo' |
Hold On - Shawn McDonald | |
| Songs - Secular | Favorite Songs to Sing Out Loud (REALLY loud!) | |
| What Do You Want From Me Now - Hootie & the Blowfish | Don't Think Twice - Susan Tedeschi | |
| What's Going On Here - Hootie & the Blowfish | Roll Like the Wind - Hootie & the Blowfish | |
| Fire & Rain - James Taylor | At Last - Etta James | |
| One More Time - Daft Punk | ||
| Sandstorm - Darude | ||
| You Make Me Feel - Clint Black | ||
| Remember the Feeling - Chicago | ||
| This Missin' You Heart of Mine - Sawyer Brown | ||
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Movies |
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Flywheel  |
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Facing the Giants  |
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Bleak House  |
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The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  |
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The Sixth Sense  |
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So I Married an Axe Murderer  |
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North & South  |
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Quotes |
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| "Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His presence." - Paul Claudel | ||
| "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible." - President George Washington | ||
| "You'll be amazed at what you can accomplish when you learn how to suffer." - Peter Hoffman (my spin class instructor) | ||
| "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Sir Edmund Burke | ||
| "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing" - Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher | ||
| "[Americans] are inclined to say what we think, even when we have not thought very much." - From the book, Citizens of London by Lynne Olson | ||
| "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou | ||
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OKC Area Restaurants |
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| Big Truck Tacos | Thai Palace | |
| Lido | 1492 | |
| Fish City Grill | El Pollo Chulo | |
| Khazana Indian Food | Abel's Mexican Food | |
| Zorba's | Ted's Cafe Escondido | |
| 105 Degrees | ||