Kristi Elker

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Kristi is Currently Reading

Kristi Elker is currently reading

The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality

by Tyler Staton (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller

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The child has a primary need from the very beginning of her life to be regarded and respected as the person she really is at any given time. • When we speak here of “the person she really is at any given time,” we mean emotions, ...more

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Kristi’s Quotes

“But when the Count opened the small wooden drawer of the grinder, the world and all it contained were transformed by that envy of the alchemists—the aroma of freshly ground coffee.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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