title: Unwrapping Martha's Joy: Creating a Mary Christmas in Your Heart and Home
author:  Brenda Poinsett 
description: Brenda Poinsett works with women who want a new lease on life and with adults who want to learn and grow spiritually. At retreats, conferences, and special events, Brenda offers encouragement and hope along with valuable information. She works at perfecting her communication skills through memberships in the National Speakers Association, Toastmasters International, and Advanced Writers and Speakers Association. Along the way she came to see writing as another important avenue for sharing eternal truths. Shes the author of more than 20 books, including He Said What?!, Not My Will, The Friendship Factor, Wonder Women of the Bible, When Saints Sing the Blues, and Holiday Living. Brenda and her husband, Bob, have three grown sons, a daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren.
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  # LOOKING FOR LUCY
  
  
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  AN IMPRINT OF HEAD OF ZEUS
  
  
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  This edition first published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Aria, an imprint
  of Head of Zeus Ltd
  
  
  Copyright © Julie Houston, 2016
  
  
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