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NOW AVAILABLE!
What if we could change our lives by Choosing Pearls?

An oyster can transform an irritant into an iridescent pearl. How awesome!

What if we could do the same in our own lives? What if we could take the debris—the hardships we endure—and alter them into precious gems?


If you’re in need of a fresh perspective, feel overwhelmed or underwhelmed and don’t want your life to unravel...Choosing Pearls was written for you. In it, Margaret Elizabeth, unpacks inspirational stories from her life, her family, and a few familiar people, to illustrate how the pearl analogy has helped form meaning from memories. Part autobiographical, part energizing and fully magical, this memoir is entirely entertaining as Margaret shares her adventures, misadventures, heartaches and hopes.

Weaving 26 personal anecdotes—authentic pearls—onto a thread of real silk, we experience how she chooses to use every letter of the alphabet (A-Z) to layer her life in these stories.

Dance and celebrate along this shiny pearl pathway to share her encounters with relatives and friends, as well as America’s Got Talent, The Backstreet Boys, Barack Obama, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Trudeau, Oprah Winfrey, Tammy Faye Bakker, and a variety of other polished pearls.

Most importantly, Margaret’s memoir offers the invitation and opportunity to actually examine your own personal story—your name and your calling—in a new and profoundly positive light. After all, WE get to choose which pearl our lives will resemble: the artificial or the authentic one.
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You can now order your copy of Choosing Pearls in hardcover, paperback and ebook from FriesenPress and major online retailers.

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Book Specifications
246 pages, 6x9in, black & white
Published Nov. 13, 2024​​
​Paperback ISBN: 978-1-03-919967-5
eBook ISBN: 978-1-03-919969-9
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-03-919968-2

A Taste of the Pearls in Choosing Pearls

Table of Contents:

​A Preface

An Appetizer

Pearl 1: AMBITIOUS—knot abashed
Pearl 2: BRAVE—knot bankrupt
Pearl 3: COURAGEOUS—knot callous
Pearl 4: DETERMINED—knot despondent
Pearl 5: ENDURING—knot envious
Pearl 6: FEARLESS—knot feeble
Pearl 7: GALLANT—knot gaudy
Pearl 8: HALLOWED—knot heartless
Pearl 9: INSPIRATIONAL—knot ignorant
Pearl 10: JOYFUL—knot jealous
Pearl 11: KIND—knot klutzy
Pearl 12: LOVING—knot lonely
Pearl 13: MAGNETIC—knot malicious
Pearl 14: NOBLE—knot narrow-minded
Pearl 15: OBSERVANT—knot oblivious
Pearl 16: PROTECTIVE—knot possessive
Pearl 17: QUINTESSENTIAL—knot quarrelsome
Pearl 18: RESILIENT—knot rigid
Pearl 19: STEADY—knot staggering
Pearl 20: TIMELESS—knot toxic
Pearl 21: UNIQUE—knot ubiquitous
Pearl 22: VICTORIOUS—knot vain
Pearl 23: WONDROUS—knot worthless
Pearl 24: X-RAYED—knot x-rated
Pearl 25: YEARNING—knot yachting
​Pearl 26: ZEALOUS—knot zany
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