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16-year-old Taji Kaur is living a blissful life, after a grand and lavish wedding ceremony she has her first baby and is expecting the second in August of 1947. In the backdrop, the British Raj in India is coming-to-an-end and a line of partition, is being proposed between India and Pakistan. Taji and her husband, Indian Sikhs, find themselves on the wrong side of the border. Amidst the ravages of riots and bloodshed, they make a desperate attempt...
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Darkness follows as the next volume from author Jane Buckley's Stones Corner, Turmoil. In the early '70s, considered the darkest years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, it reveals the catastrophic fall-out from the doomed Derry City Hotel meeting.
The impact of the disaster follows the lives of so many, from the wealthy, vibrant James Henderson to the love-struck factory girl Caitlin McLaughlin and her family.
The guerrilla war in the province...
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Every week a terrorist attack, riot, or political scandal makes the headlines-and we feel the world around us shaking again. We struggle to separate truth from biased statements and hope from naïveté. We wonder how we got here and where these uncertain days will take us.
One of the world's top investigative reporters, John S. Dickerson, addresses this post-truth, post-Christian society in Hope of Nations. Hope of Nations shows us how and why the...
144) Deep Conviction: True Stories of Ordinary Americans Fighting for the Freedom to Live Their Beliefs
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Deep Conviction features four ordinary Americans who put their reputations and livelihoods at risk as they fought to protect their first amendment right to live their personal beliefs. Though these individuals couldn't be more different, they share a similar conviction and determination. In the winter of 1813, in rural New York City, a Catholic priest faced prison after a grand jury subpoenaed him for refusing to divulge the identity of a criminal...
145) Eragon
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2007
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Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone, this is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is ruled by the wicked King Galbatorix and his evil wizard Durza. Eragon, together with his mentor, Brom, the gracious dragon Saphira and the beautiful...
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Mark Juergensmeyer is professor of sociology and global studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His many books include Terror in the Mind of God. Margo Kitts is associate professor of humanities at Hawai'i Pacific University. She is the author of Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society.
An anthology that examines the historical and contemporary relationship between religion and violence
This groundbreaking anthology provides the...
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Zionism . . . promotes the narrative that the Nazi holocaust is exceptional in human history - despite it being one of many holocausts from Native Americans North and South to Armenia and Rwanda. It sets Jews apart from the victims and survivors of other genocides instead of uniting us with them . . . Billions of US dollars flow annually to Israel to sustain the occupation and Israel's sophisticated and brutal army. The war machine they fund is a...
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Extrait: "Nous osons croire, à l'honneur du siècle o nous vivons, qu'il n'y a point dans toute l'Europe un seul homme éclairé qui ne regarde la tolérance comme un droit de justice, un devoir proscrit par l'humanité, la conscience, la religion; une loi nécessaire à la paix et à la prospérité des États."
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149) Woke for Jesus
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What does it mean to be woke? This is a question which most people need to know. Woke for Jesus answers this question with a few surprises about being woke. Being woke is not what you think it is. Too many people have misinterpreted what it means to be woke. Being woke has nothing to do with being black, or L.G.B.T., or a feminist. It doesn't even involve corporations. So what does being woke truly mean? Get a copy of this book to learn more! By the...
150) Is Atheism Evil?
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Is atheism evil? Or is it our deeds that make us evil, and not in our having no God.If atheism is evil, what happens then to the "Gift of Free Will" that God gave us? Does God look at the label, and not at the heart? Happy reading!
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You can't fight racism with racism.
After reading this book, I will understand what is happening behind-the-scenes as the media and critical race theorists try to tear our nation apart. I will be able to stand up for conservative policies that will promote racial healing and unity for America.
The mainstream media, critical race theorists, and the Black Lives Matter movement are working to divide Americans, not unite us. In this provocative book,...
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Anne Norton is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire; 95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method; and Republic of Signs.
Why "the Muslim question" is really about the West and its own anxieties-not Islam
In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence...
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How long will the church's voice be drowned out by the roar of the enemy?
After reading this book, you will understand the critical issues threatening the spread of the gospel in America, and how you can play a part and no longer be a "silent lamb" drowned out by the voices of secularism, liberalism, and pagan thinking in America.
If you are a conservative living in America today, there is a target on your back. If you are a Christian...
154) Tibet
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Ce livre n'est pas un récit de voyage, ni un essai historique ou ethnographique. Encore moins un traité de géopolitique ou d'économie. Il s'agit d'une mosaïque o textes et photographies se mêlent. Autant de fragments recueillis au gré d'un parcours aléatoire dans le monde tibétain, faits de rencontres et d'observations, façonnés avec la volonté de les inscrire dans une démarche journalistique de témoignage et de mise en contexte. Ces...
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"An urgent and trenchant examination of Kashmir. Beautifully meshing history with modern political analysis, Chak masterfully interrogates the flashpoints that make the Kashmir crisis one of the most politically sensitive issues in modern world history" Khaled A. Beydoun, Law Professor and author of American Islamophobia
"Chak's skillful analysis explains how this unresolved crisis threatens global peace" Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz, Chairwoman of Malcolm...
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This historical and romantic memoir ranges over five generations from the late 19th Century to the mid-20th Century. It is the life story of my grandmother, Rose Ethel Harding. Beginning in 1852 with the arrival of the Harding family in Sydney, Australia. John Harding Jnr was her father. The narrative follows the journey of his family until the birth of his daughter, Rose Ethel. Rose then tells her story from her childhood in Wagga Wagga to her mature...
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There were many truths that Jesus delivered. In this book presentation, I singled out just three of the most important truths that would truly set the world free.Free from what?Free our soul from eternal damnation and our body from all kinds of miseries and misfortunes. Happy reading!
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Dans ces différentes contributions se dessinent les représentations qui habitent les auteurs de discours sur l'hérésie et les hérétiques, discours généralement sous-tendus par une revendication à l'orthodoxie.
Parmi toutes ces formes de dissensions, les études qui composent ce volume s'intéressent à l'hérésie. L'hérésie se caractérise par sa relativité. Nul ne se revendique hérétique, sinon par provocation.
Cet ouvrage sur la...
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Saturday People, Sunday People is a unique portrait of Israel as seen through the eyes of a Christian who came for a visit and has stayed on for more than six years. Long fascinated by a land that has become an abstraction centering on international conflicts of epic proportions, Lela Gilbert arrived in Israel on a personal pilgrimage in August 2006-in the midst of a raging war. What she found was a vibrant country, enlivened by warm-hearted, lively...
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