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When high school junior Melissa Keiser returns to her hometown of Anna Maria Island, Florida, she has one goal: hide from the bullies who had convinced her she was the ugliest girl in school. But when she is caught sneaking into a neighbor's pool at night, everything changes. Something is different now that Melissa is sixteen, and the guys and popular girls who once made her life miserable have taken notice. When Melissa gets the chance to escape...
19122) Heart over Time
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Heart over Time encapsulates the sense of intrigue, of appointed times and of personal election that permeates the writer's work throughout. Marie Barrett's poetry and prose has a 'Jacob's ladder' type feel to it, the journey of life winding and rewinding itself with new revelations revealed in old themes. From her first book, The Witnesses, which was written under instructions from the words in a dream: 'Write about your experiences in London and...
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Jews have been a major presence in America's jazz, as musicians and as jazz facilitators, and in Kosher Jammers: Jewish Connections in Jazz – The USA, Gerber tells that story with a rigour worthy of academia but with a feature writer's creative flair. Besides drawing on a plethora of second-hand sources, Kosher Jammers is absolutely packed with first-hand material, from interviews, phone calls and emails with jazz figures, Jewish and otherwise –...
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This book is a collection of eighteen lively, well-loved stories from the life of the Prophet Muhammad. They highlight the main stations of his life-from orphaned child to Prophet of God and beloved leader of all Muslims. The book includes twenty-three charming illustrations that offer a glimpse of the world in which the stories are set. Mardijah Aldrich Tarantino is of American and French heritage. She has traveled widely and enjoys painting, languages,...
19125) En el Principio
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En el principio creó Dios los cielos y la tierra. Génesis 1:1 NVI. Dios hizo todo en el mundo. En el primer día de la creación, Dios dijo: "Hágase la luz," y fue la luz. Dios separó la luz de la oscuridad. En el segundo día de la creación, Dios separó las aguas por encima de las aguas de abajo y llamó al espacio abierto "el cielo." En el tercer día, Dios hizo la tierra y la separó de los mares. Creó bellos prados, altas montañas, y los...
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Need a Friend You Can Count On? Jesus Is the Best!
Athletes, musicians, actors, and other grown-ups-these are the people you look up to. But the best role model of all? That's Jesus-the hero who's also your best friend.
Explore ten ways you can live like Jesus every single day. With His help, you can have
• confidence to be who you are
• courage to do the right thing
• discipline to get stuff done
• faith that it's all going to...
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Un recueil de lettres inédites datant des premières années du mouvement des Focolari.
Ce livre regroupe une cinquantaine de lettres des premiers temps du mouvement des Focolari écrites par Chiara Lubich, entre 1943 et 1949. Pour la plupart inédites en français, ces lettres rédigées par une jeune institutrice d'Italie du Nord, en pleine tourmente de la seconde guerre mondiale, s'adressent à des jeunes filles et jeunes hommes de son âge,...
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NARNIA... la tierra que está más allá del ropero, el país secreto que solo conocen Peter, Susan, Edmund y Lucy... el lugar donde comienza la aventura.
Lucy es la primera en encontrar el secreto del ropero en la vieja y misteriosa casa del profesor. Al principio, nadie le cree cuando cuenta sus aventuras en el país de Narnia. Sin embargo, pronto Edmund y luego Peter y Susan descubren la magia y conocen por sí mismos a Aslan, el Gran León. En...
19129) Grieving--Hope--Joy: One Man's Sojourn from the Deepest Pits of Despair to the Pinnacle of Pure Joy
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Grieving is very much a part of the human condition and has to happen before you can emotionally heal. Grieving is like having to cross a glacier and scrabble up the rocky cliff on the other side. Grieving absolutely has to happen or it becomes an emotional prison. Grieving: Hope: Joy documents my journey across so I could seek and find Joy again-and I did exactly that!
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I Still Believe is a story that spans decades of multiple Grammy winner and Christian music icon Russ Taff's life, told from the first-hand perspective of Russ and his wife, Tori. You've seen the movie; now get the complete, unflinchingly honest details of the journey from childhood abuse to massive success with music, from the searing pain of addiction to his hard-won recovery. Russ opens up in-depth for the first time about the shame and trauma...
19131) Códigos de Riqueza
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Bola Ajagun trabajó como profesor de matemáticas en el Gobierno Federal de Nigeria durante muchos años. Le habían enseñado la mayoría de los principios bíblicos de éxito financiero desde su adolescencia cristiana y creía que tenía todo lo necesario para tener éxito financiero en su vida. Sin embargo, cuando los acontecimientos de su vida financiera eran contrarios a sus conocimientos y creencias religiosas, sabía que necesitaba ayuda urgentemente....
19132) My Father Said I Could
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Nearly every child has aspirations of what they want to be, when they grow up? Fast forward their lives and almost 8 in 10 of them, as adults, aren't working in their gifts and talents. And, we see the impact. Millions of adults are squandering their talents and wasting their time in jobs they don't love. They feel trapped and dissatisfied. But, where did it start? Many times, it started in childhood. "My Father Said I Could" is about four African-American...
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This collection of Tibetan poetry and lyrics is accompanied by extensive commentary and offers a great insight into a rich literary culture. Tibet, remote and inaccessible, is less known to the western world for its literary than its artistic contributions to world culture. Nevertheless, it has produced a literature of enduring beauty and significance, the supreme achievement of which is the poetry of Milarepa, its greatest poet and saint. This Tibetan...
19134) Michael's Mystery ebook
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Michael travels with his family to Morocco. Something important is happening, but Michael can't ask about it since he doesn't speak Arabic. Despite the language barriers, can he figure out what's going on through nonverbal communication? Children will love the colorful illustrations and story in this multicultural fiction book as they learn about diversity, Ramadan, and different types of communication. With pre-reading questions, this picture book...
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For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has been antisemitic prejudice, but nothing on the scale of the discrimination, persecution, pogroms, and genocide witnessed in Europe. White American ethnic violence has assailed many targets, but Jews have rarely been among them. Observing what he took to be an American exception, the influential historian Salo Baron challenged the "lachrymose conception"...
19136) Whispering Tower
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Stuck in London for one of her mom's work trips, Skye Humphries can't help holding a grudge when she ends up roped into a summer tour group with Philip-who-crushed-her-heart. But when Skye and Philip find themselves barreling through time after unsuspectingly opening the veil between the past and present, they're thrust into a world where Skye's very life is in danger. If Skye had known her choices were between summering with Philip or being sacrificed...
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Submitted for your approval, an exploration of Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone from a Christian perspective. Ten religiously themed episodes are examined, looking at how biblical issues are treated in the show, and how Christian principles are demonstrated through the stories and characters. See how this classic television series is still relevant, providing mortal guidance, in-god in the twilight zone: spiritual lessons from the fifth dimension.
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Finding time for devotions with God isn't always easy. But what if you could attach something you know you should do, to something you already do? You spend at least five minutes sitting on the toilet every day, right? What if you used that time to do devotions?
Don't Forget to Flush is geared toward instigating the habit of a devotional routine in kids ages 9 to 12 years old. Written from the perspective of a snarky preteen boy, this devotional...
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In Called Along the Way, I describe my faith journey from unbeliever to believer, from cultural Christian to active disciple, from disciple to realization of call, and from seminary to early ministry. Unlike Adam and Eve, my story does not begin the Garden of Eden. If you too have struggled with your faith walk, then my story may offer solace. Even in our baby steps of faith, God promises to walk with us.
Hear the words; Walk the steps; Experience...
19140) La parole de l'âme: Recueil
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On écrit toutes sortes de sentiments
On écrit avec la pointe de notre cœur vibrant
Le vide et la lumière ne font plus qu'un
On se sent comme libre, vivant, serein
L'écriture vide le cœur mais emplit l'âme
C'est un moment sans garde ni arme
Un instant de simplicité rempli d'émotions
Écrire pour nous, pour vous à l'unisson
Le bonheur est complet quand le texte est fini
Les mots laisseront leur trace dans l'infini.
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