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Creation regained
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Albert M. Wolters |
In print for two decades and translated into eight languages, Albert Wolters's classic formulation of an integrated Christian worldview has been revised and expanded to reach new readers beyond the g… |
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House of dolls
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Francesca Lia Block |
In a little house from another time, with lace curtains in every window and paintings hung in gold doily frames, Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene live a warm and cozy life. They wear fancy dress… |
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The Way Home
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George P. Pelecanos |
Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dat… |
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Stealing Fatima
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Frank Gaspar |
Father Manny's nightly ritual of gin, pills and prayer is interrupted by the sudden appearance of an long-lost childhood friend who describes his recurring visits from the Virgin Mary, in this story … |
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The shepherd's bride
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Patricia Davids |
Shunned by the Amish community, shepherd Carl King has given up on his dream for a family. Yet, when captivating Lizzie Barkman shows up at the sheep farm where he works, Carl sees the wife he once d… |
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Wolf Creek homecoming
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Penny Richards |
"Gabe Gentry used to live entirely in pursuit of carefree pleasure. It cost him his relationship with his brother, and with the one woman who believed in him. Now, with newfound faith, he's coming ho… |
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The redemption
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Stephen T. Davis,Daniel Kendall,Gerald O'Collins |
"Twenty-four scholars from different universities, churches, and continents have worked on this book - a volume on the central Christian belief: the redemption of human beings through Jesus Christ"--… |
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The masterpiece
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Francine Rivers |
Struggling to make a home for herself and her five-month-old son Samuel, Grace Moore accepts a position as a personal assistant to Roman Velasco, a temperamental but successful artist.
"A successf… |
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Harry's trees
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Jon Cohen |
"When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight...Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope.… |
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Schoenberg and redemption
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Julie Brown |
Presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. In 1898 and especially 1908, Schoenberg's Jewish identity came into confrontation with his commitment to Wagnerian modern… |
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The dinner party and other stories
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Joshua Ferris |
These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of … |
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Becoming
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Bill Magnusson |
"BECOMING is a phenomenal piece of literature that, though fictional, will strike a cord with anyone who has ever asked, "Why are we here, and what are we supposed to be doing?" "--Page 4 of cover. |
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The practice of story
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Mindy Makant |
"The grammar of Christian redemption cannot live solely in the future tense. Despite confidence about the effects of Jesus' resurrection in the present, Christians are tempted to depict salvation as … |
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Thinking about God's love
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Lorraine Cavanagh |
There are many people who are put off Christianity by the way the doctrines of atonement and redemption are communicated. People find it hard to believe in a loving God who appears at the same time t… |
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Judaica 5
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Gershon Scholem |
Zwanzig Jahre vor dem monumentalen Sabbatai Zwi, dessen deutsche Erstausgabe 1922 im Jüdischen Verlag erschienen ist, erschütterte Gersholm Scholem 1937 mit seinem Aufsatz Erlösung durch Sünde die tr… |
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Refuge
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Melinda Viergever Inman |
"Intent on total destruction, Satan notices Cain's obsessive lust for Lilith and the dark roots of jealousy toward his do-gooding brother Abel. Satan goads him to the point of madness, barraging his … |
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Things We Never Got Over
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Collen hoover |
Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon.
Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a … |
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A Christmas Carol
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Timothy Krause |
<p>This version of the classic holiday story has been slightly abridged and lightly adapted for advanced students of English language. The text includes comprehension checks, discussion questions, an… |
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In Search of Satisfaction
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J.California Cooper |
The folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, but through four collections of short stories and two novels, J. California Cooper… |
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Inferno
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Marcus Sanders,Doug Harvey,Dante Alighieri |
Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God. |
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