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This is the first objective history of the great revivals that swept the country after World War II. It tells the story of the victories and defeats of such giants of the revival as William Branham, Oral Roberts, Jack Coe, T. L. Osborn, A. A. Allen. It also tells of the powerful present day evangelists who are carrying on the revival, including Robert Schambach and Morris Cerullo. The book includes pictures of Schambach, Allen, Cerullo, Branham, Roberts,...
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IF WE FIND OURSELVES WITH A DESIRE THAT NOTHING IN THIS WORLD CAN SATISFY, THE MOST PROBABLE EXPLANATION IS THAT WE WERE MADE FOR ANOTHER WORLD.
C.S. LEWIS
As a real estate mogul, Stevie Price has always filled her life with expensive cars, boats, and trips around the world. Despite the wealth and prestige this has brought her, it has also left a void in her heart. Now in the twilight of her life, the key to true happiness seemed forever...
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In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, where we will be able to say, here are possibilities that wisdom suggest we avoid.
First published to great acclaim in 1988, Langdon Winner's groundbreaking exploration of the political, social, and philosophical implications of technology is timelier than ever. He demonstrates that choices about the kinds...
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An introduction into the problems of Christian philosophy. It focuses on the philosophical system of Dr. Cornelius Van Til, which in turn is founded upon the presuppositions of an infallible revelation in the Bible and the necessity of Christian theology for all philosophy.
Basic to this study is the belief that presuppositions of human thought in every field must be basically one in order to arrive at any concept which both validates biblical faith...
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In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Bacon's make-believe island was not an empire in the usual sense, marked...
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2024]
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English
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When a newcomer arrives, Fox demonstrates all his foxy skills, but when the other creature can do all the same things, he wonders if it really is another fox - and possibly a new friend!
8) Wonka
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Warner Bros
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[2024]
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English
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Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the best-selling children₂s books of all time, ₃Wonka₄ tells the wondrous story of how the world₂s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big-screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full...
9) What a croc!
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Magnificent Mulligans volume 4
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"The Mulligans are used to adversity. But now someone wants to hurt something they love: the Mulligan Wild Animal Park. For a mini human, Stephie can be pretty tough. 'We don't believe in curses,' she says to Madame Claire. 'We have God to protect us.' Good words, but it's not long before the Mulligan kids begin to wonder if there is something real to the fortune teller's prediction of a curse. Strange things are happening at the animal park. Ghostly...
10) FUNNY STORY
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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
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"In I Am Weak, I Am Strong, pastor Jay Hewitt-the IRONMAN athlete who competed while undergoing treatment for brain cancer-reminds you that you can live a resilient and hopeful life even at your weakest moments because even when you are barely holding on to God, he is always holding on to you"--
"Even on the days you struggle to stay strong, you can live a resilient and hopeful life. After receiving a devastating brain cancer diagnosis, Jay Hewitt...
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Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
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[2024]
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English
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"The only guide you need to nourishing yourself and your baby from the first through fourth trimesters, from the bestselling author of The Big Book of Organic Baby Food. When you found out you were pregnant, you were probably given a long list of things you were no longer 'supposed' to do. But what you really need is a practical guide to all the things you can do to feel as empowered and strong as possible. The Big Book of Pregnancy Nutrition is the...
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New Harbinger Publications, Inc
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[2024]
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"Few things in the world have a more profound effect on your life than the parents who raised you. When your parents are pathologically self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, the pain they cause is deep and often difficult to put into words. You may experience anxiety, depression, complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), low self-esteem, addiction, or other mental health conditions as an adult. And you may even feel like it was...
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Dey Street Books
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[2024]
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English
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"A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award-winning, platinum selling singer-songwriter Michael McDonald, written with his friend, Emmy Award-nominated actor, comedian, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Paul Reiser. Doobie Brothers. Steely Dan. Chart topping soloist. Across a half-century of American music, Michael McDonald's unmistakably smooth baritone voice defined an era of rock and RB with hit records...
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Pine Hollow (Lizzie Shane) volume 5
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"Kendall Walsh has exactly one second to save a fancy, five-tiered wedding cake and any possibility of being a wedding planner--not to mention her family's struggling ski resort. All because of one very cute, very furry, golden menace of a retriever who has a serious thing for butter chiffon icing. Which is exactly when Olympic skier Brody James shows up and saves the day . . . and the cake. Brody makes Kendall feel about a million indecipherable...
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Razorbill
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[2024]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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"Nothing about Kess Pedrock's life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family's Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for megafauna fossils and skeletons), and not her best friend (a talking demon's head in a jar named Shrunken Jim). But things get even stranger than usual when Kess meets Lilou Starling, the new girl in town. Lilou comes to Kess for help breaking a mysterious curse--and the only clue she has leads straight into...
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Random House
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[2024]
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English
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"In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Both began believing...
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Shambhala
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[2023].
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English
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"Zen koans are a tradition of holistic inquiry based on "encounter stories" from East Asia's most radical Buddhist tradition. Turning this form of inquiry toward the climate crisis, Zen teacher Susan Murphy contends that koans can help us enter the mind of not-knowing, from which acceptance and possibility freely emerge. Koans reveal intimate, creative, mythic, artful, playful, provocative, humorous, and fierce ways to engage the work and art of protecting...
19) Moon madness
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Balzer + Bray
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2024.
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Last year, Maggie and Nora didn't exactly get the summer of their dreams. Instead, they had to survive a camp run by a covert clan of vampires. But this year, Camp Sylvania is back and under new management -- gentle, hippie-dippie Luna Lupowski. So the girls are convinced to give camp another try. All Nora wants is an unforgettable experience with her best friend. But it's hard to have fun with Maggie fixated on all things otherworldly -- and spending...
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Riley Thorn series volume 1
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Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A nice, normal life. Is that too much to ask? For Riley Thorn it is. Divorced. Broke. Living with a pack of elderly roommates. And those hallucinations she's diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they're clairvoyant visions. Just when things can't get worse, a so-hot-it-should-be-illegal private investigator shows up on her doorstep looking for a neighbor...who turns up murdered. Nick Santiago doesn't play well with others....