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Laisha Bowman, a young woman of God who seems to have it all together, is missing only one thing-- a man of God to share it with. Figuring what harm would it do, she logs on to HisLove.com. Laisha's in for the surprise of her life when she realizes that God's Mr. Right for her has been right under her nose.
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In the distant future, while studying the land of Barzakh in the Sahara, members of the Institute for the Archeology of Human Thought unearth the bones of Gara, a young man, whose Myelin will unravel the secrets of his ancient consciousness. A foreigner in his own land, Gara, in search of a better humanity, has traveled through three eras, from the 11th-century deserts of Mauritania to the dystopic future, inadvertently sowing the seeds of his own...
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When unemployed architect and single mother Alexa Moss inherits a crumbling farmhouse in the town of Ecstasy, Illinois, her science-prodigy daughter Lucy fiercely resents the move. Soon after arrival, Lucy’s fact-based education is threatened by a creationist lawsuit against the public high school. The introverted Alexa’s only option is to run for the schoolboard, arousing the wrath of the charismatic megachurch pastor, Cyrus Bell. Unknown to...
84) River of fire
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River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. Four characters of Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian faith, reappear throughout the novel in various reincarnations but interestingly enough, with the same names. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession.
85) Ciudad victoria
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"En la India del siglo XIV, despǔs de una insignificante batalla entre dos reinos olvidados, una nįa de nueve ąos llamada Pampa Kampana cambia el curso de la historia. La voz antigua de la diosa Pampa sale por su boca infantil y le otorga poderes extraordinarios para crear una gran ciudad: Bisnaga, la ±ciudad de la victoria¿. Durante los siguientes doscientos cincuenta ąos, la vida de Bisagna estar̀ ligada a la de su creadora, que desde su...
86) Scepter of flint
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Lord Hani mystery volume 3
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During the Great Jubilee of the Aten, a mysterious series of tomb robberies takes place, and witnesses begin to die. With plague ravaging the palace, where Hani's daughter is a physician, and Egypt's ally, Naharin, collapsing into the hands of a usurper, Hani must make sense of what is happening. And who in high places is his real enemy.
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Osseus, a man betrayed by his wife, discovers a solution for his marriage problems as well as the fate of his town in the words of God.
Es la historia de Oseas y su relacion con Gomer. En una sociedad en la que el dinero, la prosperidad y el sexo han terminado por empanar el mensaje espiritual y el cumplimiento del pacto, Oseas, un hombre traicionado por su mujer, descubre no solo que existe una solución para su drama matrimonial sino que además...
88) The beachhead
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After Earth is decimated, the entire remaining human population is marooned on an unfamiliar beach. The enigmatic winged Orangemen leave the survivors with instructions to remake their society, basic tools and weapons, and a few thousand books, including Bibles in many languages. As two generations are born and raised, conflicting theories as to the nature of the apocalypse continue to simmer. Fifty years later, the arrival of a new family that shouldn't...
89) Winter's lament
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What's really going on over at The Cathedral? Charismatic Pastor Reese Thompkins had transformed a struggling congregation in Central Illinois into a megachurch. When Pastor's not preaching and teaching, he's singing and producing music with an internationally recognized Gospel Choir that's been nominated for a Stellar Award. And by his side is his beautiful wife, Sister Kamilah, renowned children's author and artist. To the Christian Community, the...
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Gracias a la ayuda de sus compañeros, como Iorek Byrnison y las brujas, y a la aparición de nuevos personajes decisivos, Will y Lyra podrán llegar al país de los muertos y averiguar el auténtico sentido de todo lo que han vivido. Pero los sacrificios que deberán hacer son dolorosos.
Thanks to the help of their companions like lorek Byrinson and the witches, and to the appearance of decisive, new characters, Will and Lyra might be able to get...
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Andie Oliver is a faithful woman--to God, to her handsome husband Joe, and to televangelist Reverend Calvin Artury, a Godfather in a Mafia of holy men.Raised in the 1970's to be subservient and submissive in the tradition of the Bible-belt South, she becomes a prisoner of that tradition. As a reluctant member of Artury's evangelical megachurch, the House of Praise in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Andie's dream of children, home, and marriage falls...
92) Pan de mi cuerpo
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"En esta novela una voz múltiple--enlazada por entrevistas, testimonios y documentos ficticios--reflejo de la memoria colective abigarrada y contradictoria, va desplegando la imagen suempre incompletea de Graciela Vidal, que parece oscilar entre la santidad y la perversión, la idolatría de unos y el descreimiento de otros, entre la veneración, la envidia y el deseo"--Container.
This is a novel of multiple voices -- bound by interviews, testimonies...
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Lord Hani mystery volume 2
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"Four years into Akhenaten's new regime, the dissatisfaction of those who practiced the old religion of Amen-Ra is growing. Hani, a diplomat already under the king's surveillance because of the disappearance of his firebrand Amen priest brother-in-law, gets drawn into an investigation for the Beloved Royal Wife, who is being blackmailed. Meanwhile, the new vassal king of A'amu, lodged at Hani's house until the king grants him an audience, is showing...
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"When three-year-old Sonny witnessed his father's brutal murder, he didn't know a curse haunting the men in his family was to blame. But his grandmother, Constance Jackson, did. For 20 years, Constance clung to her abusive marriage and church hoping that she could save her son. But hope and prayers were not enough, and her son died an unnatural death just like four generations of Jackson men before him. Now, she's stuck raising her grandson -- Sonny....
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"1000 A.D. The Christian conversion of pagan lands is well underway, turning the Viking north into a bleak war zone of occupation and violence. Magnus The Black is an ex-warrior turned fixer for the Church, only looking to ease his people through this painful time. But when a Vatican official under his care is murdered on the infamous "Black Road, " he uncovers a secret, something so big it threatens to change the balance of power in all of Europe,...
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"Bienvenido de nuevo a Hope Springs... donde Grace Wesley enseña historia en la preparatoria. Ella se choca con el distrito escolar después de responder a la pregunta de Brooke Thawley acerca de Jesús durante una discusión académica. De repente, Brooke se convierte en un peón en un épico juicio que podría costarle a Grace la profesión que ama. Tom Endler, un abogado del gremio de maestros, es seleccionado como representante legal de Grace...
97) Mourner's bench
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"At the First Baptist Church of Maeby, Arkansas, the sins of the child belonged to the parents until the child turned thirteen. Sarah Jones was only eight years old in the summer of 1964, but with her mother Esther Mae on eight prayer lists and flipping around town with the generally mistrusted civil rights organizers, Sarah believed it was time to get baptized and take responsibility for her own sins. That would mean sitting on the mourners bench...
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"For two days the rabbi rides on a donkey to find the ideal fiancée. Legs and arms shaved, hands dyed with henna, a girl to be married must shine like a mirror. Every girl hopes to be the chosen one and ride off on a donkey to live in the city. The desert is the domain of men; they believe they see oases and palm trees sagging with fruit, while women see only sand on top of sand. A rapid look-around at the girls in the circle was enough for the traveling...
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"Alice is very good at her job. She's on the rise at a prominent PR firm, and there is no image-management disaster she can't fix. But when her dearest friend, a parish priest in a charming French village, becomes depressed about his dwindling number of parishioners, she may finally have met her biggest challenge. Though an avowed atheist, Alice is determined to apply her skills to the problem. She plunges into research, immersing herself in the world...
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