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1041) Your Greatest Comforter
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The author, Chris Briscoe, wrote this book out of his passion to encourage those who are wanting to experience God's very real presence and power.
In this book, the author takes you on a journey which needs to be experienced to be believed. This series is about how to experience God's practical help and very real presence which will prove to be your greatest comfort for your life. But the proof will be only in the eating; some reading this may be...
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Ephesians is an incredible book that adds a different dimension to predestination, found in Romans. When the Bible believer correctly understands how and why God predestinates the believing saint and how this wonderfully ties in with their eternal security then they will be able to fully and perpetually rejoice and enjoy their salvation.This King James Bible study is an enjoyable book to get and real along with. It gives many helpful cross-references...
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Cette lettre est un véritable manifeste pour la liberté individuelle!
Pourquoi est-ce que je ne peux pas me coucher sur toi dans la jubilation d'une tendresse presque asexuée et, tout en faisant l'amour, parler de ce que nous avons mangé à dîner ou du temps qu'il fait?
Avant le Printemps de Prague, Jana Černá écrit à son amant Egon Bondy. Elle lui parle d'amour, de philosophie, de sexe, de désir. Une liberté de ton à l'image d'une femme...
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A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's protest techniques to the American civil rights movement and played a deeply influential role in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to mold him into an international symbol of nonviolence. Despite these achievements, Rustin...
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This collection of Jonathan Linebaugh's most important work on Paul explores the merciful surprise at the heart of Paul's gospel: a grace that, while strange and weak in worldly terms, is nothing less than the power of God, full of comfort and promise. Through twelve essays-two of them new-Linebaugh contextualizes and interprets key Pauline passages, does comparative readings of Paul in conversation with early Jewish texts, and enters into dialogue...
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Told primarily in instant messenger conversations, Skype, emails and texts, this is Jaclyn Moriarty's Feeling Sorry for Celia for the modern teen.
Taylor and Isolde used to be best friends - before THAT FIGHT, 18 months ago. It's been radio silence ever since - until Taylor contacts Isolde to sympathise with her breakup: the breakup that she never saw coming; the breakup that destroyed her confidence and ended her dreams of joining the National...
1047) Galatians
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The first major biblical commentary from the pen of N. T. Wright
While full of theological import, Paul's letter to the Galatians also captures and memorializes a significant moment in the early history of Christianity. This commentary from N. T. Wright-the inaugural volume of the CCF series-offers a theological interpretation of Galatians that never loses sight of the political concerns of its historical context. With these two elements of the letter...
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In the wake of his widely appreciated commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of John, noted theologian and exegete Frederick Dale Bruner turns his attention to Paul's letter to the Romans. In this concise commentary, he relays his findings on what he calls the "Fifth Gospel" and its central claim that "through the Father's love, Jesus's passion, and the Spirit's application of this passionate love, human beings can have a perfectly right...
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Finally: an introduction that captures the excitement of the early Christians, helping today's readers to think like a first-century believer while reading the text responsibly for today. The New Testament in Its World is your passageway from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians. A highly-readable, one-volume introduction placing the entire New Testament and early Christianity in its original context, it is the only...
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Take a heartwarming trip into Christmas history with these children's letters to Santa Claus from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This first-ever collection of children's letters to Santa written between 1870 and 1920 presents more than one hundred charming and endearing missives. Along with its vintage charm, timeless sentiments, and non-denominational perspective, this heartwarming book is filled with historical discoveries that...
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In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy's father was the third-ranking colonial official in Massachusetts, the couple joined the American cause after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and fled British-occupied Boston. Knox became a soldier in the Continental Army, where he served until the war's end as Washington's artillery commander.
Their correspondence, one of...
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This workbook accompanies The New Testament in Its World by N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird. Following the textbook's structure, it offers assessment questions, exercises, and activities designed to support the students' learning experience. Reinforcing the teaching in the textbook, this workbook will not only help to enhance their understanding of the New Testament books as historical, literary, and social phenomena located in the world of early...
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Embark on a thought-provoking journey into the heart of a centuries-old debate with "What Is Speaking In Tongues And Is It Still For Today?" This insightful and meticulously researched book delves into the enigmatic phenomenon of speaking in tongues, unravelling its historical, cultural, and theological complexities. Whether you're a seasoned theologian grappling with the nuances of this spiritual practice or a curious seeker seeking clarity, this...
1054) Clueless McGee
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Clueless McGee volume 1
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Philomel Books
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2012
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IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Through a series of letters to his father, a private investigator, fifth-grader PJ "Clueless" McGee tells of his efforts to discover who stole macaroni and cheese from the school cafeteria
1055) Dear Haiti, love Alaine
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time
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The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines the voices of Renée Watson, Julie Murphy, Jes Baker, Samantha Irby, Bruce Sturgell, and many others in a relatable, revelatory and inspiring exploration of body image and fat acceptance.
This dazzling collection of art, poetry, essays, and fashion tips is meant for people of all sizes who desire to be seen and heard in a culture consumed by a narrow definition...
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Through letters and other writings, this historical study chronicles an Irish Catholic family's influence on mid-nineteenth—century South Carolina.
For Church and Confederacy unveils the lives of the Lynch family during the late antebellum and Civil War years. Settling in the South Carolina upcountry, Irish immigrants Conlaw and Eleanor Lynch imparted their ambitions to their children, several of whom would make exceptional marks in such areas...
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This collection of Civil War correspondence chronicles the lives and concerns of three Confederate families in Piedmont, South Carolina.
The letters in Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War provide valuable firsthand accounts of both battlefronts and the home front, sharing rich details about daily life as well as evolving attitudes toward the war. As the men of service age from each family join the Confederate ranks, they begin writing from military...
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In “Writing to the World”, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the long eighteenth century. She introduces the concept of the "bridge genre," which enables such change by transferring existing textual conventions to emerging modes of composition and circulation. She draws on this concept to reveal how four crucial genres that emerged during this time-the newspaper, the periodical, the novel, and...
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These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three slaves and was the wealthiest free black in South Carolina. Although the early letters are indistinguishable from those of white contemporaries, the later...
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