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"WHO DO YOU SAY I AM" seeks to bridge the gap between the reader who reads for empowerment and the reader who reads for knowledge. Both groups will receive what they seek, and possible spiritual insight into the earthly life of Jesus, whose short ministry spawned a worldwide, life-changing movement that grows stronger with each soul saved. Readers are invited to travel back in time with the author and take a look at this itinerant teacher and preacher...
20002) Sensual Sounds
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Lust. Lies. Double lives.
The rock and roll industry is full of people who are looking out for themselves, and willing to do anything to rise to the top. Those who are in the thick of it know what it's like to stab someone in the back, and they know what it's like to be stabbed.
For five brothers, the rise to fame has been filled with trouble and hardship, but they have persevered. Now they're at the top of their game and the top of the charts too....
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"Get up! Grab a pen and write this down!"
I glanced at the blue numbers on the clock next to me. They read 3:00 a.m. I tend to have difficulty sleeping, either I can't fall asleep, or I wake up numerous times throughout the night for no particular reason. So when I heard God wake me up that morning only to tell me to grab a pen, I did what any crazy person would do, I told Him I'd do it in the morning while rolling over, tucking myself back under...
20004) The Sink or Swim Money Program: A 6-Step Plan for Teaching Your Teens Financial Responsibility
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In this step-by-step guide, Dr. John E. Whitcomb takes the struggle out of teaching children fiscal responsibility, introducing positive spending habits that will last a lifetime.
Picture this, parents: Trips to the grocery store with the kids that don't end with overpriced junk food or sulking in the backseat. Or this: Shopping for back-to-school clothes without enduring hours of your child begging for the trendiest, most expensive, sneakers.
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Ph.D. Oceanographer Scott McDowell's comprehensive guidebook is written for new boaters as well as those selecting a home port for their live-abroad retirement. The book is filled with practical tips including how to approach Marina Management, selecting the best type of slip for easy docking and dinghy storage, assessing amenities, interpreting vessel insurance policies and more. Also covered are key ocean processes such as tides, storm surge, tsunamis...
20006) Mending His Ways
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Corporal Pete Maddox's road to redemption runs through the Wounded Warrior Rescue, but his troubled past might be a bigger roadblock to repairing his relationship with Penny than he can overcome. Pete Maddox became a teenaged troublemaker after his father was killed in the line of duty. But four years in the Marines has changed him. Now he's home, and he's on a mission-to make amends with the people he hurt most, including the woman he still loves....
20007) Good Girls
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Three-time International Horror Guild and Shirley Jackson Award Winner Glen Hirshberg brings his flair for the grim, grisly, and emotionally harrowing to Good Girls, the standalone sequel to Motherless Child.
Still in college, Rebecca is the "responsible one." She keeps her friends from getting too crazy-though Human Curling is kind of out there. She's a safety valve for Joel, her foster father, and helps out at Halfmoon House, which he runs with...
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From their haunts in the shadowy corner of a bar, front and center at a convenience store, or reigning over a massive mall installation bursting with light, sound, and action, arcade games have been thrilling and addicting quarter-bearers of all ages ever since Pong first lit up its paddles. Whether you wanted a few minutes' quick-twitch exhilaration or the taste of three-initial immortality that came with topping the high score screen, you could...
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Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.
Bordered Writers explores how writing program administrators and faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are transforming the teaching of writing to be more inclusive and foster Latinx student success. Like its 2007 predecessor, Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students, this collection contributes to ongoing conversations...
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If you're like a lot of us, for years you've been making resolutions and promises about becoming physically fit. Despite all your good intentions, though, somehow it never quite goes according to plan. But you can break that cycle. In Fit at Last, bestselling business author Ken Blanchard and fitness authority Tim Kearin show how Ken, at age seventy-three, finally was able to make lasting improvements in his health and fitness, including dropping...
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A guide and blueprint to a purposeful millennial existence-and how we can make a difference.
What does it mean to be a millennial in this chaotic world? Beyond Snapchat and Tinder, the consumerist culture we've inherited, and quarter-life crises, can a millennial aspire to more?
Alison Lea Sher argues, yes, we can! Packing herself up in an RV, Sher embarks on a road trip in hopes of starting a conversation about what it means to grow up in America,...
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Elizabeth L. Hinson-Hasty pursues places where care for people with serious mental illness and their families is unraveled in the United States. She picks up threads of empowerment from the Christian tradition to address the distinctive circumstances of individuals and families affected by mental illness, and draws upon her own experiences as the sibling of someone with serious mental illness (SMI). As a scholar of theology and Christian ethics, the...
20013) A Leap Within
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Did you ever had an urge to dive through yourself to explore the unfelt feelings? Did you ever want to enhance the basics of life? Usually we all just look at the things but never see them. To excel, one need to fathom the Elements of Human Psychology, Ways of Exploring Ourselves. Our Connection with the Society, Concept of Love. One can get, more than expected from the life when he tries to understand these various realms as mentioned in this book....
20014) The Chief of Rally Tree
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Dina's gone. She left a note, she left her plants, and she left what her husband, Roal, thought was her entire world. Nothing remained but some frozen dinners and the mysterious last line of her final message: I do love you ever Dina.
Professor Roal Bowman, best known in the sleepy college town of Braddock as a fake Zen master who used to pretend to be Native American and never lived up to his potential, by no means saw it coming. How could he have...
20015) Footprints in Wet Cement
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These Footprints in Wet Cement are just that: stories some experienced, some homespun, some dredged from the fertile detritus of dreams; impressions gathered and ruminations fermented over the past decade or so the fleeting imprint of a life left to harden in the tenuous mold of language. Straddling the tenuous borderline between the narrative and the poetic, they are all the product of a pressed aesthetic.
To borrow from the foreword: "An atom of...
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For many women in their 20's and 30's, the greatest professional hurdle they'll need to overcome has little to do with their work life. The most focused, confident, and ambitious women can find themselves derailed by a tiny little thing: a new baby. While more workplaces are espousing family-friendly cultures, women are still subject to a "parenting penalty" and high-profile conflicts between parenting and the workplace are all over the news: from...
20017) Joe
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Joe Hill thinks of himself as an ordinary guy with an appropriately ordinary sort of name. He discovers that some other Colby residents think he's extraordinarily good looking, many likening him to Clark Kent. Joe's newfound popularity goes to his head and he has a number of brief flings with various men around town.
Joe eventually begins to wonder if settling down with one special man would give him a greater sense of contentment. He sees the happiness...
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A developmental analysis of adolescents growing up in an inner-city, working class life
What does it mean to be a teenager in an American city at the close of the twentieth century? How do urban surroundings affect the ways in which teens grow up, and what do their stories tell us about human development? In particular, how do the negative images of themselves on television and in the newspaper affect their perspectives about themselves? Psychologists...
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The Buck Stops Here consists of twenty-eight engrossing accounts of the most important United States presidential decisions in history. They range from the abolition of slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation to the acquisition of vast new territory with the Louisiana Purchase to the establishment of enduring institutions such as Medicare and America's national parks. These decisions encompass, too, such less-well-known measures as the G.I. Bill...
20020) Orphan of Asia
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Born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his grandfather but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia, ultimately finds himself estranged from all three cultures. Wu's autobiographical novel, completed in 1945, is widely regarded as a classic of modern Asian literature and a groundbreaking expression of the postwar Taiwanese national consciousness. Originally...
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