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1) The unbroken
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Magic of the lost volume 1
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2021.
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"Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than she thought. Luca needs a turncoat. Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet's edge between treason and orders. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters:...
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What if the key to your wholeness lay in your wounding?
2011: Sarah Baum is a white humanitarian nurse who's worked in conflict zones for years. When recurrent nightmares of being a scared Black girl hiding in the forest cause her to make a near-fatal mistake, she's faced with her biggest challenge yet: how to heal from her past. And who is the girl in her dreams?
1914: Fourteen-year-old Maggie Burke flees the land where her family works as sharecroppers...
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The Duke of Laverdale is ambitious to be appointed Master of the Horse and the new
Queen Adelaide is determined that behavior at Court should be moral after the licentiousness of King George IV.
The Duke therefore ends his affaire de coeur with the enchanting Lady Sybil Mersham and drops his ballet dancer mistress as well.
Up to now, he has been, determined not to be married, but he now decides to become respectable and find a suitable bride as befits...
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Andrew starts his momentous first journey abroad laden with well-meant advice: not to stay too long in the white mans country, his mothers contribution; and not to marry a foreign girl, his travelling companions personally felt plea. He quickly discovers that London is not Lagos. It is fascinating to see familiar landmarks and the sometimes quirky English character through new eyes, but he is fortunate to make a friend John, who introduces him to...
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"I turned the corner. The aisle stretched before me as the music escalated. My white slippers brushed over the red roses.
My heart thumped. I had waited so long for this moment. Had I really made it this far? Hundreds of eyes twinkled their approval.
But did they really think I was crazy? I could almost hear the question I had been asked before, 'Do you think it will be worth the wait?' Here I was at this pinnacle moment. My first kiss."
These...
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Braving countless dangers, across hundreds of centuries and through a myriad past lives, Drath Gofal seeks knowledge! John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton,...
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The Willow Springs Settlement has been inaugurated in a season of abundant blessing that portends to continue with few disruptions. Thus when the unspeakable – indeed, the unknowable – occurs within the community yet growing into its identity, not a single life remains untouched by the catastrophe.Either directly or indirectly, every soul is affected by the event, and all must reach for one another and for the God they had believed they'd comprehended,...
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Sequel to Jay Bird
A month away from his high school graduation, Jay Kirkman must confront his doubts about the future. The recent death of his Grams, the feisty and funny grandparent he had counted on for wisdom and support, has taken a toll on him. Breaking away from his overbearing parents, especially his strict disciplinarian mother, is proving difficult.
Struggling to say goodbye to the people he loves, Jay has to decide if he wants to move...
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What if it is not our political system that is broken, but our understanding of it? Everybody thinks that it's the system that's broken in politics; but what if it's not the system that's broken but rather our understanding of it? What if everyone's proposals to make the system "more democratic" only wind up making things worse, and weaken our systems of accountability so much as to make them meaningless? What if it's our own ignorance that is killing...
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Before 1652 there were no labourers, no workers, no servants and no servitude. All that was, was labour of love. Black people worked their own farms. They were Masters on their own right. The African land and its wealth gave our great grand parents the right to be Masters. Black children are the children of Masters! They have the right to know that the great are only great because we are on our knees! They have the right to know because knowledge...
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The Unbroken Line is the riveting story of how truly heartless the business of professional football was and is from the poor pension plans and inadequate medical benefits to the greed of union leadership which the authors argue takes advantage of and turns its back on the very individuals who make the game great. At no time in the annals of sports has the timing of a book been more important. This unique story provides a fascinating inside look at...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
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Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.
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This third volume is the final book in The Way Series by Catherine Grace Landry, destined to be a classic of the mind body spirit literature. The Way of the Grace-filled Heart offers us the freedom of infinite possibility. Here we greet our Soul, glimpse our vast potential, and meet the light of Source that flows upon our earthly experiences, in all directions, at all times, with no limits, borders, and boundaries. A grace-filled heart calls us to...
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Long, long ago, Erathien was a world full of magick, and light. However, that time is all but forgotten. The nine gods have fallen, magick is a dead art among the humans, and the magickal races have largely withdrawn to their homelands.
The world isn't as it once was, but that is changing once again. Lady Chaos, the eldest of the nine, has returned, seeking vengeance for a long-ago wrong. Her brutal plans to conquer all of Erathien begin with Coren's...
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A MEMOIR OF A PROSTITUTE'S DAUGHTER
"Suddenly, the back door was thrown off its hinges as the SWAT team swarmed our house in a chaotic frenzy, rifles drawn. I sat in the front room with my baby, as I looked down the hallway at Billy already on the floor, and knew they were coming for me."
What do you expect from life? A warm bed and food to eat? A safe space free from harm? For Jodie Ballenger, those expectations were never a given. Raised in abuse...
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When a parent hears that their child has a disability, hearts and hopes are often broken. But faith doesn't have to be.
In Unbroken Faith, Dianne Dokko Kim comes alongside you as a fellow special needs parent to help you reconcile the premise of a good God with the devastating realities of raising a disabled child. Kim courageously articulates deep-seated, unspoken doubts and fears you may have but are afraid to voice: Will my child still have...
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Terrance Bell, a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, recording artist, and now author offers teachable moments drawing from his own life experiences and through the thoughts of others. He motivates young men who come from impoverished backgrounds that face various hardships while also keeping a solid connection with God.
He narrates how he surmounted his incapacity to love without condition because of occurrences from his childhood.
Bell also offers...
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In this amazing true-life account of the Holocaust, Henry Oertelt retraces the sequence of events that forever changed his destiny. Each event is broken down into eighteen separate incidents, all intrinsically linked to form the Chain of Life that kept him alive. Although often shocking, the remarkable events of Henry's life will touch the lives and hearts of readers everywhere.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I was born in 1931 in Watertown, South Dakota. My father was an undertaker, and I grew up with grief, though I didn't experience it because I wasn't part of the grieving families. I remember the enormous respect my father had for the deceased.
#2 I was programmed to be a doctor from a young age, as my father was very interested in handicapped children. I went...
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In this book, the Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Studs Terkel, author of the New York Times bestseller Working, turns to the ultimate human experience: death. Here a wide range of people address the unknowable culmination of our lives, the possibilities of an afterlife, and their impact on the way we live, with memorable grace and poignancy. Included in this remarkable treasury are Terkel's interviews with such famed figures...
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