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"Honorable Mention for the 2011 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers" Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Rembrandt's Jews, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Spinoza: A Life, which won the Koret Jewish Book Award; and The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason (Princeton).
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In Love Wins, bestselling author, international teacher, and speaker Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis, Drops Like Stars) addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith-hell and the afterlife-arguing, would a loving God send people to eternal torment forever?
Rob Bell is an electrifying, unconventional pastor with millions viewing his NOOMA videos.
With searing insight, Bell puts hell on trial with a hopeful message-eternal life doesn't start...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Hell of a Book. In Jason Mott's haunting and unforgettable debut novel, The Returned, an impossible miracle is occurring all across the globe. Read how it all begins in this short story, The First.
It's been just over a year since Edmund Blithe died, and just over a month since his fiancée, Emily, stopped wearing her engagement ring. Emily has finally begun to move on… Until Edmund mysteriously...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Hell of a Book, comes a short story from the world of The Returned where one determined couple seeks to reunite a young girl with the father who thought he had lost her forever…
When Heather and Matt Campbell find ten-year-old Tatiana Rusesa on the side of the highway, she is thousands of miles away from her village in Sierra Leone. She hasn't seen her family in almost two decades, not since she...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Hell of a Book, comes a short story from the world of The Returned. A man is forced to choose between the life he has now, and the one he thought was gone forever…
Peter Galvin was just seventeen when Tracy Whitland-the love of his life-vanished without a trace. In the years after her death, he had finally moved on, gotten married, started a family. He is content with his life now-happy, even…....
6) Breakneck
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Arliss Cutter novels volume 5
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"Cameron's novels hook you from the first line, cement your eyes to the page, and grip your heart in a vice. I can't think of another writer whose work I admire more." -William Kent Krueger
"Looking for authentic action, suspense, drama, and mystery? Look no further than U.S. Marshals Service veteran Marc Cameron whose thrillers capture the visceral nature of life in the trenches as only one who has lived it truly can." -Jack Carr
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In this apocalyptic adventure, war and disease decimate the globe, and two orphaned siblings must decide: Stay and die, or run and survive.
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Hell of a Book, A Read eith Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five. Twelve years later, the world begins to collapse around them as a deadly contagion steadily wipes...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" "Winner of the McKay Award, Vergilian Society" Joseph Farrell is the M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Professor in the Humanities and professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Ennius' "Annals": Poetry and History and A Companion to Vergil's "Aeneid" and Its Tradition.
A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible...
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The plague of frogs has ended, but earth will never be the same, and the fractured B.P.R.D. struggles to battle dangerous monsters and humans alike, from a trailer-park cult to a Russian town ravaged by a zombie-like virus. Guy Davis's final B.P.R.D. story sets the stage for Tyler Crook's (Harrow County) backwoods-horror debut, as Liz Sherman hides from a world that she helped push toward armageddon, and Abe Sapien is shot down by a girl who's seen...
10) The inferno
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The first part of Dante's classic poem of faith follows the author with his guide Virgil through the circles of hell, describing the sinners and punishments witnessed there.
11) Snowball In Hell
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From award-winning author Josh Lanyon comes a standalone romantic mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Dead men tell no tales, so reporter Nathan Doyle's just going to have to get to the bottom of a murder himself-if the police Lieutenant doesn't get him first.Los Angeles, 1943
Reporter Nathan Doyle had his reasons to want Phil Arlen dead, but when he sees the man's body pulled from the La Brea tar pit, he knows he'll be the prime...
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Written in the form of biblical prophecy, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell presents philosophical ideas about God, humanity and the complex nature of ethics. It's a bold yet humorous examination of binary belief systems and their conflicting principles.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a remarkable narrative that explores common religious themes such as good versus evil. The author uses vibrant storytelling to expand on the importance of these contradictory...
13) The Idea Man
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Words are power, and ideas are dangerous.
Quirky hipster Parker Rebec moves to Paris, in order to finish writing his novel. When a mysterious stalker leaves him a trail of notes, Parker is caught up in a story he can't resist.
A decade earlier, on the other side of the world, Greysen Price must somehow leave his job as an inventor, completely erase his identity, and escape the country.
When the two lives intertwine, chaos ensues.
14) The Marked Man
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A writer hunted. An inventor on the run.
Parker thought his running days were over. But the consequences for taking an advance to write the story of a wanted man, came at a much higher cost than he ever expected.
Because Greysen's location is secret, all the attention falls on Parker. He finds himself hunted by the men that want the protagonist from his novel killed.
When the Marked Man contacts Parker to let him know about a coveted invention he...
15) The True Man
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A history rewritten. An identity redefined.
Greysen Price now has the job he'd always wanted from the beginning. Adjusting to his new rank, he finds that the boss he thought he eradicated, wasn't really the boss at all. And this new, bigger boss has games of her own.
Parker Rubec is living his new life in Paris, when he gets a call about his parents that crashes his whole world. He must return home to Kansas City. In the meantime, Greysen pulls him...
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Hellboy comes to the crossroads in Enigma, Georgia, a small town plagued by strange occurrences. Sent to keep an eye on Sarah Nail, a young girl hiding from the curse of her family, Hellboy becomes entangled in the blood debt of evil mystical preacher, Brother Jester. Stuck between human malice and the mysteries of the occult, Hellboy comes up against an intrigue of ghosts, demon trees, talking bullfrogs, and a race of lost mutant children. An all-new...
17) Hell's Road
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London is doomed and Scotland may be their only chance for survival.
If the vines and the Creeps didn't bring about London's ultimate destruction, Operation Inferno would. Within six days, thermo baric bombs will be dropping on the city, obliterating everything. Adam Blake has no choice but to lead the inhabitants of the Block out of the city and through a hostile world devoid of human life. Their only chance of safety lays over five hundred miles...
18) Parkway to Hell
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With Whispering Pines refusing to give up and die, Jace "Long Pork" Stanford has nothing better to do than find out who the heavily-armed newcomers in town are. Well, while he's not busy dealing with the ever present Z hordes. Or running for his life from paramilitary mercenaries. Or possibly blowing up more of the zombie-infested city because he can't help pressing buttons. Buttons are meant to be pressed, even in the apocalypse, right? Looks like...
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Wiese's visit to the devil's lair lasted just twenty-three minutes, but he returned with vivid details etched in his memory, capturing the attention of national media, including the Christian Broadcasting Network, Daystar Television Network, Trinity Broadcasting Network, the Miracle Channel, Sid Roth's It's Supernatural!, Sean Hannity's America, Charisma News, and many others.
Awaken to the realities of hell, the afterlife and the urgency to live...
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Online Dating Can Be HELL
Especially if you're a reasonably attractive woman.
From the douchebags who think all women are interchangeable...
To the nice guys who don't have a clue...
To the guys who are so broken down from their last relationship they don't even know where to start...
It's enough to make a woman want to join a nunnery and be done with it.
It does make for some very entertaining stories, though.
This book is for the women who've been...
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