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Set against the turbulent backdrop of twelfth-century Europe, as two countries compete for world dominion, one woman will take her destiny, and the future of a nation, into her own hands Aquitaine is mine. It will never belong to anyone else." With these words, fifteen-year-old Eleanor seals her fate. Aquitaine is under the French king's safekeeping, and Eleanor, the Duke of Aquitaine's eldest daughter, knows she must wed Prince Louis in order...
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Sophya Blackwell comes up to present Time as a different person. Her husband, William, believes she has gotten her revenge on his infidelities. This pushes him to a strange new religion that he pushes her into. Here, Sophya meets the real Lover of her soul. William can only shadowbox his jealousy. Sophya's arch enemy, Flo, reappears on the scene in current Time, but as the one who introduces them to the weird religion. All that's done in the name...
83) The Beloved
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When the once banished Zehr family returns to Myrrine, Princess Evangeline is forced to reunite with a boy she once detested, Oryn Zehr. Evangeline's life takes a turn for the worse when Queen Illisandra forces her to knight Oryn by her own hand.
But when Evangeline finds out she is the focal point of a prophecy, her only chance of survival is working with Oryn. Together with Artemisa and Finric, the foursome travels the continent of Yona to...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Beloved by Toni Morrison, which tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who was prepared to commit a horrific crime rather than be forced back into slavery with her children. The novel explores the aftermath of her actions, and starkly illustrates the devastation wreaked by the institution of slavery and the legacy of trauma it left for African-American families. Toni Morrison is one of America's most...
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Pastor Jamin Goggin and theology professor Kyle Strobel provide a path to abiding with God. We were formed from the dust, but we were made for life with God. We often accept less. We make promises and set goals to try and grow, but holiness seems impossible. But the Christian life is not about looking or feeling like a Christian. It's about abiding in God.If communion with God is your goal, self-help strategies and personal resolutions will fail you....
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The novel covers a twenty-year period beginning in 1942. Allison, a young woman in the British Women's Army whose mother was German, agrees to become a spy. She is parachuted into enemy-occupied France and helped by the French Resistance to reach the German border, where she is met by members of the little-known German Resistance. Her job is to seduce a colonel who works in intelligence and who is involved in troop movements. The novel explores the...
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This is not the stereotypical approach to the Biblical record one has come to expect.
Rather, Eugenia Price writes with the keen eye, ear and heart of an authentic storyteller. Her characters act, talk, and feel like real people. People you know. People you cannot forget. People God met on every level, in every conceivable circumstance, century after century.
Beloved World is as much a must-read for the person who has never been acquainted with...
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What is the Beloved Republic? E. M. Forster, who coined the phrase, called it a "an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate, and the plucky." They are "sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure, and they can take a joke." Pitted against authoritarianism, the Beloved Republic is the peaceful and fragile confederacy of kind, benevolent, and creative...
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Behind North Korea's closed borders, a young girl is dying for freedom. But it is her father's Christian faith, not the famine ravaging her province, that most threatens her well-being. Chung-Cha is only a child when her family is forced into one of the most notorious prison camps the free world has known.
Her crime? Being the daughter of a Christian.
The Beloved Daughter is a gripping, inspirational novel that has won awards from Readers' Favorite,...
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Back in India after a long absence and on a train on the way home, a young woman thinks back to a love from her past, Jafar. She recalls their affair: from their first meeting to her journey to Mozambique, to embark on an all-consuming but ultimately impossible relationship. Now, years later, with a chance to begin again, will she be able to put the past behind her and start a new chapter in her life? The Beloved Country is about love and loss, the...
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Who was John, the son of Zebedee? And why is his gospel quite different from Mark, Matthew, and Luke? We have in the Johannine literature of the Gospel of John, his three Epistles, and the book of Revelation, a very valuable theology that certainly complements the Pauline contributions to our understanding of Jesus Christ's ministry and message for humanity.
Reading from these Johannine writings, we can ask the beloved disciple, the younger but most...
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Her people uprooted by broken promises. Her heart torn by conflicting desires. The Trail of Tears: The forced exodus of the Cherokee people from their homeland in Georgia to make way for the white gold miners and settlers. Katherine Blue Song's family never lived to see the Trail of Tears. They were massacred just as she returned from Philadelphia, where she'd been one of the country's first women trained as a doctor. Justis Gallatin, a white man,...
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In the summer of 2004, Canadian health researchers made a startling discovery in the Chippewa birth records for the city of Sarnia, an hour north of Detroit: for the past decade, female babies had been outnumbering male babies at a rate of 2:1. Further investigation revealed large numbers of miscarriages, a cluster of reproductive cancers in young women, and widespread neurological problems among the band's children. The Beloved Community looks at...
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A timeless tale of one man's devotion toward the women he loves, the sorrow of lost love, and the beautiful island on which compassion and kindness abound.
In this masterful novel by Eugenia Price, a wealthy young northerner, Anson Dodge, discovers new meaning in his life on St. Simons Island, Georgia, just after the Civil War. A man of remarkable and unforgettable kindness and strength, he shares his heart with two very different women-Ellen, who...
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House of Winslow volume 30
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Kefira Reis, a young Jewish woman, works in a sweatshop in the New York garment district. When her boss abuses her, she fights back and flees. Joshua Winslow has just been released from prison, but when he sets out to find honest work, he is attacked by tramps and badly beaten. A timely encounter with Kefira saves his life. Kefira encourages Josh to live out his dream of becoming an archaeologist, but when they finally arrive in Egypt, complications...
96) The Beloved Dead
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Malgwyn ap Cuneglas was one of King Arthur's earliest companions and now is his most trusted counselor. Despite the malice of his enemies, who fear Arthur's power, and the machinations of the still powerful druids who mightily resist him, Malgwyn knows that Arthur will stop at nothing in his efforts to lead his people to Christ and help to bring civil law and justice to a people who have known little such.
To consolidate his power, Arthur decides...
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The Beloved Son as Tantalizing Teacher is a contribution to the study of the "historical Jesus." It is meant for anyone interested in Jesus as a person as well as part of the academic project of discovering his humanity and his place in history. To truly uncover him in this way, the facts of his Jewish historical context are foundational. The context is in terms of six dynamics or factors: the history of late antiquity of the Mediterranean world from...
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2017
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"Readers will enjoy this gift of a brand new romance from New York Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter, along with stories by her daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Three generations of Pennsylvania Amish women are bound by an heirloom quilt embroidered with the scripture from Psalm 31:3, as told in three Christmas romances"--Provided by the publisher.
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