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2) Until Unity
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New York Times-bestselling author Francis Chan calls for believers and churches everywhere to align our hearts with God and start taking seriously His commands to unify.
It's clear from Scripture that God desires unity for His Church. If unity is so important to the heart of God, why is the Church one of the most divided groups on earth? Chan argues that the problem is the shallowness of our love for each other—rooted...
It's clear from Scripture that God desires unity for His Church. If unity is so important to the heart of God, why is the Church one of the most divided groups on earth? Chan argues that the problem is the shallowness of our love for each other—rooted...
4) Red scare
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"In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be a normal kid, until she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to overturn the tense political stalemate, and Peggy finds...
5) Essays
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Sir Francis Bacon, sometimes known as the father of empiricism, was one of the major political figures of his day, his career culminating as Lord Chancellor under King James I in 1617. Bacon wrote widely, but it is the Essays (published in its third edition in 1625, the year before his death) for which he is best known. Deftly written and often displaying a cutting wit, they cover a wide range of subjects including death, love, marriage, ambition...
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God is love.
Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. Revised and updated edition of the best-seller, now with a new preface and a bonus chapter. Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe — the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor — loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church,...
Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. Revised and updated edition of the best-seller, now with a new preface and a bonus chapter. Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe — the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor — loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church,...
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"The New Atlantis" is a utopian work of fiction written by Sir Francis Bacon in the early 17th century. The story is set on a fictional island called Bensalem, which is supposed to be located in the Pacific Ocean. The island is a model of what Bacon considered to be the ideal society, where science, technology, and religion are all in harmony.
In the story, the people of Bensalem are deeply religious and believe in a God who is revealed through both...
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Do you aspire to read at least 300 words each minute? Do you want to know why, no matter how hard you try, you can't remember the name of a recently completed book's author? Are you the kind of person who goes to study one day before the test and has a massive pile of books ready for him to devour? Have you ever wondered how it feels to walk backwards, putting your wits to the test?
Who wouldn't desire an unbreakable memory? Because bad memory does...
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You were made to make disciples. Jesus gave His followers a command: Follow Me. And a promise: I will equip you to find others to follow Me. We were made to make disciples. Designed for use in discipleship relationships and other focused settings, Multiply will equip you to carry out Jesus ministry. Each of the 24 sessions in the audio book corresponds with an online video at www.multiplymovement.com, where New York Times best-selling author David...
13) Fruit
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What do you get when you cross the Virgin Mary with Brooke Shields, add a trash-talking beauty queen wannabe and throw in a couple of talking nipples? One of the most laugh-out-loud books you'll read all year. Peter Paddington is 13, overweight, the subject of his classmates' ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week storylines. When Peter's nipples begin speaking to him one day and inform him of their diabolical plan to expose his...
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When Mayann Francis was named Nova Scotia's first Black lieutenant-governor, she wondered if the community would accept her. Francis was born just three months after businesswoman Viola Desmond was arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow. Had enough changed? In this candid memoir, Francis describes her journey from humble beginnings in Whitney Pier, the daughter of immigrants, to the vice-regal office. She explains...
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Crocodile Dundee with a lawn mower...
The rest of the exhibition was largely uneventful, as I spent most of the time perched on a stool, racking my brain as to how on earth you put stripes on a lawn.
A clumsy Australian is living in New York, when he decides to start a gardening business in the United States.
He doesn't know a weed from a wisteria, but relocates to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he rents an apartment, buys some equipment and promptly...
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One night turns into two weeks when their worlds unexpectedly collide.
Cecily Devereaux knows better than anyone that being the daughter of a billionaire can make it hard to trust people. Every relationship she's ever been in turned out to be nothing more than an attempt to get her father's money, and after a failed engagement, she vows to stay away from commitment. Shifting her focus to enjoying herself, she finds satisfaction in one night stands,...
17) The Professor
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Love has much to teach us!
Jacob Moore was more than ready to start over. Moving back to Lakeside meant a clean slate. The town's private university was thrilled to have him, and he couldn't wait to teach his new classes. He hadn't expected there to be a new girl, not so soon, but something about Avery Collins made him stand up and pay attention. In more ways than one.
Avery Collins wasn't interested in a relationship; she had one year left of college...
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Sir Francis Bacon tuvo un tremendo impacto en la ciencia y la filosofía durante la revolución científica en la Inglaterra del siglo XVII. Fue el primero en abogar por un enfoque escéptico y metódico de la ciencia, basado en la observación cuidadosa de los eventos en la naturaleza, y fundado en la inducción. Su trabajo, firmemente basado en el empirismo para evitar la proyección de la hipótesis preferida de uno, lo convirtió en el padre del...
19) Private Lives
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Living in Hollywood, Chris Chandler has just about everything that he could ever dream of: a People's Choice Award, lead actor in an acclaimed television series, anything and everything money could buy. Most people would be happy with all of that, but not Chris. As Hollywood's most eligible bachelor, it is difficult to find the one person he wants to spend the rest of his life with, especially living under the constant scrutiny of the paparazzi. Every...
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Eight-year-old Daisy May is the writer and star of her very own TV show, Daisy May's Daydream Parade, which broadcasts live and exclusively in her imagination.
In the latest episode, Daisy May finds herself on a desert island where she discovers a map that leads to buried treasure, but what appears to be a simple quest to find riches soon turns into a roller-coaster ride as evil pirates, grumpy gorillas, and a fire breathing dragon stand in her way....