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1) Exiles
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Why do politics divide so many Christians today, when the Bible-not a partisan identity or particular news outlet-should be our ultimate source of guidance on critical issues?
In “Exiles”, Preston Sprinkle examines how Israel's exile to Babylon, Jesus' mission on earth, and the teachings of Paul all shaped the church's relationship with politics and can inform our own relationship with politics today. In recent years, politics have divided our...
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With Exiles, Ron Hansen tells the story of a notorious shipwreck that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of "elected silence" with an outpouring of dazzling poetry.
In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, bound for England and then America. On board were five young nuns who, exiled by Bismarck's laws against Catholic religious orders, were going to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Early one morning, the ship ran aground...
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Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.
After repeated coups and periods of military rule, Ghana is now one of Africa's longest enduring democratic republics. Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators compares the political proclivities of two generations of African Americans who moved to Ghana. Steven J. L. Taylor blends archival and ethnographic...
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To save myself, I bargain with the gods.
To save my family, I bet my own life.
Sirens were once known for irresistible songs. Yet centuries after our ancestor's exile, we're like every other creature in the Akri Sea—unremarkable, forgotten, mortal.
When famine sweeps through the sea and drags my mother to the realm of the dead, I refuse to be like the rest of my kind. I refuse
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Sabretooth and The Exiles volume 1
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Sabretooth takes his destiny into his own clawed hands! The powers that be condemned Victor Creed to the Pit for breaking the rules of Krakoa. But now he's free and ready to show the world that you can't keep a bad man down, even as his fellow Exiles from Krakoa speed along in hot pursuit! But will they find common ground with Sabretooth? Or will their next encounter be their last? The destructive power of one of their number, Orphan-Maker, is contained...
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Maria Rubine. She has always known she's been living on borrowed time. She is Aurian and also an Impure, born with a genetic curse she cannot escape. Eventually, she knows, she will transform into a monster, both in body and soul.
Her time has run out all too soon in the form of the military forces of the King of Aur, the Emissary, who show up one day while she's at a coffee house in downtown Portland, Oregon, minding her own business.
It also shows...
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Sylvie Baker's memories hit a wall beyond three months ago. That was when she was discovered buried in the charred rubble of an apartment complex fire. She wonders if her past could possibly have been as strange as her three-month old life has been to date. As it is, she's not quite sure she's sane.
To begin with, she's periodically transported to a world of caves, black-tree forests, and a fairytale castle. She keeps finding little moonstones there,...
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She wakes up one day, stark naked, in a stranger's living room, without a clue of how she got there, who she is, or, really, anything that came before. Everyone seems to think she's Bia, or Beatrice Kodaly, an old woman addicted to black lotus tea, which has given her the illusion of eternal youth and also made her forget everything else. With nothing to go on but some photographs and fleeting, fragmented memories, Bia doesn't have much choice but...
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Edie Brown has gone through life as if she were almost invisible, barely remembered. Even after becoming a doctor, her own patients and colleagues have a hard time recalling who she is. So when she is invited to interview for a position at the prestigious medical center, the Aurel Foundation, Edie can't begin to understand how or why. And, once there, Edie can't shake the impression that something is terribly wrong about the Foundation and the...
12) The Exile
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Day After Tomorrow and The Day of Confession comes The Exile, an all new heart-pounding thriller
The Los Angeles Police Department's famed 5-2 squad boards a commuter train in an attempt to take a cold-blooded killer into custody. John Barron, the newest and youngest member of the elite LAPD unit, learns quickly that the 5-2 has their own deadly system of justice, and that even the slightest protest...
13) Exiled
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Forced to choose between death and a cage…… Anna took the third option.Exile.Having a talent for teleportation is proving more dangerous than she thought. On the run from her former masters who will stop at nothing to see her dead or imprisoned, Anna's outlook is bleak. With Scott by her side, can she find a way not only to resist, but to fight back?Are their new allies everything they seem?The Ishmaelians are a reclusive group of rebel outcasts...
14) Gorgon Born
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To avenge my mother, I change my fate.To alter the realm, I bargain with the fates themselves. Gorgons were once legendary for snake hair and Medusa's stone-turning gaze. Yet years after my mother Medusa's murder, we're no better than other island dwellers-isolated, forgotten, and insignificant. So when a benevolent night goddess reveals the truth of who my father is and what he's done? I leave behind all I know. Anything to seek vengeance against...
15) Oklahoma Exile
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The strangest thing about the nightmares was that Serena never knew the screams were hers until Aunt Loula woke her. In her dream, the screams were always Kris's. Always Kris's. Aunt Loula's husky voice would croon as she patted Serena, "There, there. It's all right. It's all a dream. Go back to sleep now." But it was never all right. And she almost never went back to sleep, for fear it would come again... The accident that injured her seven-year-old...
16) Her Exile
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From Award-Winning Author E.M. Shue written in USA Today Bestselling Author KL Donn's Mafia Made Series. Her Exile is book 8 in the Mafia Made Series.I am no one.A ghost.I have very few memories of a life before this one. Because with a wave of her wrist she tore me from the only family that loved me. Sent me to a priest who sold me. My family thinks I'm dead. They are bitter dreams that haunt me.Now I exist for one thing…To destroy.I'm the person...
17) Novum: Exile
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An undersea world on the edge of extinction!Beneath the surface of a dark and frozen ocean in the last human colony of Civica, the return of an ancient enemy has brought tension levels to a boiling point. Captain Jacob Stone wants nothing more than to live a peaceful life aboard his ship, the Rogue Wave, but while on a routine cargo haul, he and his crew discover a dark secret that could unravel the fabric of their society and ignite a civil war....
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On the island nation of Aur, where social status is valued above all things, Ione of the House of Sapphe is a liability to her family. As a child, she showed promise of being one of the exalted Scholars, those gifted with the ability to wield magic. At the age of ten, she began her studies at the Scholar College. Only, she failed miserably and was kicked out, an embarrassment her family has yet to recover from.
When her younger sister, Vivne, runs...
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Inda Young has spent the last six years trying to perfect being virtually invisible, just a drab, boring twenty-something no one thinks to remember. She hopes to leave behind a painful childhood and secrets that culminated in public humiliation and infamy, and never look back.
It's a lonely sort of existence, but a safe one.
But, just as she's celebrating the first year of her employment at the Westerly Corporation as a web designer, her quiet,...
20) A Single Spark
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After her father is murdered by witch hunters, nineteen-year-old Mackenna loses control of her fire magic, burning down part of her village and killing two soldiers. Exiled and wanted for murder, she flees her village, pursued by witch hunters. She is rescued by a Wanderer named Foulan and his pet wolf, Myst.The Wanderers are refugees without a permanent home, roaming between the small countries of the Realms of Etylania. The rising tensions between...
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