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Witnessing to the cross of Christ stands at the very heart of Christian spirituality, and without it our faith makes no sense. In this tenth anniversary edition of Kenneth Leech's classic Lenten book, We Preach Christ Crucified, he draws from his own prayer, study of the Bible, and encounters with others to offer a rich account of the resurrection for today. The themes of suffering and healing, justice and compassion, and Christ's dying and rising...
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This is a look at many pursuits, travels, and activities I've undergone during my more than a few years in this world. It's a memoir with lots of fun details about my experiences in the U. S. and many other countries I've visited. Especially memorable were the people I got to know along the way, and the several I continue to stay in touch with decades later. Those who read this might find they - relate readily to many of their own adventures.
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After prosecuting attorney Desmond Graves is targeted by an aggressive, violent stalker, Remi Archer is hired to keep him alive, whether he wants it or not. As tempers clash and danger escalates, Desmond and Remi start to grow closer-and so does the stalker. Falling in love among a backdrop of threats, courtroom theatrics and gunfights wasn't part of Remi's plan but Desmond is the exception to her ideas of love. Drawing each other out of their self-imposed...
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In 1994, the music critic Simon Reynolds coined a new term: post-rock. It was an attempt to give a narrative to music that used the tools of rock but did something utterly different with it, broadening its scope by fusing elements of punk, dub, electronic music, minimalism, and more into something wholly new.
Post-rock is an anti-genre, impossible to fence in. Elevating texture over riff and ambiance over traditional rock hierarchies, its exponents...
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In the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Incredible String Band, Vashti Bunyan, Pearls Before Swine and Comus, combined sweet melancholy and modal melody with shape-shifting experimentation to create sounds of unsettling oddness that sometimes go under the name acid or psych...
27) Cold Meat
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While passing through the Colorado Rockies, David stops for a meal at a diner and ends up heroically saving a young waitress from her violent ex-husband. David hits the road again amid a dangerous blizzard, and one false move sends him into a ravine in the eye of the storm. Slowly running out of resources, it's hard to tell what will get him first: the cold or the beast that's prowling outside.
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The adventures of Hafro are a series of children's books, created by the author Peggy Flo, introducing woodland characters who face problem-solving experiences.
They are cleverly written in rhyme using words to help children hear, identify and use different sounds that distinguish one word from another.
Each book contains a meaningful moral helping children to understand what is right and wrong in human behaviour.
The first book - HAFRO AND THE...
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The Heart of ArimaTHE FRENCH VAMPIRE LEGEND: BOOK TWOBound together for eternity. But he can never forgive her.Corvus, the ancient vampire and powerful Master of the Albinus family, is beginning to lose his patience. Jéhenne Corbeaux has been gone for many centuries and now, her time is up.A vision haunts Jéhenne that threatens to destroy everything she loves. Forced to do the unthinkable, she risks losing everything, but finally comes to terms...
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Received wisdom has it that lobbyists run the American government on behalf of moneyed interests. But what makes lobbyists run, and how do they induce legislators and bureaucrats to do their bidding? These are questions for which even the harshest critics lack satisfying answers. Lobbyists at Work explores what lobbyists really do and why. It goes behind the scenes and brings back in-depth interviews with fifteen political advocates chosen to represent...
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The Fires of Tartarus: THE FRENCH VAMPIRE LEGEND: BOOK THREE. Defying the gods, their love has spanned millennia.
A last desperate act, her lover's sacrifice, has led to this.
The Master of the vast and powerful Albinus family may have saved her from a vengeful god but Jéhenne is no damsel in distress. Waiting for a hero to rescue her, allowing Corvus to suffer any longer, just isn't in her nature.
Could Corvus truly be so irrevocably changed?...
36) Heuristic Play
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How to encourage investigative, discovery play with babies and children aged 0-5. Heuristic Play is a form of exploratory, investigative play that builds a whole range of skills for all children from birth to five. This guide looks at four age groups from birth to five and provides practical activities for setting up heuristic play sessions. Each session comes with expert advice on: - How to set up the session for each age group - The level of adult...
37) The Dark Heart
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The Prince Corin ... Decadent, seductive, master of the love affair.Corin is crown prince of Alfheim, the Elven lands. Considered the handsomest man in the land, he is well used to the females in his life indulging his every desire. But after losing the first woman who ever touched his heart to his best friend, he swears he'll never let anyone get that close again.Under pressure from his royal family to marry and produce an heir, he decides the only...
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The War has begun.Prince Corin and Prince Laen, united against the Light Fae, are battling their way to the capital, Aos Sï, where Corin will claim the Kingdom for his own.The Fae Lands plead for a new leader, someone to save it and its people, from tyranny at the hands of King Auberren. But has Corin waited too long ... has he time enough to do what he must? As the land screams for him in his mind, pushing his sanity to the limits of what he can...
39) The Dark Prince
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Two Fae Princes.One human woman.And a world ready to tear them all apart.Laen Braed is Prince of the Dark Fae, with a temper and reputation to match his black eyes, and a heart that despises the human race. When he is sent back through the forbidden gates between realms to retrieve an ancient Fae artifact, he returns home with far more than he bargained for.Corin Albrecht, the most powerful Elven Prince ever born. His golden eyes are rumoured to be...
40) The Book Lover
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A Paranormal Romance Novella.
In an age when witches are burnt...With his enemies closing in, Blaise, a powerful wizard uses dark magic to hide within the pages of a notebook.
He compels all who touch the book to write their darkest and most powerful emotions. Growing stronger with each entry Blaise is just pages away from a new life. The last entry will take the life of the writer and set Blaise free. But the book is lost and left to gather dust...
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