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For fourteen-year-old Krissy, her new life maxim is pretty sad: First choices out. Second choices in. It's been that way since dialysis left her disabled. Her limitations went from none to a ton, and now they stand in the way of her dream-to compete in dog agility with her runty sheltie pup, Aslan.Krissy has seen videos of agility handlers sprinting, spinning, and twisting as they race with their dogs through the intricate obstacle courses. It's a...
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In addition to being one of the best-loved books of all time, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is sure to set box-office records when it releases Christmas 2005. Distributed by Disney, with special effects by WETA Workshop (The Lord of the Rings), and backed by a $150MM budget, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe will draw millions of viewers, both Christian and non-Christian. In the same way that Christians walked away from viewing Mel Gibson's...
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Though Aslan Norval is wealthy beyond measure and contentedly married to an aging businessman, she finds herself tormented with the desire to do something epic, something no man has dared to do: she decides to build a canal across the continental United States. With the help of an uncouth Korean War veteran-whom she appoints as her right-hand man and unlikely lover-she forms a public corporation. A congressional committee of investigators, prodded...
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#1 Ben-Gurion International Airport is a brash, beautiful, and strikingly confident construction that serves as a testament to Israel's self-ascribed position as a bastion of social and technological advancement amid a sea of inchoate enemies.
#2 I visited the village of Um al-Nasr in northern Gaza, which was flooded when Israel refused to allow the importation of pumps,...
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In the peculiar home of 104 Hidden Manor inhabits many phenomenal objects that can come to life when the humans are not around. The keepers of 104 Hidden Manor are two cats, Aslan and Nia, who investigate and solve mysteries. Evil Fluffers Flippin Flop has taken all the shoes and most of 104 Hidden Manor hostage. How will Aslan and Nia rescue their friends and 104 Hidden Manor from the evil within?
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#1 The Ka'ba is a small, nondescript sanctuary in Mecca that the pagan Arabs refer to as the Cube. It is where the gods of pre-Islamic Arabia reside. The pilgrims who visit the Ka'ba rotate around it seven times, some pausing to kiss each corner of the sanctuary before being swept away by the current of bodies.
#2 The pre-Islamic Arabs were not a unified group, but rather...
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La Gran Cruzada Universal: Libro segundo La novela teológica más espectacular jamás escrita Un enemigo implacable hiende la confianza de la horda cielo, cargado de malos augurios. Y hay razones sobradas para pensar así: las hordas enemigas se acercan para enfrentarlos. Esta vez seremos testigos de terribles luchas, intrigas y traiciones palaciegas en una tierra maldita por los artes ocultos, donde fuerzas ocultas se alzan de nuevo y acechan para...
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God: A Human History by Reza Aslan - Book Summary - Abbey Beathan
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A call to embrace a deeper and more passionate understanding of God.
A book about religion through a different perspective. In this title, Reza Aslan talks about the history of religion as an extended period of time where individuals try to understand the divine by giving it human traits and even emotions. It happens in most religions,...
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In the tradition of A Year with C.S. Lewis, get your daily dose of inspiration from this one-of-a-kind devotional collecting 365 readings from the beloved Chronicles of Narnia. C.S. Lewis channeled his profound spiritual understanding into The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and the other books in his seminal fantasy series. This enthralling anthology (with lavish illustrations by Pauline Baynes) is...
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What happens when a shy, awkward Arab girl with a weird name and an unfortunate propensity toward facial hair is uprooted from her comfortable homeland of Iraq, and thrust into the cold, alien town of Columbus, Ohio, with its Egg McMuffins, Barbie dolls, and kids playing doctor everywhere? This is Ayser Salman's story.
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In Turbo Racers: Trailblazer, twelve-year-old Mace Blazer gets the chance to pilot a state-of-the-art vehicle that transforms at the touch of a button from race car to jet plane to single-person sub, in the biggest race in the world.
The roar of the crowd, the glow of the spotlight, the thrill of the race-Mace Blazer dreams of going TURBO.
TURBOnauts thrive on the thrum of trimorphers's rocket engines as the vehicles morph from super-powered race...
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"The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in South Dakota, he volunteered for missionary service in...
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In this mini alpha course of six bite-sized chapters, you will discover:
How God is synonymous with love...
The benefits of leading a Christian life...
The truth behind Jesus's resurrection...
The reality of heaven and hell...
Four powerful prayers for salvation and the need for missionary work...
A "crowning glory" parting thought, and
The power of Confession and Holy Communion...
Passionately and persuasively argued. A gem of a booklet.
17) Escape Velocity
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The Fast and the Furious meets Transformers in the second book of this high-stakes series about twelve-year-old Mace Blazer, who pilots state-of-the-art vehicles that transform seamlessly to race on the road, in the air, and even underwater.
Mace Blazer is the world's hottest TURBOnaut. Compared to the other 'nauts, he drives faster, dares harder, and pulls the craziest stunts. Since he won the Gauntlet Prix and revealed that he's only twelve, the...
18) Nile Sparrows
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Set in the author's own Nile-side neighborhood of Warraq, Aslan's second novel, the first to be translated and published in English, chronicles the daily rhythm of life of rural migrants to Cairo and their complex webs of familial and neighborly relations over half a century. It opens with the mysterious disappearance of the tiny grandmother, Hanem, who is over 100 years old and is last seen by her daughter-in-law Dalal. Dalal does not have the heart...
19) Cell 77
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Sharing the same prison cell crammed with teachers, doctors, and mothers with babies, a Kurdish female journalist conveys the story of persecution under an authoritarian regime in present-day Turkey. It is not only Kurds, the Orphan Nation of Mesopotamia, she finds out, but all who think differently than the government are made to pay a high price with their lives either behind bars or at risk among the waves of the Mediterranean.
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As the Bible teaches, Jesus proved to be the son of God by resurrecting - coming back to life from death, the greatest miracle of all time. We should fully and firmly believe in Him and His teachings. By putting Jesus' commandments into practice, we will achieve the very best in life: true love and faithfulness with our family and friends, the ability and will to treat each other with understanding and respect, the ability and will to forgive each...
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