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The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth

by Ted Dekker

Published: 2005-07-03

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As believers, our walk with God is motivated by hope-not the bland, vague notion most people have, but the expectation of an exotic, pleasurable inheritance that guides us and fires our passion...or, at least, should. Ted Dekker has written an exposé on the death of pleasure within the Ch...

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The Longest Night: A Novel

by Andria Williams

Published: 2016-01-12

Hardcover: 400 pages

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A scintillating debut novel about a young couple whose marriage is tested when they move to an army base rife with love triangles, life-or-death conflicts, and a dramatic cover-up In 1959, Nat Collier moves with her husband, Paul, and their two young daughters to Idaho Falls, a remote mili...

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The Thing About Jellyfish - FREE PREVIEW EDITION (The First 11 Chapters)

by Ali Benjamin

Published: 2015-08-18

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This stunning debut novel about grief and wonder was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured widespread critical acclaim, including selection as a 2015 National Book Award finalist! After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tr...

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Sweet Expectations (A Union Street Bakery Novel)

by Mary Ellen Taylor

Published: 2013-11-05

Paperback: 352 pages

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Daisy McCrae knows that change can be sudden—and devastating. And while it doesn’t have to be a bad thing, change has the power to turn your whole world upside down.... Running the family bakery and living in the store’s attic might not be Daisy’s dream life, but she’s beginning...

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The Man Without a Shadow: A Novel

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2016-01-19

Hardcover: 384 pages

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In this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Dark, Deep examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and identity and pierces the enigmatic force that drives human lives�...

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A Sabbath Life: One Woman's Search for Wholeness

by Kathleen Hirsch

Published: 2002-05-17

Paperback: 240 pages

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Poetic and provocative, a challenge to women to create more spiritually rich and balanced lives.A successful writer and a committed feminist, Kathleen Hirsch, at age forty, finds herself searching for something more. How, she asks, can women's lives be more spiritually alive and whole? Can...

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Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

by Debby Irving

Published: 2014-01-09

Paperback: 288 pages

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For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction....

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God's Bits of Wood

by Sembene Ousmane

Published: 2008-08-11

Paperback: 248 pages

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In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers' perspective, the community social tensions emerge, and increase as the strike lengthens. The author's other novels include Xala and Black Docker.

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So Long a Letter

by Mariama Ba

Published: 2012-05-21

Paperback: 96 pages

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Written by award-winning African novelist Mariama Ba and translated from the original French, So Long a Letter has been recognized as one of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. The brief narrative, written as an extended letter, is a sequence of reminiscences—some wistful, some ...

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Anna and the Swallow Man

by Gavriel Savit

Published: 2016-01-26

Hardcover: 240 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the YearA Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book Winner of the Indies Choice Book Award                              "Exquisite." —The Wall Street Journal"This is masterly storytel...