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2016
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National Bestseller: The complete trilogy that inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu in one volume.
The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu—where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties—these memoirs have become beloved bestsellers and inspired the delightful series that aired on PBS television.
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The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu—where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties—these memoirs have become beloved bestsellers and inspired the delightful series that aired on PBS television.
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The complete trilogy that inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu in one volume. The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu-where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties-these memoirs have become beloved bestsellers and inspired the delightful series that aired on PBS television. Included in this three-book collection are: My Family and Other Animals: Ten-year-old...
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Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding...
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Jacob seems to be anything but a model disciple. He's a trickster, liar, and selfishly ambitious man who fathers children with four women and leads a dysfunctional family rife with jealousy and backstabbing. But Jacob is also Israel, the namesake of the Old Testament community of God, chosen and blessed. As such, this sinner-saint, who limps along with the Lord, burdened by weakness and beset by problems, is the mirror image of all of us who follow...
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BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
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2018
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Celebrate Christmas in Hope Valley
Christmas truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Whether it's in the fictional town of Hope Valley in the early 1900s or in our lives today, nothing is more profound than celebrating God's most important gift to the world.
When God Calls the Heart at Christmas is about a celebration of faith, family, friends, and the most meaningful Yuletide traditions. Inspired by best-selling author
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Follow Your Heart to Hope Valley Inspired by best-selling author Janette Oke and the Hallmark Channel original TV series When Calls the Heart, these forty devotions from Hope Valley are about finding moments of grace, joy, and beauty amid the unexpected circumstances of life. In this collection, Brian Bird, executive producer and co-creator of When Calls the Heart, and Michelle Cox illuminate the "God-moments" from the fictional, 1910 mining town...
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When the Lord Daimyo's son is poisoned, Lily must prove her father is innocent of the crime. Can a lonely girl born in the Year of the Tiger save her family without revealing a forbidden connection to the old gods? Prequel short story for the Tiger Lily medieveal Japanese fantasy series.
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Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our...
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THE LORD GOD BIRD is a startling novella filled with dark images of America in the South in 1949. Jake Hamrick, a 19-year-old who has been obsessed since childhood with the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a bird that is on the verge of extinction, leaves Illinois for Louisiana to find the creature, accompanied by Robin, his tiny girlfriend. They search in the bayous where the bird was last reported, and Robin, as obsessed as Jake, dresses like the bird,...
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An autobiography of a boy born in 1941 in South Texas. When he arrived on the scene his family
consisted of Dad, Mom, Older brother, and ? The perfect family in those days was in sight. Unfortunately the baby was not the little sister all had hoped for. He sensed he was a disappointment to those who should have loved him most. Living a life feeling unacceptable is a tall order. Ray P. did the best he could. Everything changed when he turned 16....
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We often worry about things that are out of our control, it is human nature. We devise plans to solve every problem that could possibly arise, losing sight of Who is in control. God reminds us many times throughout His Word that He is in control and will supply our every need according to His will.
He does this numerous times throughout scripture by comparing His children to the birds of the air. In the book of Matthew, Jesus asks us to consider...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 God may not do something when you want him to do it, but he will always, always, be ridiculously late.
#2 God doesn't do anything when you want him to, but he will always be ridiculously late.
#3 Waiting is a painful but necessary part of the process of learning to rely on God.
#4 Waiting is a painful but necessary part of the process of learning to rely on God....
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First comes love, then comes marriage...
Bu,t what if it isn't love? What if it's about control and power for one person? In this compelling narrative, Laura Fiorentino takes the reader on the journey of her lifetime as she discovers what it means to hold on to family and love.
When she was a child and her father died from an illness, young Laura tried to make sense of the world. Why did this happen and where did he go? With a remote mother and the...
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I am an ordinary man who traveled through some extremely painful events physically, mentally, and emotionally that took me to the brink of death. My story is about an amazing connection with God that was, built at the lowest moments of my life. God gave me something I can't ignore any longer. God chose to reveal Himself to me in the most unusual way that led me to use skills I did not know I possessed so I could convey my conversations from the misunderstood...
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Does God care about combat veterans?
This book is the author's effort to show that God does care, and that He is always working to vie us healing and a meaningful life.
Freedom Bird challenges the political, emotional, and irrational climate that surrounded the Vietnam War. The author aims to have readers see the failure of human endeavors that leave the counsel of God out of the picture. This is contrasted with the difference that God's grace, love,...
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More than 880,000 books from Kay Arthur's life-changing New Inductive Study Series have been sold! This exciting series brings readers face-to-face with the truth of God's precepts, promises, and purposes-in just minutes a day.
The books of Kings and Chronicles picture the nation of Israel rising and falling according to the faithfulness of its leaders. In this study, readers will discover for themselves the true meaning of success and the key to...
18) How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins Of Belief In Jesus' Divine Nature---A Response To Bart Ehrman
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In his recent book How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher From Galilee historian Bart Ehrman explores a claim that resides at the heart of the Christian faith- that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. According to Ehrman, though, this is not what the earliest disciples believed, nor what Jesus claimed about himself. The first response book to this latest challenge to Christianity from Ehrman, How God Became Jesus features the work...
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First written in the 12th century, Conference of the Birds is an allegory of extreme measures for extreme times - the story of birds seeking a king is the story of all of us seeking God. Like the birds, we may be excited for the journey, until we realize that we must give up our fears and hollow desires, that our journey will be long and hard. Like the duck, we may not wish to leave the water. Like the nightingale, we may want to stay close to our...
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How did early Christians come to believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the divine Son of God? This is the central question in this book. When Did Jesus Become God? is a transcribed conversation between Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird, with a helpful historiographic introduction by Robert Stewart that helps readers understand the conclusions reached by Ehrman and Bird.
Ehrman contends that neither Jesus himself nor the apostles believed that Jesus was divine...
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