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These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that opens the world, and change from which we can never come back. These fourteen stories tell us about extensive and inevitable changes and how we realign ourselves and our lives, if we can.
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Motherhood is life-changing. Joyful. Disorientating. Overwhelming. Intense on every level. It's the best, most awful job.
The Best, Most Awful Job brings together twenty bold and brilliant women to speak about motherhood in all its raw, heart-wrenching, gloriously impossible forms.
Overturning assumptions, breaking down myths and shattering stereotypes, these writers challenge our perceptions of what it means to be a mother - and ask you to listen....
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When a tragic divorce destroys a family, many women find their hopes and dreams shattered. For many, this is the greatest loss they have ever faced. It devastates them, and they desperately need emotional and spiritual help. They struggle with loneliness and shame. Many of them need to face the pain and begin to forgive themselves and others in order to move forward in life.
The Participant Guide for Live Again has notes, discussion questions, reflections,...
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When a tragic divorce destroys a family, many women find their hopes and dreams shattered. For many, this is the greatest loss they have ever faced. It devastates them, and they desperately need emotional and spiritual help. They struggle with loneliness and shame. Many of them need to face the pain and begin to forgive themselves and others in order to move forward in life.
The Leader Guide for Live Again has notes, discussion questions, reflections,...
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The last military officer to command an atomic mission, Major General Charles W. Sweeney has the unique distinction of having been an integral part of both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki bombing runs. Now updated with a new epilogue from the co-author, his book is an extraordinary chronicle of the months of careful planning and training; the setbacks, secrecy, and snafus; and the nerve-shattering final seconds and the astonishing aftermath of what...
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Saving Private Weinmann picks up where the authors previous book, Reckoning in Normandy ends. It chronicles the relationship between the author and an embittered Normandy veteran, scarred by the brutality of war. The two men develop a symbiotic relationship, in which the author gets a personalized view of the fighting in Europe, and the elderly veteran gains new hope in salvation he never thought possible. The climax comes in an unforgettable description...
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Anges's Song by A.L. O'Connor
Catching Fire by Amber M. Simpson
Shattered Love by Andrew Kurtz
The Widower by Chisto Healy
Loved Beyond Measure by Chris Bannor
Closure Ritual by D.J. Elton
Wait by David Green
Smoke Signals by Drew Starling
The Broken Vow by Galina Trefil
Demon Lover by Jacqueline Moran Meyer
The Bargain by Kimberly Rei
Finding Her by Matt Lucas
57 Minutes by N.M. Brown
House Beats by Raven Corinn Carluk
Fishtails by Stacey Jaine McIntosh
Changeling...
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All young children look forward to their weekly visit and garbage pickup by their garbage/sanitary trucks and drivers. For Benji Cocking, everything about the arrival of the garbage truck for the weekly trash pickup is exciting! Taking out the trash, the excitement of seeing the truck and his favorite driver, the driver honking the horn, watching the powerful robotic arm lifting the trash bin and dumping the trash, and the trash shattering into the...
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The gateway into the Dark Multiverse has been opened...what stories will emerge? Follow Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League as our heroes battle their way through these crumbling and shattered worlds!
Collects Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush #1; Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Flashpoint #1; Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Wonder Woman: War of the Gods #1; Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1; and Tales...
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Thirteen essays exploring the role of antisemitism in the political and intellectual life of Europe.
In recent years, the mask of tolerant, secular, multicultural Europe has been shattered by new forms of antisemitic crime. Though many of the perpetrators do not profess Christianity, antisemitism has flourished in Christian Europe. In this book, thirteen scholars of European history, Jewish studies, and Christian theology examine antisemitism's insidious...
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The best vegan science fiction and fantasy stories of 2016.
Twelve stories of mysterious aliens, unusual pets, messages from the future, witchcraft, and much more. And what's more, they're all vegan friendly. No skipping over the ugly parts; there are none. Just interesting ideas, good stories, and great writing!
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• My Dog is the Constellation Canis Major — Jarod K. Anderson
• Images Across a Shattered Sea — Stewart C. Baker
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Onward is a collection of personal stories about life-changing moments-moments when dreams and beliefs are threatened or shattered, when we're forced to make tough choices and challenged to learn and grow.
Written by Guided Autobiography Instructors, these stories share the confusion, doubt, and sometimes the despair that accompany such moments. But they also share the strength and wisdom that ultimately moves us onward.
In these stories you'll...
13) The Stars Beyond
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Intergalactic civilization emerges from its war-torn ruins for the first time in generations to explore the galaxy, in this stunning new anthology from the bestselling world of Twilight Imperium
A terrible war destroyed a vast empire, and left its survivors shattered and isolated. Millenia of history, technology, and the ever-expanding imperial grip were lost. From the secretive Naalu, the proud Hacan, to the piratical Mentak Coalition, these factions...
14) Hopes and Fears
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It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than 150 smaller ones, the invention of weapons of mass destruction, increasing degradation of the environment, both by pollution and resource exhaustion (i.e. adding...
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It's been one year since a virus triggered junk DNA and people all over the world started changing, becoming something else, craving blood. It's been ten months since the word vampire stopped being something from old monster stories and Hollywood movies. It's been six months since our world and theirs erupted into war, two since an uneasy peace was signed, and one hour since that peace was shattered. The war is here again-the vampire war. Our world...
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It's curtains for Gotham in Deadly Debut, which takes the first bow in the Murder New York Style series. In these pages, a Bronx teen steeped in Poe confronts a tormentor; a recovering alcoholic sweeps up deadly secrets; and a gutsy lie shatters lives in post-war Queens. From a Brooklyn nanny's street smarts to a small grocer's grit, from a nightclub's belly dancers to a P.I. reared on jive, the characters in these twisted tales will keep you cheering....
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In this belief-shattering memoir, Hannah D. Spivey speaks about life as a Hebrew Israelite woman, and how much misogyny in said community impacted her life and destroyed the self-esteem of some Hebrew Israelite women. Hannah points out the contradictions, hate, examples of misogyny, ridicule, and self-absorption in the Hebrew Israelite community and highlights how similar the belief system is to Christianity. With her no-holds barred approach, Hannah...
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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by Minneapolis police officers, sparking months of unrest at home and around the world. As millions took to the streets to express their outrage and speak out against systemic racism, injustice, and institutionalized violence, the city of Minneapolis and its residents were deeply shaken. For many, George Floyd's murder and the ensuing uprisings shattered the city's reputation for progressive...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science March 1930 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Cold Light" by Captain S.P. Meek: How Could a Human Body Be Found Actually Splintered--Broken into Sharp Fragments Like a Shattered Glass! Once Again Dr. Bird Probes Deep into an Amazing Mystery, "Brigands Of The Moon" by Ray Cummings: "Black Mutiny and Brigandage Stalk the Space-ship...
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A highly-acclaimed anthology about growing up NativeÑnow in paperback.
*Best Books of 2014, American Indians in ChildrenÕs Literature
*Best Book of 2014, Center for the Study of Multicultural Literature
*2015 USBBY Outstanding International Book Honor List
A collection truly universal in its themes, Dreaming in Indian will shatter commonly held stereotypes about Native peoples and offers readers a unique insight into a community often misunderstood...
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