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"A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar...
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When the enemy believes the worst of you, they won't settle for anything except the worst! Volcek believed his weapon would be humane, and less destructive than the dreaded fusion bombs.
Lester del Rey was an American science fiction author and editor. He won the Balrog Award, the E. E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction, and he was a SFWA Grand Master.
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The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him....
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This retrospective journey will bring every sense of emotions to your life, beginning from childhood to the making of the man. You are being invited into a one of a kind adventure which will captivate your attention from the instant you begin to absorb the words. I have put down all guards in recanting my life experiences. Throughout these pages, you will encounter a looking glass into personal and intimate pieces of history that characterizes the...
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Available for the first time as a traditional paperback, this revised and updated edition contains new and archival interviews with those closest to Chris Bell and the Big Star circle: their friends, family, former bandmates-even fans, exes, classmates, and coworkers. The varied cast of voices comprises all the members of Big Star, including Chris Bell, the iconic Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel, and Jody Stephens. In the following decades after its 1975...
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Amazing Stories Volume 147 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by three different authors: "Imitation of Death" and "And there was Light" by Lester Del Rey, "Call Him Savage" by Howard Browne, and "License To Steal" by Louis Newman.
8) Be! Live!
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As we breathe from birth to death, daily we must seek guidance.
"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." -Genesis 1:3
"Seek the LORD and live, or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it." -Amos 5:6
"... that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." -Romans 10:9
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Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance - and survive the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp. He wrote about these experiences in his inspiring memoir And There Was Light. In this remarkable collection of essays, Lusseyran writes of how blindness enabled him to discover aspects of the world that he would not otherwise have known. In "Poetry in Buchenwald," he describes the unexpected...
10) In The Beginning
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 NIVGod made everything in the world. On the first day of creation, God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God separated the light from the darkness. On the second day of creation, God separated the waters above from the waters below and called the open space "sky." On the third day, God made the land and separated it from the seas. He created beautiful meadows, tall...
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And God said let there be light.
And there was light.
These words mark the first step in the creation of all life. The very genesis of light is tied to the nature and purpose of God--God as the author of light, as the pouring out of light, as light itself.
Believers in the three Abrahamic faiths have always understood God as light. The Hebrew scriptures celebrate this divine illumination: Yahweh is my light and my salvation . . . (Psalm 27). Christians,...
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The Science Fiction Super Pack #3 is the 53rd volume in Positronic Publishing's best selling Super Pack series. The over two hundred fifty thousand words and six-hundred-fifty pages of exciting science fiction are sure to provide you with hours and hours of reading enjoyment. Blast off to Adventure!
The Carnivore by Katherine MacLean
Martians, Keep Out! By Fritz Leiber
And There Was Light by Lester del Rey
The Moon That Vanished by Leigh Brackett
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13) A New Empire
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The Lost Wisdom of Tao
In the beginning, it was darkness. "... 'Let there be light', and there was light." Light is energy. Energy can create matter. This was how the Universe began billions and billions of years ago, so we were told. Since the beginning of the Universe, Energy has always played a dominant role as a chief driving force for all courses of events.
Yet far more powerful than energy is the wisdom of Tao. Tao is the nameless and...
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"Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North's greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate...
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Words are powerful. They can create or destroy, encourage or discourage, build up or tear down. The power of words is not measured by their volume or the intensity of their delivery but by their effectiveness in fulfilling their purpose. Powerful speech flows from an inspired heart, either for good or evil. An example from history illustrates the point. Sir Winston Churchill, the English war-time Prime Minister, inspired a nation to greatness by using...
17) Gray Mountain
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"The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid...
19) The villa
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"As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites...
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The woman's body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged and her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong - like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child. Eve Dallas turns to the department's top profiler, who...
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