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A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination.
We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the noted scholar Elaine Scarry explores the apparently miraculous but in fact understandable processes by which poets and writers confer those powers on us: how they teach us the work of imaginative creation.
Writers from Homer to Heaney, Scarry...
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This is book 3 and the finale of the Broken Wings MC series!
She might not survive getting torn by the devil.
I'm a savage beast with a biker's patch on my kutte and blood on my hands.
She's a complete mystery – and also, my ex.
Jas is desperate for protection that only I can provide.
But nothing in this world comes for free.
PAX
My club, the Broken Wings MC, was the only thing I ever cared about.
Except for her.
So when Jasmine comes tumbling...
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Experimentation is an essential part of innovation. It is the link between generating new ideas and putting them into practice. We are constantly experimenting in our daily lives, and organizations place great value on testing new products, services, and strategies. Yet there is a shortage of actionable guidance on how to design and execute high-quality experiments for practical purposes.
This book is a hands-on manual for crafting and conducting...
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We human beings are not just creatures with a physical body. Our physical body is nothing more than a piece of clothing that we wear for a certain period of time. Just as we change our clothes when they become dirty or torn, we must also shed our physical body. At that time, our true self continues to live in the spiritual or subconscious body. For those who know the truth of human life, there is no such thing as death. There is only the infinite...
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Of all our childhood memories, few are quite as thrilling, or as tactile, as those of climbing trees. Scampering up the rough trunk, spying on the world from the cool green shelter of the canopy, lying on a limb and looking up through the leaves at the summer sun almost made it seem as if we were made for trees, and trees for us.Even in adulthood, trees retain their power, from the refreshing way their waves of green break the monotony of a cityscape...
6) Claimed By the Shadow Dragon: Shadow Dragon Book 1 (Dragon Shifter Romance): Dragon Shifter Romance
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Memories are important, as Elly well knows. All her memories before she was ten were lost to her, but she finds comfort in the future in the arms of her handsome painter fiance, Alec.
Happiness doesn't last forever, however, and one night she visits him to find him troubled by something. He rebuffs her attempts to speak with him, and with a spin of her heels she leaves him alone to brood. A single moment changes their relationship, and he's taken...
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Mental health is a major problem in society, one which many people would prefer to turn their back on. Unfortunately mental health does not just affect those with the illness but the extended family as well. Parents and siblings stagger at the news that their loved one has become another statistic in this every growing problem. This book has been written in order to help those family members who are caring for a loved one with a mental illness, and...
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In the waning days of the Shang dynasty in ancient China, an epic battle begins between forces loyal to the corrupt Shang king and the rebels of West Qi. The leader of the Shang army, Grand Tutor Wen, desperately recruits a host of demons, immortals and Daoist magicians to his side. They build ten magic traps to ensnare the West Qi rebels. But the legendary Jiang Ziya, aided by Nezha and the immortals of Mount Kunlun, use deception, magic and raw...
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2024
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"Betrayal, loss, love, redemption, and justice collide in this masterpiece of a novel. You won't want to miss The Book of Thorns." —Paulette Kennedy, author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport
A spellbinding tale of secrets, betrayal, and magic from the author of The Heir to Blackwood Library!
Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the...
A spellbinding tale of secrets, betrayal, and magic from the author of The Heir to Blackwood Library!
Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the...
11) Fatal Boarding
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"I have never believed in going strictly by the book. My six-foot-two frame has an assortment of scars and marks that readily attest to that. It's the main reason I've never been offered a higher position on a big-draft. But, when things really go to hell, I'm always the first one to get the call. They trust me with their lives, but not their jobs."--Adrian Tarn, Chief Security Officer, Starship Electra
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"Christina Crawford's book was an immediate bestseller, combining the infrequently discussed topic of child abuse with the draw of Hollywood drama. But when Paramount Pictures released the film version, starring Faye Dunaway as Crawford, it was panned, and it remains one of the most legendary critical bombs in film history. The lavish, big-screen adaptation drew unexpected laughter for its over the top the scenes depicting life in the Crawford household....
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We need good preaching-preaching that challenges us by God's Word and brings the comfort that comes from God's promises. Yet many of us rely solely on others to preach to us and are not benefitting from the kind of preaching that should be most consistent and personal-preaching to ourselves.
Note to Self is a practical introduction to this daily discipline. Pastor Joe Thorn delivers fifty brief, devotional chapters that model preaching the gospel...
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Frustrated by years of neglecting her creativity, Colleen Warren finally vowed in a New Year's resolution to do something creative every day, a decision that literally transformed her life. This book tells her story and reveals the ideas, mindsets, habits, and practices she adopted that enabled that change.
The First Verb offers the encouraging message that creativity is every person's possession, by virtue of being created in the image of a creative...
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Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg's evidence resides in the imagery of the overtly sexed Christ, in Infancy and again after death. Steinberg argues that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation...
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Belief in the Bible as God's authoritative revelation to humanity forms the bedrock of the Christian faith, laying the groundwork for nearly everything in the practice of theology. For the last 150 years or so, this doctrine has been put under the microscope of the modern age, with focused attention-and criticism-falling on three main subject areas: the authority of Scripture, the sufficiency of Scripture, and the interpretation of Scripture.
Ancient...
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Single mom, Maggie Holmes, is a by-the-book Calgary cop, until her seven-year-old asthmatic son, Davie, is kidnapped. Frantically grasping at any hope, she turns to Stafford Webb, a former FBI psychic who retrieves information through his sense of touch.Stafford is reluctant. Unbeknownst to Maggie, he helped with the Tommy Hutchinson kidnapping case six months earlier, but didn't get to the child in time. Haunted by images of the boy, Stafford retreats...
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Bitingly funny and at times harrowingly sad, Let's Shut Out the World traces the man-hungry and misanthropic journey of an intensely bibliophilistic young man following his natural bent from a desolate Texas landscape of tumbleweeds, Jesus freaks, and compliant straight boys to the gay capital of San Francisco in pursuit of sex, drugs, a lover, and more.Whether describing having his hair styled by a gang of eighth-grade bullies; staging a Satan festival...
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Straightlaced NCIS agent, Joel Hunter, always plays by the rules and he's been given an important assignment--get friendly with the suspected spy next door, gain her trust, and under no circumstances let her know who he really is.There's only one hitch to winning over mousy cartoonist Marlie Montague-this shut-in's more timid than Joan Wilder behind that door and won't give any stranger the time of day, no matter how handsome.Until a pistol-packin'...
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Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes:
A Maverick's Holiday Homecoming (A Montana Mavericks: Lassoing Love novel)
By Brenda Harlen
'Tis the season…for a holiday reunion? Rancher Billy Abernathy has no interest in romance; Charlotte Taylor's career keeps her far away from Montana. But...