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1) August Love
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A spicy forbidden romance, featuring a struggling, yet determined, heroine who lost her fiancé and his millionaire best friend who presents her with a life-changing offer. Losing her fiancé, Duncan, a year ago changed August. Not only is her dream of becoming a romance author fading fast, she's exhausted from trying to keep the home that she and Duncan shared. She never writes anymore and hates her waitressing job, but she can't afford to lose...
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A new Bible verse and devotional about hope through God's love for each day of the month!Start your day off right each morning by studying God's word. Grab your Bible and this new devotional, get cozy, and take a few quiet moments with the Lord to get your day off on the right foot. Or end your day snuggled in bed while you let God speak to your heart. Each day of the month begins with a Bible verse on the topic of hope, followed by a personal story...
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Augustine is widely considered to be one of the most influential theologians of all time and stands as a giant among giants in the history of the Christian faith. However, while many Christians are familiar with the broad strokes of his theology, few readers today have explored the riches of his spiritual life. In this addition to Crossway's growing Theologians on the Christian Life series, renowned scholar Gerald Bray seeks to show us that Augustine...
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir nació en Limoges, el 25 de febrero de 1841. En 1854, sus padres lo sacaron de la escuela y le consiguieron un sitio en el taller de los hermanos Lévy, donde aprendió a pintar porcelana. El hermano menor de Renoir, Edmond, opinó al respecto: "A partir de lo que pintaba al carbón en las paredes concluyeron que tenía habilidad para las artes. Así fue como nuestros padres lo pusieron a aprender el oficio de pintor de porcelana"....
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"A sublime ferocious farce." -The New Yorker.
"Incomparable ... a wonderful slapstick satire on hypocrisy." -New Statesman.
"One of the great comic novels of the twentieth century." -Anthony Burgess.
Meet our memoirist, Augustus Carp, a self-proclaimed "good man" who relishes every opportunity to condemn the weaknesses of others while excusing his own failings. In this spoof autobiography, the pompous narrator enthusiastically recounts his mundane...
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In dem berühmten und hier erstmals als Hörbuch vorliegenden Werk "Über das Wesen des Guten" aus dem Jahre 399 belehrt uns Augustinus, der große Kirchenvater und unermüdliche Vorkämpfer der Christenheit, über das Gute im Menschen und wie wir es in der Liebe zu Gott verwirklichen können.
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Bombenalarm an der Algarve
Es ist Hochsommer in Fuseta, dem kleinen portugiesischen Fischerort. Nach dem erfolgreichen Schlag gegen einen spanischen Drogenboss ist Soraia Rosado endlich zu Leander in die Villa Elias gezogen. Die beiden genießen ihre Zweisamkeit und lernen, was es bedeutet, wenn Aspie und Normalo zusammenleben. Doch die sommerliche Idylle wird jäh gestört, als eine Autobombe eine Bankfiliale in die Luft jagt und zwei Tage später...
10) Rust in August
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Writer and journalist Greg Shaw brings us his first collection of poems just in time for his 60th birthday. Shaw's poetry is built on the memory of sadness and humor, despair and hope. Places-an airplane seat, an interstate highway, a cold urban street, an enveloping forest, a warm bed-stir the poetic senses. The trajectory of these places may begin with grief or awe, but the narrative progresses upward, toward humor and hope.
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11) 1st August
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When ethnarchy emerged as an institution in Syria, the Cypriots were federated under the Koinon and continued to do so during the next five centuries. Well-known Roman personages were connected to the island including Marcus Cato and Cicero. The first religious leaders, Saint Paul, Barnabas, and Lazarus came one century later. Christian emissaries came in the fourth century, starting from Saint Helena. Later, Spyrido, Epiphany and others implemented...
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Kommissar Häberles neuer Fall scheint klar: Der in einem abgeschiedenen Tal am Rande der Schwäbischen Alb tot aufgefundene Berater der Agentur für Arbeit wurde von einem seiner »Kunden« ermordet. Eine ganze Reihe von Indizien, aber auch DNA-Spuren am Tatort, weisen zweifelsfrei auf Gerhard Ketschmar hin. Der 55-jährige Bauingenieur ist nach über einem Jahr erfolgloser Stellensuche psychisch und physisch am Ende und voller Hass, weil man ihn...
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Deutschland muss 2006 im eigenen Land Fußballweltmeister werden! Dass man dies nicht dem Zufall überlassen darf, darüber sind sich einige Wirtschaftsbosse und Politiker in Berlin längst einig. Im Hintergrund werden Fäden gesponnen, die bis in die schwäbische Provinz reichen.
So findet sich auch Kriminalkommissar August Häberle bei seinen Ermittlungen um einen mysteriösen Mordfall in einem Geflecht aus Erpressung und Intrigen wieder. Als er...
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"The Heart-Wrenching August is not an unknown month in Afghanistan,
and even for the world. In August 2021, Najiba was trapped by the
cyberspace jihadists of the Taliban group and kidnapped from Karte
Parwan in Kabul city, Afghanistan. The Taliban took her to prison
because her brother was a national army soldier in the previous Afghan
government. The Taliban has committed many atrocities against Najiba
to surrender her brother to the Taliban...
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Fourteen years after the accident that cost the lives of Lady Diana, Dodi al Fayed, and Henri Paul, one person involved in the tragedy remains unidentified: the driver of a white Fiat Uno that was in the Alma tunnel at the time of the accident. In Cossé's spellbinding novel, the driver of this car, a young French woman on her way home from work that fatal night, sees her life thrown into turmoil when, scared and alone, she flees the scene. While...
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Sie kämpfen gegen die Mächte der Finsternis und begegnen dem Unfassbaren. Vampire, Dämonen, Werwölfe und andere Kreaturen der Schattenwelt sind ihre unbarmherzigen Gegner.
Dieses Buch enthält folgende Romane:
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Alfred Bekker: Seelenhunger
Alfred Bekker: Die Insel des Magiers
Alfred Bekker: Corcoran und die Verdammten
Alfred Bekker: Apokalyptische Reiter
Jo Zybell: Tom Percival und das Geheimnis von St. Joseph
Jo Zybell: Tom Percival...
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August Hayling went west following the discovery of gold in California. While most prospectors were hoping to strike it rich, August was more interested in a place big enough to let him get lost. Sitting alone in a saloon, he is approached by a peculiar man named Georgios Cappadocia, who offers August a fortune in gold if August will come along and help him fetch it. August soon learns that his strange new employer is engaged in some kind of ancient...
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Charged by lyrical prose and vivid evocations of a more-than-human world, Meteors in August proves itself a magnificent debut, a tale of despair and salvation in all their many forms Lizzie Macon is seven when her father drives a Native American named Red Elk out of their valley and comes home with blood on his clothes. The following year, her older sister, Nina, cuts her head from every family photograph and runs away with Red Elk's son and their...
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The newest issue of the Horror Bulletin Monthly includes reviews of everything we reviewed last month-- a film each day! This month, we did two theme weeks-- "Serial Killer Week" and "Funny Zombie Week" among our usual collection of old and new films. Each of the films contains a complete synopsis of the film, including spoilers (so beware!), as well as our commentary on the quality of the story and how well it holds up for viewers today. Movie Reviews1940...