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Transform your garden into an autumn paradise with "The First-Time Gardener: Autumn Edition". Navigate the season's nuances with confidence, from selecting plants that paint your garden with hues of harvest to mastering techniques for a flourishing garden. Explore chapters dedicated to perennials, annuals, cool-season vegetables, and troubleshooting pest management. Equip yourself with essential tools, embrace sustainable practices, and discover innovative...
2) Tulpengold
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Amsterdam, 1636. Pieter, der neue Lehrling von Rembrandt van Rijn, ist ein Sonderling. Vor allem seine Begeisterung für höhere Mathematik weckt Befremden. Seine Begabung kann er indessen unverhofft anwenden, als auf einmal die Preise für Tulpenzwiebeln in schwindelnde Höhen steigen und Pieter gewisse Gesetzmäßigkeiten erkennt. Doch dann werden mehrere Tulpenhändler tot aufgefunden, und Pieters Meister gerät selbst in den Sog dieser rätselhaften...
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No stranger to heartache, Carole Holiday artfully braids together her story of overwhelming loss with biblical insights and delicious recipes from the little cottage on the lane-the cooking school she once owned. Carol's journey offers hope that after the ravages of grief and despair, God can bring good back to life through faith, food, and fellowship.
How do you survive when everything that gave meaning to your life suddenly disappears? Grief can...
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An insightful and entertaining memoir of wine, love, heartbreak, and the never-ending process of coming-of-age.
Called everything from the Patti Smith to the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of natural wines, Alice Feiring is a special sort of wine writer - the kind who dares to disagree with wine "experts," and who believes wholeheartedly that the best wine writing is about life.
To Fall in Love, Drink This is both a love letter to wine and a lifelong coming-of-age...
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How individuals, church, businesses, and our country can heal the selfish divisions tearing us apart.
Our nation's greatest challenge is division.
A congressman and former army flight surgeon examines our divisions and shows how social media have amplified them. Will we rise to the challenge and heal the rifts?
The solution is for Americans is a "we before me" life. Sharing the lessons learned from his father, who struggled to provide...
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Imagine a life where every day is a stepping stone on the path of spiritual enlightenment-a life where faith is not just a belief, but a dynamic, transformative force. Faith in Action: Embracing Everyday Spiritual Growth offers a compelling voyage into deepening your relationship with the divine, inviting you to explore the sanctity within the mundane.
Faith in Action: Embracing Everyday Spiritual Growth is more than just a book-it is your personal...
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It is not uncommon for professing Christians to question the genuineness of their faith. In seasons like this, they can wonder whether it is even possible to know for sure if they are in a state of saving grace. In this book, Anthony Burgess shows that Christians not only can come to an assurance of their salvation but should pursue it. Burgess provides helpful advice for avoiding a presumptuous spirit while developing a humble confidence in grace....
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The Foundation of Communion with God introduces readers to the Trinitarian piety of John Owen (1616-1683). Ryan McGraw's introduction to Owen sketches the major events of this important theologian s life and shows how his circumstances shaped his thought on the themes of the Trinity and public worship. The second part of the book presents forty-one brief selections from Owen's writings that trace his thoughts on knowing God as triune, on Scripture...
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Using his own understanding and study of Scripture, J.C. Ryle consolidates, organizes, and explains this learned wisdom in The Duties of Parents. Broken up into 17 principles, perfect for devotional use, this resource provides advice, guidance, instruction, reminders, and tools for parents who desire to raise children who not only know God but who can also develop their own relationship with Him and live according to His Word. Preparing a Biblical...
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In a delightfully engaging series of essays, Elisabeth Elliot captures the joys and trials of a life fully given to Christ. A timeless spiritual perspective on the value of being a woman, wife, mother and Christian.
Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) was a missionary and a critically acclaimed author and speaker. For over half a century, her life of obedience, timeless teachings, and best-selling books have influenced both believers and seekers of the...
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2023
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs-the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s-edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus.
"By turns insightful and hilarious, these collected essays by the late, legendary Banks constantly astound."
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Pastor and author Martin Thielen has compiled a list of ten things people need to believe, and ten things they don't, in order to be a Christian. This lively and engaging book will be a help to seekers as well as a comfort to believers who may find themselves questioning some of the assumptions they grew up with. With an accessible, storytelling style that's grounded in solid biblical scholarship, Thielen shows how Christians don't need to believe...
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A hope-filled story about starting again after a dream has died-an emotive, poetic, and at times humorous discovery of the healing qualities of beauty, play, friendship, and love. Expectation. Expectation. Expectation. Disappointment. After ten years of tear-soaked prayers, repeatedly dashed hopes, and multiple failed rounds of IVF, Sheridan Voysey and his wife come to a heart-breaking conclusion-their dream of having a child is over. Empty and confused...
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From the creator of The Abundant Life Devotional Journal and the popular YouTube channel Girl and The Word, Anh Lin's unique blend of biblical teaching and personal storytelling helps you build the strong, peaceful, abundant life you've always dreamed of--inside and out.
Many of us long for lasting peace and stability, whether we are healing from painful memories, grieving a recent loss, or simply trying to find a quiet path in a chaotic world. In...
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2023
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Este libro recoge los discursos que Jorge Mario Bergoglio dio en ocasión de los tres Encuentros Mundiales de los Movimientos Populares. Se trata de documentos de inestimable valor político e histórico, pues de ellos mana en toda su potente sencillez el mensaje rompedor y revolucionario del papado de Francisco y su firme compromiso por la causa de los que viven en los márgenes del imperio aplastante del capitalismo, es decir, por aquellos a los...
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Hope is not a wish waiting to come true. It's not an external desire waiting to be realized. Hope is an ever-present reality regardless of how dire a situation may seem.
Hope is not a wish waiting to come true. It's not an external desire waiting to be realized. Hope is an ever-present reality regardless of how dire a situation may seem.
Undoubtedly, there are moments when hope is obscure. That's because hope has many hiding places. It hides behind...
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Here is the book that will help you climb St. Paul's "eight steps," to attain happiness, holiness, and Heaven. Bestselling author Kevin Vost breaks open St. Paul's life and spirituality through the lens of St. Thomas Aquinas as well as other saintly and noble men and women.
Dr. Kevin Vost reveals hidden treasures such as: why St. Paul is a "four-in-one special"; three intellectual virtues that help us discover important truths; two fundamental senses...
19) Give Me Jesus
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Search and see if you are ready for the coming of Jesus.
Vadim Makoyed received sobering biblical revelations about the current state of the modern church and the quickly approaching end of the age. In this book, he presents dire issues believers must address today if they are to be the bride ready for the grandest event of all time: the wedding to the Lamb.
This book features intriguing chapters with Bible-based insights on:
When you uncover and...
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Who was Jesus and what was His mission? The Gospels present us with an obvious but profound and compelling thought, that the eternal Word of God became a real man of particular weight and height, with a specific temperament and particular traits of character. He was a Jew, part of a small village community. He became hungry and tired. He felt anger and was moved to compassion. He had a mother and friends. His name was Jesus. How are we to understand...
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