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Rose House : Robert Crandall
Did you ever see something that isn’t there?
On the verge of a divorce he doesn’t want, Lou heads to Louisiana where he’d grown up. There he finds a remarkable old house—three stories, abandoned, overgrown, and in desperate need of some tender care.
When a family tragedy scars him even more, he throws himself into the restoration, gradually bringing the old place back to life. But in doing so, he uncovers secrets long hidden, shadows of a past best forgotten.
With the help of Addie, his plucky housekeeper, and Sandi, the cynical cop, Lou starts to unravel the mysteries of Rose House, and the tragedy that took place there.
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Heal the Sick, Raise the Dead… Freely You Received, Freely Give : Jon David Banks
When I was in my thirties my spirit was caught up to a place where I stood with Jesus and the apostles Peter, James, and John. Paul was also there. He walked by in front of where we were standing. Jesus told me I had been born before time and the knowledge I had received would be useable. He said I must wait until God completed a work in His people.
In August of 2017, at the age of seventy-two, the Lord spoke and said, “Now is the time.” I then began writing letters and posting them on Facebook. After fourteen months of this, a minister friend of mine suggested I put them in eBook form so that more Christians would have access to them. Thus this book, “Heal the sick, raise the dead… freely you received, freely give.”
I was informed in a vision that part of my ministry requires destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God. Therefore, some letters in the book deal with some of these speculations and lofty things. Others concern personal experiences such as when our son was healed of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, etc. Still, others deal with the mystery of our most high and holy God.
All the letters in this book were written for the glory of God. In each one I have tried to uplift Jesus to His rightful place in the church. I have written each letter for the sake of the church and it is my hope that each one will be read with an open mind and weighed on the scales of the Word of God.
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INCOMING! Memories of a Combat Medic : Larry Sanders
Growing Up Poor, Getting Drafted to Vietnam, Coming Home and Coming Out
What you have before your eyes is not exactly about war—not the dogs of, the glories of, the hell of, nor the strategy of. But it is about a war of sorts—one within the human heart. The struggle of a boy, and then a young man, growing up in poverty, getting drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War, and then coming home during a time when the country had conflicted and shameful attitudes toward Vietnam vets and toward gays. Incoming! is a fitting title because life kept coming at this boy and this young man with all the subtlety of mortar fire and live grenades.
Don’t expect a map of Southeast Asia or a timeline that matches up with Wikipedia. Don’t expect a learned retrospective of the Sixties in Little Rock, or a Ken Burns’ treatment of letters from the front. You will not be sitting in your chair looking inside a life. You will be inside Larry, looking out through the eyes of a child. You will, for a little while, be Larry and walk in his shoes. And you won’t be disappointed.
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Freedom To Change : Greg Little, Kim and Stan Prachniak
Why You Are The Way You Are And What You Can Do About It
Freedom To Change presents profound truths about human nature and how we make choices.
We have three drives deeply embedded in us—the will to survive, to reproduce, and to make our lives easier and more pleasurable. These drives help form our beliefs, control our habits, and lead to our destiny as individuals.
We have a desire to organize things so that we can better control the chaotic world around us. Our beliefs are one way we organize and interpret the world.
Technology has seeped into every area of our lives making things easier and easier leaving us with more free time to ponder the meaning of our existence. What is life all about? Is there an underlying meaning and purpose to life? Here you will find practical answers to these important questions.
We make choices in every waking moment, but how free are we? Have our beliefs and feelings about ourselves and the world blinded us from the True Truth of existence? Research has shown that we tend to make decisions about 7 seconds before we know we have made them, leaving us with the illusion that we made a choice. How does that happen? We are genetically programmed to take the path of least resistance, leading us to think we are making conscious choices when the reality is that we often just take the easiest and most pleasurable path at any given moment. How do these powerful unconscious forces control our choices and behavior to such an extent that we are not aware of it?
These natural tendencies can be changed if you have the courage to examine how you lead your life. If you are seeking more from life or feel that something is missing, Freedom To Change offers a way to see reality more clearly. You have the freedom to change almost anything in your life if you understand and accept a few fundamental facts and truths.
You can change the world, one person at a time—starting with you. You can become your own Life Coach and your own mentor. In Freedom to Change, you will learn simple but profound secrets, you’ll discover how to find your true path in life and shape your own future.
Aiwass: A Dusk Timeline Novella : Ashanti Luke
For Detective Johan DeGraaf, the morning of April 29th, 1904 began with a foreboding gale wind, a kidnapping, and a homicide—all before arriving at the station house.
The search for the abductee, a young H.P. Lovecraft, leads DeGraaf on the trail of a mysterious Prince Khan, a bizarre crystal, and a clandestine underworld of intrigue and debauchery centered around an ancient alien evil older than humanity itself.
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From Savagery to Civilization: The Power of Greek Mythology : Vincent Hannity
Author Vincent Hannity asks why the stories of ancient Greek mythology have endured for 2500 years, and why those myths have maintained their relevance into modern times. He does so by exploring, through their mythology, the Greeks’ journey to the apex of civilization.
“Something special within the ancient Greeks drove them from Bronze Age savagery to become the ancient embodiment of high civilization and to create the world’s first democracy,” Hannity said. “I tried to understand through their myths what those drivers were. I tried to imagine how their cultural journey of thousands of years may have unfolded.”
Greek mythology is often treated as a helter-skelter amalgamation of wildly diverse myths, legends and fairy tales. And while there are hundreds, if not thousands, of such stories, the entire body of myth, taken as a whole, is even greater than the sum of its parts.
Indeed, according to Hannity, the aggregate of Greek myths and legends actually amounts to just one story — the tale of how the ancient Greeks, from primeval mists, inched in fits and starts over thousands of years to reach the zenith of civilized society. Their culture’s story continues to resonate 2500 years after the myths that underlie it were first written down.
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Strangers in the Storm: Love and Survival on Mount Rainier : Jared Rund and Diane McKenney
When strangers Jared Rund and Diane McKenney met on Mount Rainier in Washington state, neither of them knew where the next few days on one of the most dangerous peaks in North America would lead them. On the expedition thrown together by mutual friends, Jared and Diane were along for the journey to the highest point in the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest. Both single and in their early twenties, Diane a graduate student studying Physical Therapy in Spokane, Washington and Jared a young Air Force officer assigned to his first post in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Through a series of unforeseen events, caught in a blizzard and detached from the rest of their party, the two become lost on their descent. As they attempt to escape the mountain’s fury, their heart-pounding, hair-raising struggle to survive and get back to base camp before darkness appears promising. As they navigate deadly crevasses, high winds, severe cold, fog, and sheer rock faces the dream of finding base camp doesn’t come true. Jared and Diane are forced to spend a bewildering and frightening night high on the 14,411-foot peak without proper equipment or communications and nothing to save them except their own determination and willpower.
As their rescue mission is put together, park rangers prepared the rest of the expedition party for the worst; they had seen Rainier climbers die in storms much less severe than the storm outside hammering their friends. Facing what appeared to be the end of their lives together as complete strangers, Jared and Diane create a bond unlike any other imaginable.
But sometimes it is the toughest of times that lead to the best. And for Jared and Diane, if a mountain blizzard couldn’t stop them then nothing would. Read this amazing story of survival against the odds, and of a love that couldn’t be overcome by a deadly storm or the thousand miles that would later separate them.
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Women on the Edge : Sheri Heller
A collection of short stories about women whose lives are plagued by cruelty, deprivation, oppression and violence.
Through inhabiting the raw, complex lives of these women we discover the absurdity, the tragedy and the resiliency of the human condition. We also come to recognize that what is often deemed ‘madness’ is a descent into darkness where unbearable truths are confronted.
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Seven Proven Steps to Grow Closer to God : Marie Duclona
Provides practical advice to begin a journey to get to know what God likes you to know, to live a life he wants you to have.
The word of God is the ultimate source for truth, and God is faithful to fulfill all his promises. When you practice his words, you will be equipped to live a life of victory and peace in this world.
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Sex, Love and Morals: Stories from a Dirty Old Man : Beatrice Mascalzone
An under-endowed young but oversexed fellow goes through life with a complex that makes him want more and more women and in the end, he realizes that he was nothing more than a slave to his drive…
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