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Palmistry, Plain & Simple: The Only Book You'll Ever Need

Sasha Fenton · Hampton Roads
Pages: 151
Format: Print book

Our lives our in our hands, which provide clues to who we are, what we have been, and what might be. "Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms." -- Michael ScottsThis delightful and practical guide demonstrates...
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Clearing Spaces: Inspirational Techniques to Heal Your Home

Khi Armand · Sterling Ethos
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Out with the bad energy, in with the good! Khi Armand, a specialist in space clearing with expertise in rootwork and shamanism, offers a fantastic illustrated guide to help laypersons diagnose and resolve energetic issues in their home, office, or any structure. He reveals the most effective...
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Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

Krista Tippett · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"I'm a person who listens for a living. I listen for wisdom, and beauty, and for voices not shouting to be heard. This book chronicles some of what I've learned in what has become a conversation across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations." Peabody Award-winning...
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The witch's book of power

Devin Hunter · Llewellyn Worldwide
Format: Print book

Witchcraft isn't always about the search for enlightenment; sometimes it's about power and the path to obtaining it. The Witch's Book of Power shares the secrets to unlocking the witch power within you through: * getting to know the source of witch power * working with your three souls...
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Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination

Greg Garrett · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Nowadays references to the afterlife-angels strumming harps, demons brandishing pitchforks, God enthroned on heavenly clouds-are more often encountered in New Yorker cartoons than in serious Christian theological reflection. Speculation about death and its sequel seems to embarrass many...
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Astrology 101: From Sun Signs to Moon Signs, Your Guide to Astrology

Jenni Kosarin · Adams Media Corporation, 2016.
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

Explore the mysteries of the cosmos!Too often, astrology guides obscure the mystical wonder of the zodiac with overly tedious details about nodes, houses, angles, and aspects that even Ptolemy would reject. Astrology 101 cuts out the boring details and lengthy explanations and instead gives...
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Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity

Elizabeth M Edman · Beacon Press
Pages: 181
Format: Print book

LGBTQ people are a gift to the Church and have the potential to revitalize Christianity.As an openly lesbian Episcopal priest and professional advocate for LGBTQ justice, the Reverend Elizabeth Edman has spent her career grappling with the core tenets of her faith. After deep reflection...
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7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life

MARY C M D NEAL · Convergent Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

In this inspired follow-up to her million-selling To Heaven and Back, Dr. Mary Neal shares untold stories about her encounters with Jesus and powerful insights about how the reality of heaven can make each day magnificent. Dr. Mary Neal's unforgettable account of a 1999 kayaking accident...
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The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now

THICH NHAT HANH · HarperOne
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh - - one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today...
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Travel Guide to Jewish Europe, A: Fourth Edition

Ben G Frank · Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback

Travel doesn't have to forgo religion. More than six decades after World War II, an abundance of Jewish institutions and cultural activities endures within a world that dates back over two thousand years -- Jewish Europe. This newly updated handbook guides first-time and well-seasoned travelers...
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Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

Anne Lamott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it."Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book,...
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October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World

Martin E Marty · Paraclete Press
Pages: 114
Format: Print book

Released in time for the 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther's 95 Theses, and the Protestant Reformation. "This is an invitation to a party, one which commemorates events that began five hundred years ago in Europe and have consequences throughout the world today. My title suggests...
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Spooky New England: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore

S E Schlosser · Globe Pequot Press
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback

A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous New England ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world. Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 35 creepy tails of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other...
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The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel

Steven Fine · Harvard University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western world's oldest continuously used...
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Being Human in God's World: An Old Testament Theology of Humanity

J G McConville · Baker Academic
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A Biblical Perspective on What It Means to Be HumanThis major work by a widely respected Old Testament scholar and theologian unpacks a biblical perspective on fundamental questions of what it means to be human. J. Gordon McConville explores how a biblical view of humanity provides a foundation...
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