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You Can Begin Again: No Matter What, It's Never Too Late

Joyce Meyer · FaithWords
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover

It's never too late for a new beginning. Look closely and you'll see that theme all through the Bible. Page after page, God delights in turning tragic endings into new beginnings. A childless woman conceives in her old age; a fearful, self-conscious shepherd becomes a leader of millions;...
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Exhortations to Pray

Vera Armstrong · Vera Armstrong
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback

This book was written in Vera's 9th year of Salvation but is just now going to print. She says, "all the suffering had not been complete for this work to be published but now the price has been paid."
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The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters

Scott G Bruce · Penguin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls. Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop...
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The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

Christopher de Bellaigue · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

A revelatory and game-changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world. With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth...
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Refuting ISIS

Muh?ammad Abu? al-Huda? al-Ya?qu?bi? H?asani? · Sacred Knowledge
Pages: 70
Format: Print book

The Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) constitutes the most serious threat Islam has ever faced. To justify its horrible crimes and appeal to Muslims around the world, ISIS has based its ideology on a superficial and literalist approach to the Sacred Texts of Islam - the Holy Qur'an...
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Colin Dickey · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places--and deep into the dark side of our history.Colin Dickey is on the trail of America's ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned...
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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Dalai Lama. · Wisdom Publications
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Now in Paperback! Explore with the Dalai Lama the common ground underlying the diverse traditions of Buddhism.Buddhism is practiced by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, from Tibetan caves to Tokyo temples to redwood retreats. To an outside viewer, it might be hard to see what they...
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Colliding With Destiny: Finding Hope in the Legacy of Ruth

Sarah Jakes · Bethany House Publishers; Expanded edition
Format: Hardcover

Find a fuller, richer life by letting God direct your destiny. The story of Ruth is a journey of transformation. By allowing God to transform her circumstances, Ruth went from a widow who would be excluded from society to a wife with a secure and protected future, a future that ultimately...
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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy

Cherian George · MIT Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

In the United States, elements of the religious right fuel fears of an existential Islamic threat, spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric into mainstream politics. In Indonesia, Muslim absolutists urge suppression of churches and minority sects, fostering a climate of rising intolerance. In India,...
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Apocalyptic Anxiety: Religion, Science, and America's Obsession with the End of the World

Anthony F Aveni · University Press of Colorado
Pages: 268
Format: Print book

Apocalyptic Anxiety traces the sources of American culture's obsession with predicting and preparing for the apocalypse. Author Anthony Aveni explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop within a broader...
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Finding Peter: A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life after Death

William Peter Blatty · Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller! For those who have lost a loved one to that liar and fraud named Death. So reads the dedication of William Peter Blattys Finding Peter, a deeply moving memoir that tests the bounds of grief, love, and the soul. Blatty, the bestselling author and Oscar Awardwinning...
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The Wisdom of Not Knowing: Discovering a Life of Wonder by Embracing Uncertainty

Estelle Frankel · Shambhala Publications
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A deeply affirming exploration of the challenges and possibilities of the unknown--with meditations and exercises that can help transform the fear and uncertainty of "not knowing" into a sense of openness, curiosity, and bravery. For most of us the unknown is both friend...
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