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1) The Ukraine
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"The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications. In the title story, Chapeye facetiously plays with the English misuse of the article "the" in reference to Ukraine, capturing a country as perceived...
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"It is a story known around the world. Born of an Arabic tale, it has been interpreted hundreds of times in Persian, Turkish, and Indian languages. It has influenced playwrights, composers, filmmakers, scholars, modern popular language, the first opera of Islamic origin, and individuals as varied as Aleister Crowley and Eric Clapton. The tragic tale of love unfulfilled - Majnun and Layla. Qays and Layla were madly in love. So in love, it has been...
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"Sunrise is a collection of interconnected stories examining the effects of nuclear power on generations of women. Connecting changes to everyday life to the development of the atomic bomb, Sunrise shows us how the discovery of radioactive power has shaped our history and continues to shape our future"--
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What would you do if you could text all your questions, all your worries, all your doubts and fears to God? What if He was always online and would always answer you? Would you start typing right now?
Someone once said that the single most important thing about you is your thoughts on God. Give that a minute to sink in. Why would that be? Because all your thoughts about humanity, love, suffering, and the like are shaped primarily by whether or not...
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The Amplified Cross-Reference Bible offers the full text of the popular Amplified® translation along with an extensive center-column cross-reference system to help you get the most out of your Bible-reading experience.The Amplified Bible is designed for readers who want to understand all the rich nuances of the original Bible languages. No working knowledge of Greek or Hebrew is required-just a desire to know more about what God says in his Word....
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The Expanded Bible: New Testament reflects the latest scholarship, current English, and the needs of contemporary students of the Bible. This new testament includes a multitude of study aids right in line with the text. Expanded translations and other helps make it possible for you to study the Bible while you read. Expanded translations bring out the meaning of words and offer alternatives. Literal meanings of terms from the original languages are...
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"Abide in me." John 15:4
Do you yearn for life-giving, intimate communion with God? The Abide Bible is designed to help you experience the peace, hope, and growth that come from encountering the voice and presence of God in Scripture. Every feature in Abide is designed to teach and develop Scripture-engagement habits that help you know the power and spiritual nourishment of abiding in Christ.
Created in partnership with Bible Gateway and the Taylor...
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Diese Übertragung des Neuen Testaments lässt sich lesen wie ein Roman. Sie erweckt das Geschehen intensiver und bildhaft er zum Leben als die klassischen Übersetzungen. Und wird durch die Verszählung für jeden Absatz nun auch zur praktischen Alltagsbibel. Dabei vereint Fred Ritzhaupt die frische Lebendigkeit der heutigen Sprache mit einer hohen Treue zum griechischen Urtext. Und macht den Gott erfahrbar, den Jesus als Vater vorgestellt hat. Wer...
10) Human sacrifices
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"A groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, María Fernanda Ampuero confronts machismo, inequity and violence in her latest short story collection. An undocumented woman answers a job posting only to find herself held hostage, a group of outcasts obsess over popular boys drowned while surfing, and two girls suspect sinister behavior from the missionaries lodging in their home. Simultaneously terrifying and exquisite, Human...
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This powerful gospel narrative tells the story of the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as recounted by Matthew, a former tax collector turned disciple. Listen as Barnabas Corner brings this timeless story to life with his captivating narration in Nigerian Pidgin English.
Get ready to embark on a journey of faith and discover the power of the gospel in a new and exciting way. Let's begin.
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This powerful gospel narrative tells the story of the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as recounted by the physician Luke, a companion of the apostle Paul.
The Gospel of Luke, tells how God fulfilled his plan for the world's salvation through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, the promised messiah.
Listen as Benjamin Sesugh Kperrun of Barnabas Corner brings this timeless story to life with his captivating...
13) Amplified Bible
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When Your Knowledge of the Original Languages of the Bible Is Limited and You Don't Want to Lose Anything in the Translation If you want to get all the rich nuances and shades of meaning of the original Bible languages, the Amplified Bible is for you. No knowledge of Greek or Hebrew is required-just a desire to know all that God says in his Word. With its unique system of brackets, parentheses and italics, the Amplified Bible defines and expands key...
14) Between friends
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""Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection. His people twitch with life." -- Scotsman In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the...
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Explore the Depths of the Scriptures While You ReadExpect understanding! Experience the full meaning of God's Word. The Expanded Bible has been developed by a respected team of skilled Bible translators to make God's Word easier to understand-and more relevant and real for today's Christian-with innovative expansions in the text itself that exhibit the complete meaning of each passage in its context-while you read. Perceive what God is saying in language...
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Welcome to the Gospel According to Mark.
This powerful gospel narrative tells the story of the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as recounted by Mark.
Listen as Barnabas Corner brings this timeless story to life with his captivating narration in Nigerian Pidgin English.
Get ready to embark on a journey of faith and discover the power of the gospel in a new and exciting way.
Let's begin."
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Get ready to dive into the powerful and transformative message of "The Gospel According to John" in Nigerian Pidgin English. In this captivating audiobook, you will embark on a spiritual journey through the life, teachings, miracles, and profound message of Jesus Christ, as narrated in the unique flavor of Nigerian Pidgin English.
As you listen to the skilled narration, you will be immersed in the rich cultural context and the heartfelt expressions...
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Los Evangelios apócrifos se escribieron en los primeros siglos del cristianismo y cuentan historias relativas a Jesús, que no aparecen en los textos canónicos. Son escenas omitidas por la ortodoxia cristiana, que se encontraron, en el siglo XX, en los rollos del Mar Muerto y los de Nag Hammadi.
A estos documentos se les dio el nombre de Evangelios por su aspecto similar a los cuatro evangelios admitidos en el canon del Nuevo Testamento. Sin embargo,...
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John Nelson Darby was an Anglo-Irish Bible teacher associated with the early years of the Plymouth Brethren. Darby first published translations in French and German. In 1867, he produced a literal English version of the New Testament. After his death in 1882, his followers produced an Old Testament based on Darby's French and German translations. The complete Darby Bible was first published in 1890.
Darby's purpose was, as he states in the preface...
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"Abide in Me." John 15:4
Do you yearn for life-giving, intimate communion with God? The Abide Bible is designed to help you experience the peace, hope, and growth that comes from encountering the voice and presence of God in Scripture. Every feature in Abide is designed to teach and develop Scripture-engagement habits that help you know the power and spiritual nourishment of abiding in Christ.
Created in partnership with Bible Gateway and the Taylor...
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