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What comes to mind when you hear the phrase, "Women in Ministry"? A. Nursery Worker B. Children's leader C. Pastor D. It's complicated If you are like most your answer would be, &
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Like many famous and great movies, it all began as a book. Frank L. Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz brought Dorothy, Toto, Glinda, and other beloved characters to readers in 1900, and the tale has b
Health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis since the late 1960s. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to b
White dwarfs, each containing about as much mass as our Sun but packed into a volume about the size of Earth, are the endpoints of evolution for most stars. Thousands of these faint objects have now b
David Fincher (b. 1962) did not go to film school and hates being defined as an auteur. He prefers to see himself as a craftsman, dutifully going about the art and business of making film. Trouble is,
Along with thousands of refugees fleeing the Soviet invasion of Eastern Europe, a young couple and their baby left Lithuania in the summer of 1944. They expected to return home at the end of the war b
This Modern Swahili book is a complete language course that will teach you to be able to speak, write and understand basic Swahili in no time. Many language books are boring—this one is not. Written b
Toyo Ito (b. 1941) is one of the most important Japanese architects working today, and has grown to be one of the most influential in the world. He is famous for ambitious and stunning projects such a
In a new edition of an early horror classic by the author of The Hellfire Club, Julia Lufting, mourning the death of her child and struggling to to put the tragedy behind her, finds herself haunted b
Want to get your frontal cortex breaking a sweat? Make your blood pump to your cerebellum? Stretch your occipital lobe to its limits? Then you need to bend your brain! This first book from the team b
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This one-of-a-kind collection of poems about the American South ranges over four centuries of its dramatic history. The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War b
David Fincher (b. 1962) did not go to film school and hates being defined as an auteur. He prefers to see himself as a craftsman, dutifully going about the art and business of making film. Trouble is,
Birt and Etho are best friends. Together they play on Sudden Hill, making marvellous contraptions out of cardboard boxes. But then a new boy, Shu, wants to join in too. Etho is happy to welcome him. B
All her life, Zenovia has struggled with the burden of caring for her schizophrenic mother, Audrey, alone. Until one day, God seems to offer support in the form of two members of a church called the B
(Harp). Grammy-winning R&B recording artist John Legend wrote this love ballad for his fiancee Chrissy Teigen. It was released in August 2013 as a single on his Love in the Future album. The coupl
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Toommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word (commitment), the b word (boyfriend), and the f word (forgetting to call his drug dealer before the weekend). But
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins taps into two great obsessions of our time, personal training regimes and real estate -- – how we look and where we live -- and tells a story so subversive and dark it b
The Mayflower Park Hotel started life as the Bergonian Hotel on July 16, 1927. One of Seattle's first uptown hotels, it was designed by architect B. Dudley Stuart and built by Stephen Berg at a cost o
Chico Canta, the youngest of 12, is a tiny, mischievous, fearless mouse who lives with his family in an old theater. They love to go upstairs to see the plays and echo the audience shouting, ?Bravo, b
Chico Canta, the youngest of 12, is a tiny, mischievous, fearless mouse who lives with his family in an old theater. They love to go upstairs to see the plays and echo the audience shouting, ?Bravo, b
Hi, I’m Pauline Waldeck, I’m an Australian nursery owner and gardening enthusiast and I’m here to teach you exactly how to build a fantastic garden, and have fun while doing it! Be sure to claim the b
"Grandpa, where are you going now?" asked Bunny Brown."And what are you going to do?" asked Bunny Brown's sister Sue.Grandpa Brown, who was walking down the path at the side of the farmhouse, with a b
It is hard to find Alcoholic Anonymous literature that has the same flavor as your favorite meeting... until now. This book was written in the same spirit that claims - “We are not a glum lot.” This b
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From the Sasanian to the Safavid Empire, and from Qajar Iran to the current Islamic Republic, the history of Iran is one which has been colored by a rich tradition of myths and narratives and shaped b
"This book brings together the surviving texts of the 113 talks on art and architecture that we know of, given by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner on radio and television over a 37-year period b
Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebr
No paint or other substance a painter might use is visible on the surfaces of the pictures Sara Sizer (b. Dallas, Texas, 1967; lives and works in Berlin) creates. They do not derive their form from an
THE WRONG MAN TO CROSS Slocum is working as a cowpuncher on the edge of the North Dakota Badlands when his hotheaded boss accuses him of stealing fifty head of cattle. Next thing he knows he’s b
The bestselling game Plants vs. Zombies was the winner of more than 30 Best Game of the Year Awards. Plants vs. Zombies: Brain Busters is a 224-page book chock-full of games, puzzles, and activities b
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Dear Cary meets Confessions of a Video Vixen in this searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legendary soul icon Marvin Gaye.On her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Jani
Originally published as The Poet Upstairs, this award-winning ode to poetry is now available in a Spanish-language edition. Juliana is too sick to go to school one cold, winter day. So she stays in b
Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age. Finding inspiration in Spider-Man and P
Doris Herrmann was born deaf in 1933 in Basle, Switzerland, and from the age of three, she possessed a mystical attraction to kangaroos. She recalls seeing them at that age for the first time at the B
