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  • Aegis
    Nathan Roten
    Be Careful What You Wish For.It May Just Be Given To You.For many nights in Greenwood Orphanage, visions of his loving parents flood the dreams of 15-year-old Graham. But the dreams quickly dissolve into haunting nightmares. Just when Graham thinks he will escape the darkness of his mind, he wakes up to find his possessions hovering in the air all around him before they crash t...
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    12,91 €

  • A Capful of Wind
    Monica Matterson
    A Capful of wind, AKA "Useless Information for Aspiring Skippers" charts the author's progress from her first dubious adventures in a leaky tub to Coastal 1 examination. Despite everything that the elements and even fellow seafarers throw at her, Monica Matterson wittily recalls a wealth of fascinating and usually hilarious tales of misadventure on, in and sometimes under t...
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    16,58 €

  • Runaway Thoughts
    In 2013 students at Venice High School in Los Angeles formed the first P.O.P.S. (Pain of the Prison System) club, a club for those whose lives have been touched by prison. Many have parents, friends, siblings, uncles and aunts inside; some have had their own brushes with the law. All have stories to tell. Runaway Thoughts offers the stories, artwork and essays of those whose vo...
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    16,35 €

  • 86 Dumplings of Insight into China
    Sally Waters
    MY STORIES FROM CHINA FOR YOUAre you moving or travelling to China? Are you curious about Chinese culture? Peel back the layers and uncover the richness of a Chinese way of life.86 Dumplings Of Insight Into China is an intimate guide to Chinese culture all wrapped up in bite-sized morsels of stories and insight. Come along with Sally as she shares own personal stories and obser...
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    12,18 €

  • French Holidays & Traditions
    Margo Lestz
    If you are intrigued by French culture and curious about the history behind French traditions, this book is for you. In it, you'll find a selection of short stories, written in a lively style, which often reveal little-known, but always fascinating facts about French customs. Would you like to know: • Why people have fish on their backs on April 1st? • How the Bastille was ...
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    7,16 €

  • The Mockingbird Devotional
    As long as it has been available, people have turned to the Bible to address the problems and anxieties of everyday life. We look to it for comfort in the midst of suffering, clarity in times of confusion, or simply to learn about God. Thankfully, what we find in its pages is not a collection of rules or demands but a message of unbending honesty and unspeakable compassion: the...
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    33,29 €

  • Preserve and Protect
    Allen Drury
    The United States is thrown into chaos as the President is killed in a plane crash shortly after securing his party’s nomination in a hotly contested race for re-election. As suspicions are cast upon the circumstances of the place crash, the incumbent party quickly convenes to nominate a candidate in a storm of domestic and international chaos.Against the backdrop of a rich cas...
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    15,14 €

  • Leadership is Male
    David Pawson
    Elisabeth Elliot writes in the Foreword: 'Here is a simple, sane, serious treatment of the subject by a man who loves God, respects women, and takes the inspiration of Scripture and the integrity of the apostles for granted. He deals with all the ’difficult’ texts. He tells us that his subject is not a clerical issue, nor is hierarchical, situational, historical, or experimenta...
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    11,08 €

  • Israel in the New Testament
    David Pawson
    Those who believe what the Bible teaches about God’s plans and purposes for the people and place of Israel are often accused of giving more time and attention to the Old Testament than the New, and there is some truth in this. Over 80% of the promises and prophecies of the Old Testament have been literally fulfilled. It is a simple matter of faith in God’s faithfulness to belie...
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    16,83 €

  • The Vineyard We Knew
    Kevin J. Parham
    A poignant memoir about the life of an African-American boy from the city summering on Martha's Vineyard during the rustic 1950s and turbulent 1960s. It's a coming of age story that is very personal, yet universal. It opens up to a reader a world that many will not know, but one they will still recognize. The Vineyard We Knew is almost elegiac in nature in that it creates a se...
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    15,68 €

  • The Little Book of Awareness
    Peter Ingle
    Awareness is beyond the mind. At best, the mind can suggest what awareness is and describe what it is not. The Little Book of Awareness tries to go a step farther by evoking awareness in the reader and exploring what it means for awareness to consciously realize itself as pure awareness. Only when this happens does true transformation begin. ...
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    13,80 €

  • Fearful Majesty
    Benson Bobrick
    Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time.This acclaimed biography of one of Russia’s most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also surprisingly timely, revealing how many of the issues Russia faces today hav...
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    21,18 €

  • From Consulting to Cutting
    Nicole Barrett
    Nicole Barrett co-founded NiaNicole Salon in October of 2008. She has an extensive amount of training from across the world and has taken various classes in hair cutting techniques, as well as coloring techniques and finishing. With a background in business consulting, she helped Fortune 500 companies regain and maintain market eminence. As a past educator for L’Oreal, Nicole h...
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    17,07 €

  • Defending Christian Zionism
    David Pawson
    Has God brought the Jewish people back to Palestine?How can both Jews and Christians be God’s chosen people?How many covenants are there in the Bible?Do all Christian Zionists accept dispensational teaching?Does the God of Israel ever change his promises?These are some of the questions that must be faced in the light of current attacks on Christian Zionism by some evangelical w...
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    13,61 €

  • A Commentary on Hebrews
    David Pawson
    ’But I’m not a Hebrew! So why should I read a letter addressed to Jewish believers?’ Because the author’s warnings and appeals (’Don’t go back, do go on’) are needed by Christians teetering on the slippery slope of backsliding or simply standing still. For the eager believer, still running the race, this letter offers a new perspective on both the Old Testament and the Lord Jes...
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    16,10 €

  • A Commentary on Galatians
    David Pawson
    Attacks by the enemy against the church are much more successful when they come from the inside, and one of the quickest ways to do that is to pervert or corrupt or erode the gospel. Legalism and licence are still with us. But so is true liberty. We are free not to sin - and free to be bold, if we will only walk in the Spirit. ...
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    20,07 €

  • A Commentary on the Gospel of John
    David Pawson
    Eyewitnesses, Jesus’ own words and astonishing works all point to one who was truly God come in the flesh, the living Word, the very glory of God among humanity. John’s collected evidence and proof all make the most compelling testimony to Jesus’ right to demand our ongoing trust and obedience. ...
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    19,83 €

  • Sally Field Can Play the Transsexual
    Leslie L. Smith
    A 2015 Reader's Favorite Finalist, this tale of sex, loss, redemption and pharmaceuticals in the modern AIDS era that will make you laugh, break your heart, and inspire you. Leslie L. Smith's #SFCPT is a coming-of-age story - a teenage gay runaway turned hustler, David Matthews, is on a journey to find himself and his community. Along the way he is visited by a ghost, m...
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    10,39 €

  • The Kama Sutra Kitchen
    Ashley Apple
    The secret to successful aphrodisiacs is in the alchemy of creating, and this book is designed to increase sensuality to support the proper mood while concocting aphrodisiac recipes. Each section of the book is short and sweet, designed to introduce you to the basic concepts of alchemy and herbal medicine.This is a recipe book for creating aphrodisiac treats that increase sexua...
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    21,25 €

  • Good Films, Cheap Wine, Few Friends
    Juan Luis Bunuel
    The memoirs of Juan Luis Buñuel (b. 1934 in Paris) offer a first-hand look at the life of a vibrant man who has been surrounded by important figures of the twentieth century, including his father Luis Buñuel, Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, and Orson Welles, among many others. A filmmaker, sculptor, painter and raconteur in his own right, Juan Luis’s writings reveal a Buñuelian se...
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    36,71 €

  • My Husband Looks Better in Lingerie Than I Do ... Damn It
    Bobbie Thompson
    Bobbie Thompson, the supportive spouse of a transgender male-to-female, tells her side of their story in 'My HUSBAND Looks Better in Lingerie Than I Do ... DAMN IT,' in this companion memoir to 'Hung in the Middle: A Journey of Gender Discovery,' (www.hunginthemiddle.com) written by her spouse, Alana Nicole Sholar. After knowing 'him' for nearly 25 years, and even sharing a th...
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    10,31 €

  • Ivory Joe Beagle
    Curtis Lee Songster
    Travel back to a time before television, when good times came by way of an occasional coon hunt and the annual county fair, when friends carried out wild pranks on their friends but always had each other's backs. Ivory Joe Beagle, the ever-present canine companion to all, weaves his way in and out of these mostly true 'tails' of Hardin County, Kentucky, during the good ol' day...
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    17,09 €

  • Eco-Logical Lives. the Philosophical Lives of Richard Routley/Sylvan and Val Routley /Plumwood.
    Dominic Hyde
    Richard Sylvan and Val Plumwood were eminent twentieth-century Australian philosophers who, in the way of philosophers, devoted their lives to examining fundamental assumptions about thought and the world. Though they were both renowned logicians - and probed metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, social and political theory and economics - it was their determination to fuse the pr...
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    109,13 €

  • The Transforming Power of Story
    David B Biebel / Elaine Leong Eng
    This book demonstrates, through multiple true life stories, how sharing one's story, especially in a group setting, can bring hope to listeners and healing to the one who shares. As Christians believe that 'history' is 'His story,' we also believe that the smaller personal stories of our lives contribute to the larger story of God's grace and healing power throughout history an...
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    10,73 €

  • Raudi's Story
    Alys Culhane
    Raudi's Story is written from the point of view of a young Icelandic horse growing up in Alaska's Matanuska Valley. As a yearling, she nearly dies from a severe illness. She's wildly willful but good natured. After many training related challenges, Raudi becomes a reliable riding horse. The book is written at a level that adults will appreciate, but children will comprehend. Re...
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    9,69 €

  • Taste for Truth
    Barb Raveling
    They say it takes 21 days to develop a habit. But we all know how hard it is to make through those first 21 days. Taste for Truth will help you get through those first few weeks when you’d like nothing better than to give up. Taste for Truth offers 30 days of Bible study and hands-on renewing of the mind help. You’ll be taking off the lies that make you overeat and putting on t...
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    9,80 €

  • The Art Album
    Dawud Knuckles
    'The Art Album' is an illustrated book celebrating the long-standing relationship between the visual arts and hip-hop music, and is the result of a collaboration between two giants of the American music scene. Dawud Knuckles is a veteran of the record industry in America. In the 1990s, his friends founded the hip-hop record label Ruff Ryders, with whom he worked for many...
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    32,48 €

  • Grande Illusions
    Tom Savini
    Legendary special make-up effects artist, Tom Savini’s books, Grande Illusions and Grande Illusions II, have been entertaining readers and educating the next generation of artists for decades. Now, for the first time, both books are combined into one ultimate guide to the craft and art of make-up effects. With hundreds of pictures and diagrams, Grande Illusions uses Tom’s rea...
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    51,17 €

  • The Gospel According to Josh
    Josh Rivedal / Joshua Rivedal
    By the time Josh Rivedal turned twenty-five, he thought he’d have the perfect life-a few years singing on Broadway, followed by a starring role in his own television show. After which, his getaway home in the Hamptons would be featured in Better Homes & Gardens, and his face would grace the cover of the National Enquirer as Bigfoot’s not-so-secret lover. Instead, his resume is ...
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    13,48 €

  • Compassionate Vietnamese American Ceos
    Lena Tran
    Much has been written on how to build and grow successful corporations. And yet, traditionally, management gurus often hesitated to explore the role that culture played in corporate success and growth. Recently however, and especially in our straitened economic climate, it has become more acceptable to surmise that culture does indeed play a significant role and to explore alte...
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    22,40 €