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There are two versions of the Book of Esther the various copies of the Septuagint, however, neither originated at the Library of Alexandria. The common version of Esther is found in almost all copies, while the rare version is only found in four know manuscripts, numbered as 19, 93, 108, and 319. This version follows the rare version, also known as the Alpha version, using the oldest surviving copy as a source text, the Septuagint manuscript 319,...
7042) An Unkindness of Ravens
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Alice Liddell and Dorothy Gale team up once again to fight a new evil terrorizing Edwardian London in this dark fantasy by the author of The Red King.
A grisly death in the Tower of London and a deadly attack on an ocean liner in the mid-Atlantic signal the arrival of the Raven, a creature that seeks to reshape the universe. Alice Liddell and Dorothy Gale, fresh from defeating the Red King, must try to prevent it. But even their childhood adventures...
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"The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr." -Henry Steele Commanger, Philadelphia Inquirer
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
By the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates's prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin...
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Visit the Virginia city where the great author brought his thirteen-year-old bride for a honeymoon. Antebellum Petersburg was a melting pot of French, Haitian, Scotch-Irish, and free black populations. It was in this eclectic city that the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, chose to take his new wife, thirteen-year-old first cousin Virginia Clemm, on their honeymoon in 1836. This book traces the steps of the controversial couple through imaginative...
7045) Cuentos selvatásticos
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La autora de Cuentos incatásticos les trae una nueva colección de cuentos: Cuentos selvatásticos. ¿Eres lo bastante valiente para acompañar a Yacumama, la serpiente más grande y poderosa de la Amazonía, en un viaje único en la vida? ¿Lo eres? ¡Fantástico! Pues coge tu cámara, mosquitera e impermeable, ¡y VÁMONOS!Vas a viajar a través de miles de años de historia y cultura (¡información que pocos adultos conocen!). Por ejemplo, ¿sabías...
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The four books of the Kingdoms are believed to have been translated into Greek and added to the Septuagint around 200 BC when a large number of refugees fled from the war in Judea and settled in Egypt. The four books of the Kingdoms would later become two books in the Masoretic Texts, the books of Samuel and Kings. Subsequent Latin and English translations of the Masoretic Texts labeled these books as 1ˢᵗ and 2ⁿᵈ Samuel, and 1ˢᵗ and 2ⁿᵈ...
7047) The Squire's Tale
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First in the medieval fantasy series set in Camelot.
Growing up an orphan in an isolated cottage in the woods, young Terence never expected much adventure. But upon the arrival of Gawain, his life takes a surprising turn. Gawain is destined to become one of the most famous knights of the Round Table. Terence becomes Gawain's squire and leaves his secluded life for one of adventure in King Arthur's court. In no time Terence is plunged into the...
7048) Calum's Road
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Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of the Scottish island of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago-until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. With his newly idle hours, he embarked upon a project: to build a road out of the settlement of Arnish-a road that he hoped would lead new generations of people to this quiet, beautiful place.
And so, at the age of...
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Renowned biblical sleuth and scholar Richard Elliot Friedman reveals the first work of prose literature in the world-a 3000-year-old epic hidden within the books of the Hebrew Bible. Written by a single, masterful author but obscured by ancient editors and lost for millennia, this brilliant epic of love, deception, war, and redemption is a compelling account of humankind's complex relationship with God. Friedman boldly restores this prose masterpiece-the...
7050) A Break with Charity
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Susanna English desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage, but she doesn't realize the leader of the group, the malicious Ann Putnam, is about to set off a torrent of false accusations that will lead to the imprisonment and execution of countless innocent people-victims of a witch-hunt panic.
"The author's skillful manipulation of the conventions of the young-adult novel-particularly the rich exploration...
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An insider account, an entrepreneur hired to support American peacekeeping efforts in Iraq in the wake of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.
The enemy is everywhere in war-torn Iraq, and suppliers and construction workers run the same risks as uniformed combatants: guerrilla attacks, suicide bombings, rocket bombardments, and road mines. This is the compelling story of Carter Andress and the unique methods his multinational team used to deliver...
7052) Under the Pawpaw Trees
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Sequel to Sitting on Top of the World June's new normal: Her brother is gone, her dad is gone, her mother is grieving, and June must find her place in the world. Her beau Jimmy is her only tonic. But when tragedy strikes again, she knows exactly who to blame for all her sorrows: Paul Burnett, the railroad bull who started the chain of devastation when he killed her brother. June sets out on a dangerous journey to make him pay, hopping freight trains...
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In Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, Stanford University lecturer Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico. Shedding new light on Trotsky's tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera, his affair with Rivera's wife Frida Kahlo, and his torment as his family and comrades become victims of the Great Terror, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic...
7054) Ludie's Life
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Cynthia Rylant returns to her home state of West Virginia with this powerful and evocative collection of poems. In a heartbreaking narrative that flows like a novel, we follow Ludie from childhood to falling in love and getting married, through the birth of her own children, and on into old age. This is the story of one woman's experiences in a hardscrabble coal-mining town, a story that brims with universal themes about life, love, and family-and...
7055) Parsifal's Page
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Squire's Tale series volume 4
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Piers is desperate to become a page to escape the dirty, tedious labor of his father's blacksmith shop. So when a knight arrives announcing that he's on "the quest," Piers begs to go along. Off on a series of adventures he never dreamed possible, Piers and the knight quickly run into difficulties. The knight is slain by Parsifal who is on a quest of his own.
Parsifal is unlike anyone Piers has ever met. He doesn't behave "knightly" at all. Slowly,...
7056) Wings of War
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"…fast-paced and gripping" CCBC Magazine
It is 1913 and Edward Simpson is enthralled by his German uncle, Horst, who designs and builds simple-and extremely dangerous-planes in his barn. Fascinated by flight and dreaming of a life in the air, Edward helps his uncle whenever he can. In return, Horst teaches his nephew the rudiments of flight and, one magical day, lets him take his latest barn-built creation up for a spin. Edward is hooked, he will...
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"Pascal's Wager is a splendid read. Connor [...] a historian who understands religion and science equally [...] keeps us turning the page." - Michael Gurian, author of The Minds of Boys
"James Connor gives a racy account of a remarkable man [...] in a book that is a fascinating read." - Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne, author of Quarks Chaos & Christianity
"A compelling and readable study of one of the most influential thinkers in religious history."...
7058) Boone's Chance
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Jack Reacher meets The Patriot in this exhilarating time travel alternate history series!With the war all but over, I can now head home to Annie and hang my Pale Rider vest.However, along the way, the son of a dear friends manages to find me.Daniel Boone has gotten himself into a bit of a bind, and when his son comes asking for my help, I cannot say no.Even with a leg injury, I don my black vest, take the mantle of Pale Rider again, only this time,...
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Benjamin Franklin wrote the first American self-help and career advice book. He showed laid the groundwork for how to run a successful business, live an exemplary life, build a personal fortune, and leave a permanent legacy.
His Autobiography has been in print for almost 200 years. It is the basis of hundreds of business books that followed. Franklin applied his powerful mind to the creation of a successful business, securing the independence of...
7060) Rasputin's Bastards
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Post—Cold War, a group of Russians bred from childhood to be psychic spies are called from around the globe to achieve their true purpose: world domination. But some of them have flourished in the lives they have carved out for themselves-often in nefarious ways-and they will not give up their freedom without a fight, even as a new generation of telepathic children, the beautiful dreamers, are coming into power ...
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