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For one thousand years, the Great Awakening has spread the teachings of Islam to all of the far corners of the known universe. Without a Caliph at its head, the great Muslim empire had been a disparate conglomerate of power, for no one ruler had been able to bridge the great interplanetary distances to make the requisite pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. Then the Emir of Mars announces his plans to undertake this most ambitious of journeys and...
62) Amigos
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No se preocupe, Amigos le proporcionará todos los consejos y secretos que necesita para aprovechar al máximo sus amistades. En las páginas de este libro hallará consejos útiles para la amistad como:• Qué puede aprender en la Biblia en cuanto a la amistad• Maneras de ser un buen amigo• Cómo lidiar con el conflicto y otras cosas peliagudas• Cómo hacer amigos, y más.Es normal sentirse algo abrumado debido a los montones de tareas escolares,...
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Desde el Partido Comunista hasta el Partido Libertario y todo lo demás en el medio, este breve libro se esfuerza por honrar poéticamente a terceros. Si amas a terceros u odias el sistema de dos personas, ¡este libro puede dispararte! 26 páginas; 25 poemas. Traducido con onlinedoctranslator. Descripción traducida con Reverso.
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Written by one of the foremost historians of Pius XII, this present biographical study-unlike the greater part of the vast and growing historiography of Pope Pius XII-is a balanced and nonreactive account of his life and times. Its focus is not on the pope's silence during the Holocaust, though it does address the issue in a historical and objective framework. This is a biography of the man before and during his papacy. It probes the roots of his...
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Almost exactly 400 years ago, an English woman completed an astonishing walk to Rome. An English Catholic, Mary Ward had already defied the authorities in England. In 1621 she walked across Europe to ask the Pope to allow her to set up schools for girls. 'There is no such difference between men and women that women may not do great things,' she said. But Mary's vision of equality between men and women angered the Catholic Church and the Pope threw...
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In this personal memoir, a former evangelical Christian shares her journey away from her confining faith toward a happier, healthier, nonreligious life.
Betty Brogaard was raised to be a good Christian. By the time she was twenty years old, she had joined a fundamentalist church. She even met and married a young man who became a minister in the congregation. However, the more she came to understand Christianity from within, the more she found herself...
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Daddies do so much for us! It's time to thank God for the blessing they are. In this adorable board book, a little lion cub thanks God for his wonderful daddy-a daddy who gives big hugs and piggy back rides, who takes great care of him, and most importantly, who offers love, guidance, and encouragement. Thank You, God, for Daddy; He scares monsters away. When Daddy says, "Don't be afraid," I know that it's okay. The love and sacrifices of fathers...
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Preparese para desaprender todo lo que creia saber sobre la Capilla Sixtina y las obras maestras de Miguel angel. Este libro procurara desplazar siglos de prejuicio, censura e ignorancia de uno de los tesoros del arte mas famosos y queridos del mundo. Hace quinientos anos Miguel angel comenzo una pintura que se convirtio en una de las piezas de arte mas famosas del mundo: el cielorraso de la Capilla Sixtina. Todos los anos, millones de personas se...
69) De Ses Lèvres
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Le Professeur Z.T. Fomum était un homme de spiritualité et un génie spirituel qui a influencé le monde entier. Professeur d'Université, scientifique, enseignant de renommée mondiale sur la prière et la vie spirituelle, il était exceptionnel dans plusieurs domaines.En plus de tout cela, il était un homme d'expériences spirituelles inhabituelles. Dirigeant d'une équipe, aptre d'un mouvement et d'une œuvre missionnaire à succès, il a été...
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A crackling, moving new collection from one of America's greatest living poets.
In over twenty-six original books, the poems of John Ashbery have long served as signposts guiding us through the delights, woes, hypocrisies, and uncertainties of living in the modern world. With language harvested from everyday speech, fragments of pop culture, objects and figures borrowed from art and literature, his work makes light out of darkness, playing with tone...
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An inspirational anthology that draws on sacred texts to provide essential insight into Islam, one of the world's great religions.
The Wisdom of Muhammad: This compelling examination of the life and sayings of Muhammad offers the modern reader a guide to the history and principles of the world's second largest religion. Covering a diverse range of topics, from marriage and civic charity to the individual's relationship to God and the afterlife, the...
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Mounia, Joëlle, Marie et Francis ont un point commun : leurs enfants, de jeunes adultes, sont partis ensemble, en 2014, pour la Syrie, rejoindre Daech. Depuis, ils ont mis leur vie entre parenthèses, et attendent un possible retour. Comment vivre avec ce choix terrible fait par leurs enfants, comment rester des parents, garder le lien, cultiver l'amour ? Est-ce possible ? Le destin commun de leurs enfants réunit ces quatre parents mais leurs relations...
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In these ten short stories, author Laura Newman brings readers along to Varanasi, Tijuana, Rome, Lhasa, New Orleans, Valdez, Barcelona, and the Isle of Skye. And her characters are just as diverse as her destinations: There's Maggie, who's taking her brother's ghost on a trek to the Annapurna Sanctuary in Nepal; Gomez, who has a date with destiny at the Tijuana hypermarket; a Norwegian preacher who relocates to Varanasi, India, in a valiant effort...
74) Brassens 2.0
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Inspirée par la perspicacité et l'engagement de Brassens, la version 2.0 de son œuvre aborde des sujets universels tout en préservant l'esprit original de ses chansons. Cette mise à jour exige une compréhension approfondie des enjeux actuels, notamment la montée des populistes, les crises sociales, l'immigration, les conflits internationaux et la politique française.
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Jean Michel Zurletti privilégie la réflexion et...
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"Mayra ou le bonheur dans la secte" relate l'épopée d'un architecte tombant amoureux d'une femme sous l'emprise d'un gourou hindouiste, plongeant ainsi dans une romance enflammée. Au cœur de ce tourbillon s'entremêlent spiritualité orientale et héritage chrétien, suscitant des défis existentiels et passionnels qui captiveront les lecteurs jusqu'à la dernière page.
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Vice-président du Salon des Poètes de Lyon,...
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The Portal Watchers are separated...
Trapped in first world, Garth is given a surprising aid which will assist him upon his return to Telba, while Bern and the Telantian army advance on Subja's city. And on the Gold Coast Ne-tel leads a meager regiment against the ravenous beasts that have decimated the region.
All three watchers still follow the will of Tel. Are these tasks too great? Will they learn to rely on help that is outside of space and...
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A bold, striking new collection of poems from one of America's most influential and inventive poets.
With more than twenty poetry collections to his name, John Ashbery is one of our most agile, philosophically complex, and visionary poets. In Breezeway, Ashbery's powers of observation are at their most astute; his insight at its most penetrating. Demonstrating his extraordinary command of language and his ability to move fluidly and elegantly between...
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The Common Man, Maurice Manning's fourth collection, is a series of ballad-like narratives, set down in loose, unrhymed iambic tetrameter, that honors the strange beauty of the Kentucky mountain country he knew as a child, as well as the idiosyncratic adventures and personalities of the oldtimers who were his neighbors, friends, and family. Playing off the book's title, Manning demonstrates that no one is common or simple. Instead, he creates a detailed,...
80) Le remous
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Le chemin tracé dans ces pages traverse les sentiers sinueux de l'inconstance et de la solitude, plongeant dans les abysses de l'expérience humaine et des doutes qui l'habitent. Les poèmes, ici, sont des danses avec les ombres de l'âme, qui mêlent les pensées dans le remous insaisissable de vos sens, révélant les vérités cachées au plus profond de votre être. Et pour clore ce périple, une lueur d'espoir immortelle vient apaiser les cœurs...
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