Redemption by Laura Lee6/10/2023 ![]() The church’s collapse has been just as remarkable, as the last few years have unearthed a pattern of abuse that stretches back decades. ![]() No wonder Hillsong’s leaders kept getting upbeat attention from the secular press. It was a church that doubled as a lifestyle brand, but instead of some vague notion of wellness, it promised eternal salvation. It was a place where everyone - celebrities, dudes with ripped jeans, gay people willing to be half in the closet - could sate their need for spiritual connection and feel cool at the same time. ![]() This is an organization that, at its peak, not only had outposts around the world, but also cornered the market on contemporary Christian worship music, selling millions of albums and winning a Grammy Award. Even in a sea of corrupt megachurches, Hillsong stands out. ![]()
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I am america and so can you6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() I Am America (And So Can You!) showcases Stephen Colbert at his most eloquent and impassioned. You may not agree with everything Stephen says, but at the very least, you'll understand that your differing opinion is wrong. ![]() ![]() I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast.ĭictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephen's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form.Īlways controversial and outspoken, Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches, why evolution is a fraud, and why the elderly should be harnessed to millstones. Congratulations-just by looking at this webpage, you became 25% more patriotic.įrom Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23¿ hours of your day. ![]() When we left cuba series6/9/2023 ![]() Now, Maggie is living the life she never had, and always wanted, in South Carolina a life full of luxuries, attending the best clubs of the moment, wearing dresses of famous designers, and traveling through the city of London in a Ferrari. And that’s where Maggie enters a totally different life. ![]() Maggie Carpenter, nineteen years old and from South Carolina, gets a scholarship to the International School in London, England a privileged university where the children of the most influential leaders of the world attend. I See London is the first book in the International School series by Chanel Cleeton. ![]() She loves traveling and has lived in Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. ![]() Law school made the author realize that she would rather spend her days writing books than in a courtroom and since then, she hasn’t looked back. Her passion for history and politics continued during the years she lived in England where she graduated from The American International University in London with a degree in International Relations and later from London School of Economics and Political Science with a master in Global Politics. ![]() Originally from Florida, Chanel spent her childhood after her family moved to the US from Cuba during the Cuban revolution. Chanel Cleeton is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of contemporary, fiction and historical fiction books famously known for her When We Left Cuba and Next Year in Havana. ![]() The faithful and the fallen6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The Tales of the Otori Series by Lian Hearn Reasons you'll like it: Kick-ass female characters, graphic violence and different character arcs. Survival is no mean feat, and at the end of the day, dumb luck might be more of an asset than any amount of planning, skill, or noble intention. Set in the Circle of the World, this is a world filled with bad people who do the right thing, good people who do the wrong thing and stupid people who do the stupid thing. ![]() ![]() The First Law is a fantasy series composed of a trilogy and three stand-alone novels set in the same world, written by British novelist Joe Abercrombie. Martin is a fan, Robin is punishing to her characters and if Jon Snow is your favourite character, Fitz is a king's bastard. Meanwhile, Prince Regal's jealousy and the indulgence of his own selfish whims threatens to destroy Six Duchies. His uncle, Prince Verity, attempts to wage war on the Red-Ship Raiders from The OutIslands who are attacking the shores of the kingdom by turning the people of the Six Duchies into Forged ones a form of zombification which makes them emotionless. This trilogy follows the life of trained assassin FitzChivalry Farseer (Fitz), in The Six Duchies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. 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It feels like a curse, like too great a burden for one person alone to bear. No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can bring a grown man to his knees, begging for mercy. ![]() The finale of Tahereh Mafis New York Times bestselling YA fantasy series perfect. Juliette can kill with a touch-will she wield her power for good, or will it turn her into the monster she's always feared she truly is? Find out in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series-all six novels are now available in this paperback box set! The book that all SHATTER ME fans have been waiting for is finally here. ![]() ![]() ![]() A boy had broken his glasses, and a teacher beats him unjustly during one of his classes for sitting out. When he returns to school, he finds out to his bewilderment that two of his classmates were caught doing something sexual with upperclassmen. He listens to his family having a bitter argument about Parnell and the Catholic Church. He wakes up with a cold the next day and spends some time in the infirmary, where he hears that the Irish nationalist Parnell has died.Ī few months later, Stephen comes home for the winter holidays. In the next scene, an older Stephen is in his first year of school at Clongowes he is playing outside with the other boys and longing for the warmth and peace of study hall. ![]() Stephen’s thoughts and memories careen wildly – from a woman that sells candy on the street, to his mother’s warm smell, to his governess Dante’s brushes, to his neighbor Eileen. The novel’s first scene shows an infant Stephen listening to his father’s nonsense fairy tale. ![]() Unbreakable by Kami Garcia6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Using weapons both ancient and modern, the teens struggle to stay one step ahead of the evil that seeks to destroy them. Kennedy and her new friends go from one adventure to another, solving riddles and collecting hidden pieces that will help them defeat Andras, the demon who was set loose over 200 years before. ![]() Written by Kami Garcia, coauthor of the Beautiful Creatures novels, Unbreakable: The Legion Book 1, is the first of a series involving teens battling supernatural forces. As Kennedy struggles to find her own skill, she also seeks to understand her warring emotions over the twin brothers, Jared and Lukas, who vie for her attention. The four teens she meets all descend from other members of the society who died the same night as Kennedy’s mom, and they all have skills that will help them fight the forces sent against them. The official word is a heart attack, but when Kennedy is nearly killed a month later by a supernatural force, she finds out the bizarre truth: her mother was part of a secret society charged with protecting the world from a dangerous demon. until the night she comes home to find her mother dead. ![]() Kennedy thinks she’s a normal teen living a quiet life in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, the next piggy, when he started, met a man carrying a bundle of furze, and, being very polite, he said to him: Then he ate up little piggy and went on his way. So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in. So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in “Then I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in.” “No! No! No! by the hair of my chinny chin chin!” “Little pig! Little pig! Let me in! Let me in!”īut the little pig saw the wolf’s big paws through the keyhole, so he answered back: Now, when it was finished, a wolf happened to pass that way and he saw the house, and he smelt the pig inside. “If you please, sir, could you give me that straw to build me a house?”Īnd the man, seeing what good manners the little pig had, gave him the straw, and the little pig set to work and built a beautiful house with it. Now the eldest pig went first, and as he trotted along the road he met a man carrying a bundle of straw. Once upon a time there was an old sow who had three little pigs, and as she had not enough for them to eat, she said they had better go out into… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By December 1938, NKVD operatives found themselves accused by Stalin of violating socialist legality during the Terror operations. Her books include The Unknown Gulag and Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial (OUP. Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial presents case studies from Ukraine of Soviet internal security police (NKVD) officers, who were brought to heel there during the capstone stage of the Great Terror of 1937-1938. Viola is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and has received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Killam Research Fellowship and grants from the NEH, ACLS, and the SSHRC of Canada. Lynne Viola is University Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Best Sons of the Fatherland (OUP, 1987), Peasant Rebels Under Stalin (OUP, 1996), The Unknown Gulag (OUP, 2007), and co-editor of The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside. Lynne Viola is University Professor and Professor of History at the University of Toronto. The talk is based on new sources from the Ukrainian security police archives, including the criminal files of NKVD operatives arrested for “violations of socialist legality” in late 1938 and early 1939. She explores the arrest dossiers and trials of NKVD operatives scapegoated for the “excesses” of Stalin’s terror. Based on her forthcoming book, Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine (Oxford University Press), Lynne Viola’s talk will focus upon the “purge of the purgers” that followed in the wake of the Great Terror. ![]() |