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“Peter Abrahams is my favorite American suspense novelist.”—Stephen King
“Mackie dreaded the mail.” From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a desert world that rises to the mythic in Their Wildest Dreams. The suspense will grab you...
“Mackie dreaded the mail.” From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a desert world that rises to the mythic in Their Wildest Dreams. The suspense will grab you...
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
218 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
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Be the Gift, by New York Times bestselling author Ann Voskamp, will challenge and encourage you to listen to God and look for opportunities to be His gift to others. The idea that even in the depths of our own brokenness God can use each of us to be a gift to someone else is powerful?that He makes each of us enough to give to someone else. Just as powerful is the realization that in becoming God?s gifts to others, our lives become more abundant: Maybe...
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (14 unnumbered pages : color photographs and illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
English
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Francis, a dispossessed young man, is summoned to the secluded home of his wealthy childhood friend, JP Luret, who is suffering from a mysterious affliction. Upon his arrival, Francis realizes that JP and his ethereal twin sister Vivian are the sole surviving members of the privileged Luret family, whose legacy has been one of depression and self-destruction, and the only occupants of their family estate. As the old friends attempt to reconnect, a...
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Shambhala
Language
English
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Cuong Lu, a long-time disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh, personally witnessed a shooting while fleeing Vietnam in 1975. The memory of this trauma prompted him to dedicate his life to sharing the wisdom of deep listening, finding understanding, and in his words, "defusing the bombs in our hearts." Lu encourages readers to help turn the tide, interrupt the cycle of violence, and create a world where love and understanding thrive.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
Description
"How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved? The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this book, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as ambiguous loss. This is what we experience when a loss remains unclear and undefined, and thus lingers indefinitely. Now, with a pandemic that has upended the lives of people across the globe, we are...
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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A compassionate investigation of the root causes of the epidemic of drug abuse, violence, and despair among "mainstream" American teenagers. In the past few years, it has become painfully clear that all is not well with the children of middle-class America. Beyond the shootings at Columbine, hardly a day goes by without stories of drug use, binge drinking, fatal accidents, and suicides among middle-class adolescents. Sociologist and Pulitzer Prize...
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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xviii, 234 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Shortly after being hired by Yale University to study joy, Gorrell got word that a close family member had died by suicide. Less than a month later, she lost her father to a fatal opioid addiction and her nephew to sudden cardiac arrest. The theoretical joy she was researching at Yale suddenly felt unattainable in the fog of grief she now found herself in. She began volunteering at a women's maximum-security prison, where she met people who suffered...
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 216 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
We've never been more educated and entertained. We have technological tools our parents could only dream of, and we are saturated with information, amusement, and recreation. Yet more than ever, we are starving for hope. School shootings are all too familiar. Depression is on the rise. And more people than ever are orchestrating their own deaths. In America alone, the suicide rate has increased 24 percent in fewer than twenty years. If a disease saw...
12) Ethan Frome
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English
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This amply annotated edition of Wharton's 1911 classic novella includes textual notes and documents, including Wharton's preface, letters, reviews, and early short story, "Mrs. Manstey's View." It is accompanied by the editor's comprehensive introduction and a wide array of readings on topics central to the novella: tragedy, health and fitness, sex and marriage, and turn-of-the-century New England poverty and isolation. Of her twenty-five novels and...
Publisher
Outsider Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Caught in a blizzard five days before Christmas, pregnant 23-year-old Lisa and her friend Brad, a professional snowboarder, take shelter at The Rosemont. A once-great winter resort, The Rosemont has seen better days. After losing her daughter and granddaughter, the cantankerous owner Josephine has let it fall into disrepair. But now, stranded by the blizzard and with Lisa giving birth, everyone comes together to provide what they all need most, a...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father...
16) Secret sunshine
Series
Criterion collection volume 576
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (18 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm).
Language
Korean
Description
An effortless mix of light and uncompromising darkness, Secret Sunshine is the story of a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husband's provincial hometown for a fresh start.
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