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The Bookseller of Kabul

Asne Seierstad

(292 reviews )

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This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is startling in its intimacy and its details - a r...more

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The Apocalyptic Vision and the Neutering of Adventism

George R. Knight

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It is a query that ought to shake you all the way down to the soles of your comfortable shoes. George R. Knight has been wrestling with this very question for nearly five decades. He says he wasn't born that way (like some) and isn't addicted (like others)--hence the struggle. His dilemma? The Seventh-day Adventist Church was founded upon a...more

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All Editions	The Modern Scholar: Epochs of European Civilization: Antiquity to Renaissance (Unabridged) Geoffrey Hosking Write the first review.(See your review)
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Christmas Jars

Jason F. Wright

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Hope Jensen is a young, single woman and an aspiring newspaper writer, and when she receives a much-needed but anonymous Christmas gift, she's determined to find her benefactor. That search leads her to an unusual family with a longstanding Christmas tradition. Sensing a front-page feature article, Hope desperately wants to publish their story, b...more

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Emma's War

Deborah Scroggins

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Tall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil war in Africa. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine-ridden country, but her eventual marriage to a rebel warlord made international headlines—and s...more

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Day: A Novel

Elie Wiesel

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"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Book ReviewThe publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel’s original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the author’s classic trilogy of Holocaust literature, which ...more

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