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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize Included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 For readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series...
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Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''Scooby can't resist joining an obedience class that is offering free snacks. But soon, all the dogs except Scooby have robbed a jewelry store! The dazed dogs don't remember how they got there. Krypto and Scooby are on the case! But soon Krypto is being controlled too! Can the two crime-solving dogs get to the bottom of the mystery before anything else is stolen?''--
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In September 1838, a twenty-five-year-old tutor at Harvard named Jones Very stood before his beginning Greek class and proclaimed himself the Second Coming. Relieved of his teaching duties, Very spent the next two years writing more than four hundred sonnets, all of which he claimed were delivered to him, as though through dictation, by the Holy Spirit. He was examined by the dean of romantic Unitarianism, William Ellery Channing, and strove to "convert"...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet. Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, in Northumberland, Catherine trusts herself to a group of...
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Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this deeply personal account of her first year as a missionary, Elisabeth Elliot shares what it was like to work in the jungles of Ecuador with a small group of women, bringing the Word of God to the indigenous tribe that martyred her husband. With fascinating detail, she captures the stark realities of life among these complex people and reflects upon the "strange ashes" that can result when an act of obedience is passed through the fires of...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy―comes this gripping story set in the Cosmere universe told by Hoid, where two people from incredibly different cultures must work together to save their worlds from certain disaster. Yumi has spent her entire life in strict obedience, granting her the power to summon...
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Series
Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Once you fully submit, your darkest cravings will…Blossom The ultra-luxe Black Rose Underground Club used to be Mary Sandusky’s favorite place to play. She was happy to slip into her role as seasoned submissive Blossom and relinquish control to an expert Dom. But when a scene gets out of hand, she can no longer trust her own dark appetites. She’s ready to walk away from Black Rose for good...until she meets a hot Highlander who pushes...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Hendrix's dystopian society is somewhat of a Handmaid's Tale for YA, and offers a dark world with a glimmer of hope."― Booklist, STARRED review Like every young woman in New America, Stella knows the rules: Deflect attention. Abstain from sin. Navigate the world with care. Give obedience. Embrace purity. Respect your chaperone. Girls in New America must have a chaperone with them at all times . Because of this, Stella is never alone. She...
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Charting the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care—not a cure— for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus. At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most respected leaders within theologically orthodox...
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Publisher
Countryman Press, an imprint of W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Game-based learning is a powerful tool to successful puppy rearing and dog ownership.With this exciting guide to playful and social activities for puppies and dogs, you’ll immediately enjoy drastically improved behavior and a stronger connection with your dog. Dogs live to play! It’s hardwired into their DNA. And when approached with intention, play provides the perfect opportunity to support behavioral development, obedience, and...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called “burned-over district” of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of the new creeds flamed out; Smith’s would endure, becoming the most significant homegrown...
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Publisher
Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A child disappears . . . a foster mom faces an impossible choice . . . a baby's future hangs in the balance. When Debra Moerke and her husband decided to become foster parents, they never imagined how their lives would change. Debra became especially close to one little girl: four-year-old Hannah. She loved her and did everything she could to help Hannah learn to trust and teach her to feel safe. But when Hannah went back to her birth mother, Karen,...
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Publisher
Tachyon Publications LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author's taut science-fantasy debut, with five disparate cutures worshipping five sleeping gods — and one mechanically-augmented woman determined to avenge exploitation by the military sectNational marketing plan to include prepublication endorsements from leading authors, review, media outlets, and general publications; online and print features; author events and book launch, Instagram and blog tour; ARC mailings and giveaways;...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Power, leadership coach Kemi Nekvapil reveals how power built internally is stronger and more enduring than that bestowed externally-and introduces a new framework for cultivating it from the inside out. Through the principles of Presence, Ownership,Wisdom, Equality, and Responsibility, this book invites readers to choose power for themselves and on their own terms. Drawing on stories from her own life and from the lives of leaders, gamechangers,...
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