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One of the greatest epic novels in history, Les Misérables is the moving story of Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption and his lifelong pursuit by Javert, a police detective determined to return Valjean to chains. Always one step ahead of Javert, Valjean encounters the tragic Fantine, and ultimately rescues Fantine's daughter, Cosette, from her wretched life with the Thénadiers, treating the child as his own as she comes of age in pre-revolutionary...
2) Paradiso
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Dover Publications
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[2017]
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The last great literary work of the Middle Ages and the first important book of the Renaissance, Dante's Divine Comedy culminates in this third and final section, Paradiso. The 14th-century allegory portrays a medieval perspective on the afterlife, tracing the poet's voyage across three realms -- Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise -- to investigate the concepts of sin, guilt, and redemption. Expressed in sublime verse, the trilogy concludes with this challenging...
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Open Road Media
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[2017]
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New York Times Bestseller: At a crossroads in their lives, twelve troubled souls seek guidance and comfort from a mysterious stranger. Many years have passed since the Sanctuary was built as a refuge for the lost. It is just two marble rooms: one for those waiting to be heard and one for the Man Who Listens. Drawn to it are the grieving, the despairing, the cynical, the defeated, the dying, the betrayed, and the broken. They know that the Man Who...
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Open Road Media
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[2017]
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English
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Mankind falls under a sentence of death in this fable of a world without faith from a #1 New York Times --bestselling author. First there were the changes in weather. Lack of rain was turning the plains of Iowa, Kansas, and Idaho into arid blocks of parched earth. In the North, it was already January, and no sign of snow. All over the world, the seas were shrinking, and creeks and rivers looked like dried scars. But for Pete, the terrified son of...
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Open Road Media
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[2017]
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The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time takes a fantastical look at the childhood of Jesus in two allegories set in an Egyptian village. In 'Pakko's Camel,' Yehoshuah, the poor son of a carpenter, befriends Pakko, the arrogant son of a rich merchant. Yehoshuah cares for of Pakko's camel and shares with him the knowledge of the precious gifts he received from three wise men. But when Yehoshuah's treasures are taken, he quickly learns that all...
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Much-Afraid had been in the service of the Chief Shepherd, whose great flocks were pastured down in the Valley of Humiliation. She lived with her friends and fellow workers Mercy and Peace in a tranquil little white cottage in the village of Much-Trembling. She loved her work and desired intensely to please the Chief Shepherd, but happy as she was in most ways, she was conscious of several things which hindered her in her work and caused her much...
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The Way To Peace is, written in an incredibly vivid and fluid fashion. Margaret Deland really brings the story of Athalia and her husband Lewis Hal to life. She follows the two on their journey to inner peace and happiness, which begins from a spontaneous hike up a mountain so that Athalia could see the view, and Lewis could never tell her 'no'.
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The Looking Glass Water is an allegorical novel about a lake that contains the water that speaks, the water that woos, the water that isn't water for it sees all and knows all. Go on a journey with Gigot Bengal as he searches for that one elusive treasure that all people seek. It is that one thing that has eluded him all of his life and it is the one treasure that once you dive into it, it will never let you go.
9) Adonais
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Adonais begins as he stands on the Iberian Peninsula and looks out towards the coast of North Africa, fighting for the strength to go with his inner leadings and follow his destiny that lies beyond that coast. The story observes the young Friar as he makes his journey from the Peninsula?s southern tip through the Alpujarra to a Gharnata that is feeling a new rise in sectarian tension and is hearing news of violent events across the border in Christian...
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The secret to a worry free life, how the life lived by faith is the best there is! If you are looking for scholarly work you have the wrong book, but if you are looking for life changing power from the word then this is the book for you. Written by a man of weakness man strong by the Shepherd himself.
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First there was a seed.
A tiny seed.
But it was a seed with possibility...
Best-selling children's author and illustrator duo Katie Warner and Meg Whalen (I Went to Mass, This is the Church, Fr. Ben Gets Ready for Mass) bring to life for young readers Christ's famous parable of the mustard seed. Through charming illustrations and a beautiful, scriptural storyline, The Tiny Seed reveals the deep truth of our God-given uniqueness, and the incredible...
12) Timelines
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Going where no sci-fi adventure has gone before, The DTRIS File: Timelines is a good-versus-evil allegory of galactic proportions.
The story opens as David Mark is resurrecting his life from the depths of disillusionment with humanity's moral decay. After meeting a mysterious man named Lewis Chester, he gets a thought-recording device implanted in his brain, the first step in the process of leaving planet Earth-and then the global rains begin.
It's...
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Jack Brantley, a CIA assassin living in Cold War Europe during the late 1970s, is ordered to terminate a colleague who has been discovered trading secret government documents to the Russians in East Berlin. After following his intended target throughout much of West Berlin, Jack carries out his assignment with his usual efficiency and callousness. However, upon the completion of his latest hit Jack becomes quite disenchanted with what he is doing...
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You have a combat position in the battle of words between a master author and his rival. An inconceivable setting. A discovery. A betrayal. A war. A forfeit. A modification. An unimaginable battle. From ancient history to the Final Chapters In The Book of Told, K A Gunn blends lived experience with met history, tragedy with punning, technology and theology. Her story has too much life in it to be simple allegory, and reads as an extended meditation...
15) The Lions Share
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Revenge and extortion.In Southern California, Adolf, a man who looks like Hitler, vows, "Captain Baker, you will rue the day you testified."
Adolf and his men go by descriptive nicknames. Needles, his addict son, Einstein, the bomb expert, Lefty, Muscles, Doc, and Cookie, his chef.
Sunday evening a few hours after youth pastor, Daniel Baker, patches things up with his wife, Cindy, he is kidnapped. Monday evening, she is chloroformed, and their...
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An Epic Poem Combining Buddhism and Christianity. "Whatever others may think, it is my firm belief that Buddhism and Christianity, which we cannot doubt have influenced for good such vast masses the human family, both descended from heaven clothed in robes of celestial purity which have become sadly stained by their contact with the selfishness of a sinful world, except for which belief the following pages would never have been written, which are...
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Take these next thirty-one days to journal on each daily meditation. Write your feelings and emotions. You'll be surprised at what may be revealed to you. Use this as a time to grow and reflect on areas that can be improved upon.
We cannot exist without one another. Our diversities are what make us unique. We are a small piece in the Creator's puzzle.
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Imagine if you discovered a treasure chest in which were hidden ancient mysteries, revelations from heaven, secrets of the ages, the answers to man's most enduring, age-old questions, and the hidden keys that can transform your life to joy, success, and blessing...This is The Book of Mysteries.
Jonathan Cahn, who caused a national and international stir with the New York Times best-seller The Harbinger and then The Mystery of the Shemitah, now brings...
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The Good Ship Faith is about a good king, his royal fleet, and the power of faith demonstrated in one of his captains who dared to believe for the impossible. The king's royal fleet is composed of warriors of righteousness—they are passionately devoted to him and are zealously carrying out his missions of mercy, which involve warfare and the rescue of imprisoned souls held captive by the predatory pirates of darkness. Unsuspecting victims of these...
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When a homeless man interrupts the comfortable routine of First Church of Raymond, life will never be the same for the apathetic congregation. Convicted by the vagrant's words, Pastor Henry Maxwell along with parishioners like singer Rachel Winslow, heiress Virginia Page, and railroad superintendent Alex Powers are thrust into a journey of discovering what life is like beyond "Christianity as usual." But as they find themselves opposed by family strife,...
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