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Life is a journey. Every journey has a beginning and an end. And every journey has a purpose.
God has a purpose for our life. Many people in this world live day by day without a purpose in their life other than to live and have pleasure. In other words, they live outside God's plan.
The author takes the readers on his life journey from birth to the time of writing this book. The journey straddles three continents and places. Each place represents...
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My life has been full of unbelievably strange events. Many are funny, and a few are sad. This book is a compilation of the experiences from before I came to Christ to later in my life, seeing God work in and around people and countries where I have served as a pastor, traveling speaker, and a missionary.
My hope with this book is to offer laughter, understanding, hope during sad and painful times, and faith in God. The everyday normal person desperately...
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Tears can imply many things. There are tears (a split or rip), tears of sorrow (weeping), and tares that refer to weeds. I have experienced all three in my life. Some have to be healed, some endured, and some eradicated. Only with God's help can any of these processes be accomplished. This is my true story of how God has saved my life. I pray it will inspire and encourage others. Nothing is impossible with God!
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Una extraordinaria y conmovedora historia real sobre el poder de las pequeñas cosas
"¿Podrías cuidar de ella un par de días?" Así comenzó la preciosa amistad entre Massimo Vacchetta, un veterinario, y Ninna, una pequeña eriza huérfana que solo pesaba 25 gramos. En apenas unos días, la vida de Massimo, un hombre insatisfecho y en busca de un propósito, cambió por completo. 25 gramos de felicidad es un emotivo relato que nos cuenta cómo...
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What exactly does a wildlife biologist for a state agency do? Contrary to many of his relative's perceptions, David Kocka is not a park ranger, a forest ranger, or even a game warden. Bear With Me, My Deer: Tails of a Virginia Wildlife Biologist is a glimpse into one man's adventures while working for an agency, which is responsible for managing the wildlife resources within its boundaries. The sometimes-humorous accounts have taken David to the top...
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A book like no other! Award-winning author Jennifer Browdy, PhD, creates a magical tapestry of inspiration and exploration, weaving her own story together with the inspiring voices and visions of more than 15 of the writer-activists she calls "worldwrights"- writers who write to right the world, including such beloved mentors as Joy Harjo, Audre Lorde, Jane Goodall. Terry Tempest Williams and many more.
Jennifer and the worldwrights invite you on...
67) Blue Steele
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Rebecca Anderson yelled, "Listen, buddy, don't try to get all chivalrous with me! Can't you just take no for an answer and leave me alone? I don't have time for dating. It takes all the time I have trying to make a living. And do I look so stupid that you think I would take a chance with a total stranger?" She turned back around to face him, but she realized he was gone, and she had no idea when he had left.
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When Manda Kalimian began her mission to help America's wild horses, through rewilding, to regain their rightful place as a native species of the open plains, little did she know the challenges ahead would redefine everything she understood about who she thought she was. Born to Rewild follows Manda as she joins the struggle to rescue wild horses from a program fraught with bureaucracy, controversy, and the potential to erase the legacy of these beautiful...
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It tells how one woman learned to dig deep and push the boundaries in order to discover what really matters in life.
Miriam is a young Dutch woman living in the heart of the mountains with her New Zealand husband. She lives simply in a tent or hut, and survives by hunting wild animals and foraging edible plants, relying on only minimal supplies. For the last six years she has lived this way, through all seasons, often cold, hungry and isolated in...
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In our age of overconsumption, Henry Thoreau's fiery criticisms of consumer culture and his poetic defense of simpler living have never been more relevant or necessary. But Thoreau is not an easy writer to read. His sentences are often very dense and his ideas are often challenging and provocatively expressed. For these reasons the casual reader can be easily put off. But his perspectives are too important to miss. This concise introduction provides...
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This is the true story of a profound interspecies friendship between man and dolphin, beautifully archived with rare photos. As a young dive instructor, Dean Bernal visits the quiet bays of the Turks and Caicos Islands and meets a wild bottlenose dolphin named JoJo. Fascinated by the beauty and playfulness of the intelligent animal, he is immediately mesmerized and they soon become close companions, diving, playing, and swimming in the crystalline...
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Get the Summary of Jonathan Meiburg's A Most Remarkable Creature in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Most Remarkable Creature" by Jonathan Meiburg is a comprehensive exploration of the caracaras, a group of raptors with unique social behaviors and intelligence. The book traces the evolutionary history and ecological significance of these birds, particularly the striated caracaras of the Falkland Islands, which...
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Rosanne S. McHenry worked as a California State Park Ranger at Folsom Lake and the Auburn State Recreation Area in the late 1980s, when the life of a patrol ranger could get extremely rough and tumble. From drug busts and drunken brawls to teen romance on display; from an attack goose to a pot-bellied pig on the loose, she regales her readers with madcap adventures.
Within the pages of this book is the madness and gladness of the profession. The...
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Richard A. Wilson is a remarkable man, grounded in courage and commitment, fighting for what he loves — the land, our water, and our forests. For most of his long life, he has lived near, played and worked in and sought solace from the deep woods in remote Northern California.
Richard's story, as transcribed in the early years of this century, records how he faced down and defeated powerful interests, including water guzzlers, intent upon developing...
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The unplanned journey is a book about a journey I never imagined. I often wonder why God allows certain things to happen in my life. I have often heard the term that God will not give you more than you can handle. If anyone had told me that I would spend almost two decades in prison, I would have thought they had, lost their mind. It was one thing to be, accused of such a horrific crime, but to be, charged and sen, away for it that was, another thing....
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Compared to the documentary film (Breaking Habits) released in theaters in 2019, this is a more personal and in-depth look at the life of Sister Kate, prior to forming the Sisterhood, Where the film-makers focused more on the central valley of California, The Accidental Nun is an autobiography written by Sister Kate in 2014, just before the founding of the Sisterhood and reveals the stories and experiences that led her to founding the new-age Order...
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Making the decision to write this book was no small undertaking. Not only would I be telling my story in the aftermath of a controversial firing, but I would also be telling it in the aftermath of one of the more controversial administrations in US history. Why do this, then? I decided to write Inside Trump's EPA for several reasons.
First, I wanted to be able to share a side of the EPA that the general public and even those who interface with the...
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Born 1970 in Georgia, Linda Tyler was, the fifth child of her mother's six children. I birthed three children of my own in 1986 having had my first child at age sixteen. Dropping out of high school at age fifteen. Later birthing two more children at age, nineteen and around twenty-three. Still struggling to find my purpose in life, taking to the streets at an early age only to realize, looking for love in all the wrong places would lead me down a...
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After years of civil war, the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, and occupation by Vietnam, Cambodia finds itself decimated and divided.
Benoît Duchâteau-Arminjon, a.k.a. Bénito, discovers this world when he visits a refugee camp on the country's border with Thailand and experiences a profound emotional shock. He decides to put his promising career as a financial controller on hold and spend a year setting up a welfare center for abandoned children.
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80) The Land Erotic
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When author Sue Westwind marries at midlife and moves to sixty acres of prairie woodland, she imagines that her life will now be fulfilled in ways she has always longed for. Yet the man she marries soon chafes at the demands of their rural life and tragically loses the passion for her that once had assured her their union would always be idyllic.
As her husband grows silent and distant both from her and the land they live on, she finds erotic fulfillment...
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