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Helps teens discover the goodness of the Bible's teaching on sexuality.
What does the Bible really say about identity and gender, dating and sex? Are its teachings out of date and repressive? Or are they the way to joy and contentment?
Long-time youth worker Jennifer Kvamme knows teens are grappling with these questions. In this book she helps readers cut through the cultural confusion and find answers to questions like:
• why does God care what...
4) Advanced English Dialogues, Stories, Vocabulary & More: A Self-Study Course for Higher-Level ESL/EFL
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Improve your English vocabulary with this book of dialogues, stories, phrases, expressions, idioms, and more. These lessons are designed for advanced English learners. Jackie Bolen has 20 years of experience teaching ESL/EFL to students in South Korea and Canada. With her help, you'll improve your English vocabulary in no time at all! Advanced English Dialogues, Stories, Vocabulary & More will help you:Have thousands of important English expressions...
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This collection of novelettes takes the reader from the not-to-distant future to a time when travel between worlds is a common occurrence. Each stop along mankind's journey outward to the stars is accompanied by a deeper look inward-from examining how extraterrestrial beings might use our own biology against us, to whether a human consciousness can survive in a virtual environment, to how wishes are really granted. Original and thought provoking,...
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"Mythology is the rich collection of stories called myths from cultures all over the world. They are stories about how the world was created and why certain things happen. Myths tell of gods, heroes, and events that a group believes, or at one time believed, to be real. Studying them is like following a map of the human imagination . . . In this book you will discover: Where myths come from - Myths from ancient Egyptian, Greek, Rome, Norse, Celtic...
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Reader Alert: This book could be offensive to some select readership. It also contains something for most everyone. It references many Christian Biblical scriptures and Godly language. It contains both fiction and nonfiction interesting family oriented short stories. Many of these are heart felt, some with humorous exchanges, others that tell directions to find an individual's faith and hope. It also contains some poems, some One Liners and much more....
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In THE UNLIKELY TWINS AND MORE STORIES, you'll meet a cast of most intriguing individuals, including: LUCKY - He had been lucky all of his life, at least so he thought…until he got hit with something so devastating that he simply could not grasp it. THE UNLIKELY TWINS - The fraternal twins had nothing in common… except for one disturbing and dangerous vice in which they were destructively in sync. THE DAMAGED PROFESSOR - He was a strange character...
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This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are six stories by Robert F. Young: "Jupiter Found", "The Blonde From Barsoom, "Boy Meets Dyevitza", "Boarding Party", "The Deep Space Rolls", and "Redemption".
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Excerpt from "Medium Boiled": "The big De Haviland bombing plane was a little more than eight thousand feet high, and "Shag" Moran, its pilot, had an excellent view of a considerable portion of south Texas. His big body was hunched deep into the front cockpit to avoid the terrific airblast which swept back from the propeller, and his black eyes alternated the maze of unfamiliar instruments before him and the unending desert of mesquite below. In long,...
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When it first aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone was nothing less than groundbreaking television. Freed from the censors' strict oversight due to the show's classification as science fiction, the 156 episodes explored classic, powerful, and moving human themes-love, hate, pride, jealousy, terror-in a unique style. The program sparked the imaginations of countless writers and filmmakers around the world.
With More Stories from the Twilight Zone, some...
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