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  Extreme Teen Bible (New King James Version)

  No fears, no regrets, just a future with a promise

  by Thomas Nelson

  Nelson's Extreme Teen Bible, No Fears, No Regrets, Just a Future with a Promise offers real answers to life's tough questions. All of the innovative study helps are geared to the teen culture--guaranteed to address the issues young people deal with every day. Forty full-page profiles tell the stories of amazing, young people in Scripture who allowed God to work through them to make an impact on their world.
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  Illusions

  The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

  by Richard Bach

  In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda--former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar.... In ... (more)
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  The Yiddish Policemen's Union

  by Michael Chabon

  For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and... (more)
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  Dune Chronicles: Book 1

  Dune

  by Frank Herbert

  The all-time science fiction masterpiece...now in a special hardcover edition. "Unique...I know nothing comparable to it except Lord of the Rings ."--Arthur C. Clarke Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous... (more)
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  A.D. Chronicles: Book 6

  Sixth Covenant (A. D. Chronicles)

  by Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

  Who in Bethlehem could guess that their tiny, obscure village, populated by shepherds, would become the hinge upon which all history turns . . . and the focus of a terrifying rampage? Sixth Covenant is the conclusion of the three-book Nativity story within the A.D. Chronicles series. Sixth Covenant chronicles Mary, Yosef, and baby Yeshua in the first months of his life in Bethlehem. From the shepherd's visit... (more)
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  The Grace of God

  by Andy Stanley

  "Grace. It's what we crave most when our guilt is exposed. It's the very thing we are hesitant to extend when we are confronted with the guilt of others-especially when their guilt has robbed us of something we consider valuable. Therein is the struggle, the struggle for grace. It's this struggle that makes grace more story than doctrine. It's the struggle that reminds us that grace is bigger... (more)
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  The Instructions

  by Adam Levin

  Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and nine pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: lover, fighter, scholar, and potential messiah. Expelled from multiple Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and back talk, Gurion ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases of... (more)
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  Horrid Tales of Wister Town

  by Matthew Sawyer

  In Matthew Sawyer's creepy and grisly short story collection, entitled Horrid Tales of Wister Town, a demon emerges from the woods that border a rural subdivision outside of Wister Town. The manifestation of the demon brings monsters to a city already plagued with witches and mutant monsters. The activity of cultists in the small southern Wisconsin town have brought the scourge onto the denizens.
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  Gaunt Rainbow

  by Matthew Sawyer

  Pamela, a young woman nicknamed “Rainbow,” is cursed to drain life from living beings so that she remains in perfect health. As a girl, a self-proclaimed messiah, a pubescent boy, cured her blindness. Pamela's curse began after the miracle, but the boy then vanished. Pamela goes into the Shur desert alone to find the messiah. She hopes he will remove her murderous curse.
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  The Second Messiah

  by Glenn Meade

  In the desert near Jerusalem, an archaeologist is murdered after he uncovers stunning evidence in a Dead Sea scroll about the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The two-thousand-year-old parchment containing enigmatic references to not one but two messiahs is stolen before it can be fully translated.  In Rome, a charismatic American priest with long-hidden secrets is elected pope, setting off widespread panic... (more)
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  "Babylon Is Fallen!" Antichrist Is Rising!: 9/11 and the Biblical Fall of Babylon

  by Danny R. Watson

  Certain chapters of the Bible's Book of Revelation are entirely devoted to a Last Days prophetic event that Revelation calls "The Fall of Babylon." Incredibly, according to STRONG'S HEBREW AND CHALDEE DICTIONARY, SMITH'S BIBLE DICTIONARY, THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA, THOMAS NELSON'S BIBLE DICTIONARY, ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, and so on, the biblical term "Babylon" is merely the Greek (New... (more)
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  The Mist of God: Volume Three of the Magdala Trilogy

  by Peter Longley

  With vivid prose and compelling characters, The Mist of God offers a captivating glimpse into Biblical times. The fictitious destinies of Linus Flavian, Maria of Magdala, and their son, Marcus, play out in this dramatic first-century story that spans the extremities of the known world of that time, from Britannia to India. Maria has a very personal understanding of divinity that she learned from her lover, the... (more)
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  Psalmwriter Journey's End: The Chronicles of David Book VI

  by Michael Sandusky

  Michael Sandusky is CEO of an online periodical marketing and research corporation. He has written short stories and poetry for over forty-five years and authored a weekly column in a local newspaper. He enjoys public speaking, but especially about David and the help he can offer to those who are hurting. The author’s own personal experiences over the last seventeen years found their way into his journals. It was... (more)
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  The Whore and her Mother: 9/11, Babylon and the Return of the King

  by Raymond McCullough

  Could the writings of the ancient Hebrew prophets be relevant to events taking place in the world today? The Hebrew prophets - from Isaiah and Jeremiah, to the apostle John, spoke of a city and nation they referred to by the codename, 'Mega-Babylon'. Have these prophecies been fulfilled already? What about Daniel's 'writing on the wall'? Is Mega-Babylon the Roman Catholic Church?  A world super-church?  ... (more)
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  The Whore and Her Mother: 9/11, Babylon and the Return of the King

  by Raymond McCullough

  Could the writings of the ancient Hebrew prophets be relevant to events taking place in the world today?The Hebrew prophets – from Isaiah and Jeremiah, to the apostle John, spoke of a city and nation they referred to by the codename, 'Mega-Babylon'. Have these prophecies been fulfilled already? What about Daniel's 'writing on the wall?' 

Can we rely on the words of these ancient prophets?
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  All Things New: Understanding the Book of Revelation

  by Tim Snider

  All Things New is not just another book on Bible prophecy. We are the terminal generation. We are the generation of mankind that will see the fulfillment of its prophecies. The book of Revelation needs to be engaged, more now than in any era of human history. However, many recent books on the subject of Revelation take a much too scholarly approach to a book that was written to be understood by the common... (more)
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  Jeshua: A Lifelong Search for Enlightenment, Volume 2

  by MoonPony

  %Jeshua – A Lifelong Search for Enlightenment – Volume 2, continues the story of Jeshua the Messiah. Now having chosen twelve of his last pupils, he continues to teach and perform his miracles to everyone around to him. But his miracles cause stir among the Pharisees and Priests, both in Jerusalem and his home town. Things are set into motion without Jeshua’s conscious control as Religious Leaders and Lawman begin... (more)
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  The Rabbi's Heartbeat

  by Brennan Manning

  "Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion." You are God's beloved child. Brennan Manning brings us from a lukewarm, distant faith to being close enough to lean against the breast of Jesus--the Great Rabbi--and listen to His heartbeat. Adapted from Brennan's best-seller Abba's Child, this moving devotional is a daily reminder to soak in... (more)
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  The Promised Messiah

  The First Coming of Christ

  by Bruce R. McConkie

  All the prophets, from Adam in the beginning of earth's existence down to Joseph Smith and his successors in this, the last dispensation, have testified of Christ. His coming was announced many hundreds of years before Mary gave birth in Bethlehem, and all who were spiritually enlightened knew that the Christ who would come would bring the blessings of salvation and eternal life. The Promised Messiah: The First... (more)
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  Pazuzu-Manifestation (Volume 1)

  by Matthew Sawyer

  The Cortras brothers accidentally kill the nephew of the crime lord Judah Bathierre. They flee the city of Gomorrah in fear for their lives. The brothers believe they'll slip Bathierre's reach in the walled city called Capital. As the Cortras brothers cross the desert, they encounter a man that wanders the waste alone. The brothers think he is the heathen terrorist, Ilu Drystani, and hope to collect the reward... (more)