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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she's learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation. Not many White House Press Secretaries capture the nation's interest the way Jen Psaki did. Refreshingly candid and clear, Psaki quickly became known for her ability to break through the noise and successfully deliver...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Over the past few decades, China has climbed the ranks of the global powers with staggering speed. Its vast economy and growing regional aggression make it a threat to supersede the United States as the world's dominant power. But this outcome is far from inevitable. Like neighboring Russia-which harbors global ambitions of its own-right now China is at a turning point. Whereas international sanctions and a turn away from fossil fuels are steadily...
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English
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"Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, inspiring true stories as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson. To be a bookseller or librarian... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary. A person who creates 'book joy' by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, 'You've got to read this. You're going...
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
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"A quick and easy way to understand neurodiversity as written by neurodivergent people and our families. Neurodiversity For Dummies is your essential guide in understanding neurodivergent conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and more. This quick and easy guide is perfect for anyone needing to know more about neurodiversity. And that's all of us--because recent estimates say that 15-20% of the world's population have some form of neurodivergence....
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Ever wondered why we knock on wood, cross our fingers, or say "white rabbits" on the first day of the month? Dive in and learn about fascinating traditions and superstitions from all over the world! The Good Luck Book explores the surprising -- and sometimes scary -- history of the world's most practiced traditions and superstitions (and plenty more that you probably won't have heard of!). Discover superstitions old and new from China to Chile, the...
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"I don't know who you are or why you've come here,' I say, jabbing my finger at her, shaking as much as my voice. 'But you are not my daughter. You are not Abigail.' Fourteen years ago, our family holiday ended in tragedy when my darling four-year-old girl was snatched from us on the beach. Not a day goes by when I don't picture her wide brown eyes, and the freckles dusting her cheeks. I only looked away for a second, and I have never forgiven myself....
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Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"We're trying to "get it together" in areas we have no control over. We keep trying, but we'll never move the needle to a better future because it has nothing to do with us or anything we can do. You don't always have to give in to what the world, your family, or your own self declares is the way things are "supposed" to be. God desires goodness and joy for us. God, Jesus, and the Spirit went to great lengths to offer you and me the best good news...
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Zondervan Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"In The Spirit of Our Politics, Michael Wear, president and CEO of the Center for Christianity and Public Life, draws on the writings of Dallas Willard to offer us hope and direction for making a difference in public life while breaking free of the toxic, partisan mode of political engagement ravaging our country, churches, and families today"--
"For those discouraged and exhausted by the bitterness and rage in our politics, Michael Wear offers a...
Series
Reference shelf volume 96, no. 2
Publisher
H.W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Explores the current era in AI technology and the debate about how this emerging technology is changing, and potentially threatening, many familiar parts of human life.
11) Selected essays
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
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John Berger's diverse achievements as a writer are widely recognized. In addition to plays, novels, short stories, and poetry, he has always written essays, expressing more than forty years of tireless intellectual inquiry and fierce political engagement. Polemical, meditative, radical, and always original ("The moment at which a piece of music begins to provide a clue to the nature of all art"), Berger's essays are also extremely wide-ranging. Photographers,...