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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2017]
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English
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Though sixteen-year-old Gardner Elliot has lived his whole life with a team of scientists on Mars, he has always longed to see Earth, to find the father he has never known, and to meet Tulsa, a beautiful street-smart girl he has become friends with online. But when his chance finally comes, doctors discover his heart can't withstand the Earth's atmosphere. Eager to find his father, Gardner and Tulsa escape on a cross-country race against time to unravel...
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"This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay."—Washington Post Book World
"Bracingly honest."—New York Times Book Review
The author of Bombay Time, If Today Be Sweet, and The Weight of Heaven, Thrity Umrigar is as adept and compelling in The Space Between Us—vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India...
"Bracingly honest."—New York Times Book Review
The author of Bombay Time, If Today Be Sweet, and The Weight of Heaven, Thrity Umrigar is as adept and compelling in The Space Between Us—vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India...
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Set in modern-day India, this evocative novel follows upper-middle-class Parsi housewife Sera Dubash and 65-year-old illiterate household worker Bhima as they make their way through life. Though separated by their stations in life, the two women share bonds of womanhood that prove far stronger than the divisions of class or culture.
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An anthology of Christian Romance and life drama...some stories to warm the heart, some to make you think...Christine is engaged to be married to a doctor. She soon has second thoughts, however, when her high school boyfriend returns from the Gulf War and sees her in church. They talk and soon nostalgia as well as his charms get the best of her. Will she rekindle the love she had for her old boyfriend or will she follow through with a marriage to...
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When three people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake completely recovered, they're convinced their ordeal is connected to the alien creature discovered on a nearby beach... an adrenaline-soaked, deeply humane, life-affirming first-contact novel from one of Scotland's most revered authors...
Lennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is eight months pregnant and fleeing her abusive husband. Heather is...
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Willie's life is altered by war; his life is falling into a spiral. He can't walk and is bound by a wheelchair rendering him helpless. On top of that his sexual life has taken a dive. Along with being unable to walk he can't get an erection. And the once happy life he and his wife had built together starts falling apart. With this last nail, his wife of several years can no longer take it. Leaving Willie to fend for himself all alone in a house that...
12) The Space Between Us: How Jesus Teaches Us to Live Together When Politics and Religion Pull Us Apart
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Tension in our personal relationships are at an all-time high. Dialogue-when it happens at all-is heated. It isn't that we've lost hope in what faith and politics can accomplish in our world. It's that in our polarizing times, faith and politics seem to be leading more to rage than actual change. It's discouraging, disheartening, and disappointing. But, it doesn't have to stay that way. Civility is not a pipe dream. Nuance is not, unrecoverable. Peace...
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A universal narrative on the significance of distance with love; remember to hold on to what you believe in. Ideal for those "whose love knows no bounds," The Space Between Us is full of profound anecdotes and messages, illustrating the courage and heartache of enduring physical distance.
The Space Between Us explores the trials of love and what it's like to live a life separated by distance from someone you care about. Its content is thoughtfully...
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Simon Pulse
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2012.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Amelia feels like her life might be getting back on track after a bad break-up when her younger sister's pregnancy gets them both banished to Canada, where new relationships are forged, giving Amelia a new perspective.
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'There is a lot to like in this radically open book. I would recommend this book to anyone struggling in their relationship' - Dr Tara Porter
Therapists - and married couple - Matt and Sarah Davies help readers to understand why their relationship feels broken and give them the tools to repair it.
When we meet someone and fall in love, everything seems easy at first. But Matt and Sarah Davies,
relationship counsellors and husband and wife, know...
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Lynne McTaggart synthesizes scientific findings into a single theory: that all matter exists in a dynamic relationship of cooperation. In addition to offering a new scientific paradigm, McTaggart offers guidelines and many inspiring case studies of living in partnership with the universe. These include relating more cooperatively, forming a new model of community, and finding a purpose.
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'When we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives,' observes Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue, 'we have no rituals to protect, encourage, and guide us as we cross over into the unknown. For such crossings, we need to find new words.' On To Bless the Space Between Us, O'Donohue presents an adaptation of his thought-provoking book of the same title, providing comfort and insights to illuminate the passage of our life path.
Following seven...
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Almost 250 years ago, our Founders thought We the People were the solution. Today, it looks like we have become the problem. What happened, and what can We the People do about it?
Every day, the news delivers the same story: as a nation, we are so divided, we spend more time picking fights than solving our most urgent problems. It's exhausting and exasperating.
In Remaking the Space Between Us, Smith invites us to see what lies behind this story:...
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Can anyone really stay hidden from the world? A powerful novel of solitude, survival, and psychological suspense from the author of Unravelling Alice . . .
For three years, Ida has been living in the remote Welsh countryside to stay safe from a world ravaged by illness. The only person she has contact with is Cal, her fiancée, who brings supplies and news about their crumbling society before returning to his military work.
When she wakes...