![]() Joshua Harris shares his story of giving up dating and discovering that God has something even better-a life of sincere love, true purity, and purposeful singleness. ![]() For every church enamored with I Kissed Dating Goodbye or any other. "Going out? "Been dumped? Waiting for a call that doesn't come? Have you tasted pain in dating, drifted through one romance or, possibly, "several" of them?"" Ever wondered, "Isn't there a better way? " "I Kissed Dating Goodbye "shows what it means to entrust your love life to God. Well, churches might have accidentally used books with false teachings because they. Honest and practical, it challenges cultural assumptions about relationships and provides solid, biblical alternatives to society's norm. Now, for the first time since its release, the national #1 bestseller has been expanded with new content and updated for new readers. (Joshua Harris) by Mojojo28 (Whitewolfbites) with 26548 reads. More than 800,000 copies later, "I Kissed Dating Goodbye," with its inspiring call to sincere love, real purity, and purposeful singleness, remains the benchmark for books on Christian dating. ![]() ![]() Joshua Harris's first book, written when he was only 21, turned the Christian singles scene upside down.and people are still talking. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lapinski about making your own place when the world doesn’t provide one for you, for readers of Alex Gino’s GEORGE (Melissa’s Story), and Benjamin Dean’s ME, MY DAD AND THE END OF THE RAINBOW. Get instant access to all your favorite books. A beautiful and uplifting new story from L.D. As the friends’ efforts to raise awareness eventually become a rooftop protest against the binary rules for the local schools, Jamie realises that if they don’t figure out a way forwards, they might be at risk of losing both their friends forever. And when Jamie realises no one has thought about where they are going to go, they decide to take matters into their own hands, and sort it all out once and for all. But when the trio find out that in Year Seven they will be separated into one school for boys and another for girls, their friendship suddenly seems at risk. Lapinski lives just outside Sherwood Forest with their family, a lot of books, and a cat called Hector. ![]() ![]() Jamie Rambeau is a happy 11-year-old non-binary kid who likes nothing better than hanging out with their two best friends Daisy and Ash. Lapinski is the best-selling author of JAMIE, Stepfather Christmas, and The Strangeworlds Travel Agency series, including Adventure in the Floating Mountains, which was a 2023 World Book Day title. For fans of Me, My Dad and The End of The Rainbow. Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency, about how to make your own place when the world doesn’t think you fit anywhere. A beautiful and uplifting story from L.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found that my attention, all through supper, travelled back to him, because of that – because he was an old man, quiet, someone I might easily have overlooked. There was an old man eating on his own, two tables over in the dining room of my hotel. ![]() Upset that she didn’t try to listen and disturbed that she can’t even really remember his face, Kate tries to discover what Deacon might have wanted to tell her: Every Secret Thing, however, is a book somewhere between crime fiction, romance and thriller that focusses on more modern history.Ī nondescript elderly man, Andrew Deacon, dies in a hit-and-run before Kate Murray’s eyes, right after telling her he has evidence of an old murder that he’d like to share with a journalist. The award-winning author of Mariana is best-known for time-slip romances moving between the present and the distant past. ![]() Susanna Kearsley explores the impact of wartime secrets in Every Secret Thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of the patients who experienced treatment-emergent peripheral neuropathy, 88% experienced either resolution (73%) or improvement (14%) in symptoms. Of the 13 patients, 4 received consolidative hematopoietic allogeneic stem cell transplant, and 9 (9% of all enrolled patients) remain in sustained CR without receiving any further anticancer therapy after treatment with brentuximab vedotin. The median OS and PFS were not reached in CR patients, with 13 patients (38% of all CR patients) remaining in follow-up and in remission at study closure. Patients who achieved a complete response (CR) to brentuximab vedotin (N = 34) had estimated OS and PFS rates of 64% (95% CI: 48-80%) and 52% (95% CI: 34-69%), respectively. ![]() At 5 years, the overall patient population (N = 102) had an estimated overall survival (OS) rate of 41% (95% confidence interval : 31-51) and progression-free survival (PFS) rate of 22% (95% CI: 13-31). Presented here are the 5-year end-of-study results from the pivotal phase 2 trial of brentuximab vedotin in patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) after failed hematopoietic autologous stem cell transplantation. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the toast, Valek tells her that the drink actually has poison in it. Guards release Yelena from her chains, and she enters a room with Valek, who gives her a drink to toast to her new job. She chooses to stay alive, saying that only a fool would choose death. However, when she arrives in the execution room, a man named Valek tells her she has a choice between her execution and tasting the Commander’s food before he eats it to ensure it isn’t poisoned. Knowing she cannot escape her fate, Yelena confesses openly to the murder as she is being led to her death. In the province of Ixia, the punishment for murder is death, regardless of the circumstances. She is in jail for the murder of a man named Reyad, who raped and abused her for years. The story begins with Yelena, a 22-year-old prisoner, being led to her execution. ![]() Snyder does not use any elaborate prose in her storytelling, but she makes up for it with “many twists and turns to keep the reader guessing about what’s in store on the next page,” according to USA Today. The story follows protagonist Yelena, a former prisoner who avoids the death penalty by becoming the Commander’s food taster in the province of Ixia. Snyder and the first book in the The Chronicles of Ixia series. Poison Study is a 2005 fantasy novel by Maria V. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seasons one and two of the HBO adaption of A Game of Thrones aired world-wide to critical acclaim. Three great story lines weave through the books, charting the civil war for control of the Seven Kingdoms the defence of the towering Wall of ice in the uttermost north against the unearthly threat of the Others and across the Narrow Sea the rise to power of Daenerys Targaryen and the last live dragons in the world. Martins A Song of Ice and Fire series is given the royal treatment with these custom-printed jackets modeled after intricate antique leather and. Tolkien, populated by a huge cast of fascinating, complex characters, and boasting a history that stretches back twelve thousand years. Labelled by Time magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world, Martin has conjured a world as complex and vibrant as that of J.R.R. Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire series has set the benchmark for contemporary epic fantasy. HBO's hit series A Game of Thrones is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A Song Of Ice And Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, this examination of a recent example of American children’s literature provides an insight into the stories American society is telling its children about itself stories that children will use to help navigate, interpret and define their world. This thesis focuses on five such characteristics: the association of ancient Greek characters with American cultural icons the juxtaposition of ancient Greek and contemporary American treatments of sex and alcohol, particularly in relation to children the engagement with emerging social norms around father-less households, including a re-gendering of the evil stepparent stereotype the use of female stereotypes to support the male hero and, finally, a depiction of financial transactions that engage with wider economic values occurring in America at the time of writing. ![]() This thesis contends that (and demonstrates how) Rick Riordan’s children’s novel The Lightning Thief (2005) provides an illustration of some of the characteristics of present-day American society and identity, aspects of which are so recent that they are yet to be widely portrayed in children’s literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Neither of them knew their fathers, and Mauro’s mother abandoned him before he was in his teens, leaving him to grow up on the streets. The book alternates between her journey back to Bogotá - without money or a phone, sought by police, she relies on the kindness of strangers and mostly finds it - and the story of Mauro and Elena. She hasn’t seen them, except on phone screens, since she was a baby, and she’s determined to rejoin them - even though it means leaving Mauro behind in Bogotá. It’s not a long sentence, but Talia’s need to get out is urgent because she has a plane ticket to the U.S., where she was born and where her mother, Elena, and siblings Karina and Nando live. Her sentence to six months in reform school is darkly comic in a country as tortured by violence as Colombia, as her father, Mauro, points out: “a nation of amnesiacs where narcotrafficantes become senators and senators become narcotrafficantes, killers become presidents and presidents become killers.” ![]() The act is completely out of character for a girl who has spent much of her life nursing her dying, beloved grandmother. The book opens with her flight from that reform school, where she has been sent because she responded to a pointless act of cruelty with a violent act of her own. Infinite Country tells the story of Talia and her family, in Colombia and in the U.S. ![]() ![]() A gifted quiltmaker who makes outstanding quilts never sells her wares, but gives them away to the poor. Ages 4-8.Ī sentimental tale overwhelmed by busy illustrations and rampant pedantry. Each section of text appears on a plain cream “block” with stitching around the edges, and the endpapers sport an array of labeled quilt patterns. De Marcken pays homage at every turn to the quiltmaker’s craft. The artwork achieves a dizzying, quilted look with lush full-page illustrations in cotton-candy colors sharing a spread with saucy vignettes “the king could not sleep” for instance, inspires a droll four-panel peek at the restless fellow tossing and turning in bed. Brumbeau’s overlong tale treads a well-worn trail here, hampered by bursts of overwrought prose (“the king’s great sunny laugh made green apples fall and flowers turn his way”). ![]() Finally he agrees to her demand, growing progressively happier with each thing that he gives away. ![]() The irate monarch twice attempts to punish her but both times she foils him. ![]() ![]() Rich but dissatisfied, a king demands a quilt from a gifted quiltmaker, but she refuses unless he gives away all his material possessions. As intricately worked as a patchwork quilt, de Marcken’s (Born to Pull) fanciful watercolors are the highlight of this somewhat pedestrian fable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2012 Kier-La Janisse published House of Psychotic Women, billed as “an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films.” It soon became one of the most “vital” ( Tim Lucas, Video Watchdog ) and “astonishing” ( Daily Grindhouse ) genre tomes of all time, with beloved actress and singer Molly Ringwald saying she “devoured this compelling, surprising, and moving book.” To mark the book’s 10 th anniversary, award-winning writer/programmer/filmmaker Janisse (WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED) now presents four of the strongest and strangest explorations of onscreen delirium and hysteria, all on American Blu-ray for the first time : Elizabeth Taylor stars in 1974’s IDENTIKIT (aka THE DRIVER’S SEAT) as a hostile woman who travels to Rome to find the most dangerous liaison of all. ![]() ![]() Kier-La Janisse is a legend in the genre community.” -Screen Anarchy “GROUNDBREAKING…House of Psychotic Women is one of the most influential pieces of film analysis of the 21st century. Curated and produced by acclaimed author and WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR director Kier-La Janisse as a tie-in with the new, expanded edition of her brilliant book! Orders can be placed at now! On August 30th, Severin Films is lifting the curtain on another heartstopping box set – House of Psychotic Women: Rarities Collection. ![]() |