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Many men have the skills to lead a church, but only some are called. Dave Harvey helps men considering pastoral ministry to see God's active role in the process of discerning their calling.
God's Word offers a clear framework for evaluating one's call, especially within the context of community. Harvey offers six diagnostic questions to help prospective pastors process their calling, and what they should be doing now if they aren't sure. Illustrated...
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Even as she opens the letter, Aurelia knows it is already too late. Still, she has no choice but to answer the summons, though she fears she already knows what she will find. High in a cold and crumbling castle, a bitter man discovers the secret substance of life. A hideous creature opens its eyes. A mechanical golem finds his heart. This pair of abominations of science know they were destined for each other, but they continue to live only at their...
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For the first time, the Convergence trilogy is available in a single volume!Get this exciting adventure, complete with bonus scenes. Includes:The Summoned Mage: Sesskia, thief and secret mage, is transported to another world where her magic may be all that keeps her old world and her new world from mutual obliteration.The Wandering Mage: Separated from her friends, Sesskia sets out on a journey that will take her across the new, combined world and...
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I'm Becs, and I'm a Summoner.
I can call Powers-fae, demons and the like-to the mortal plane. Does this always go the way I want?
No. No, it does not. It's caused a lot of complications. Just ask anyone who knows me.
Fortunately, I've got a host of friends, a gorgeous boyfriend, a magic shop, and an over-eager magic wand with an itch for dark witches. What I don't have is my dearest friend, Pinky, because the six-foot-tall fairy returned to the...
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Talli is a Summoner: a nearly extinct people, hunted by those who fear their mysterious powers. As a baby, she was adopted by Lord Borin, and all was well for many years... But Talli has been sent on the run by the forces of Lord Ulric, who wants to exterminate the Summoners. With Ulric's forces led by the ruthless Captain Nina hot on her heels, Talli and her loyal protector Alan find themselves with a motley crew of companions and allies that includes...
6) Summoned
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Devid Khandelwal desperately wants to experience the supernatural. After years of studying everything from crystals to tarot to spellcasting, nothing has happened that would tell him the Shadow Realm is real. And that kills Dev. As a last-ditch resort, he purchases a summoning board, an occult tool that will grant him his ultimate desires. Cameron Habersham is Dev's best friend. Cam loves Dev like a brother and will do anything for him, as long as...
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StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The 12th Century and the obsession of Henry II of England to find a successor, after the death of the heir to the throne, causes him, one Christmas, to summon his three remaining sons. Also summoned is his wife, the formidable Eleonor of Aquitaine, who he has kept imprisoned for the last 10 years. The fiery relationship between Henry II and Queen Eleonor is powerfully portrayed; their passions turn from tenderness to hurry as they scheme and cajole,...
9) Lightlark
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Lightlark volume 1
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2023.
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Español
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Isla Crown es la joven soberana de Wilding, un reino de mujeres guerreras que no conocen el amor y que confían en ella para ganar el Centenario. Para sobrevivir, Isla está preparada para mentir y traicionar. Aunque no cuenta con algunos lazos que la unirán a sus rivales, ni tampoco con enamorarse de quien puede ser su peor enemigo.
"Every 100 years, the island of Lightlark appears to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six...
10) Lion of the sky
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2024]
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Twelve-year-old Raj is happiest flying kites with his best friend, Iqbal. As their kites soar, Raj feels free, like his beloved India soon will be, and he can't wait to celebrate their independence. But when a British lawyer draws a line across a map, splitting India in two, Raj is thrust into a fractured world. With Partition declared, Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim families are torn apart--and Raj's Hindu and Iqbal's Muslim families are among them. Forced...
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Explores how the concept of settler colonialism provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, displacing the Palestinian Arab population and marginalizing its cultural presence. Halper argues that the only way out of a colonial situation is decolonization: the dismantling of Zionist structures of domination and control and their replacement by a single democratic state, in which Palestinians...
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Five broken blades volume 1
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"The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the God King Joon. He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined & or sold. And now each of the five blades will come for him. Each has tasted bitterness, from the hired hitman seeking atonement, a lovely assassin who seeks...
13) Reboot
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Pantheon Books
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[2024]
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English
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"A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture, following a washed-up actor on his quest to revive the cult TV drama that catapulted him to teenage fame David Crader is a has-been. A former child actor from the hit 90s teen drama Rev Beach, he now rotates between his new roles as deadbeat dad, part-time alcoholic, and occasional videogame voice actor. But when David is summoned to Los Angeles by...
14) To seize a queen
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 23
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"1594. Ursula Stannard is attending on her half-sister, Queen Elizabeth, when she receives an urgent summons from Sir Robert Cecil. Cornishman Master Roskilly was fished out of the sea by Sir Francis Godolphin, and has a shocking tale of being snatched by pirates and put on a slave vessel to Constantinople before his audacious escape. And he's not the only one . . . Folk in Cornwall are mysteriously disappearing. But why are only exceptional or unusual...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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After her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Opal moves to her uncle's farm where she befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats, and summons the courage to protect them from a mining company as she attempts to find them a new home.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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Eyes in focus? Wearing your lucky shirt? Let the games begin! In a second book of speed-search adventures, Waldo summons fans to go head-to-head with each other or to race solo against the clock. Just open the book perfectly flat, with your opponent sitting opposite--or your self-timer at the ready--and zero in on one side of an action-filled spread. Find Waldo among zany games, super sports, and comical contests, from a heated soccer match to a high-flying...
18) Call forth a fox
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Page Street YA
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"The western wood is where Ro's father built their garden, taught her to forage, and told her tales of the faeries who live there how to summon them, how to protect herself, and warnings of what they are capable of. Now, her father is gone, the garden has withered, and their family is struggling. Her mother and sister want to move into town, but Ro doesn't want to give up the memories of her father and his stories or the charming village girl who...
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Grand Central
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In a village on Naxos lies a gorgeous guest house and taverna that never opened. Cressida's husband died suddenly three years ago - the taverna was their dream - but she's been too lost in grief to keep that dream alive. Marjory "Jory" St. James, a young traveler who always feels more at home on the move, arrives on Naxos in the middle of the night as if summoned by the island. She quite unexpectedly becomes Cressida's very first guest. Jory quickly...
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