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If influencers have power over us, who are you allowing to influence you?
In an online world obsessed with follows and likes, it's important to consider what you're really searching for. When you follow someone, it's typically because you want to be like them or live like they do-but who have you placed as your role models?
In Who Are You Following? bestselling author and social media personality Sadie Robertson Huff dives deep into exploring who...
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Powered by pitch-perfect dialogue, lovable characters, and surprising optimism, Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? is a modern-day take on Graham Greene's classic Travels with My Aunt, a novel about grabbing life, and holding on--wherever it may take you.--
Calvin Bledsoe's mother, a theologian and bestselling author, dies in a fiery explosion. Forty-nine-year-old Calvin's uninspired life is upended... and then a stranger shows up at the funeral, claiming...
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Tres años después de lo sucedido, Kathy Monteverde, incapaz de olvidar, se mata a trabajar para ahuyentar los recuerdos, pero en las noches las pesadillas continúan despertándola encharcada en sudor. Asumiendo que nunca volverá a ser feliz, se conforma con que sus amargos días sean tranquilos, sin sobresaltos…; hasta que en lo que empieza siendo una inofensiva fiesta de cumpleaños, todo parece confabularse para traer de nuevo a su vida a...
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"This world is suffering from gravity.What we need is a little levity. A Course in Miracles says that this world and every aspect of it got started when the Son of God remembered not to laugh.What we failed to laugh at is the joke which is ourselves.Now, however, you can have a true experience of metaphysical mirth --you might even, yourself, achieve -- "full realization." Experience The Healing Power of Humor with lecturer and stand-up comedian Jon...
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Working for the biggest stars in the world-Jennifer Lopez, P. Diddy, Alicia Keys, and Jessica Simpson, officially as a publicist but in reality, as a confidante-Rob Shuter has seen it all. In fifteen years as a celebrity publicist, Rob has been privileged to have a front-row seat to the most successful people in the world. Before Jessica Simpson told then-husband Nick Lachey that they were getting divorced, she called Rob. Jon Bon Jovi flew Rob to...
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Investigate the Infinite beyond Death
In the search for truth, there is only one question that needs to be answered: Who am I? This inquiry into the self is the core of advaita vedanta (radical nondualism) a timeless teaching for breaking free of mental bonds and reclaiming your true identity: the Infinite that is beyond death.
On Who Are You? American-born spiritual teacher Gangaji spells out the bedrock principles of self-inquiry a cluster of...
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Jazmine Crawford doesn't make decisions. She doesn't make choices. She doesn't make friends. Jazmine only wants one thing: to be invisible. It's a lot easier to take out her hearing aid and drift along pretending that nothing's wrong than it is to admit that she's heartbroken.
Being in the school drama production is the first thing that's made thirteen year old Jazmine feel alive and happy in years. But to keep her part, and her new friends, she'll...
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Make the Right Choices Today and Take Control of Your Future When times are good it is easy to go along for the ride. When the going gets tough-the economy tank, jobs disappear, families are disrupted-it's more vital than ever to reassess the real meaning of success, and how you can achieve it on your own terms, in your own time. Real and lasting success doesn't happen merely by chance. It is not subject to the whims of the economy or the dictates...
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Who are you following? In Sadie Robertson Huff's newest book and accompanying guided journal, Sadie reminds us that God calls us to follow Him, not those around us, to feel known and loved.
Who Are You Following? Guided Journal, released alongside Who Are You Following?, includes, questions, prompts, prayers, and Scripture to help you identify who is influencing your daily thoughts and actions and how to align them with God's will for your life.
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A dramatic and terrifying memoir of a 'catfish' scenario - when a woman meets a man online but nothing is what it seems. 25-year-old Megan Henley put her five-year-old daughter to bed one evening and switched on her laptop. A Facebook 'friend request' seemed to be genuine. There were a few common friends and very similar interests, so Megan accepted. With that one simple act, she changed her life forever. In her words: 'looking back on it, it was...
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Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of "I Feel Bad About My Neck," taking a cold, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn't (yet) forgotten. A humorous collection of personal essays discusses the author's career in journalism, divorce, a long-anticipated inheritance with unanticipated...
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"In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with history ... Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother's...
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"Create a spiritual connection to your gender and incorporate it into your personal practice. Ariana Serpentine introduces you to trans and nonbinary figures from Pagan pantheons and you'll learn how to manifest your desires with sigil magic and identify gender-affirming names, pronouns, clothes, and accessories with the Smile Test"--
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"A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an 18th-century warship 5,000 miles to Hollywood In the late 1990s, Patrick O'Brian's multimillion-copy-selling historical novel series--the Aubrey-Maturin series, which was set during the Napoleonic Wars--seemed destined for film. With Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin, the production only needed a ship that could stand in for Lucky Jack's HMS...
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Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam is an inspiring guide that will lead you towards the hidden meaning of the Qur'an through passion and joy. Written with care and precision, Helwa's metaphoric insights invite you on her earnest search for truth and understanding. By accessing the inner workings of Islamic tradition, your struggles in faith will be met with a deeper connection to Allah rooted in compassion.
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Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know. Thirteen chapters evoke the joy and discovery of reading a menu dotted with the sharp-eyed annotations of a linguist. Jurafsky points out the subtle meanings hidden in filler words like "rich" and "crispy," zeroes in on the metaphors and storytelling tropes we rely on in restaurant reviews, and charts a microuniverse of marketing...
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