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Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother's heartbreaking choice and a daughter's reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the author of A Single Swallow and Where Waters Meet. In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a mother who makes an agonizing decision that irrevocably changes her life and the lives of her children. In...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today-by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Armando Fuentes Aguirre "Catón", es el columnista más leído de México. Sus artículos "De política y cosas peores" y "Mirador" hacen reír y pensar cada día a cientos de miles de lectores. Sus reflexiones acerca del panorama nacional son a un tiempo amenas y profundas, y sus meditaciones en torno del mundo y de la vida poseen filosofía trascendente. Ahora conocemos otra faceta de "Catón", la del hombre que estudia la historia mexicana y nos...
Author
Publisher
IVP
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Bryan Loritts mines one of the Bible's least-known books for insights into how friendships can flourish even in the midst of sin and brokenness. With careful exposition and insight, he unpacks how the apostle Paul helped Philemon and Onesimus reconcile a most unlikely relationship with truth, repentance, and grace. With God's work and steadfast love, even the most painful relationships that have ruptured are not beyond the reach of forgiveness and...
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