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417 pages : map ; 22 cm
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"Sixteen-year-old Agnes must escape a cult and a Prophet as she attempts to save the world from a pandemic."--
Agnes loves her home of Red Creek, its dusty roads, and its God. She cares for her younger siblings and follows the town's strict laws. When Agnes meets Danny, an Outsider boy, she begins to question what is and isn't a sin. Her younger brother, Ezekiel, will die without the insulin she barters for once a month, even though medicine is considered...
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142 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
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"Clay Loudermilk stumbles into a screening of a bizarre snuff film that wraps him up in a mystery surrounding a series of cult-inspired killings, dubbed "The Harum Scarum Murders." The subsequent path Loudermilk's life takes is both a terrifying journey into madness and jaw-dropping tour-de-force of visual imagination fraught with psychosexual and conspiratorial tension. Black & white illustrations throughout." -- Amazon.
224) Devil red
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205 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Hap Collins is an East Texas smart mouth with a weakness for Southern women and Leonard Pines is a gay, black veteran in search of lost love. When their friend Marvin asks them to look into a cold-case double murder, they're more than happy to play private investigators: they like trouble, and they especially like getting paid to find it. It turns out that both of the victims were set to inherit serious money, and one of them ran with a vampire cult....
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How do children who are raised in religious cults cope with the challenges and complexities of life as adults? The unassuming nature of Peter Robertson's writing provides a poignant glimpse into the tremendous side effects growing up in a cult in a country town has had on his emotional health and wellbeing.
Peter writes clearly and gently, with a focus on the details. The subtlety of Peter's writing in The Red Coat creates a beautiful insight into...
226) La Pentecte
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EditorialLes Pères, qui ont mis en place les fêtes, en ont éga¬lement expliqué le sens, comme nous l'avons déjà vu pour Pâques (CPE n° 93), pour Noël (CPE n° 115), pour l'Épiphanie (CPE n° 80), pour la Transfiguration (CPE n° 135). Nous allons voir dans ce numéro comment ils ont envisagé la Pentecte. Réinterprétant la fête juive de Chavouot qui commé¬morait le don de la Torah à Moïse, cinquante jours après la Pâque, la fête...
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Christianity, Cults and Religions helps Christians know what they believe and why. It helps clarify the differences between various religions, cults, and religious movements and makes a great study guide for small groups, personal study, or Sunday school classes. A well-researched overview from a Christian viewpoint, it contains basic charts that compare world religions, cults and sects. Each world religion, sect, and/or cult is condensed to 100 words...
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Kent Philpott, former charismatic/Pentecostal pastor, presents a compelling evaluation of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). Those aligned with the NAR hold that God is doing a "new thing" in these last days just prior to the Kingdom of God being established in the world. This viewpoint was earlier, known as post-millennialism and more recently as dominionism.
The NAR is not an organization but a relational alignment of churches and groups that...
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Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International™ is Charlene Edge's riveting memoir about the power of words to seduce, betray, and, in her case, eventually save. After a personal tragedy left her bereft, teenaged Charlene rejected faith and family when recruiters drew her into The Way International, a sect led by the charismatic Victor Paul Wierwille. The Way became one of the largest cults in America. Charlene...
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Recueil de témoignages de personnes qui ont séjourné en Palestine dans le cadre du Programme d'accompagnement œcuménique en Palestine et Israël (EAPPI), créé suite à la deuxième Intifada (2000). Ces «accompagnateurs œcuméniques» sont des personnes âgées de 25 à 70 ans, de toutes nationalités et de tous horizons. Depuis 2002, près de 1600 volontaires de 25 nationalités ont participé à ce programme. Leur mission est d'observer...
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En este libro Michaelle Ascencio desmenuza y desmitifica temas diversos sobre lo religioso en el Caribe. Y lo hace escoltada por Carlos Marx y Sigmund Freud, personajes incrédulos a quienes los espíritus nunca revelaron sus quehaceres. La autora analiza tres religiones de resistencia –la santería, el vodú y el candomblé– originalmente afroamericanas, pero hoy practicadas en el resto de América, donde se invoca a diosas como Yemayá, Oyá,...
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Do you want to share the gospel with Jehovah's Witnesses but don't know what to say? Have you tried to talk with them only to end up frustrated and going around in circles? The key to effective communication with Jehovah's Witnesses is getting them out of their prepared presentations by approaching Bible discussion in ways they won't expect. In this way, you can get them off autopilot and help them focus on what the Bible is really saying.
This book...
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Nous abordons ici les questions de l'islamisme et du terrorisme en examinant les opinions et les actions de tous ceux — individus, médias, associations, qui se sont engagés à des degrés divers aux ctés du Hamas et du Hezbollah en France. Le premier chapitre est intitulé « Société, multiculturalisme, islam, islamisation ». Nous y examinons des questions qui font l'actualité: l'identité nationale, l'immigration, les quartiers sensibles,...
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Les Pères de l'Église ont mis en place la célébration de la fête de Pâques, le centre de l'année liturgique, et ils ont, en même temps, expliqué que le mystère du salut s'y réalise. Aussi avons-nous choisi, dans ce numéro, de ne pas séparer ces deux composantes, ce qui donne une nouvelle perspective sur le salut. Nous avons la chance d'avoir deux auteurs qui ont longuement travaillé la question et qui nous aident à la pénétrer. En...
235) Crisis of Conscience: The Story of the Struggle Between Loyalty to God and Loyalty to One's Religion
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Crisis of Conscience presents the story of a struggle to prevent the erosion of a God-given freedom of conscience and the ensuing dilemma of choosing between loyalty to God and loyalty to one's religion.
Former member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, Raymond Franz delivers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Watch Tower Society. In response to extraordinary events, Franz tells a unique account of the decision-making sessions...
236) The white forest
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303 pages ; 25 cm
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Young Jane Silverlake lives with her father in a crumbling family estate on the edge of Hampstead Heath. Jane has a secret -- an unexplainable gift that allows her to see the souls of man-made objects, and this talent isolates her from the outside world. Her greatest joy is wandering the wild heath with her neighbors, Madeline and Nathan. But as the friends come of age, their idyll is shattered by the feelings both girls develop for Nathan, and by...
237) Man crazy: a novel
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Follows a young woman from her early life on the run with her mother to her involvement with a cult and her struggle to free herself of its influence over her.
238) The line between
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356 pages ; 24 cm
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"In this frighteningly believable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee, an extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it's the end she'd always been told was coming"--
239) Las indignas
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185 pages ; 25 cm
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"Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva. El mundo como lo conocemos ha desaparecido después del gran apagón y de varias crisis climáticas. Apenas hay animales ni naturaleza y pocas personas han sobrevivido. Varias mujeres llegaron a una suerte de convento buscando refugio y han sido captadas por una secta religiosa. Una de ellas cuenta esta historia, escrita a escondidas noche tras noche para que alguien sepa todo...
240) The dead run
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297 pages ; 24 cm
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"[A]n edgy novel set in the netherworld of the Mexican-American border. On both sides of the border, girls are going missing and bodies are beginning to surface. It's a deadly epidemic of crime that plunges a small-town police chief into a monster of an investigation he's not equipped to handle. An ancient evil has returned, and now everyone-- the innocent and the guilty-- must face their deepest terrors" -- from publisher's web site.
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