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  Sweetly Smitten - All Along Love...

  Denise Hunter

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  All AlongWhen Reese Mackenzie—Smitten, Vermont’s finest planner—falls for her best friend Griffen, she hatches a scheme to capture his romantic attention. She asks him to help her win back her old-flame, thinking the time pretending to be a couple will help him see her in a new light. But it turns out Griffen can see through “his favorite girl.” Love BloomsNursery owner Clare Thomas is tired of being called predictable. So she throws caution to the wind and hires the scruffy , good-looking guy who rides in on a motorcycle. Is trusting her instincts the most foolish thing she’s ever done . . . or the smartest?Happily Ever AfterMolly may not be the Smitten Book Club's biggest reader, but her new friend Gage seems to read her like an open book. When Gage Turner offers to help Molly with her failing business, Molly wonders if his motives are pure. After all, his business could easily absorb her customer base. But Gage has admired Molly for years and has been hoping for a way to connect with her. Will his efforts prove fruitful or will Molly's pride get in the way of her own happily ever after?

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  Undoing Manifest Destiny -...

  L. Daniel Hawk

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  Reckoning with the Colonial Past to Bring Justice to the Present
  As White settlers spread across North America, they crafted and enacted an epic story of their God-given dominion—over the land, over Indigenous nations, and over the future. Their narrative constructed a myth of innocence that justified a massive program of violence and dispossession by suppressing a darker history. That history still reverberates today, from settler America's relations with the Indigenous nations of the United States to ways the land has been commodified as property. It's time for the whole truth to be told.
  In Undoing Manifest Destiny, L. Daniel Hawk exposes the belief systems and practices that settlers developed to justify the displacement, destruction, and cultural erasure of Indigenous peoples, beginning in the early American colonial period and extending to the present day. Writing as the descendant of White settlers and as a biblical scholar, he challenges settler Christians to uncover what the settler narrative denies and to work toward addressing historic injustices.
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  - combines settler colonial theory, historical analysis, and Christian theology to examine how settler America sought to erase Indigenous presence from lands taken by the United States and its colonial predecessors;
  - offers a decolonizing perspective that challenges the church to acknowledge its complicity with the colonial project and to enter into dialogue directed toward setting things right; and
  - highlights contemporary manifestations of colonialism in US interactions with its Indigenous citizens, demonstrating that past issues are still present and need to be addressed today.
  Hawk asserts that Christians were complicit with programs of erasure, and so Christians are called to confront and heal their residue today. Joining historical research with theology and biblical scholarship, Hawk helps us recognize the myths that shape the American imagination and to engage our faith for a better way forward.
  This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, educators, students, and readers invested in areas such as post- and de-colonial studies, race and ethnicity, United States history, and social justice. Deepen your understanding of history, confront unsettling truths, and work toward justice and healing with Undoing Manifest Destiny.

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  My Darkest Night

  Linda J. White

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  Jessica Cooper and her SAR dog Luke are called out to a building collapse. What Luke discovers under the rubble shocks her. Then investigators discover that the explosion was intentional and link it to a series of other bombings. Jess's husband Scott joins an FBI/ATF task force searching for the suspect. 
   
   
   
  While Scott chases the bomber, Jess continues her SAR activities. On a dark night, during a violent persistent storm, Jess sustains a horrible loss and is plunged into a pit of despair, her faith shredded. 
   
   
   
  But God isn't finished with Jess. As she slowly begins to cope, life takes a surprising, positive turn. Reenergized, she puts on her PI hat and stumbles onto a key to the bomber's identity. Soon the mad chase to find him leads her into another storm on another dark night—and another test of faith.

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  Missionaries for Christ

  Marilyn Boyer

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  Invite your middle and high school students to step into the adventurous lives of faithful men and women who dedicated everything to proclaiming Christ to the nations. Missionaries for Christ, part of the inspiring Legends of Faith series by homeschool author Marilyn Boyer, shares the remarkable true stories of those who answered God’s call to go—no matter the cost. 
   
  Through engaging biographies and vivid illustrations, readers will encounter missionaries who relied completely on prayer and God’s provision as they took the gospel to unreached peoples. Their courage, faith, and perseverance remind us that God can use ordinary lives for extraordinary purposes. 
   
  Recommended for 7th grade and up, this beautifully illustrated volume features powerful stories of: 
  Adoniram Judson—one of the first Protestant missionaries from North America, who spent 40 years in BurmaRobert Moffat—the devoted missionary and Bible translator who ministered in Africa for over 50 yearsJohn Paton—who brought the gospel to the South Seas, trusting God through every trialHudson Taylor—founder of China Inland Mission, who labored years before seeing his first convertAmy Carmichael—missionary to India who rescued children and taught the truth of God’s loveGladys Aylward—a courageous woman of faith who defied the odds to serve in ChinaEric Liddell—Olympic gold medalist turned missionary, who gave his life serving others in ChinaBetty Greene—the first woman missionary pilot and founder of Mission Aviation FellowshipJim Elliot—missionary martyr whose legacy still calls believers to surrender all for ChristBrother Andrew—God’s Smuggler who risked his life to deliver Bibles to persecuted nations

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  Coached by Joan of Arc - Lessons...

  Alexandre Havard

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  Coached by Joan of Arc book is a dialogue between the reader and Joan of Arc, the woman Mark Twain called “easily and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced.” 
  As we explore her virtue-infused life, this astonishingly modern woman takes us by the hand, coaches us, whispers wise advice and lessons in noble leadership in our ear. Far from being anachronistic, her way of life and virtuous example is eternally new, for she follows precepts that are above human weakness. 
  Joan is for all of us – men and women of today, living and working in the midst of the world. She is for us all a coach, a mother, and an excellent teacher of the elevated, virtuous, and courageous life.

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  What Are You Going to Do? - How...

  Eric Wilson, Matt Bronleewe

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  What Are You Going to Do? tells an inspiring true story. In the early 1950s, war scattered hundreds of thousands of orphans across South Korea. Many Koreans sacrificed everything to help. When Everett Swanson arrived to preach to troops on the front lines, he stumbled upon starving orphans. The plight of these children broke his heart. He faced the question: “What are you going to do?”Authors Matt Bronleewe and Eric Wilson tell how Swanson’s answer to those six little words led to the organization known today as Compassion International. Seventy years later, Compassion International sponsors over two million children all over the world, providing meals, education, vocational training, Bibles, letters of support, and more.We are often faced with the same question, “What am I going to do?” And, like Swanson, we feel inadequate, afraid, or ill-equipped. Readers will see how small faithful choices can lead to larger ones—and in so doing, change the world for generations to come. Everyone—young and old—should be acquainted with this amazing story of faith, courage, and compassion.

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