How Did God Do It? A Symphony of Science and Scripture


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Have you ever wondered... How Did God Do It? How did God perform the many miracles and supernatural events described in the Holy Bible - without violating the laws of physics and chemistry that He Himself put into place? And without conflicting with the basic tenets of Judaism and Christianity? This book proposes a theory that marries faith and rationality in a symphony of science and scripture....




A Touch of Sin


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A spicy hot Van Helsing sister adventure, featuring Tilly Van Helsing. I'm not like my sisters. For me, monster hunting is just a job. But it's a job I'm damn good at, and our guild leader has been screwing me over with newb assignments. I might need to kick his ass. After I grope it. I might not be the most passionate monster hunter, but I like more than a touch of sin in my off hours. Warning from the author: This book contains steamy, sexy shenanigans, enough naughty words to make someone (not me) blush, a pissed off monster hunter on a mission to make her bangable boss pay, and a grumpy ex-hunter with a thing for his employee.




Talk Dirty to Me


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From award-winning, bestselling author, Imogen Keeper, comes a sexy page-turner romance with twists and turns and lots of dirty talking. It began online with a single message. Two strangers, shedding layers, moving apart then near. A dance of words. One question more. One deeper confidence. One raw admission. Circling closer with every strike of the key. Maybe it could have happened with anyone, but I don't think so. I think it was just something about the strange, f*cked-up oppositional force of us. Direct messages became text messages, and text messages became stolen phone calls, hot whispers in the night, dirty pictures, and filthy words. And when phone calls weren't enough, it got real. He ruined my life, destroyed everything I always wanted, showed me who I really am. He ripped apart the fabric of my life, exploded it with lies and secrets and darkness and painful truths. He was a hitman. I was his target. He was stalking me all along, and now he was going to find whoever wanted me dead. He was never going to let me go. This is our story. If you love stories with huge hot tattooed hitmen, secrets and lies, mystery, humor and explosive heat, this is the story for you. HEA guaranteed, full-length standalone, no fades to black, nothing but fun. WARNING: This is a story about a heartless hitman hired to kill a woman. He stalks her for his job and falls in love. If that idea offends you, this story probably isn't for you.




Jholee & Kiandre 3


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From his good girl to his hood girl...The kindhearted and naive Jholee is no more. After years of being told to stand up for herself, Jholee finally takes action, defending her family in the worst way possible. What Jholee doesn't realize is that by taking the initiative to put herself and her family first, her mental health could suffer. While no one is the wiser, TK works to make sure the woman in his life doesn't give up the very essence that makes her his good girl. Good people deserve second chances. After Chey tried to ruin his relationship with Jholee, TK is determined to prove to Jholee that he's worth marrying. However, words are nothing without action behind them, and TK has to protect his relationship with Jholee by cutting off the women in his life who want nothing more than to see them apart. Time is running out, decisions have to be made, and in the end, TK has to figure out if giving up his old life will be enough to start a new one with Jholee. Drama, secrets, and murders are happening at every turn for the Marshall and Kincaid families. Secrets that would break the strongest family foundations are revealed. Take one last ride with Jholee as she learns to find herself, and Kiandre, as he learns how to be the man that Jholee wants and needs.




American Girls


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A New York Times Bestseller Award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales crisscrossed the country talking to more than two hundred girls between the ages of thirteen and nineteen about their experiences online and off. They are coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media: Instagram, Whisper, Vine, Youtube, Kik, Ask.fm, Tinder. Provocative, explosive, and urgent, American Girls will ignite much-needed conversation about how we can help our daughters and sons negotiate the new social and sexual norms that govern their lives.




Complicated


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A dangerous black woman


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about a young black woman that that no one loved her so she went on a killing spree.




American Hardcore (Second Edition)


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"American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture"—Paper magazine Steven Blush's "definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk" (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classics–distributed documentary American Hardcore premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. This revised and expanded second edition contains hundreds of new bands, thirty new interviews, flyers, a new chapter ("Destroy Babylon"), and a new art gallery with over 125 rare photos and images.




The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law


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This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law. It outlines the range of legal areas in which linguistics plays an increasing role and describes the tools and approaches used by linguists and lawyers in this vibrant new field. Through a combination of overview chapters, case studies, and theoretical descriptions, the volume addresses areas such as the history and structure of legal language, its meaning and interpretation, multilingualism and language rights, courtroom discourse, forensic identification, intellectual property and linguistics, and legal translation and interpretation. Encyclopaedic in scope, the handbook includes chapters written by experts from every contentint who are familiar with linguistic issues that arise in diverse legal systems, including both civil and common law jurisdictions, mixed systems like that of China, and the emerging law of the European Union.




Getting Off Clean


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In Timothy Murphy's Getting Off Clean, the one thing that Eric Fitzpatrick wants is to escape--both from his family and the racially tense town in which he lives. The only son of an Italian-Irish family in a working class suburb of Boston, he intends to go away to college and leave his old life far behind. But all his plans are set askew when he meets Brooks, a mysterious, wealthy, black student at a local prep school. As their relationship grows ever deeper and more complicated, Eric must come to terms not only with his family and community, but with his warring ambitions and desires.