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The Future by Gore

In the future, according to the former vice president, national governments will hold less sway than multinational corporations, there will be no privacy and all the world’s information will be freely available, we will ...
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The Almond Tree Michelle by Corasanti

This is a tragically touching story about how a Palestinian family learns to cope with having to start over during the Israeli occupation of the Gaza strip and how two people learn to get along despite the history their ...
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Twilight's Last Gleaming by Robert Jeffress

To be upfront with you, I asked to review this book because I have strong and mostly negative views of Christian leaders who use their pulpits for political influence and based on what I'd seen of Pastor Jeffress in the ...
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Back to Work by Bill Clinton

In America today, we suffer from high unemployment, two wars and a couple of non-war war-like engagements, the looming threat of Iran and a Middle East filled with unrest, an economy that is stagnant and threatening to t...
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2011 BookGateway.com Booky Awards

BookGateway.com is pleased to announce the books of the year award, the Bookys, for books published in 2011! The Booky is awarded annually by the editors of BookGateway.com, a book review website for reviewers and book b...
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Little Princes by Conor Grennan

Conor Grennan is a young man setting out for a year's adventure traveling the globe with a three months stop over in Nepal volunteering at the Little Princes Orphanage in Godawari. What started out as a lark, he could st...
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Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites ...and Other Lies You've Been Told by Bradley R.E. Wright, PhD

Sociologist Brad Wright shatters popular myths by sifting through the best available data. He reveals how Christians are doing when it comes to everything from marriage and morality to church growth and public perception...
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Help Support a Child Affected by HIV/AIDS

Some 854 million people worldwide lack enough to eat; 820 million of them are in developing countries1. Hunger and poverty claim 25,000 lives every day — most of those are children1. Every five seconds, a child dies bec...
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Humanitarian Jesus by Christian Buckley & Ryan Dobson

This is an amazing thought provoking book. I liked it, but I didn't at the beginning. I thought this is another one of those books where the authors tell you all the good things they and their organization is doing for t
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Beirut 39 edited by Samuel Shimon

The book is a collection of short stories, novels and poems written by 39 Arab writers under the age of 40. 450 young writers across the Arab World, Europe and America submitted their writings, but only 39 were selected ...
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The Hole In Our Gospel by Richard Stearns

Richard Stearns is President of World Vision U.S. He came from a poor beginning. With proper education and hard work he quickly climbed the corporate ladder to become CEO of several companies - the last being Lenox - the...
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Mornings In Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

This is the story of a young Palestinian girl named Amal borne in the refugee camp of Jenin. Her family had been evicted from their home during the 6-Day war between Palestine and the soon to be State of Israel. One must...
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