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A Prior Engagement: Special Forces #4

By: Karina Bliss

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A Prior Engagement: Special Forces #4

By: Karina Bliss

Pathos and humor combine in this emotionally charged, back-from-the-dead military romance from award-winning author Karina Bliss. “I can’t let you get over me...because I’m never going to get over you.” After eighteen months as a POW presumed dead, SAS soldier Lee Davis is finally going home. Back to his family, friends and...fiancée? Except the night before his last deployment Juliet Browne rejected his proposal. Which makes the sight of her playing the grieving almost-wife beyond infuriating. Feigning amnesia, Lee puts Jules's commitment to the test. Yet tormenting her conscience isn't as easy as he thought it would be. She's still the woman whose memory got him through the worst of his captivity and her actions now prove she cares—a lot. And despite her betrayal, he needs her more than ever. Because Lee is beginning to realize that for him, Jules is home. RUBY Finalist (Romantic Book of the Year Australia) “An emotionally moving story of two people torn apart by tragedy fighting their way back to each other…Gripping, psychologically captivating and so real, I can’t help but be pulled into the lives of Karina Bliss’s characters” Tome Tender “If you love damaged military heroes and romances where you’re convinced the author is trying to rip your heart out? Look no further.” Wendy The Super Librarian “Bliss plays a perfect balance of pathos and humor in this romance novel. As these now decades-old wars have taught us, the damage that war at times exacts of soldiers affect everyone's lives: families and friends. Bliss's is one of the best.” Miss Bates Reads Romance The Special Forces series The Soldier's Wedding The Rescue Mission Bring Him Home A Prior Engagement

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Special Forces: A Complete Military Romance Series

4-Book Box Set

By: Karina Bliss

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Special Forces: A Complete Military Romance Series

4-Book Box Set

By: Karina Bliss

One ambush. Four soldiers. Coming home to the healing power of love. The Soldier’s Wedding After returning from Afghanistan, Special Forces veteran Dan has only one mission: to persuade Jo to become his wife. Can he prove to his best friend that they can create a love story for the ages? Jo has only thought of Dan romantically once; the night before a surgery that changed her life. Friendship is all she has to offer as she struggles to care for her grandmother and save her business. Except the new way he sees her is becoming dangerously addictive... Desert Island Keeper—Allaboutromance The Rescue Mission Viv Jansen's creative solutions work well as an international costume designer, not so well as her family's black sheep. But she's going to save the day—if only her brother's military buddy Ross will move his disapproving Alpha-ness out of the way and help! Chaos theory has always been her modus operandi but falling for the enemy—a guy whose friends call him Iceman—could be the most dangerous thing she's ever done. Bring Him Home When Nate discovers Claire can't forgive her late husband for breaking a crucial promise, he sees his path to salvation. He'll be his buddy’s advocate and secure Steve's place in his wife's memory. The last thing he intends is to find himself in a love triangle with his dead best friend. A Book Club pick at SmartBitchesLovesTrashyBooks. A Prior Engagement After eighteen months as a POW presumed dead, Lee Davis is finally going home. Back to his family, friends and... fiancée? Except that the night before his last deployment, Juliet Browne rejected his proposal. Which makes the sight of her playing the grieving almost-wife beyond infuriating. Feigning amnesia, Lee puts Jules's commitment to the test. Romantic Book of the Year (RuBY) finalist Australia.

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Bring Him Home: Special Forces #3

By: Karina Bliss

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Bring Him Home: Special Forces #3

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The almighty power of love, the courage of one angry widow, and the soul-deep wounds of an honorable man combine in this heartfelt second-chances love story by award-winning author Karina Bliss. A medal doesn't make you a hero... Former soldier Nathan Wyatt had no choice but to leave his army buddy to die, a secret that's still tearing him apart. Two years on, he's in Hollywood prostituting his war medal for work as a bodyguard to the stars when his best friend's widow drags him home to fulfill his neglected responsibilities to her family trust. When he discovers Claire can't forgive her late husband for breaking a crucial promise, Nate sees his path to salvation. He'll be his buddy's advocate, secure Steve's place in his wife's memory. The last thing he intends is to find himself in a love triangle with his dead best friend. Will admitting the truth - all of it - set him free, or alienate the woman he's come to passionately love? “And Ms Bliss has done it again! This series just rips at my heartstrings and makes me smile and tear up sometimes all at once” The Book Pushers The Special Forces series The Soldier's Wedding The Rescue Mission Bring Him Home A Prior Engagement

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Karina Bliss

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0994145357

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The Soldier's Wedding: Special Forces #1

By: Karina Bliss

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The Soldier's Wedding: Special Forces #1

By: Karina Bliss

Award-winning author Karina Bliss launches her Special Forces series with a sweet, funny, growing-from-tragedy, kind of steamy friends-to-lovers romance. Love heals all wounds... Special Forces soldier Dan Jansen has come home from Afghanistan with one objective: to marry Josephine Swann. First he has to convince his childhood friend that their marriage 'agreement,' a tipsy scrawl on a beer coaster three years ago, is binding. And that platonic love is enough to build a passionate future on. Protect those you love... Jo has only thought of Dan 'that way' once; the night before a surgery that changed her life forever. Friendship is all she has to offer as she struggles to care for her grandmother and resurrect her business. Both have wounds only the other can heal. But that requires surrendering their secrets. Can two best friends create a love story for the ages? Previously titled: Here Comes The Groom “Karina Bliss is an excellent writer whose plots are so complex and her characters so realistic that readers are given much more than cookie cutter rehashes of classic stories. Also, her solutions to the problems are unique…” Desert Isle Keeper. All About Romance. “I’ve announced the next book club pick, and it’s lovely fun reading. I would venture to say it causes one to be washed on the warm baking sands of love’s splendid shores of good reading bliss…” Smart Bitches Love Trashy Books. “If I had to summarize what I think the skill of a good romance author is, then it is this ability. To use what everyone loves about the romance genre, without letting those conventions take over. And you do this really well.” Dear Author. The Special Forces series The Soldier's Wedding The Rescue Mission Bring Him Home A Prior Engagement

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Karina Bliss

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0994145330

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First Loves: A First in Series Collection

By: Karina Bliss

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First Loves: A First in Series Collection

By: Karina Bliss

A starter pack of first-in series romances from award-winning author, Karina Bliss. With BONUS book. Mr. Imperfect (Lost Boys #1) It takes a funeral to drag bad-boy billionaire Christian Kelly back to his rural New Zealand hometown. Now thanks to an ancient IOU, he’s stuck there trying to save the inheritance of the only woman who ever dumped him. Romantic Book of the Year (RuBY) winner Australia The Soldier’s Wedding (Special Forces #1) Special Forces soldier Dan Jansen has come home from Afghanistan with one objective: to marry Josephine Swann. First he has to convince his childhood friend that their marriage ‘agreement,’ a tipsy scrawl on a beer coaster three years ago, is binding. “Karina Bliss is an excellent writer whose plots are so complex and her characters so realistic that readers are given much more than cookie cutter rehashes of classic stories. Also, her solutions to the problems are unique…” ~Desert Isle Keeper. All About Romance. What The Librarian Did (a ROCK SOLID Romance curtain-raiser) Is Rachel Robinson the only one on campus who doesn’t know who Devin Freedman is? No big deal except that the bad-boy rock star gets a kick out of Rachel’s refusal to worship at his feet. And that seems to have provoked his undivided attention. “Romance readers have a noise we make when we mention a book that’s tremendously good. It’s somewhere between a gasp and a sigh…” ~Smart Bitches, Trashy Books Best Romance BONUS BOOK - Rise (a ROCK SOLID romance #1) Elizabeth Winston is an award-winning biographer with no interest in writing about celebrities. But when she winds up working with gorgeous rock star Zander, the chemistry between them is sizzling hot… When in her life will she get another chance to work with a living legend? But saying yes to one temptation soon leads to another. Suddenly she’s having heated fantasies about her subject, fantasies this blue-eyed devil is only too willing to stoke. “If you like your romance fiction intelligent, intense, and unforgettable, add this one to your must-read list immediately.” ~The Romance Dish

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Karina Bliss

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099513006X

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Engendering objects

Dynamics of Barkcloth and Gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea

By: Anna-Karina Hermkens

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Engendering objects

Dynamics of Barkcloth and Gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea

By: Anna-Karina Hermkens

Engendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths that are used as male and female garments, gifts, and commodities, it explores the relationships between these cloths and Maisin people. The main question is how barkcloth, as an object made by women, engenders people’s identities, such as gender, personhood, clan and tribe, through its manufacturing and use. This book describes in detail how barkcloth (tapa) not only visualizes and expresses, but also materializes and defines, people’s multiple identities. By ‘following the object’ and how it is made and used in the performance of life-cycle rituals, in exchanges and in church festivities, this interaction between people and things, and how they are mutually constituted, becomes visible. How are women’s bodies and minds linked with the production of barkcloth? How do cloths produced by women both establish and contest clan identity? In what ways is the commodification of barkcloth related to gender dynamics? Barkcloth and its associated designs show how gender ideologies and the socio-material constructions of identity are performed and, as such, developed, established and contested. The narratives of both men and women reveal the ways in which barkcloth provides a link with the past and dreams for the future. The author argues that the cloths and their designs embody dynamics of Maisin culture and in particular of Maisin gender relations. In contributing to the current debates on the anthropology of ‘art’, this study offers an alternative way of understanding the significance of an object, like decorated barkcloth, in shaping and defining people’s identities within a local colonial and postcolonial setting of Papua New Guinea. “Engendering Objects is among the most comprehensive and innovative new works emerging from Melanesia examining the intimate connections between material culture, cultural identity and gendered personhood. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork, archival research and examination of museum collections, Anna-Karina Hermkens traces the enduring yet innovative place of tapa (barkcloth) among the Maisin people. Written with warm compassion and immediacy, the book is a theoretically provocative, accessible and compelling portrait of changing life in a Papua New Guinean village society.” – John Barker, University of British Columbia “This book makes a most welcome contribution to the study of the materiality by showing how gender is performed in the sensuous terms of clothing, food, and the exchange of objects. Anna-Karina Hermkens accomplishes this with enviable care and intellectual resources, and a prose and ethnography that make the book a pleasure to read.” – David Morgan, Duke University “Anna-Karina Hermkens takes us to look at designs on bark cloth from Papua New Guinea through a magnifying glass. A fascinating perspective on material culture evolves. Beyond the art work we discover individuals – mainly women – painting their stories about who they and their beloved are as women and men, as traditional members of a clan, and also what they head for as strugglers in a new economy driven world.” – Christian Kaufmann, Honorary Research Associate, Sainsbury Reseach Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, former curator for Oceania at the Museum der Kulturen Basel

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Sidestone Press

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9088901457

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9789088901454

Teaching Young Adult Literature Today

Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher

By: Judith A. Hayn,Jeffrey S. Kaplan,Karina R. Clemmons

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Teaching Young Adult Literature Today

Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher

By: Judith A. Hayn,Jeffrey S. Kaplan,Karina R. Clemmons

Teaching Young Adult Literature Today introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. More importantly, literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great reads—smart, insightful, and engaging books that are specifically written for adolescents. Hayn, Kaplan, and their contributors address a wide range of topics: how to avoid common obstacles to using YAL; selecting quality YAL for classrooms while balancing these with curriculum requirements; engaging disenfranchised readers; pairing YAL with technology as an innovative way to teach curriculum standards across all content areas. Contributors also discuss more theoretical subjects, such as the absence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young adult literature in secondary classrooms; and contemporary YAL that responds to the changing expectations of digital generation readers who want to blur the boundaries between page and screen. This book has been updated to reflect the wealth of new YA literature that has been published since the first edition appeared in March 2012, and to reflect new trends in technology that influences how adolescents are reading and responding to literature.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475829485

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Addie Ant Goes on an Adventure

By: Maren Morris,Karina Argow

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Addie Ant Goes on an Adventure

By: Maren Morris,Karina Argow

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Maren Morris and former schoolteacher Karina Argow have together written their picture-book debut, Addie Ant Goes on an Adventure. This delightful story of one little ant’s journey for independence while realizing when to ask for help, is set against the backdrop of a vast and abundant garden inhabited by some very helpful insect friends. Addie Ant travels from one garden bed to another on her first solo adventure. As she forges her own path, she gets lost along the way and finds help from her trusted garden pals, Lewis Ladybug, Beatrix Butterfly, and Cleo Cricket, in finding her way back home. A celebration of friendship, this sweet book is a collaboration by renowned, musical artist Maren Morris and former schoolteacher and close friend Karina Argow. Artist Kelly Anne Dalton brings the delightfully written characters to life with colorful and charming illustrations. Join Addie Ant in a vast and magical garden adventure full of insect friends, growing vegetables, blooming flowers, and the inspiring abundance of nature.

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Chronicle Books

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1797231812

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Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction

By: Ana-Karina Schneider

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Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction

By: Ana-Karina Schneider

Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction investigates the contemporary novel’s relation to its forerunners, the picaresques, romances and sentimental novels of the 18th century. Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne and Jane Austen are stable landmarks, while, of the contemporary practitioners, a handful recur from one chapter to the next, particularly Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. The chapters share an interest in the rhetoric of fiction, broadly understood as the way in which fictional works achieve their effects on readers, whether by directly addressing a hypothetical reader, using irony and parody, orchestrating competitions between divergent narratives, imitating musical structures, inviting intertextual readings, or openly taking issue with traditional conventions and expectations. Chapters focusing on narrative strategy and metanarrative comment, therefore, alternate with those interrogating reading practices and readerly participation in the rhetorical interchange. This collection of essays however does not propose a consistent theory of the rhetoric of fiction; nor does it claim any generalisable validity for its findings. Rather, it consists of a series of readings that address various formal aspects of the novels they focus on, showing rhetoric in action, pointing out the complex ways in which its means and strategies change in time and across genres and media. It restores a sense that whatever old tricks the author or narrator is perceived to be up to, they are an invitation to the reader to take part in the fun. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the early stages of their research, encouraging readings that identify rhetorical strategies that challenge conventional forms and expectations. It is, therefore, largely free of rhetorical terminology, making sparing use of it when distinctions must be drawn and the more technical aspects of novels are interrogated.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443883484

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Fodor's Argentina

With Wine Country and Chilean Patagonia

By: Amanda Barnes,Cathy Brown,Karina Martinez-Carter,Sorrel Moseley-Williams,Victoria Patience

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Fodor's Argentina

With Wine Country and Chilean Patagonia

By: Amanda Barnes,Cathy Brown,Karina Martinez-Carter,Sorrel Moseley-Williams,Victoria Patience

Provides information on travel, accommodations, attractions, shopping, and dining within the nation and its chief provinces and cities.

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Fodor's

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0307929183

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9780307929181

Luis Valdez

By: Jorge A. Huerta,Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez,Karina Gutiérrez,Jade Power-Sotomayor,Ricardo Rocha

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Luis Valdez

By: Jorge A. Huerta,Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez,Karina Gutiérrez,Jade Power-Sotomayor,Ricardo Rocha

Luis Valdez studies the life and work of this Chicano playwright, director, performer, and producer along with the implications of his legacy for Chicana/o/x communities and for all who engage with his work. Valdez’s work broadened the scope of theater and arts in the Chicano community, and his formation of El Teatro Campesino brought together students and farmworkers. This volume highlights his professional work and writings. It offers a unique investigation of Luis Valdez, his life, his oeuvre, and his contributions to the theater in the United States and beyond. This book combines: an in-depth biographical overview of Valdez’s life and career, focusing on defining experiences that set his trajectory into motion; an exploration of Valdez’s key writings—the 1973 epic poem Pensamiento Serpentino and the unpublished lecture The Power of Zero which articulate his philosophy of the Theatre of the Sphere; a stylistic analysis of his key works, including Soldado Razo and Zoot Suit as well as their critical reception; and a selection of improvisation and dance-based warm-ups, embodiment exercises, and an acto writing practicum adapted to experiment with Valdez’s works. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s students.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040095445

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9781040095447

Seduction

Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

By: Karina Longworth

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Seduction

Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

By: Karina Longworth

The host of the podcast You Must Remember This explores Hollywood’s golden age via the cinematic life of Howard Hughes and the women who encountered him. Howard Hughes’s reputation as a director and producer of films unusually defined by sex dovetails with his image as one of the most prolific womanizers of the twentieth century. The promoter of bombshell actresses such as Jean Harlow and Jane Russell, Hughes supposedly included among his off-screen conquests many of the most famous actresses of the era, among them Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Ginger Rogers, and Lana Turner. Some of the women in Hughes’s life were or became stars and others would stall out at a variety of points within the Hollywood hierarchy, but all found their professional lives marked by Hughes’s presence. In Seduction, Karina Longworth draws upon her own unparalleled expertise and an unpreceded trove of archival sources, diaries, and documents to produce a landmark—and wonderfully effervescent and gossipy—work of Hollywood history. It’s the story of what it was like to be a woman in Hollywood during the industry’s golden age, through the tales of actresses involved with Howard Hughes. This was the era not only of the actresses Hughes sought to dominate, but male stars such as Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, and Robert Mitchum; directors such as John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Preston Sturges; and studio chiefs like Irving Thalberg, Darryl Zanuck, and David O. Selznick—many of whom were complicit in the bedroom and boardroom exploitation that stifled and disappointed so many of the women who came to Los Angeles with hopes of celluloid triumph. In his films, Howard Hughes commodified male desire more blatantly than any mainstream filmmaker of his time and in turn helped produce an incredibly influential, sexualized image of womanhood that has impacted American culture ever since. As a result, the story of him and the women he encountered is about not only the murkier shades of golden-age Hollywood, but also the ripples that still slither across today’s entertainment industry and our culture in general. Praise for Seduction “Guaranteed to engross anyone with any interest at all in Hollywood, in movies, in #MeToo and in the never-ending story of men with power and women without.” —New York Times Book Review “The stories Longworth uncovers—about Katharine Hepburn and Jane Russell, yes, but also Ida Lupino and Faith Domergue and Anita Loos—are so rich, so compelling, that they urge you to question how much else in history has been lost within the swirling vortex of Great Men.” —Atlantic “A compelling and relevant must-read.” —Entertainment Weekly

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HarperCollins

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0062440535

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9780062440532

The Mirror Effect

An Intuitive Guide to Life, Love and Beyond

By: Karina Lewis

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The Mirror Effect

An Intuitive Guide to Life, Love and Beyond

By: Karina Lewis

The quiet of a perfect summer day in Montana is shattered by the sound of a bullet exploding from a gun. Suddenly, a random act of violence sends a shockwave of change into a quiet community, changing Karina's life forever. One that leaves a legacy. Shot in the head and left for dead, the author enters a state of universal consciousness where she is shown the secrets to life. She is sent back to Earth to share these insights. Born naturally psychic, the accident leaves her infinitely and cosmically connected, capable of knowing the exact words one needs to hear to improve one's relationships, connect to your higher self, and more. In her quest to listen to the guides she met on the "other side," she is able to aid success, increase abundance, and create emotional and financial freedom. But there's just one catch. She needs horses to do it. In this riveting and unique biography, join the thousands who have had Karina and horses connect them to their truths and lead them to a better understanding of self, miracles, and more.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1643006916

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A Prior Engagement: Special Forces #4

A Prior Engagement: Special Forces #4

Special Forces: A Complete Military Romance Series

Special Forces: A Complete Military Romance Series

Bring Him Home: Special Forces #3

Bring Him Home: Special Forces #3

The Soldier's Wedding: Special Forces #1

The Soldier's Wedding: Special Forces #1

First Loves: A First in Series Collection

First Loves: A First in Series Collection

Engendering objects

Engendering objects

Teaching Young Adult Literature Today

Teaching Young Adult Literature Today

Addie Ant Goes on an Adventure

Addie Ant Goes on an Adventure

Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction

Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction

Fodor's Argentina

Fodor's Argentina

Luis Valdez

Luis Valdez

Seduction

Seduction

The Mirror Effect

The Mirror Effect

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