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Get the Summary of Malcolm X and Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies...
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Get the Summary of Eric Metaxas' Is Atheism Dead? in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: Is Atheism Dead? is a highly entertaining, impressively wide-ranging, and decidedly provocative answer to that famous 1966 TIME cover that itself provocatively asked "Is God Dead?" In a voice that is by turns witty, muscular, and poetic, Metaxas echoes C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton in cheerfully and...
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Get the Summary of Philip Yancey's Where the Light Fell in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s Atlanta, Philip Yancey and his brother, Marshall, found ways to venture out beyond the confines of their eight-foot-wide trailer. But when Yancey was in college, he uncovered a shocking secret about his father's...
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Get the Summary of Jason Wilson's Battle Cry in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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For decades Jason Wilson was losing the war within- the internal battle that many men wage daily, but were never taught how to win. As a result, he could not combat his toxic thoughts and emotions. Instead, he was conquered by them and communicated without composure- hurting those he loved and himself....
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Get the Summary of Thich Nhat Hanh's “Peace Is Every Step” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. A ringing telephone can be...
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A la hora de su repentina muerte, Ricardo Capponi, médico cirujano y psiquiatra, elaboraba un libro acerca de la crisis de los abusos sexuales en la Iglesia católica. Una primera versión de este libro, que el autor esperaba aumentar y mejorar con comentarios de sus primeros lectores, fue publicada en una edición limitada bajo el título La misión actual de la Iglesia católica. Una propuesta para enfrentar la crisis. Considerando su inestimable...
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Life hurts when it is experienced through the flames of tragedy, but there is hope. There are answers. There is a purpose for it all. Todd had the perfect life: a thriving ministry, a happy and healthy family, and a bright future. All of it was interrupted when his oldest daughter, Makenzie, was killed in a traffic accident. Needing to heal, Todd took a leave of absence from ministry and went to work for a friends company that refines gold and silver....
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Get the Summary of Joyce Meyer's Battlefield of the Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger and feelings of condemnation: all these are attacks on the mind. If readers suffer from negative thoughts, they can take heart! Joyce Meyer has helped millions win these all-important battles. In her most popular bestseller ever, the beloved author and...
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La Escritura dice: "De todo esto habló Jesús con la gente por parábolas... para que se cumpliera lo dicho por el profeta: Abriré mi boca y en parábolas hablaré de cosas escondidas desde la fundación del mundo". Las cosas naturales fueron el medio de transmisión para lo espiritual; las cosas de la naturaleza y la experiencia de vida de sus oyentes fueron conectadas con las verdades de la Palabra escrita. Por tanto, al guiar del reino natural...
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Get the Summary of Donald H. Calloway's Consecration to St. Joseph in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the midst of crisis, confusion, and a world at war with the Church, it's time to come home again to our spiritual father, St. Joseph. In this richly researched and lovingly presented program of consecration to St. Joseph, Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, brings to life the wonders, the power,...
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Are you familiar with a "Go F**k Yourself Production?" If all you do is sit on your computer and f**k people or make people f**k, you will be. You may be written into our story as one of our characters: Lucifer, Derek, Michael, Satan, Kay, or Miley. There are also many more. I assure you that Miley Ray Cyrus will not to be trashed in this story. Miley Ray Cyrus is the inspiration to this book, and we love her. Now, here is Lucky to bring you the story...
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Living a Life of Fire, the new autobiography from Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke is an amazing life story of one of the world's most successful promoters of the Christian message. This book isn't just the facts about a preacher's life – it delivers a superlative read that will captivate Christians and non-Christians alike.
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In this penetrating, sometimes irreverent and often humorous book, the writings of the apostles are explored in a search for the true "Word of God".
Here the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as well as the letters from other apostles, who witnessed the life of Jesus Christ are evaluated using an unconventional but simple approach.
This simple method allows any reader to separate the obviously true from the fictitious to arrive at a correct...
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El Papa Francisco, es símbolo de la pobreza, la humildad, la sencillez y la reconstrucción de la Iglesia Católica. Desde su nombramiento ha venido rompiendo esquemas del vaticano, manejándose con una austeridad absoluta, sorprendiendo al mundo entero con su doctrina incluyente hacia todas las religiones. En este libro encontrará una semblanza anecdótica del Papa que nos ayuda a comprender el porqué de su actuar y sus sentimientos. También...
17) Once Upon a Time
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I wrote a book about moments. I titled it Once Upon A Time mainly because in remembering the moments I was writing about, I was reimagining life as a dream. It is not about a made-up fantasy I wished to live, but about a very real one that I saw as a dream, as a "once upon a time," seeing its "happily ever after." It is not about heaven but about earth, about everything glorious and heavenly from this earth I live in. It is about sins and dirt. It...
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Get the Summary of Thich Nhat Hanh's Enjoying the Ultimate in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: "Nirvana is our daily business," Thich Nhat Hanh says. Based on talks given in his home monastery of Plum Village in France at the peak of his long teaching career, The Nirvana Chapter conveys Thich Nhat Hanh's insights on the 36 verses on nirvana in the Chinese Dharmapada. Described there as...
19) A King is Born
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A King is born is about a young boy who unknowingly came in contact with alien life at six years old. That young boy started to have dreams of the future that revealed his paths. One of the paths lead to his incarceration he came face to face with an alien being know as the king of the universe. That being taught him the secrets hidden in a tempered book known as the Bible, but the bigger revelation hidden within his veins. A secret that tied him...
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The book adopts a conversational style with a monologue of the Bible character Eve. In an engaging and interactive style of conversation, Eve invites us to hear her perspective and share in her life's experiences. In a contemporary story-telling style, her life and purpose unfold for the reader. The journey begins with Eve's entrance into the world, then to her meeting with her 'Prince Charming', right through to the brief fellowship with the serpent,...
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