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Great Detective Stories: The Purloined Letter, the Crooked Man, the Man in the Passage [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction)

by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton

Published: 2008-11

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The Great Divorce

Hardcover: 160 pages

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What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to? In The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is th...

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The Great Divorce

by C. S. Lewis

Published: 2001-02

Paperback: 160 pages

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C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. Usin...

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The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times

by Ilyon Woo

Published: 2010-08-10

Hardcover: 416 pages

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Ilyon Woo's The Great Divorce is the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century America's most infamous divorce cases, in which a young mother single-handedly challenged her country's notions of women's rights, family, and marriage itself.In 1814, Eunice Chapman came home...

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The Great Elephant Escape

by Antoinette van de Water, Lesbith Sluiter

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 162 pages

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Street elephants are a common sight in Thailand. Some carry tourists on their backs, but most spend their days begging for food or money, urged on by their mahouts Ð their grooms and riders. The animals are often undernourished, in bad health, sleep next to garbage dumps, and walk along overcrowded...

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The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

by Phyllis Tickle

Published: 2008-10-01

Hardcover: 176 pages

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Rooted in the observation that massive transitions in the church happen about every 500 years, Phyllis Tickle shows readers that we live in such a time right now. She compares the Great Emergence to other "Greats" in the history of Christianity, including the Great Transformation (when God walked among...

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The Great Escape

by Paul Brickhill

Published: 2004-08-17

Paperback: 304 pages

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"A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale."?Philadelphia Inquirer They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian c...

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The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

by Kati Marton

Published: 2007-11-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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Extravagantly praised by critics and readers, this stunning story by bestselling author Kati Marton tells of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world.This...

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2001-08-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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In this unflaggingly suspenseful story of aspirations and moral redemption, humble, orphaned Pip, a ward of his short-tempered older sister and her husband, Joe, is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman. And, indeed, it seems as though that d...

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2018-11-06

Paperback: 284 pages

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Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development...