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This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the prisms of religious myth, truth and belief, respectively. With each turn, the book seeks to convey a more nuanced and complete understanding of the many facets of transcendence. Part I puts forward...
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When Faith Butler finds herself and her two children stranded in Dead Horse, Wyoming, she has no choice but to take employment with mysterious recluse Drake Rutledge. As Faith shines the light of hope and happiness in the dark halls of Drake's dismal mansion, Drake is forced out of the shadows that have hidden him for so long. Only this feisty Shakespearean actress and her irresistible children could cause such a change in Drake.
Then the shadows...
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Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 unnumbered volume : color illustrations)
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English
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The Secular Humanist Occult Obliteration Taskforce exists to defend humanity from gods, fairies, monsters and the legions of other creatures that survive on human beliefs and fears. If you've got a problem with a demon, dragon or deity, better call S.H.O.O.T.! This book collects the four-issue miniseries, plus an eight-page story from MySpace Dark Horse Presents issue 35. This book is an exciting, original and irreverent concept from comics' hottest...
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Sixteen-year-old Delaney Delgado knows miracles aren?t real?if they were, her kid sister wouldn?t be dead. So when the image of baby Jesus appears on a Babybel cheese wheel, she?s not buying the idea that God?s got a dairy obsession. Soon, religious signs begin turning up all over Del?s hometown, tiny Clemency, Texas. Overnight, news vans fill the streets and religious pilgrims start searching for God in the discount aisle of the grocery store. Hell-bent...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out. An allegory about the power of belief, and a page-turner that will touch your soul. Albom's masterful storytelling has never been so moving and unexpected.
6) Imani's moon
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550L
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English
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Little Imani of the Maasai people longs to do something great, like touching the moon, but the other children just laugh at her.
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In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to...
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"A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... An amazingly brave piece of work ... so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world." —STEPHEN KING, Washington Post
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was
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Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex problem shaped by partisan politics and subjective interpretations of truth. In Misbelief social scientist Dan Ariely explores the behaviour of 'misbelief' that leads people to distrust accepted truths and embrace conspiracy theories.
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Billy longs to believe in Santa Claus, but he finds it quite difficult to do so. His family has a dogged insistence that all of it, from the North Pole, to the elves, to Santa himself, is all just a myth. This all changes, however, on Christmas Eve, when a mysterious train visits Billy in the middle of the night, promising to take him and a group of other lucky children to the North Pole for a visit with Santa. The train's conductor, along with the...
12) Uni the unicorn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 640L
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English
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Uni the unicorn believes that little girls are real.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?
14) Eva sees a ghost
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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71 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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When Eva Wingdale sees something large and white flying above her she is convinced that it is a ghost, although most of the other owls just laugh at her--until something large and heavy and white lands on the school roof.
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Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2010
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31cm.
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English
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A young girl has lost all the enchantment in the world, and goes on a journey to reclaim the fairies, mermaids, giants, and other mythical creatures she used to believe in.
16) What elephant?
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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[30] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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No one can believe that there is really an elephant at George's house; they all think that it cannot possibly be real, even when the elephant takes a shower, sunbathes in the back yard, and reads the newspaper.
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English
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In London during World War II, Wendy comforts her children with stories about her youthful adventures with Peter Pan in the fantastic world of Neverland. Young Danny loves the stories and believes that they're real, but his older sister, Jane, isn't so certain. Jane soon discovers her mother is indeed telling the truth when she's kidnapped by the evil Captain Hook, who is still trying to capture his nemesis, Peter Pan. Peter comes to the aid of young...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
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First edition.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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A powerful, shared wish helps Uni the unicorn and the little girl who believes in him to save the land of unicorns from seemingly endless rain.
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