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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton 100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings The Fact of a Doorframe by Adrienne Rich What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney The Power of Art by Simon Schama Plays 2 by Alan Bennett El Borbah by Charles Burns
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Book cover for How the Bible Actually Works: In which I Explain how an Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads us to Wisdom rather than Answers - and why that's Great News
How the Bible Actually Works: In which I Explain how an Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads us to Wisdom rather than Answers - and why that's Great News by Peter Enns
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The methods of disciplining children we’ve seen most certainly reflect the rather harsh climate of Iron Age tribal culture (1200–500 BCE), where physical violence among peoples and nations is a ho-hum matter-of-fact reality. Even God is ...more
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