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Antisocial, dorky boy seeks fun-loving, sexy vampire for blood-sucking and transforming into her minion. One sleepless night, Ko slips out to walk the streets. Life after dark is a revelation! Especially when he meets flirtatious Nazuna. Except that she\'s a vampire. That\'s okay. He wants to become a creature of the night too. But transformation doesn\'t come that

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Bestselling author Robert Morgan offers ten strategies for dealing with hard times and discouragements in order to move from fear to faith--a divine protocol for handling life. Red Sea Rules has been updated with new study questions.Life is hard, especially for Christians. It is certain that we will face difficulties and that God will allow them. But just as certain is the fact that the same God who

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In this powerful and moving book, Maram al- Masri, the award-winning Syrian poet who has lived much of her life in Paris, presents us with a chronicle of the lives of others - women and some of their children - who exist unseen and unheard in contemporary France. Many of the characters whose real or imagined lives she discloses are isolated as individuals; they endure their lives in quiet desperation,

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