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City of Slow Dissolve

by John Chávez ...

Series series Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
Before recovery comes the preparation to recover. In City of Slow Dissolve, John Chávez takes readers through this journey—the “slow dissolve,” the unpacking and re-packing of self that must take place before healing can begin. Fusing language poetry, lyric, and narrative, Chávez uses syntactical play, rhythm, and repetition of key words and lines to lend immediacy to emotions and actions. He ... Read more

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Before recovery comes the preparation to recover. In City of Slow Dissolve, John Chávez takes readers through this journey—the “slow dissolve,” the unpacking and re-packing of self that must take place before healing can begin. Fusing language poetry, lyric, and narrative, Chávez uses syntactical play, rhythm, and repetition of key words and lines to lend immediacy to emotions and actions. He
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Shifting Forms of Continental Colonialism

Unfinished Struggles and Tensions

Edited by Dittmar Schorkowitz, John R. Chávez, Ingo W. Schröder ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book explores shifting forms of continental colonialism in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, from the early modern period to the present. It offers an interdisciplinary approach bringing together historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to contribute to a critical historical anthropology of colonialism. Though focused on the modern era, the volume illustrates that the colonial ... Read more

$108.99 CAD

This book explores shifting forms of continental colonialism in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, from the early modern period to the present. It offers an interdisciplinary approach bringing together historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to contribute to a critical historical anthropology of colonialism. Though focused on the modern era, the volume illustrates that the colonial
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Writing the Self-Elegy

The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink

by Teresa Leo, Jennifer McCauley, John Chavez, Katherine C. Jueds, Catherine Kyle, Adam Crittenden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Kyle McCord, Jane Wong, Naomi Ortiz, Denise Leto, Carol Berg, Kristy Bowen, Floydd Michael Elliot, Jehanne Dubrow, Carl Phillips, Bruce Bond, Kevin Prufer, Rusane Morrison, Sheila Black, Lauren Shellberg, Anne Kaier, TC Tolbert, Raymond Luczak, Stephanie Heit, Juliet Cook, Tanaya Winder ...

An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selvesHonest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selvesHonest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice
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What to Do in a Valley

Trusting God to Breathe New Life into Your Dry Bones

by Jabin Chavez ...

Narrated by Jabin Chavez, John Behrens ...

Unabridged

7 hours

Read by the author.Take life's valleys as not mere challenges but divine appointments designed to refine and strengthen your faith in this deep exploration of Psalm 23:4-6. You may be at your worst, but that's when God can do his best work in your life. Take heart and use this opportunity to growth spiritual strength and wisdom as He walks alongside you offering encouragement and spiritual insight ... Read more

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Read by the author.Take life's valleys as not mere challenges but divine appointments designed to refine and strengthen your faith in this deep exploration of Psalm 23:4-6. You may be at your worst, but that's when God can do his best work in your life. Take heart and use this opportunity to growth spiritual strength and wisdom as He walks alongside you offering encouragement and spiritual insight
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Our Lady of Guadalupe

Mother of the Civilization of Love

by Carl Anderson, Eduardo Chavez ...

Narrated by John Allen Nelson ...

Unabridged

6 hours 44 min

Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unless there was a miracle, the continent would be lost. Between December 9 and December 12, 1531, that ... Read more

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Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unless there was a miracle, the continent would be lost. Between December 9 and December 12, 1531, that
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Be Exceptional

Master the Five Traits That Set Extraordinary People Apart

by Joe Navarro, Toni Sciarra Poynter ...

Narrated by Will Damron ...

Unabridged

9 hours 10 min

""Anyone pursuing success must read this book."" —Chris Voss, author of Never Split the DifferenceA master class in leadership from the world’s top body language expertFrom internationally bestselling author and retired FBI agent Joe Navarro, a groundbreaking look at the five powerful principles that set exceptional individuals apartJoe Navarro spent a quarter century with the FBI, pursuing spies ... Read more

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""Anyone pursuing success must read this book."" —Chris Voss, author of Never Split the DifferenceA master class in leadership from the world’s top body language expertFrom internationally bestselling author and retired FBI agent Joe Navarro, a groundbreaking look at the five powerful principles that set exceptional individuals apartJoe Navarro spent a quarter century with the FBI, pursuing spies
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Jesus

A Pilgrimage

by James Martin ...

Narrated by James Martin ...

Unabridged

18 hours 3 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.WINNER OF THE 2015 CATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD.“James Martin’s rivetingnew meditation on Jesus is one of the best books I’ve read in years—on anysubject.” — Mary Karr, author of LitJames Martin, SJ, giftedstoryteller and New York Times bestselling author of TheJesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, bring... ... Read more

$50.99 CAD

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.WINNER OF THE 2015 CATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD.“James Martin’s rivetingnew meditation on Jesus is one of the best books I’ve read in years—on anysubject.” — Mary Karr, author of LitJames Martin, SJ, giftedstoryteller and New York Times bestselling author of TheJesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, bring...
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Leaving Berlin

A Novel

by Joseph Kanon ...

Narrated by Corey Brill ...

Unabridged

11 hours 38 min

**New York Times Notable Book * Named one of NPR and Wall Street Journal's Best Books of the Year *The acclaimed author of The Good German “deftly captures the ambience” (The New York Times Book Review) of postwar East Berlin in his “thought-provoking, pulse-pounding” (Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestseller—a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the ... Read more

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**New York Times Notable Book * Named one of NPR and Wall Street Journal's Best Books of the Year *The acclaimed author of The Good German “deftly captures the ambience” (The New York Times Book Review) of postwar East Berlin in his “thought-provoking, pulse-pounding” (Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestseller—a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the
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The Universal Christ

How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe

by Richard Rohr ...

Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

Unabridged

8 hours 45 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives.“Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates**In his decades as a globally ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives.“Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates**In his decades as a globally
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The Fifth Assassin

by Brad Meltzer ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Culper Ring Series
Unabridged

14 hours 3 min

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, Beecher White must stop a killer in Washington, D.C. who's meticulously re-creating the crimes of four notorious assassins.From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination attempts on the President of the United States. Four have been successful.Historians have branded them as four lone wolves. But what if ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

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From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, Beecher White must stop a killer in Washington, D.C. who's meticulously re-creating the crimes of four notorious assassins.From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination attempts on the President of the United States. Four have been successful.Historians have branded them as four lone wolves. But what if
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Everything I Never Told You

A Novel

by Celeste Ng ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

10 hours 1 min

**A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bust... ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

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**A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bust...
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The Secret History

A Novel

by Donna Tartt ...

Narrated by Donna Tartt ...

Unabridged

22 hours 3 min

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch.Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. ... Read more

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch.Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries.
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