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Maren doesn't have anyone to spend Christmas with this year, yet she is counting her blessings. Raised in foster care, she has succeeded at so many of the goals she had for her life; a great job, a good place to live, and a possible love match in the form of her downstairs neighbor. If only Noah weren't the saddest, most introverted around Christmas, he might himself see the potential of a match. In a desperate attempt to get some Christmas Magic...
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God has given us access to His presence and His holiness, but He will not force us to use it. Too often, we are lukewarm in our recognition of God's presence, and we dutifully treat relationship with Him as an obligation, rather than a priority. Because God is continuously committed to us, even when we struggle to be committed to Him, He provides specific instructions in the Bible to help us move past casually acknowledging His presence, to knowing...
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Can impossible wishes ever be granted?Christmas is, above any other time in the year, a time of wishes. Of sending them out into the world. Of making lists of them. Of granting them.We wish for the possible, but more often we wish for the impossible, because Christmas is that magical time when it seems as if wishes might truly be granted – even to those who no longer believe in Santa Clause.These three short stories explore what it can be like to...
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Examines the history of the gay rights movement in the United States and the struggle for equal protection under the law, including the right for same-sex couples to marry, including the opinions and perspectives of leaders, activists, politicians, and ordinary Americans on both sides of the issue.
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For the first time in all of the Ages, the doors to the Konocimiento Kósmico (Kosmic Knowledge) are open. The book "The Absolute" narrates the story based on real experiences, of a woman who since childhood sought to understand the reasons of life. This desire to understand leads her to the encounter with her destiny. She meets the Maestra who initiates her in the studies of Konocimiento Kósmico. These studies reveal the origin and purpose of man...
8) Granted
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Young fairy Ophelia gets her first wish granting assignment and discovers that, although the fate of the fairy world rests on her completing her task, the job of granting a human's wish is anything but easy.
9) Hummingbird
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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"When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted"--
11) The club
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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When a group of friends starts getting together to play an old game that they discovered in a basement called "Black Magic," they begin to discover that the game's promise of granting good fortune at the expense of enemies is coming true, to a horrific extent.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
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Twelve-year-olds Andy and Marnie, having enjoyed a day at Horrorland and received a gift souvenir from the Chiller House, take home a wish-granting hounds tooth which is supposedly haunted and soon learn that nothing is ever really free.
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"In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will...
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Philippa Fisher volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Embarrassed by her free-spirited parents and lonely when her best friend moves away, a self-conscious eleven-year-old girl named Philippa summons a wish-granting fairy godmother, with unexpected results.
17) Emerald blaze
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Hidden Legacy novels volume 5
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"As Prime magic users, Catalina Baylor and her sisters have extraordinary powers--powers their ruthless grandmother would love to control. Catalina can earn her family some protection working as deputy to the Warden of Texas, overseeing breaches of magic law in the state, but that has risks as well. When House Baylor is under attack and monsters haunt her every step, Catalina is forced to rely on handsome, dangerous Alessandro Sagredo, the Prime who...
18) Dissolution
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Matthew Shardlake novels volume 1
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It is England in the year 1537, and Thomas Cromwell is Henry VIII's vicar-general and in the process of dissolving all of the large monastic houses, granting the land to his favorites or the highest bidders. When one of his commissioners is murdered at the monastery in Scarnsea, Cromwell sends the hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake and Mark, his young assistant, to solve the mystery. They find that not only has the murder been covered up but also...
19) The spirit house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Fifteen-year-old Julie investigates the suspicious behavior of the Thai exchange student staying with her family and comes to believe in the wish-granting power of a spirit that appears to have followed him across the ocean.
20) Dawn's prelude
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Newly widowed Lydia Sellers, longing to put the memories of a painful marriage behind her, determines to travel to Alaska to join her aunt. Lydia's arrival in Sitka, however, brings things she didn't expect: the acquaintance of Kjell Bjorklund, the handsome owner of the sawmill; and the discovery that she is pregnant with her dead husband's child. What will this mean for her budding relationship with Kjell? And what lengths will her stepchildren go...
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