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Our Ecstatic Days begins as the memoir of a young mother desperate to forget a single act, committed out of love and fear, that has changed forever the world around her. In the waning days of summer, a lake appears, almost overnight, in the middle of Los Angeles. In an instant of either madness or revelation, convinced that the lake means to take her small son from her, Kristin becomes determined to stop it. Three thousand miles away, on the eve of...
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"There are three things about this planet which are too wonderful for me. Make that four things. The way of dreams in the mind; the way of tears in the eye; the way of words in the mouth; and the way of my wife Edna Bradshaw when she acts like a cat and love-nibbles me into her arms." This is the voice of Desi, the hero of Robert Olen Butler's novel Mr. Spaceman, who has kept a quiet vigil above the Earth for decades while studying the confusing,...
3) End of days
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The novelization of End of Days, the hit film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Every thousand years, on the eve of the Millennium, Satan enters the body of a human being and stalks the Earth, searching for the woman who is the key to his kingdom. Christine York, who has been having horrible, unexplained visions for the past twenty-one years of her life, is that woman. If the Prince of Darkness catches up with her in New York City, the door to the...
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At the turn of the millennium, when increasing attention is being given to eschatological subjects, there is a need for an objective, comprehensive overview of the various end-times perspectives. A Basic Guide to Eschatology is such a resource. In this accessible study, leading evangelical theologian Millard Erickson provides a balanced examination of various eschatological viewpoints. - Back cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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The horrors of the Tribulation are over, and Jesus Christ has set up his perfect kingdom on earth. Believers all around the world enjoy a newly perfected relationship with their Lord, and the earth itself is transformed. Yet evil still lurks in the hearts of the unbelieving. As the Millennium draws to a close, the final generation of the unrepentant prepares to mount a new offensive against the Lord Himself--sparking the final and ultimate conflict...
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It's New Year's Eve 1999, and the members of a powerful cult are about to commit ritual suicide. Fleeing their ranks at the final moment, teenager Kristin lands in Tokyo, where she gains employment listening to clients' stories in a "memory hotel" designed to address the decay of Japanese collective memory after the Second World War. But Kristin herself has a startling odyssey: Among other things, it involves answering a personal ad only to wind up...
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Cayce shines his intuitive light on the new millennium. Carter looks at the unprecedented changes taking place around the planet which were not envisioned by futurists, social planners, even as recently as a few years ago, and were foreseen by Cayce. This is Cayce's "New World Order", and how to survive in it.
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Over six decades ago, Edgar Cayce, the world's greatest psychic, looked forward to the millennium not with trepidation but with hope. What did this remarkable prophet see for the new age? This book draws on Cayce's actual Readings to reveal a blueprint for humanity's salvation in the next century. Documenting the late Edgar Cayce's psychic insights on nutrition, the environment, technology, religion, reincarnation, dreams, and ESP, this unique book...
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The bestselling author of "The Eight" delivers another spine-tingling blend of historical fiction and modern thrills. A woman in Idaho inherits her family legacy: an ancient, coded manuscript. But she has no idea where the manuscript came from, what it has to say, or who is trying to kill her to get to it.
10) Zeitgeist
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A car ride across America by a group of rip-off artists, pursued by police. The protagonists include a defrocked priest, a computer hacker and a prostitute-novelist. A satirical look at the state of the nation.
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A New Age novel on a Vancouver woman who falls into a coma which lasts nearly two decades. The novel traces the impact on her family, especially on her boyfriend and a daughter she gave birth to just before the coma. By the author of Life after God.
12) The millennium
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In 1907, Upton Sinclair looked forward 93 years and imagined the year 2000, when capitalism would find its zenith with the construction of The Pleasure Palace, a glittering half-mile-high structure in the middle of Central Park. During the grand opening of the towering building, a scientific experiment with radiumite explodes killing everybody throughout the world except eleven of the people at the Pleasure Palace. They escape the deadly rays by flying...
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The Forge of Christendom is a study of a truly fateful revolution: the emergence of Western Europe for the first time as a distinctive and expansionist power. It was the age of Otto the Great and William the Conqueror, of Caliphs and Viking sea-kings, of hermits, monks, and serfs. --from publisher description.
14) The visitation
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The sleepy eastern Washington wheat town of Antioch has suddenly become a gateway for the supernatural, from sightings of angels and messianic images to a weeping crucifix. Then a self-proclaimed prophet mysteriously appears with an astounding message. Burned-out former pastor Travis Jordan has been trying to hide his past in Antioch. Now the whole world is headed to his backyard to find the Messiah, and in the process, every spiritual assumption...
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A desert hunt for stone tablets given to Moses with the Ten Commandments which foretold the coming of the Messiah. The man who undertakes the hunt is a Pennsylvania professor who learns of the tablets' existence in inheritance papers from his father, an archeologist who found them 50 years earlier before he disappeared.
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[1999].
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An Englishman takes to the road in the company of a philosophical bug, their observations skewering everything English. "The private rooms of Monsieur H-- / Were known for being oh so posh; / Then it was learned that all his druthers / Were still the property of others."