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Following signs in the heavens, Artaban—a priest of the Magi—embarks on a journey to bring gifts of sapphire, ruby, and pearl to the newborn king of the Jews. Intending to meet the caravan bearing the other three wise men across the desert, he stops to aid a dying man and misses the caravan. Artaban is willing to do whatever he must to complete his journey, but it seems luck is not on his side. Despite his best efforts, the quest may
...Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Charles Dickens, 'The Battle of Life.'
Battle is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements. (One scene takes place at Christmas time, but it isn't the final scene.) The story bears some resemblance to The Cricket on the Hearth in two aspects: it has a non-urban setting & it's resolved with a romantic twist. It's even less of a social
...14) Holy the firm
"[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review. . . . The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb. Dillard's description of the moth's death makes Virginia Woolf's go dim and Edwardian. . . . Nature seen so clear and hard that the eyes tear. . . . A rare and precious book." — Frederick Buechner, New York Times Book Review
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...Despite the fact that the Christian tradition is prevalent, if not dominant, throughout much of the Western world, there remains a considerable amount of confusion and debate over the actual doctrines that feature in this belief system. In this volume, The Great Doctrines of the Bible, author William Evans identifies and explains some of the most important doctrinal and dogmatic tenets of the Christian faith.
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