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Mark Dowd

How can we reconcile belief in a loving God with the suffering of innocent human beings and earthly creatures in the natural world? This question, as old as the Old Testament's book of Job, has been mainly grappled with over the centuries by learned theologians and philosophers. But in this groundbreaking work, the author is sent on a journey across thousands of miles to speak to Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians like himself following the 2004 colossal tsunami waves that killed m...

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Mark Dowd

This superb memoir of a gay, working class boy from Manchester exploring how to reconcile his sexuality with his Catholicism is all the more powerful because of his deep knowledge of and commitment to his faith. Spanning the late 1960s to the present day, Mark Dowd’s Queer and Catholic chronicles a changing attitude to same-sex attraction over more than half a century and is packed with stories in turn funny, deeply moving and spiritually insightful, including: coming out to his parents by...

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Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh

The Definitive Insider’s Guide to Auditing Software SecurityThis is one of the most detailed, sophisticated, and useful guides to software security auditing ever written. The authors are leading security consultants and researchers who have personally uncovered vulnerabilities in applications ranging from sendmail to Microsoft Exchange, Check Point VPN to Internet Explorer. Drawing on their extraordinary experience, they introduce a start-to-finish methodo...

The very best writing on Ignatian spiritualityBuilding on the foundation of the original An Ignatian Spirituality Reader, this second volume offers a vibrant collection of essays that explores the relevance of St. Ignatius of Loyola to modern lives, communities, and institutions around the world.Drawing from a wide range of backgrounds that includes theologians, educators, artists, and social justice leaders and from a diverse spectrum of voices tha...

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Steven K. Dowd, Mark V. Wiley, Majia Soderholm, Peter Hobart, Ruel A. Macaraeg, Ken Smith

There has been a lack of reliable academic studies regarding Filipino martial arts that have uniquely developed in the Philippine archipelago. This anthology assembles pioneering scholarly materials valuable for any interested in the Filipino combatives, as well as chapters specifically on the practice.

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Mark Lawrence

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Olivia Dowd

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The Academy of Kindness

The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in the first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of the Library Trilogy and the Broken Empire series.Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters.The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies—known as the kindly ones—against whom even the gods hesitate to stand. Each year a hundred girls are sold t...

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Mark Lawrence

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Olivia Dowd

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The Academy of Kindness

Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters.**'**I never met a Mark Lawrence book that I didn't love' ROBIN HOBB'An excellent writer' GEORGE R.R. MARTINThe Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies – The Kindly Ones – against whom even the gods hesitate to stand.Each year one hundred girls are sold to the Academy. Ten years later only three...

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Bradley Steyn, Mark Fine

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Ashley Dowds

The South African national bestseller, now in audio.HE WITNESSED A RACE-FUELLED MASSACRE AS A TEENAGER. THEN HE INFILTRATED THE RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS PLOTTING TO ASSASSINATE NELSON MANDELA.In 1988, seventeen-year-old Bradley Steyn walked into Pretoria’s Strijdom Square and witnessed white supremacist Barend Strydom shooting black civilians. He held a dying man in his arms. That moment would follow him into the South African Navy, apartheid’...

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Amy Beashel

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Olivia Dowd, Oliver Hembrough, Mark Meadows, Lizzy Watts

Would it kill you to smile, darling? Perhaps…A men-only charity dinner. A clutch of young waitresses.The jokes are uncomfortable. The hands linger. The collars loosen.Behind closed doors, the wine flows.The night is dark. The faces blur. The memories warp.Behind closed doors, the money flows.But revenge is sweet and justice is a burning flame.Behind closed doors, the blood flows…A fie...

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Fonda Lee

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Dillon Sickels, Mary Robinette Kowal

Get ready to be blown away by this searing standalone science fiction epic where corporate samurai fight beneath merciless stars, and death is always a mere breath away.Isako is a legendary swordswoman, but every legend has to come to an end. When her long-time client unexpectedly retires, she plans to follow-to walk out into the frozen wasteland of their planet with her head held high and her family enriched by her legacy. But when a competitor offers her a final ...

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Shannon Chakraborty

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Lameece Issaq, Amin El Gamal, Sneha Mathan

THE EPIC, ACTION-PACKED SEQUEL TO THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SHANNON CHAKRABORTYSet sail into the second adventure of Amina al-Sirafi as her quest to track down magical artifacts brings her to the island lair of a sorceress whose woven enchantments are impossible to flee…Amina al-Sirafi thinks she’s struck gold. Tasked with hunting down magical artifacts for the council of immort...

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Sunyi Dean

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Natalie Naudus

‘Bound to be an immediate classic’ – HANNAH KANER‘Will tear out your heart and heal it in the same breath’ – ELIZA CHAN‘Richly imagined and transportive’ – OLIVIE BLAKE‘A haunting story of loneliness, love and loss’ – GARETH BROWN** A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK **A haunting dark urban fantasy set in historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends ...