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NIV LIVE: A New Bible Experience

Multisensory. Cinematic. 3D enhanced sound. The NIV Live… A Bible Experience, audio Bible CD set is a digital masterpiece that presents the entire Bible (Genesis through Revelation) in an engaging and entertaining format, lets you listen to and experience the entire New International Version of the Bible from cover to cover, and allows you to enjoy God’s eternal story whenever and wherever you desire. NIV Live features an ensemble cast of actors, musicians, and notable personalities, including Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Award nominees and winners, leading pastors, teachers, members of the clergy, and evangelists, that breathe life into the words and teachings of the Bible.Two-time Emmy Award-winning actress and producer Patricia Heaton (Mary Magdalene), Jesse Corti (Abraham), Kris Polaha (David), Mick Wingert (Saul), Tony Award-nominated actor Norm Lewis (Solomon), Christopher Gorham (Jesus), Pastor Erwin McManus (Psalms), Carlos Santos (Luke), Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter Martha Munizzi (Abigail), Pastor Craig Groeschel (Amos), Christine Lakin (Jezebel), Alex Dessert (Joshua), Phil Crowley (Moses), Tatyana Ali (Tamar), Emmy Award winning producer Pastor Miles McPherson (Angel), nine-time Grammy Award-winning singer and producer Kirk Franklin (Peter), along with many others. NIV Live uses the Bible text from the New International Version, the world’s most popular modern-English Bible, with all 368 biblical characters represented by a unique voice. Dramatic performances, 3D theatrical sound, and a beautiful, inspired score by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra make this an unforgettable listening experience. The complete set features 79 digitally mastered audio CDs, an enhanced bonus making of DVD, free digital downloads, a mobile app, and online access to bonus material.The NIV Live audio Bible delivers a truly spiritual, heart-pounding and authentic event that will become one of the most engaging and emotional experiences of your life.

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Unlucky 13 (Women’s Murder Club)

The Women’s Murder Club is stalked by a killer with nothing to lose.

San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn’t be better.

Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the most deranged and dangerous mind the Women’s Murder Club has ever encountered.

In this pulse-racing, emotionally charged novel by James Patterson, the Women’s Murder Club must find a killer–before she finds them first.

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Pete the Cat Book and CD Pack (Book and CD) : Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons / Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes /Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes (Pete the Cat)

Groovy pictures and fun-to-sing stories capture the adventures of this super-chill feline superstar! This set of audio CDs is a wonderful way to read along with the stories.

Includes Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons book and CD, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes book and CD, and Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes book and CD.

CD running times: 3:46-4:41 minutes

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Love on Mimosa Lane (A Seasons of the Heart Novel)

Law Beaumont and Kristen Hemmings have watched each other from a distance for years. But Law, a bartender with a bad-boy past, and Kristen, an assistant principal devoted to helping her community, couldn’t seem more different. When they unite to mentor a young foster child and to help Law’s troubled daughter through the aftermath of her parents’ ugly divorce, their attraction deepens. They face the undeniable connection between them, and a whirlwind of challenges they can only conquer together. A stirring love story and a candid look at the complexities of divorce, substance abuse, and our country’s foster care system, Love on Mimosa Lane is a love song to an entire community, and a novel about the power of family — the family you’ve been given, the one you’ve chosen, and the one that can lift you up, even when the world is tearing you down.

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The Testament of Mary

Meryl Streep performs Colm Tóibín’s “beautiful and daring”* portrait of Mary, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Meryl Streep performs Colm Tóibín’s “beautiful and daring”* portrait of Mary, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

 

PROVOCATIVE, HAUNTING, AND INDELIBLE, Meryl Streep’s performance of Colm Tóibín’s acclaimed The Testament of Mary presents Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity.

 

In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son’s crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel. They are her keepers, providing her with food and shelter and visiting her regularly. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was “worth it”; nor that the “group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye,” were holy disciples.

 

Mary judges herself ruthlessly (she did not stay at the foot of the Cross until her son died–she fled, to save herself), and her judgement of others is equally harsh. This woman whom we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, silent, long-suffering, obedient, worshipful mother of Christ becomes a tragic heroine with the relentless eloquence of Electra of Medea or Antigone.

Brought to unforgettable life by three-time Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep, Tóibín’s tour de force of imagination and language is a portrait so vivid and convincing that our image of Mary will be forever transformed.

 

*New York Times Book Review