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		<title>When the Myrtles Begin to Sprout: A Final Post</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands! Where once there were thorns, cypress trees will grow. Where nettles grew, myrtles will sprout up. These events will bring great honor to the LORD&#8217;s name; they will be an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edenellis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12025662&amp;post=1360&amp;subd=edenellis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thorns and Myrtles Has Moved</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently decided to move Thorns and Myrtles over to Blogger. Here is the new address: http://thornsandmyrtles.blogspot.com/ I want to send out a big thank you to all of you who read and have subscribed to this blog. If you are a subscriber, please consider &#8220;following&#8221; me on the new site. If you have graciously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edenellis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12025662&amp;post=1233&amp;subd=edenellis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is 1896 and the Etsbys, Swedish immigrants living in Spokane, Washington, are about to lose their farm. With her husband recovering from illness and unable to work, Helga Etsby accepts an epic offer: sponsors will give her $10,000 dollars if she will walk from Spokane to New York City modeling the new and scandalous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edenellis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12025662&amp;post=1191&amp;subd=edenellis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then you come across a book whose message you feel is so important you wish you could buy cases of its volumes and pass them out on street corners. The Fight Of Our Lives was, for me, one of those books. Using the response to Nidal Hasan&#8217;s massacre of his fellow soldiers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edenellis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12025662&amp;post=1173&amp;subd=edenellis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lauren Durough was born into privilege. As the only child of her wealthy parents, Lauren feels the weight of bearing the Durough name and rebels by attending a state school and living in the dorms. As a further bid for individuality, Lauren decides to take a job to earn her own spending money. When she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edenellis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12025662&amp;post=1143&amp;subd=edenellis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hold up a copy of Tracey Bateman&#8217;s book Tandem next to Stephenie Meyer&#8217;s Twilight, and you will notice some similarities. Both authors&#8217; names appear to be in the same font (though it looks like Meyer chose to go bold), and both titles are scripted entirely in lower case. Coincidence? Covers aside, Bateman and Meyer have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edenellis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12025662&amp;post=1046&amp;subd=edenellis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its festive cover labels it a young adult novel, but anyone who has read C. S. Lewis knows books intended for the consumption of those younger than you are nothing to snub. The Charlatan&#8217;s Boy is delightful. Orphaned and pitifully ugly, Grady is in the care of Floyd the charlatan and performs in his traveling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edenellis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12025662&amp;post=958&amp;subd=edenellis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are each unique, we each have a destiny to fulfill, and Mark Batterson&#8217;s book Soul Print wants to help its reader do so. Batterson draws from the life of King David to illustrate his points throughout the book. The opening and first chapter start off fairly well, citing some interesting instances in the lives of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edenellis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12025662&amp;post=870&amp;subd=edenellis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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