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Fighting against the images, she could not see their faces, nor could she determine the time, the place, or what was responsible for the event. "Who are those people?" she thought. Where are they going? What was to become of them? "She asked herself." How can I, a young girl, convince them of what is coming and what must be done? "All this she pondered and was filled with anxiety.
Cassandra Wright is a young girl living in Maine at the turn of the...
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In 1988 during the cold war, Alexandra on a singing tour to the Republic of Georgia, U.S.S.R., found herself transported through the Georgian music, to the fourth century A.D. in a mystical journey full of mystery, romance, martyrdom, and ultimate faith that brought Christianity to that country.
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Particularmente, en este libro leeras sobre dioses e indigenas mayas. Asi mismo, tambien encontraras informacion que hablara explicitamente de como estos nativos llevan a cabo su vida cotidiana y de como a lo largo de mucho tiempo, su cultura y sus tradiciones fueron evolucionando. Pero no obstante, lo que hara que tu no dejes de leer esta historia, sera cuando descubras que la joven maya Ixchel Menchu, recibe unas increibles habilidades, las cuales...
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This is the third and final installment of the trilogy of King William and Queen Margaret. The story led to the end of the lives of William and Margaret and the foundation of the fictional House of Rochester. It follows them in their final years as they become the beloved monarchs. The story follows the general fictional English history and ends with the new generation of English monarchs. The new generation is revived by a young sassy princess who...
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When Sarah Madigan lost her three children to diphtheria, she also lost her hair and was shunned and thought to be crazy, a thought not far from her own assessment or her husband's. Broken in spirit and pregnant with her fourth child, she stole a Diary in which she found some release for her sorrow and pain. When the baby came, she was ready to begin again until her husband, bedridden after being trampled by his horse, secretly sent their fourth child...
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Time magazine stated that Game of Thrones is the most popular show in the world. It took the viewers to a remote, unknown past through an atmosphere of a dream world which comes into being with the help of the creation of an illusion. The strange, supernatural, and extraordinary world of beauty, fear, awe, mystery, talisman, and gallantry is created. Since these events occur in a centuries-old world far away from modern times, the viewers can enjoy...
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Devoted to free Ireland from British dominance, Jeremiah Knox joined the Fenian Brotherhood in the late 1880s committed to remove the British by military insurrection. Realizing the limits of armed rebellion, he enrolled at Edinburg University to study law in the belief that political persuasion coupled with military action would be the most effective course to remove the oppressors. During a summer break in his studies he planned an ambush of a British...
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Dear readers,
My story is set during the Great Depression. A hundred dollars doesn't seem like a lot of money now, but back then, men were working for ten cents an hour, and sugar was ten cents a pound. In the '50s when I entered the workforce, minimum wage was twenty-five cents an hour. So, we learned, take care of your pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves.
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Many people have a public face and one they keep private. This is the case for seventeen-year-old Pearl. However, hers is quite complicated. While maintaining a public face as an advocate for women's right to vote, she must do so privately to avoid the wrath of her father, Judge McNeece. He is a man with stern indictments for any woman involved in the suffrage movement. Now, imagine Pearl's difficulty when another character notices the fact that she...
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This story is a historical and literary fiction that begins in the late fourteenth century and depicts the missions of Earth's first Alien with a unique and ancient make. The Alien is with an innate ability to see and communicate with spirits and is assigned and guided by prehistoric beings of a primordial past, and exist as powerful spirits that seek to renew the forgotten past She walked. Meanwhile, in this journey, She is paired with a weighty...
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To be told you are unable to do something is a misconception. To spend your whole life trying to prove something is unfortunate.
Mid-1800s. What we have here is a woman, a mother with children, thrust into a life-changing situation that is now out of her control. American law is viewed or looked upon like it has never been before.
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The south is known for the beautiful plantations sitting on the front porch talking to family and friends while drinking a tall cold glass of tea. There is so much rich history in the south. But if you look just under the surface, you can see the dark that begins to emerge with unsettling stories about urban legends. The rich history is true, but what about the urban legends, are they true or not? You be the judge.
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A letter arrives from southern France rekindles memories and feelings for Hercule, a mercenary turned Franciscan, living a quiet life on the coastal city-state of Ragusa on the Dalmatian coast. The past was anything but quiet as his life was intertwined with Katherine, an apothecary from Montpellier on the southern French coast. This letter from the Abbess brings an earnestness that Hercule cannot ignore. His beloved Katherine is dying and she has...
14) Tarnished Brass
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From 1980 until 1992 a brutal civil war was fought in the small Central American country of El Salvador. The root cause of that war was the disparity of wealth between the ruling oligarchy — the fourteen families that had ruled El Salvador since Spanish colonial days, and the peasants that made up the majority of the population. Today, twenty-seven years later, socio-economic conditions are much the same as they were during the civil war. Despite...
15) Pete and Jimmy
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This is a love story about a man, his horse, and his family. It is set in the very early 1800s. They travel from upstate New York, through the prairies, and to the mountains of Colorado. This is a tale of Pete and Jimmy's life together and their family, through good times and hardship but always with love.
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Journey to Gettysburg is a dramatic replay of the events leading up to the most important battle of the Civil War. It is seen through the eyes of a Quaker boy who is first, a bystander and observer. Then, he is drawn into the conflict and becomes a participant in Pickett's Charge, the climax of the three-day conflict. Matt Mason is a 15-year-old boy who was raised on an isolated farm in rural North Carolina. With the untimely death of his mother it...
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From the Isle of Mull, Scotland, to the backcountry of the Carolinas, to an island plantation, the story continues, tracing the remarkable saga of a family through war and peace, love and disaster, and its controversies over slavery.
This is the story of Aureline Labouisse Ravenal and Henry Edwards the passionate struggle of their stormy marriage a struggle from island jungle cabin to plantation mansion.
One abiding passion held them together: their...
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In this captivating sequel to Caty Maclean, readers join Caty and her family as The Winds of Change sweep across the hilly backcountry settlement of Waxhaw. As a wife and mother, Caty finds life on a wilderness farm difficult. The dream for a son is tragically dashed when her life is threatened by childbirth, imposing heart-breaking consequences. In the midst of her own battles, the rivalry between France and England over possession of Indian lands...
19) Fallen Branches
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ᅠRachel Brenham, bright, beautiful and confident, returns home from boarding school with visions ahead of her time about her role as a modern woman in the quickly evolving social and industrial scene in England's Buckingham midlands during the 1800s.
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Her contemporary views are quickly put to question as her wealthy father, whose hidden motives threaten to unravel Rachel's new visions of herself, has arranged a marriage to her childhood...
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Under the united leadership of Athens and Sparta, Greece is able to repel the Persian invaders on land and at sea. Athens and Sparta remain the dominant powers in Greece, but their different political and military philosophies have led to an intense political and military rivalry that threatens stability.
With Athenian power and wealth growing, many Greek city-states turn to Sparta for assistance. Greece is now choosing sides, causing an ideological...
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