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32741) Charles the King
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Charles I: the last absolute monarch to reign over England, and one of the most ill-fated kings of the tragic, splendid dynasty of the Royal Stuarts. This is a story of passionate love - between Charles and his queen, Henrietta Maria. It is a story of adventure - a reign that collapsed into a bloody and savage civil war. And it is a story of great events, dominant personalities, faith, and great courage.
32742) Inside the Valley
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"The 50's were a time of economic growth after World War 2.
A population explosion that developed into the baby boomer generation. I am a product of that time. The 60's harbored many tragedies. President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The killing of Martin Luther King Jr. was 1968. There were race riots and anger and rage in the streets. The 70's was a turbulent yet contradicting time.
The Vietnam war was at the height of destruction. Yet in...
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Gathering No Moss is the autobiography of a possibly autistic child, born in 1925, who, idiosyncratically educated, grew up to see out, as a member of the Colonial Service, the end of the British Empire in East Africa. In later service with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, he witnessed novice states exulting in newfound independence. His last appointment, as deputy director of the Centre for International Briefing, at Farnham...
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IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Before he was president Abraham Lincoln, he was a lawyer in a large hat. Following his rise to the presidency offers readers an inside look at how the signer of the Emancipation Proclamation came to run the nation. From Lincoln's birth in a one-room log cabin to his early days practicing law and working in politics, his life is full of triumphs and tragedy. The places he lived and the people he loved are all chronicled in this exciting work, filling...
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In a Victorian London where magic fuels steam technology....
Joan Krieger dreams of revolutionizing fashion for this new, modernized world but a hidden enemy stalks her family's clothing business, turning her dream into a nightmare.
When Joan is a witness to a client being murdered by magic, she turns to the only man who can help: Gregor Sherringford, consulting detective. Together, they become a formidable team but their investigation pulls aside...
32746) Retribution
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The African American saga in the land of Uncle Sam is a tale of drama replete with conflict and struggle, at the physical, spiritual, and psychological level, as individually and collectively experienced by Africans in America. Preoccupations and concern with identity issues have been a driving force in spurring many black American leaders and intellectuals, such as Dr. W.E.B. Dubois, to espouse the uniqueness of the American Negro's dual identity...
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Book eighteen in the Inspector Lestrade series.Many readers of the Lestrade books wonder what is fact and what is fiction – and the author is delighted that they can't always tell! So, for all the readers out there who have ever asked that question, here is The World of Inspector Lestrade. In this book, the lid is taken off the Victorian and Edwardian society in a way you've never seen before. Lestrade knew everybody, from Oscar Wilde in the Cadogan...
32748) Atonement For Iwo
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During World War II, Keith Masters, an infantry officer, engages four Japanese in a cave on Iwo Jima, killing three outright. The fourth, a sergeant, is mortally wounded, but is finished off by one of Masters' men. Twenty years later, Masters, a bitter failure with work and family, suffers a heart attack, and develops the fixation that his misfortunes are due to being responsible for what he concludes is the murder of the Japanese sergeant. He goes...
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The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children's books of all time, The Velveteen Rabbit, and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's. But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an overbearing...
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Across Ethiopia and beyond, Sherlock Holmes encounters both the hideous and the divine, ripping asunder the fragile veil separating us from worlds unknown-all while in the company of the renowned Allan Quatermain. The last of Allan Quatermain's true African adventures to appear, The Treasure of the Lake, was published nearly a century ago in 1926. Those who lusted to vicariously accompany Quatermain on new perilous treks into the vast reaches of the...
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Le destin d'une femme sous Mussolini.
En parcourant les allées du cimetière d'un village lombard, l'attention de l'auteur est attirée par une pierre tombale portant la photo d'une jeune femme. Au vu des dates, il réalise que la presque totalité de sa vie s'est déroulée sous Mussolini. Il ne sait rien d'elle et éprouve l'envie irrésistible d'imaginer ce qu'a pu être la vie de l'enfant, puis de l'adolescente, et enfin de la jeune femme qui...
32752) Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson is one of the most famous men in American history. The list of his political accomplishments, such as writing the Declaration of Independence, serving as Minister to France, becoming America's third President, and spearheading the Louisiana Purchase, is long indeed. But that describes Jefferson the public servant. What about Jefferson the private man? How was he affected by the untimely death of his wife? Where did he long to be above...
32753) It Had to Be You
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New York City, 1924. Determined to pursue her dream of becoming a crime reporter, heiress Trixie Frank believes she's off to a running start when she lands a job at the most successful tabloid in Manhattan. Unfortunately, her high hopes fade fast when she's assigned to the rewrite desk. Sean Costigan is a demoted homicide detective on the commissioner's blacklist. The last thing he needs complicating his life is a perky debutante with delusions of...
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Récit d'un amour passionné entre deux êtres d'exception
Alexandre Ivanovitch Ostermann-Tolstoï est issu d'une ancienne et noble famille russe et Maria Pagliari est la fille d'un notable de Frascati, petite cité des environs de Rome.
Lui, le général de belle prestance, ami du tsar Alexandre ler et connu pour sa bravoure, lutte avec son peuple contre les troupes de Napoléon qui envahissent son pays. En 1813, durant la bataille de Kulm en...
32755) Once Upon a Time in Vienna
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BAND # 1
Beschreibt die prägende Pubertät eines 12-jährigen Jungen namens Clemens Capron.
Sein Schicksal im Zweiten Weltkrieg und seine Adoleszenz in der Besatzungszeit, wie auch danach.
Der harte Beginn der alliierten Besatzungszeit und das Ende des folgenden Wirtschaftsaufschwungs, zeigen ebenso die psychosozialen Veränderungen einer Gesellschaft, bestehend aus Ganoven, Möchtegern und Grenzgängern und solcher, welche ihre Chance witterten....
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An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughter's journey to their destiny.
Lotus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running away...
When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia, or "Beautiful One," the child...
32757) Dreams of Salt, Volume 1
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The year is 1865. It has turned autumn in the Alps.Deep in the gigantic cave system of the Totes Gebirge (=the Dead Mountains), an unscrupulous inventor secretly develops a terrible weapon. A powerful wizard supports him in this. The machine is to convert magical energy into military destructive power and thus to surpass everything in defence technology that has so far existed. The mythical Fey are hunted down to serve as live arcane fuel. Their life...
32759) Abducted
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Born the second child of Laird Justin MacGreagor, Paisley was a rare blue-eyed beauty with hair that turned snowy white before she reached her sixteenth birthday. Once rumors spread of her beauty, unmarried men from miles around came just to see her. Laird Chisholm Graham only spent a few hours with Paisley, but it was enough to know he wanted to make her his wife. Yet, as desperate as her father was to protect her, it was not enough to keep her from...
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Note to self: Do NOT fall in love with Matthias Frailey-he's been dead for over 175 years!
Professor Merrideth Randall's latest after-hours research project takes her and friends Abby and John to a small southern Illinois town, where with the help of her time-rewinding software they become virtual eyewitnesses to the arrival of the Cherokee via the Golconda Ferry on December 3, 1838.
They cannot tear their eyes away from the unfolding tragedy-nor...
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