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2022
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"The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed,...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 35
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date:
©2021
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English
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"When two women are brutally murdered in northern California, their deaths are the latest atrocities in a surge of violence targeting Indigenous women in the area. Despite all evidence to the contrary, local officials rule the deaths isolated incidents, and they soon join the ranks of other unsolved homicides, quickly forgotten by law enforcement. Private Investigator Sharon McCone knows better, and so does the organization known as Crimes Against...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date:
2011
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English
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An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration-placing the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context. Recounting the Antarctic expeditions of the early twentieth century, the author reveals the British efforts for what they actually were: massive scientific enterprises in which reaching the...
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The Wild Rose Press, Inc
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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Enter the realm of Dalaria, where Kaleigh is prophesied to be the savior. When she has a vision of a mysterious man at her fortress, fear grips her heart. Is he an ally or a harbinger of doom? As their romance blossoms amidst impending war, Kaleigh and Rowland grapple with conflicting loyalties. During a deadly battle, one of them falls, and the other discovers dormant magic within. With the aid of a bonded dragon and a heart spell, their souls intertwine,...
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Song of ice and fire volume 5
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English
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3.3 stars
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"In the aftermath of a colossal battle, Daenerys Targaryen rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way east--with new allies who may not be the ragtag band they seem. And in the frozen north, Jon Snow confronts creatures from beyond the Wall of ice and stone,...
10. Devil's delight
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English
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5 stars
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"Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-the star of her own hit T.V. series-is back on the case again in Devil's Delight. Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that he has just seen a dead body in the woods. Toni lends...
11. The fatal tree
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Bright Empires novel volume 5
Publisher:
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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" What do you do when you're faced with The End of Everything? The evidence is compelling; not only is The End of Everything approaching, it's approaching rapidly. Desperation sends the Questors to the four corners of the universe in search of answers.Tony and Gianni are in Rome gathering additional data on the collapse of the universe, and Haven and Giles are captured by Huns and taken to Byzantium. Mina travels to Egypt to recruit Dr. Thomas Young,...
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Opening of the World volume 3
Pub. Date:
2009
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English
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Continuing the alternate-Bronze-Age epic begun in Harry Turtledove's Beyond the Gap: The glaciers came and covered the world with ice. Now they are in retreat. North of the city of Nidaros, north of the forest, north of the steppes where the nomadic Bizogots hunt, a gap has opened in the ice-wall. And down through that gap come the men who call themselves "Rulers." Their terrifying cavalry rides wooly mammoths. Their bows can shoot arrows farther...
14. Intrigue
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Archer of the Heathland volume .50
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English
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A rogue Duke, a beautiful woman, and a deadly mission.Weyland, the best archer in the king's army, wants revenge for the slaughter of his family. But when he stumbles across a murdered man with a secret and he saves a duke's life in battle, he finds himself entangled in noble intrigues of the worst kind. A copper coin, a princess, and a beautiful tavern girl push Weyland's skill and loyalty to the limit. Now Weyland has to survive long enough to fulfill...
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Marjo Alkula
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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Above the yawning void, where islands of stone and steel float like embers cast from a dying star, there lies a world fractured by forgotten magic and devoured by its own shadows. This is the Shattered Dominiona realm where cities cling to the sky, powered by the flickering light of Chroma Cores, and where the weight of emotion can shatter mountains or birth empires.Lyra Emberveil knows the cost of such power. A nameless lamplighter in the floating...
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Delphinium Books
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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From a remote village between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire unrolls the intimate story of Teresa and Carlo, two young people whose paths cross and recross as they are first impelled by parents, then forced by sweeping world events to leave their childhood homes for lives they never imagined. Having left her mother and cherished dog Allucio, in Ulfano, Teresa works as a domestic servant in a large villa in Trento. She survives the Great War...
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ARKH
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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Spring is a forgotten memory. The sky no longer melts. Snow lingers not only on the earth, but in the hearts of those who walk it.Across ruined cities etched into frostbitten cliffs and towers that whisper only to the wind, Freiya and her companions follow trails left not by time, but by something that wanted to be erased. In Varatia, answers don't come gently.She carries an echo-of a power long erased from the archives, a forbidden synthesis of illusion...
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Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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Documents the true story of the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Mayan civilization by American ambassador John Lloyd Stephens and British architect Frederick Catherwood, illuminating how their findings profoundly changed Western understandings about human history.