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War of Lost Hearts volume 1
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"A life in slavery taught Tisaanah how to survive with nothing but a sharp eye, a quick mind, and a touch of magic. But the night she tried to buy her freedom, she nearly paid with her life. Instead, she murdered the most powerful man in Threll. Forced to flee, she has only one chance at saving those she left behind: pledging herself to the Orders, an organization of magic Wielders strong enough to destroy her former masters. To earn her place, Tisaanah...
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The ten Booms, who had recently celebrated the one-hundred-year anniversary of their Haarlem watch shop, lived a quiet life. That changed in 1940 when the Nazis occupied the Netherlands and Jewish citizens began to disappear. Corrie and her family, devout Christians, joined the Dutch Resistance and built a secret room in their house to hide Jews and refugees. The Gestapo applied unrelenting pressure on Haarlem, continually raiding homes to snatch...
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Insparket Media
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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Deceived into slavery, a young girl with autism must fight to free herself before she is lost to her family forever. With a preference for the world of make-believe over real life, young Maren becomes an easy target for unscrupulous slavers. Taken to the great city of Ahmcathare, she is forced to serve a brutish master or be punished severely. Desperate to escape, she must do battle with her owner, travel over treacherous countryside, and reunite...
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iUniverse
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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Ask anyone who knows and loves her: Aunt Priya is a feisty little country bumpkin, a loud-mouthed, uncouth character with a heart of gold. She loves her only niece, Sita, and has made it her mission to see that the young woman is suitably married. Frustrated by the challenges of a long-distance relationship with her niece, Aunt Priya makes a bold plan. In the summer of 2001, Aunt Priya and her adopted four-year-old son Rohit arrive in New York. Despite...
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Ingwaz Press
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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Too many Chloe Mikaelsson barely remembers her mother, and her father refuses to talk about her death. Her best friend has suddenly stopped returning her phone calls. If that wasn't bad enough, some creepy cosplay guy is stalking her. She can't imagine things getting worse. Then a group of masked strangers in dark cloaks, armed with swords and magic, invade her home and drag her sister into the forest behind their house. Before her father dies, he...
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe and wherever his daughter's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night's dinner. Their tradition of International Night has afforded Mark an opportunity to share with his daughter, Talia -- and now readers -- the recipes, stories, and insights he's collected over more than thirty years of traveling the world writing about food, culture, and history. International Night is brimming with...
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Isabella Hargreaves
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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An invading army, a captured enemy, and a new beginning.43AD: the despised and dreaded Roman army invades Britannia. Sorcha, daughter of the king of the Durotriges tribe, is devasted when her father is killed during battle against the Romans. She yearns for revenge.Soon the Romans are marching towards her home at Mai Dun hillfort, intent on conquest. Sorcha is commanded to lead the clan's women and children to a distant Durotriges's settlement that...
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2019
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English
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If you have a daughter, it would be surprising if she doesn't struggle with anxiety and worry--either in short episodes or for longer periods. For a variety of reasons, childhood anxiety rates are soaring, especially among girls. Today's parents need to know what contributes to anxiety and worry and how they can empower their daughters to overcome troubling emotions. In this immensely practical book, veteran counselor Sissy Goff shares how you can...
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Pete KJ
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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"Where do we want to go?" That's what Nia and I asked ourselves as she worked her way through elementary school. We tacked a laminated map of the world up in our front room, and kept dry erase markers and a footstool handy. Over the years we went through many iterations. Then we went out and did it! Of course our plans kept on changing, as did we. Join us as we set out from our home in Colorado and voyage to Florida, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador,...
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Otbebookpublishing
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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Excerpt: "In presenting this work to the public, we are fully conscious of the grave charges of misrepresenting society, and misconstruing facts, which will be made by our friends of the South, and its very peculiar institution; but earnestly do we enjoin all such champions of "things as they are," to read and well digest what is here set before them, believing that they will find the TRUTH even "stranger than fiction." And, as an incentive to the...
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Purdue University Press
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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What do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold's Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmental philosophy? Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World provides a series of reflections by an environmental educator about lessons learned from time spent in nature. Originally conceived as personal letters to the author's daughter,...
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Balboa Press
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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Wisdom is Women's Gift to the World. In the many cultural stories that speak about the changing of the ages, it is always Feminine Spirit which brings about the transition to new life, for Feminine Spirit knows the rhythms of life, death, and rebirth and is the "opener of the way." In times of cultural transformation, it is also our right-brain, feminine consciousness that is our best guide, for it opens us to the creative imagination, the realm of...
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SEGR Publishing LLC
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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What a an adorable child, many people must have said when first meeting the precocious little girl on the front cover. Like a beautiful sunset before a long storm, her life was about to enter emotional turbulence that would last for decades. Can one innocent child endure years of abuse, rejection and condemnation and emerge from that with emotional health and spiritual stability? Can you or your loved ones hope for eventual peace from the storm? "The...
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Captain Mary the Queen's Privateer volume 1
Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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In an age ruled by iron men, in a world of new discovery and Spanish gold, a young Irishwoman named Mary rises from the ashes of her broken childhood with ships and men-at-arms under her command. She and her loyal crew prowl the Caribbean and prosper in the New World for a time until the ugly past Mary has fled from in the old one finds her. Across the great ocean to the east, war is coming. The King of Spain is assembling the most powerful armada...