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2025
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English
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"Dr. Neil Anderson has just started a new position at the University of Edinburgh when he meets Chrissie, an intelligent and ambitious colleague at the institute. Before long, the two move into a gorgeous flat on the south side of the city. Things seem to be going well for Neil, until an accusation of insensitive comments lands him in hot water with the university and he discovers a troubling secret about his relationship. Suddenly feeling as though...
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Greer Family volume 1
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900L
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English
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5 stars
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Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for...
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Ohio River Trilogy volume 3
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English
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Two frontiersmen venture into the unknown wilderness to save a kidnapped woman in this historical novel by "the greatest Western writer of all time" (Jackson Cain, author of Hellbreak Country). In the late eighteenth century, Wheeling, West Virginia, was an untamed land where brave settlers relied on the protection of a lonely outpost known as Fort Henry. But when a band of renegades and Ohio Valley Indians kidnap a woman from the fort, justice rests...
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(Rebecca J.).Elements of Cadence volume 2
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English
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4 stars
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In the stunning conclusion to the #1 internationally bestselling Elements of Cadence duology that began with A River Enchanted, A Fire Endless finds the tenuous balance between the human and faery realm threatened by Bane, the spirit of the North Wind, whose defeat may require Jack, Adaira, Torin, and Sidra to pay the ultimate price. East and West. Humans and Spirits. Breccans and Tamerlaines. The Isle of Cadence has always held itself and its residents...
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English
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The story is told through the eyes of a traditional Chinese girl, Kwei-lan, married to a Chinese man, a medical doctor, educated abroad. Kwei-Ian is from a traditional upper class home and is given in an arranged marriage to a man who has traveled in the western lands and learned European/American ways. Love slowly develops between them as she tries to adapt her cloistered upbringing and traditions to his modern ideas.
6. Wagon wheels
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500L
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English
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Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
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Maggie D'arcy mystery volume 3
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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"In The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor returns to the critically acclaimed world of Maggie D'arcy with another atmospheric mystery so vivid readers will smell the salt in the air and hear the wind on the cliffs. For the first time in her adult life, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy is unemployed. No cases to focus on, no leads to investigate, just a whole summer on a remote West Cork peninsula with her teenage daughter Lilly...
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Dan Kotler volume 2
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English
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DAN KOTLER IS BACK, AND THIS TIME HE'S TACKLING ONE OF THE OLDEST MYSTERIES IN HISTORY The second Dan Kotler archaeological thriller! 1914-Thomas Edison stands and watches his West Orange laboratory burn to the ground, taking his life's work with it. And he smiles. In his pocket is a stone that is the key to untold mysteries, and with it he will start fresh, and create wonders beyond any of his previous work. 1974-Two US Army Special Forces officers...
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PREFACE I have a long trail of praise for the American cowboy. Leafing through tattered pages of hand-written journals and dust-covered books; and wandering museums admiring masterworks of western artists, I looked beyond their golden frames as windows into America's past, and imagined what the restless spirit of the West was like one hundred fifty years ago for cowboys and the sunbonnets on the American frontier-a land once thought to be as far away...
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Bradt Travel Guides Ltd
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English
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This edition of "Bradt's Bosnia and Herzegovina" remains the only full-length English-language guide to this cultural and outdoor adventure Balkan crossroads. Written by an expert who came to volunteer during the war and ended up staying almost thirty years, it offers a unique first-hand account combined with practical information that goes beyond any other guide available. New for this sixth edition are updated maps, contacts and detailed visitor...
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eBookIt.com
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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This eBook celebrates a journey to some of the most beautiful and inspiring landscapes in the world. My wife and I left our home in Ottawa, Canada in the fall of 2012 in our small motorhome to see and to try to capture photographically some of the grandeur of the American southwest. Quest to the West is a visual and poetic record of our first expedition to this area. We drove from Ottawa to Sault Saint Marie in northern Ontario to capture the pristine...
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Eight-One-Five Publishing
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Salvation does not come without sacrifice.Rise. Otylia will never forget the betrayer's blade slicing across her throat. Nor will she forgive.Trapped by Weles in the underworld of Nawia, she is further from Wacław and Dziewanna than ever. The Trials of Ascension are Otylia's only hope to escape her father's grasp, but is she ready to pay the price of immortality?Fall. Wacław would do anything to get Otylia back. But no demon has ever entered Nawia's...
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Wiley
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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This new revision of an instant classic presents practical solutions to the problem of energy storage on a massive scale. This problem is especially difficult for renewable energy technologies, such as wind and solar power, that, currently, can only be utilized while the wind is blowing or while the sun is shining. If energy storage on a large scale were possible, this would solve many of our society's problems. For example, power grids would not...
15. Lies of the Land
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Vagabond Voices
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Procurator fiscal Maddy Shannon awakens in her West End Glasgow flat to a hangover and several mysteries, starting with who is the strange man in her bed? Shortly after discovering the man's identity, Maddy learns that his boss, a successful defence lawyer, met a gruesome end in his posh Merchant City office. With a bad reputation for getting too close to her cases, Maddy tries to stand back from this one. But as the murders continue, and Maddy herself...
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L.T. Suzuki
Pub. Date:
2010
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English
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Imago Chronicles: Books One, Two and Three have been optioned to produce a major motion picture trilogy.With the defeat of the Dark Lord, unseen forces work to destroy the surviving members of the Order. In pursuit of a rogue Wizard, they embark on a perilous journey into the east where they are confronted by a land and its people trapped in religious and political upheaval - and an alliance that will ultimately lead to the genocide of the Elven race.Caught...
17. Aesop's fables
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760L
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English
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"Written down two thousand years ago in ancient Latin and Greek, the fables and morals of Aesop were first published in English in 1484 and have been passed down through generations. This edition collects 284 fables, including such classics as "The boy who cried wolf", "The tortoise and the hare", "Town mouse and Country mouse", and many more enjoyable yet teachable tales. With eighty illustrations by Milo Winter, this beautiful, vibrant clothbound...
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Reid Lance Rosenthal
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Book One and name sake of the sweeping #1 bestselling Threads West, An American Saga epic saga--winner of twenty-eight National Literary Awards in numerous categories including Historical Fiction, Multi-Cultural, Romance and Western. This novel and the ensuing books of this monumental multi-era epic saga are compared by reviewers and authors to Lonesome Dove, Centennial, and the Sacketts of Louis L'Amour. Called by some reviewers, ''The Gone With...
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Dorian Graves Fiction
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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DAN KOTLER IS BACK, AND THIS TIME HE'S TACKLING ONE OF THE OLDEST MYSTERIES IN HISTORY1914-Thomas Edison stands and watches his West Orange laboratory burn to the ground, taking his life's work with it. And he smiles. In his pocket is a stone that is the key to untold mysteries, and with it he will start fresh, and create wonders beyond any of his previous work.1974-Two US Army Special Forces officers uncover a lockbox filled with invaluable enemy...
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Wagram Press
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. After the defeat of Waterloo and the subsequent rout of the fragile French army's morale, all Europe craved peace. In the minds of many, there was one man who must be removed from the political landscape; a stumbling block to any lasting peace. Napoleon was forced out of Paris and escorted to the...