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Burning Terrors

By: Samantha Johnson,Amanda Alexander

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Rebecca and Courtney Marks, two sisters living with their single father, are unprepared for the twist in their life on one hot, August day. Of all the things that could transport them to an alternate universe, their mothers silver hand-mirror is the last thing they would have expected to land them in Viguanagura, a world that is still in the Medieval Ages. As the girls set out on their quest to find a mysterious man who can send them back home, they become involved in a revolution against the king and a dispute between the creatures called griffentaurs. Struggling to stay alive and stick together, Rebecca and Courtney become more involved in Viguanaguras fate and its mysterious age-old prophecy. Now, not only are they searching for a way home, but they are also on a path Destiny has set before them. Setting foot on Viguanaguras soil was only the first step in making the prophecy come true. Many more events will follow, and burning terrors is the least of their worries.

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1481729330

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Destiny's Chosen

By: Amanda Alexander,Samantha Johnson

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Destiny's Chosen

By: Amanda Alexander,Samantha Johnson

Two years after their first trip to Viguanagura, Courtney and Rebecca have trouble adapting to normal life. While home for Christmas break, the sisters find the magical mirror that originally transported them to the enchanting world and are once again caught up in a fantastical adventure. Restoration after the revolution is still in progress, but along with these many changes comes a new problem. Girls are being kidnapped from the villages. While trying to help catch the kidnapper, Rebecca herself is taken captive along with her friend Jennifer. The only clue to the identity of the kidnapper is his unnerving yellow eyes. While Courtney embarks on a quest to rescue her sister, many more unsettling things surface about the dark past of Viguanagura, all of which seem to revolve around the illusive kidnapper. The prophecy once again becomes entangled in her life, and she discovers the harrowing truth about who her parents really are. As she struggles to find herself, she realizes that the truth doesnt always need to be uncovered.

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1491869852

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They Looked and Loved

Or, Won by Faith

By: Alexander McVeigh Miller

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They Looked and Loved

Or, Won by Faith

By: Alexander McVeigh Miller

Desperately impoverished and nearing the end of her rope, Nita makes a rash promise to marry a strange but wealthy old man she meets in a chance encounter. Before the nuptials are to take place, Nita is given one full year to sow her wild oats. Will she make good on her promise and live a life of loveless luxury as a kept woman?

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The Floating Press

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1776592158

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9781776592159

Telephone Calls From The Crypt

By: Alexander Adams

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Telephone Calls From The Crypt

By: Alexander Adams

Martha Belmont is a very rich and very mean old woman who lives on the Main Line in suburban Philadelphia. She has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. She is addicted to her Apple iPhone and has the objective of making obscene or troubling phone calls to all the area codes in the United States. Through her Jamaican maid, Yolande, she is introduced to a Voodoo psychic in South Philadelphia, named Jamarcus, who is a disciple of a grand Voodoo master in New Orleans called the Black Messiah. She meets with Jamarcus and eventually with The Black Messiah. The Black Messiah is the one true, direct descendant of Yoa, the savior of a peaceful Dahomey tribe in West Africa several centuries ago. The Messiah is also the sole possessor of Yoa’s magical spear. The Messiah convinces her that with the help of Yoa he can offer her eternal life. Satisfied that the Messiah’s offer has validity she has her accountant transfer $500,000 dollars in cash to Jamarcus and 1.5 million dollars to the Black Messiah’s offshore account. Jamarcus supervises the construction of a luxury tomb for Martha in a South Philadelphia cemetery. Shortly before the exact moment when Martha would have died naturally, the Black Messiah is summoned to her home. He performs an elaborate ritual that requires Martha to pledge eternal loyalty to Yoa. He then throws the Spear of Yoa into her chest, and Martha immediately becomes one of the living-dead. After an interesting viewing and funeral service, Martha is interred with her iPhone into a tomb that includes all the luxuries anyone could ever desire. While living a life of luxury, Martha uses her Apple iPhone to terrorize people living in as many telephone area codes as possible and to gain vengeance on anyone, including both of her children, who have wronged her during her life. Her telephone calls from the crypt are sometimes vicious and sometimes hilarious, but always entertaining. Over the years, Martha mellows a bit, but she remains the kind of person you would not want to cross.

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Club Lighthouse Publishing

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1772170887

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Faded Acts of Love

By: Joseph F. Alexander

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Faded Acts of Love

By: Joseph F. Alexander

It is not until he meets Adrienne that Peters pessimistic expectations about women finally lift. After she and Peter marry, all seems safe and idealuntil their two-year-old son, Nicholas, plunges to his death from the balcony of their Manhattan apartment. As the aura of happiness that surrounds Adrienne and Peter abruptly shatters, they fl ounder in the darkness of grief, barely able to fathom their loss. Together they realize that their best hope for recovery is to have another child and, fourteen months after Nicholass tiny white casket is lowered into the ground, Adrienne gives birth to a daughter. With great hopes for a new beginning, the family moves to Westchester. While Peter moves up the corporate ladder at a prestigious Madison Avenue advertising agency, Adrienne learns to tolerate his chronic inattention, womanizing, and lies. But when he is sent on assignment to London, he makes a fateful decision that leads to disastrous consequences he could have never predicted. In this endlessly unpredictable odyssey of love and loss that probes the intricacies of two intertwined relationships that span twenty years and two continents, Peter now must face an uncertain future dictated by one careless act.

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iUniverse

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1450272339

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9781450272339

Lights of Summer: The Will to Play

By: Alexander Rebelle

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Lights of Summer: The Will to Play

By: Alexander Rebelle

In the wake of an early December snowstorm, Aries Constantine makes his morning jog across the sand of a quiet Cape Cod beach. No one lives on the beach in the winter. Aries is all alone for his morning run, or at least, he thinks so. On this cold December morning, he meets a mysterious young woman on the beach. But who is she? Where did she come from? And how does she know his secret? How does she know about the life he thought he left behind? Lights of Summer: The Will to Play is the first installment in the Lights of Summer series, a thrilling and uplifting tale of hope, love, sex, rediscovered dreams, and the sport of baseball.

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Lulu.com

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1312614250

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9781312614253

Elizabeth

The Forgotten Years

By: John Alexander Guy

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Elizabeth

The Forgotten Years

By: John Alexander Guy

COSTA AWARD FINALIST ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Film rights acquired by Gold Circle Films, the team behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding "A fresh, thrilling portrait... Guy's Elizabeth is deliciously human." -Stacy Schiff, The New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen, Elizabeth is an intimate and surprising biography that shows her at the height of her power. Elizabeth was crowned queen at twenty-five, but it was only when she reached fifty and all hopes of a royal marriage were behind her that she began to wield power in her own right. For twenty-five years she had struggled to assert her authority over advisers, who pressed her to marry and settle the succession; now, she was determined not only to reign but to rule. In this magisterial biography, John Guy introduces us to a woman who is refreshingly unfamiliar: at once powerful and vulnerable, willful and afraid. We see her confronting challenges at home and abroad: war against France and Spain, revolt in Ireland, an economic crisis that triggers riots in the streets of London, and a conspiracy to place her cousin Mary Queen of Scots on her throne. For a while she is smitten by a much younger man, but can she allow herself to act on that passion and still keep her throne? For the better part of a decade John Guy mined long-overlooked archives, scouring handwritten letters and court documents to sweep away myths and rumors. This prodigious historical detective work has enabled him to reveal, for the first time, the woman behind the polished veneer: determined, prone to fits of jealous rage, wracked by insecurity, often too anxious to sleep alone. At last we hear her in her own voice expressing her own distinctive and surprisingly resonant concerns. Guy writes like a dream, and this combination of groundbreaking research and propulsive narrative puts him in a class of his own. "Significant, forensic and myth-busting, John Guy inspires total confidence in a narrative which is at once pacey and rich in detail." -- Anna Whitelock, TLS "Most historians focus on the early decades, with Elizabeth's last years acting as a postscript to the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Guy argues that this period is crucial to understanding a more human side of the smart redhead." - The Economist, Book of the Year

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0670786020

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Skies of Thunder

The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World

By: Caroline Alexander

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Skies of Thunder

The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World

By: Caroline Alexander

“Riveting.” —The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air—meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on “the Hump,” the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route.They flew fickle, untested aircraft through monsoons and enemy fire, with inaccurate maps and only primitive navigation technology. The result was a litany of both deadly crashes and astonishing feats of survival. The most chaotic of all the war’s arenas, the China-Burma-India theater was further confused by the conflicting political interests of Roosevelt, Churchill and their demanding, nominal ally, Chiang Kai-shek. Caroline Alexander, who wrote the defining books on Shackleton’s Endurance and Bligh's Bounty, is brilliant at probing what it takes to survive extreme circumstances. She has unearthed obscure memoirs and long-ignored records to give us the pilots’ and soldiers’ eye views of flying and combat, as well as honest portraits of commanders like the celebrated “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell and Claire Lee Chennault. She assesses the real contributions of units like the Flying Tigers, Merrill’s Marauders, and the British Chindits, who pioneered new and unconventional forms of warfare. Decisions in this theater exposed the fault-lines between the Allies—America and Britain, Britain and India, and ultimately and most fatefully between America and China, as FDR pressed to help the Chinese nationalists in order to forge a bond with China after the war. A masterpiece of modern war history.

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1984879235

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Homelands and Waterways

The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

By: Adele Logan Alexander

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Homelands and Waterways

The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

By: Adele Logan Alexander

This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom. Beginning with John Robert Bond, who emigrated from England to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War and married a recently freed slave, Alexander shows three generations of Bonds as they take chances and break new ground. From Victorian England to antebellum Virginia, from Herman Melville's New England to the Jim Crow South, from urban race riots to the battlefields of World War I, this fascinating chronicle sheds new light on eighty crucial years in our nation's troubled history. The Bond family's rise from slavery, their interaction with prominent figures such as W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, and their eventual, uneasy realization of the American dream shed a great deal of light on our nation's troubled heritage.

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Vintage

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0307426254

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9780307426253

Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment

By: Alexander Cook

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Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment

By: Alexander Cook

The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of ‘humanity’ through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of conversation and musicology.

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1317320174

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Veterinary Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neurology - E-Book

By: Alexander de Lahunta,Eric N. Glass,Marc Kent

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Veterinary Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neurology - E-Book

By: Alexander de Lahunta,Eric N. Glass,Marc Kent

Organized by functional neurologic system, the 3rd edition of this authoritative reference provides the most up-to-date information on neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropathology, and clinical neurology as it applies to small animals, horses, and food animals. Accurate diagnosis is emphasized throughout with practical guidelines for performing neurologic examinations, interpreting examination results, and formulating effective treatment plans. In-depth disease descriptions, color images, and video clips reinforce important concepts and assist with diagnosis and treatment. - Expert authors bring more than 50 years of experience in veterinary neuroanatomy and clinical neurology to this book — Dr. Alexander DeLahunta and Dr. Eric Glass offer their unique insights from both academic and practitioner perspectives. - Disease content is presented in a logical case study format with three distinct parts: - Description of the disorder - Neuroanatomic diagnosis (including how it was determined, the differential diagnosis, and any available ancillary data) - Course of the disease (providing final clinical or necropsy diagnosis and a brief discussion of the syndrome) - NEW! High-quality, state-of-the-art MR images in the Neuroanatomy by Dissection chapter takes an atlas approach to presenting normal brain anatomy of the dog, filling a critical gap in the literature since Marcus Singer's The Brain of the Dog in Section. - NEW Uncontrolled Involuntary Skeletal Muscle Contractions chapter provides new coverage of this movement disorder. - NEW case descriptions offer additional practice in working your way through real-life scenarios to reach an accurate diagnosis and an effective treatment plan for neurologic disorders. - NEW! A detailed Video Table of Contents in the front of the book makes it easier to access the videos that correlate to case examples.

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1455748579

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Clergymen and Chiefs

A Genealogy of the MacQueen and Macfarlane Families

By: Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum

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Clergymen and Chiefs

A Genealogy of the MacQueen and Macfarlane Families

By: Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum

In 1962, Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum first visited the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland. After surveying the land and finding it a stark contrast to the fertile fields of South Carolina's lowcountry, he understood why, after generations, his forbears had chosen to leave the Scottish isle and cross the Atlantic. However, over the next two decades he made annual visits to Scotland and slowly uncovered the rich history of the MacQueen and Macfarlane families.

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0971978417

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Burning Terrors

Burning Terrors

Destiny's Chosen

Destiny's Chosen

They Looked and Loved

They Looked and Loved

Telephone Calls From The Crypt

Telephone Calls From The Crypt

Faded Acts of Love

Faded Acts of Love

Lights of Summer: The Will to Play

Lights of Summer: The Will to Play

Elizabeth

Elizabeth

Skies of Thunder

Skies of Thunder

Homelands and Waterways

Homelands and Waterways

Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment

Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment

Veterinary Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neurology - E-Book

Veterinary Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neurology - E-Book

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