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The Reindeer Keeper

By: Barbara Briggs Ward

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Abbey senses something special about the little man tending to the reindeer who, along with a century-old farmhouse, a barn full of animals, and fields abounding in woods and pasture, was a gift to Abbey from a stranger. Turns out this Christmas proves to be more magical than anticipated as Abbey realizes an understanding never thought possible through the rekindling of a belief rooted in childhood. Of course it's who delivers this gift on Christmas Eve that gives Abbey and Steve the strength to face their greatest challenge.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1604944439

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9781604944433

Archaeologies of Sexuality

By: Robert A. Schmidt,Barbara L. Voss

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Archaeologies of Sexuality

By: Robert A. Schmidt,Barbara L. Voss

A timely and pioneering work that demonstrates the challenges and rewards of integrating the study of sex and sexuality within archaeology, It draws on locations as varied as the ancient Maya Kingdoms, convict-era Australia and prehistoric Europe.

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Routledge

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1134593856

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9781134593859

Living and Dying in England 1100-1540 : The Monastic Experience

The Monastic Experience

By: Barbara Harvey

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Living and Dying in England 1100-1540 : The Monastic Experience

The Monastic Experience

By: Barbara Harvey

This fascinating account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities is also a broad exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages, by one of its most distinguished historians. - ;This is an authoritative account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's greatest monastic communities. It is also a wide-ranging exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages and early sixteenth century, by one of its most distinguished historians. Barbara Harvey exploits the exceptionally rich archives of the Benedictine foundation of Westminster to the full, offering numerous vivid insights into the lives of the Westminster monks, their dependants, and their benefactors. She examines the charitable practices of the monks, their food and drink, their illnesses and their deaths, the number and conditions of employment of their servants, and their controversial practice of granting corrodies (pensions made up in large measure of benefits in kind). All these topics Miss Harvey considers in the context both of religious institutions in general, and of the secular world. Full of colour and interest, Living and Dying in England is an original and highly readable contribution to medieval history, and that of the early sixteenth century. - ;By one of the greatest authorities on the subject -

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Clarendon Press

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0191591734

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9780191591730

General Consent in Jane Austen

A Study of Dialogism

By: Barbara Karolina Seeber

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General Consent in Jane Austen

A Study of Dialogism

By: Barbara Karolina Seeber

Readings of Jane Austen tend to be polarized: she is seen either as conformist - the prevalent view - or quietly subversive. In General Consent in Jane Austen Barbara Seeber overcomes this critical stalemate, arguing that general consent does not exist as a given in Austen's texts. Instead, her texts reveal the process of manufacturing consent - of achieving ideological dominance by silencing dissent. Drawing on the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Seeber interrogates academic and popular constructions of Jane Austen, opening up Austen's "unresolvable dialogues.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077352066X

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9780773520660

Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen

By: Barbara Britton Wenner

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Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen

By: Barbara Britton Wenner

How do Austen's heroines find a way to prevail in their environments? How do they make the landscape work for them? In what ways does Austen herself use landscape to convey meaning? These are among the questions Barbara Britton Wenner asks as she explores

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754651789

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9780754651789

From Penitence to Charity

Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris

By: Barbara B. Diefendorf

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From Penitence to Charity

Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris

By: Barbara B. Diefendorf

From Penitence to Charity radically revises our understanding of women's place in the institutional and spiritual revival known as the Catholic Reformation. Focusing on Paris, where fifty new religious congregations for women were established in as many years, it examines women's active role as founders and patrons of religious communities, as spiritual leaders within these communities, and as organizers of innovative forms of charitable assistance to the poor. Rejecting the too common view that the Catholic Reformation was a male-dominated movement whose principal impact on women was to control and confine them, the book shows how pious women played an instrumental role, working alongside--and sometimes in advance of--male reformers. At the same time, it establishes a new understanding of the chronology and character of France's Catholic Reformation by locating the movement's origins in a penitential spirituality rooted in the agonies of religious war. It argues that a powerful desire to appease the wrath of God through acts of heroic asceticism born of the wars did not subside with peace but, rather, found new outlets in the creation of austere, contemplative convents. Admiration for saintly ascetics prompted new vocations, and convents multiplied, as pious laywomen rushed to fund houses where, enjoying the special rights accorded founders, they might enter the cloister and participate in convent life. Penitential enthusiasm inevitably waned, while new social and economic tensions encouraged women to direct their piety toward different ends. By the 1630s, charitable service was supplanting penitential asceticism as the dominant spiritual mode. Capitalizing on the Council of Trent's call to catechize an ignorant laity, pious women founded innovative new congregations to aid less favored members of their sex and established lay confraternities to serve society's outcasts and the poor. Their efforts to provide war relief during the Fronde in particular deserve recognition.

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Oxford University Press

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0190282606

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9780190282608

The Hidden Places of East Anglia

Including Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire

By: Barbara Vesey

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The Hidden Places of East Anglia

Including Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire

By: Barbara Vesey

This is the 7th edition of the Hidden Place of Anglia, one of the Hidden Places most popular titles and will be printed in full colour. The East Anglian counties offer plenty for the visitor to explore in real Hidden Places country. Norfolk is famous for the Norfolk Broads but has a rich and interesting past, gentle hills as well as expansive horizons, delightful pastoral scenes, a beautiful coastline rich in wildlife and many interesting hidden places to visit. Suffolk was made famous by the brush of John Constable and is blessed with incomparable rural beauty, which encompasses wide-open spaces broken by gentle hills and tidal rivers meandering from a coastline teeming with birdlife. Essex contains England's oldest recorded town (Colchester) has a strong maritime tradition, pretty villages, a coastline with attractive estuaries and a rich history going back to Roman times. Cambridgeshire is famous for its ancient university and being the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Pepys but offers a wealth of peaceful and attractive countryside with many towns and villages steeped in history, which are truly "hidden places." The book is packed with information and coloured photographs covering the more secluded and little known venues for food, accommodation and places of interest as well as the more enduring attractions of the region.

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Travel Publishing Ltd

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1902007913

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9781902007915

Yesterday's Shadows

By: Barbara Meadows

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Yesterday's Shadows

By: Barbara Meadows

Catherine Milford is a young woman who attempts to escape the memories of her son's death by moving from her Indiana home and the horse show world that she knows so well, to a completely different life. Three years later, with the invitation to attend her best friend's wedding, she is beckoned to return to the place where her son was killed in a barn fire. Catherine's journey back to the horses and the horse people who had once filled her life is a mixture of joy and sorrow. She must grow in ways that are difficult and painful as she faces the tragedy of her loss when she goes back to the place she and her son had once lived. Matt Newton is a divorced father, trying to build a new life for himself and his daughter after his wife and he split up. A stranger to the horse world, and connected to Catherine Milford only by an introduction from their mutual friend, Matt must eventually decide how he can open his heart to a future different from the one he had planned on. These two people face the challenge of overcoming ghosts from their previous lives. Abbey Newton, Matt's nine year old daughter, plays a big part in the chain of events that brings them to the conclusion of the book, where some choices end up being made for them all. From the farm country of northeastern Indiana to a show ring in Devon, Pennsylvania, this story is about love and loss, friendship and devotion, and the incredible bond between riders and their horses that can be, at times, magical.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462834507

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9781462834501

The Barber, The Astronaut, and The Golf Ball

By: Barbara Radnofsky,Ed Supkis

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The Barber, The Astronaut, and The Golf Ball

By: Barbara Radnofsky,Ed Supkis

In 1971, famed astronaut Alan Shepard returned from the moon and went to get a haircut. Before settling into the barber’s chair in Webster, Texas, near NASA’s Mission Control, Shepard gave his longtime barber and friend, Carlos Villagomez, an autographed golf ball. During his Apollo 14 moonwalk, Shepard had conducted a world-famous demonstration of gravity by hitting a golf ball in an out-of-this-world sand trap. It took him two tries. Carlos, a Navy combat veteran and barber for numerous astronauts, says Shepard gave him the ball immediately after he returned to earth and was released from quarantine. Had Shepard taken a third ball to the moon? And did he give it to his barber as a token of their long friendship? The debate provides a backdrop for The Barber, The Astronaut, and the Golf Ball, a story of two extraordinary men and their lasting friendship. The book is based on recollections of Carlos himself, the authors—both children of NASA scientists—as well as other astronauts, memorabilia experts, and family and friends of Shepard, who died in 1998. Is the ball one of the most significant pieces of sports memorabilia in history, or simply a gift of enduring friendship? Did the barber’s golf ball fly to the moon? In seeking the answers, this extensively researched account of NASA history provides readers with insight into some of America’s greatest space explorers, including Michael Collins, Deke Slayton, and Charles Duke. The Barber, The Astronaut, and the Golf Ball offers a rare glimpse behind the scenes of America’s space program at its pinnacle and shows the ordinary people who supported one of the nation’s most monumental scientific endeavors.

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Texas A&M University Press

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9798989120352

Progress & Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907

By: Barbara A. Suess

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Progress & Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907

By: Barbara A. Suess

Progress and Identity in the Poems of W. B. Yeats explores the ways in which Yeats's plays offer an alternative form of progress via a philosophical system of opposites: Always seeking the opposite, the nature of which changes as we change, we continually augment our personalities, and ultimately improve society, with the inclusion of the Other. This system, which eventually became Yeats's doctrine of the mask, provided his contemporaries with a method of changing what science, Platonism, and Victorian bourgeois ideologies claimed to be inescapable qualities of self. Progress and Identityn relocates Yeats's literary, social, and political relevance from his essentializing cultural nationalism to his later, more broad-minded definitions of progress.

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Routledge

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1135454000

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9781135454005

Commemorating the Seafarer

Monuments, Memorials and Memory

By: Barbara Tomlinson

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Commemorating the Seafarer

Monuments, Memorials and Memory

By: Barbara Tomlinson

A generously illustrated survey of memorials to different kinds of seafarers, recounting the stories behind them.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1843839709

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9781843839705

American Impressionism & Realism

A Landmark Exhibition from the MET, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

By: Helene Barbara Weinberg,Queensland Art Gallery

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American Impressionism & Realism

A Landmark Exhibition from the MET, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

By: Helene Barbara Weinberg,Queensland Art Gallery

An exhibition publication featuring curatorial essays and works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1876509996

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9781876509996

The Candle Giver

By: Barbara Briggs Ward

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The Candle Giver

By: Barbara Briggs Ward

It's been an emotional journey for Steve having lost Abbey after thirty-some years of being happily married. With the passing of time, he thinks about moving on yet hesitates. While encouraged by those around him, Steve seeks a sign, a whisper, something mere words cannot express. With two families coming together in celebration of a double wedding on Christmas Eve at the old farmhouse surrounded by woods and pastures and a majestic barn full of reindeer, the magic of the season demonstrates yet again anything can happen. Sleighs pulled deep into the woods by mighty horses bring loved ones to yet another place full of wonder and surprise as a gift wrapped inside a worn-out trunk full of special things left to a granddaughter by a grandmother she’d never know proves invaluable. What sounds like violins -- like harps being played and a chorus singing from somewhere amidst the pine and birch trees offer reassurance as snow angels lie in wait and eternal love spreads its wings, reaching beyond the mountain tops. Christmas wrapped in new beginnings by old traditions makes a most astonishing season—unforgettable.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1627872884

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9781627872881

The Duke Comes Home

By: Barbara Cartland

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The Duke Comes Home

By: Barbara Cartland

Ever since the cruel death of her beloved brother, David at the Battle of Waterloo, Lady Ilina Bury’s father, the fifth Duke of Tetbury, has taken out his grief on her and now he too has died and his will reiterates his contempt of her. He leaves the beautiful nothing but the extremely valuable collection of jewels that had been given to his ancestor, the second Duke of Tetbury, by the Nizam of Hyderabad. The trouble is that, although legendary, these jewels are also almost certainly mythical and Ilina and David have been searching Tetbury Abbey for them for years without any success. All but destitute she dreads the arrival of her father’s heir and rather than be a burden, she decides to pretend that she is a paid employee of the poverty-stricken estate. And when the handsome new Duke finally does arrive from the Far East, he is visibly disappointed by what he sees, but worse still he says that he intends to abandon the estate, all its loyal staff and close up The Abbey for ever. He very quickly sees through Ilina’s disguise and then she shows the Duke round the dilapidated house and estate and regales him with the family’s illustrious history over many centuries. Although she despises him, she uses all her charms to persuade the Duke to stay and do his duty for his distinguished and aristocratic family. And, as little by little he yields, so Ilina’s heart slowly opens to love.

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Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

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1788671139

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9781788671132

A Dream from the Night

By: Barbara Cartland

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A Dream from the Night

By: Barbara Cartland

To afford the food and medicine her ailing mother needs, the beautiful Honourable Olinda Selwyn, daughter of the late Lord Selwyn, former Lord Chief Justice of England, is obliged to conceal her background to take employment with the Dowager Countess of Kelvedon as an expert embroiderer at the family stately home in Derbyshire.Taken aback to find that the ageing but still beautiful Countess is having a love affair with a dissolute young rake, Olinda sympathises with her estranged son, the Earl, who despises his mother for her loose morals.Drawn reluctantly into the Kelvedon family’s tangle of bitterness and resentment, Olinda finds herself gently advising the Earl – or as he puts it, inspiring him.But just as the love she has only ever dreamt of seems almost within her grasp, Kelvedon is rocked by a sudden and suspicious death – and, incredibly, the man she loves with all her heart stands accused.

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Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

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1782134220

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My Journey With God

By: Barbara Bb Booth

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My Journey With God

By: Barbara Bb Booth

Barbara "BB" Booth's "My Journey With God" is an intimate look at the author's path from a young believer, to a seasoned soldier of Christ. Incorporating anecdotes and stories from her own life, and scripture from the Holy Bible, "My Journey With God" makes a reader feel as if they are traveling with the author every step of the way. So come take a trip down memory lane and the spiritual path that tells the author's story of her journey with God.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1628382740

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Mirror of the Medieval World

By: Barbara Drake Boehm,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Mirror of the Medieval World

By: Barbara Drake Boehm,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

The publication of this comprehensive catalogue celebrates the distinguished career of William D. Wixom at the Metropolitan. Highlighted in these pages are more than three hundred purchases and gifts, the great majority of which have been on view but many of which have remained unpublished until now. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870997858

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9780870997853

The Obedientiaries of Westminster Abbey and Their Financial Records, C. 1275-1540

By: Westminster Abbey,Barbara F. Harvey

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The Obedientiaries of Westminster Abbey and Their Financial Records, C. 1275-1540

By: Westminster Abbey,Barbara F. Harvey

Following the normal practice in Benedictine monasteries, the obedientiaries of Westminster Abbey kept two quite different kinds of record, and for distinct purposes. Their charters, together with the cartularies and registers where these documents were so often copied, made it possible for them to defend the Abbey's properties and privileges when these were challenged by lay or ecclesiastical opponents. Their financial records - the subject-matter of this book - assisted good housekeeping within their several departments and enabled them to survive the audit which each faced once a year at the hands of fellow-monks; only the abbot and prior were tacitly exempted from this testing experience. The core of the collection of financial records consists of the so-called final accounts prepared each year by obedientiaries, other than the abbot and prior, for scrutiny at the audit. Nearly 2,000 of these survive, not counting second copies. In the course of the year, however, obedientiaries made use of many other forms of financial record. Without these subsidiary records, it would have been difficult or impossible to compile the final accounts, and we can be confident that many were on the table at the audit and owe their survival to this circumstance.

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Boydell Press

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0851158668

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9780851158662

American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

John Singer Sargent

By: Stephanie L. Herdrich,John Singer Sargent,Helene Barbara Weinberg,Marjorie Shelley,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

John Singer Sargent

By: Stephanie L. Herdrich,John Singer Sargent,Helene Barbara Weinberg,Marjorie Shelley,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

The Museum's collection illuminates all aspects of Sargent's career. The drawings and watercolors in particular reflect his activity outside the portrait studio: his sojourns in Spain, Morocco and elsewhere in North Africa, and in the Middle East; his enduring fascination with Venice; his holidays in the Italian lake district and the Alps; his tours of North America, including Florida and the Rocky Mountains; his visit as an official war artist to the western front in 1918; and his work as a muralist at the Boston Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Harvard University's Widener Library."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870999524

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9780870999529

Sons of the Wolf

By: Barbara Michaels

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Sons of the Wolf

By: Barbara Michaels

Ada and Harriet don't know what to expect when they meet their new guardian, Mr. Wolfson. Here is a strangely magnetic, darkly amusing man confined to a wheelchair and flanked by a pair of fierce, dangerous dogs—an enigmatic benefactor, at once welcoming and intimidating. Even more unsettling to the girls are Wolfson's two sons, Julian and Francis. One of them is warm and good-natured, the other is pure malevolence. But young Harriet is about to discover a frightening truth: that evil runs rampant throughout their mysterious new home, Abbey Manor, and the surrounding moors—especially when the moon comes out . . .

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Harper Collins

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0061861839

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9780061861833

Champagne-Ardennes and Burgundy

By: Arthur Eperon,Barbara Eperon

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Champagne-Ardennes and Burgundy

By: Arthur Eperon,Barbara Eperon

Champage-Ardennes and Burgundy have more to offer than just some of the world's greatest wines. Both regions are rich in fascinating history and in lovely old churches, abbeys, and chateaux; both are criss-crossed with gentle waterways among tranquil old towns and villages; and both contain some of the wildest, least populated areas of France. The great hills, forests, and looping rivers of the Ardennes and thick forests, streams, and pools of Burgundy's Morvan are wild lands of legend and mythology. Champagne has caught some of the hurried ways of Paris, but Burgundy, for centuries an independent country, remains calm.

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NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company

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084429926X

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9780844299266

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