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The Black Oval Carpets

By: Gayle Calvi

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Susan Cook is a very colorful character, fun loving with an 'I don't give a damn attitude', also what her friends and family called eccentric. Thats why Susan was able to hide her fears, which like her Mother, was showing signs of Alzheimer's Disease. Finally, the day came when she could no longer hide her illness from them. This is the story of how Susan had to face what the future had in store for her and her loving family. She was fortunate in a way to where she owned her own home and was set financially, and was able to stay in her home and have help move in to care for her. The Black Oval Carpets were placed at each exit door of her home at night when she went to bed, with the hope that in the dimness of the night she would think it was a pit and try not to wander. Of course, they were removed before she was awake in the morning. Everyone who encountered Susan, experienced life changes along with her. As tragic as the illness was, Susan was determined to fight it with all her being, to die with dignity. Follow her along on her remarkable journey.

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1463428065

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The Secret Price of History

By: Gayle Ridinger,Paolo Pochettino

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The Secret Price of History

By: Gayle Ridinger,Paolo Pochettino

1850s Rome. Goffredo, Sandor, and Eleonora, selfless idealists fighting for Italian unification, find a medallion after a violent face-off with French soldiers on the last day of battle for the new Italian Republic. The medallion is connected to an elusive treasure which, if found, could help the French Emperor Napoleon III secure his place in history. Ignorant of these connections, and desperate for money, the three friends consider having the medallion melted down; but circumstances have it otherwise. Meanwhile, Eleonora, Goffredo, and Sandor continue their fervent fight for freedom: first in Italy, on the side of Garibaldi, Margaret Fuller and Cristina Belgioso, and then in America in the Civil War wherein they re-find themselves years later. Meanwhile, Eleonora and Sandor fall in love; but only Eleonora and Goffredo get married. And through it all, they keep finding themselves in strange moments of danger which connect them to the medallion. They live the rest of their lives in an uncertain truce masked in the mystery contained in the medallion—a mystery finally resolved in the twenty-first century by their great-great granddaughter, Angie Cebrelli. The source of the mystery goes back to a caste of Northern Italian merchants who specialized in moving trade-route gold and silver from one place to another, and in lending credit at trade fairs in Europe between 12th and 15th centuries: What town or city, in the Western World today, doesn't have a Lombard Street to remember them by? And yet they were not from Lombardy but from Piedmont—a peaceful Barolo-wine-producing area, the casane and the Monferrato; that dynasty once ruled the world, achieving its zenith of power under Pope Boniface I, the benevolent ruler of Constantinople in the immediate aftermath of its brutal sacking by Crusaders in 1204. Previously, only Boniface I and the casane were aware of the existence of an ancient treasure—a fragment of Alexander the Great's last treasure buried nearby with the Roman Emperor Aurelian. This is the treasure that comes to light in Rome in the 19th century. 2008s America. Angie Cebrelli, wearing her inherited medallion during a Gettysburg Civil War reenactment, receives a bullet in the arm. A photo of her medallion is found a few days later in Rome next to the mutilated body of Father Kevin, a priestly scholar of Ancient Art and a student Mithraism, a lost religion. She joins forces with the unconventional Italian police detective, Filippo Dardanoni, who has been tailing her for clues about the priest's murder. Moving in on the treasure for reasons of its own, Dardanoni has to also deal with the dangerous and powerful Vatican Bank. Questions: Who will find the treasure? Can it be right under our noses and us not able to touch it?

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707

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Dante University Press

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0937832227

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9780937832226

Assassination in Vichy

Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France

By: Gayle K. Brunelle,Annette Finley-Croswhite

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Assassination in Vichy

Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France

By: Gayle K. Brunelle,Annette Finley-Croswhite

During the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of the former French Interior Minister, Marx Dormoy. The explosion on the following morning launched a two-year investigation that traced Dormoy's murder to the highest echelons of the Vichy regime. Dormoy, who had led a 1937 investigation into the "Cagoule," a violent right-wing terrorist organization, was the victim of a captivating revenge plot. Based on the meticulous examination of thousands of documents, Assassination in Vichy tells the story of Dormoy's murder and the investigation that followed. At the heart of this book lies a true crime that was sensational in its day. A microhistory that tells a larger and more significant story about the development of far-right political movements, domestic terrorism, and the importance of courage, Assassination in Vichy explores the impact of France's deep political divisions, wartime choices, and post-war memory.

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327

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University of Toronto Press

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1487588364

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9781487588366

Being Re-Soled

By: Gayle Calvi

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Being Re-Soled

By: Gayle Calvi

With the sudden death of her soul mate, her husband Paul, at age forty-two, Gayle had to deal with what she referred to as athe cost of dying.a Unable to bear her loss, she turned to alcohol and deep depression. Like the soles of her shoes, now tattered and worn in the gutter, she needed to be re-soled. Through her meeting with students from Campus Crusade for Christ, it gave her the needed materials to be re-soled and to save herself through her renewed faith in God, finding someone to take her hand and lead her to the right path. God bless each and every one of them.

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Publishamerica Incorporated

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1424144892

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The Black Oval Carpets

The Black Oval Carpets

The Secret Price of History

The Secret Price of History

Assassination in Vichy

Assassination in Vichy

Being Re-Soled

Being Re-Soled

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