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Nation on Board

Becoming Nigerian at Sea

By: Lynn Schler

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In the 1940s, British shipping companies began the large-scale recruitment of African seamen in Lagos. On colonial ships, Nigerian sailors performed menial tasks for low wages and endured discrimination as cheap labor, while countering hardships by nurturing social connections across the black diaspora. Poor employment conditions stirred these seamen to identify with the nationalist sentiment burgeoning in postwar Nigeria, while their travels broadened and invigorated their cultural identities. Working for the Nigerian National Shipping Line, they encountered new forms of injustice and exploitation. When mismanagement, a lack of technical expertise, and pillaging by elites led to the NNSL’s collapse in the early 1990s, seamen found themselves without prospects. Their disillusionment became a broader critique of corruption in postcolonial Nigeria. In Nation on Board: Becoming Nigerian at Sea, Lynn Schler traces the fate of these seamen in the transition from colonialism to independence. In so doing, she renews the case for labor history as a lens for understanding decolonization, and brings a vital transnational perspective to her subject. By placing the working-class experience at the fore, she complicates the dominant view of the decolonization process in Nigeria and elsewhere.

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Ohio University Press

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0821445596

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The Twisted Rose

A Home Office Lord's Novel

By: Lor E. Lynn

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The Twisted Rose

A Home Office Lord's Novel

By: Lor E. Lynn

Being recently promoted to full-time member at the Home Office was a highlight for Lord Edgar Cortland, but it was quickly overshadowed by a series of missions that first sent Lord Blakely off to America after a kidnapping, then Lord Davenport to identify the imposter that was now the spy, B. Edgar himself has been tasked with investigating the Twisted Rose Shipping Company as well as locating the Duke of Greaves’s errant daughter. After situating a recently returned school friend into a position at the Home Office, both young lords head out. When a young Lady Juliana Greaves left home, it was to escape the betrothal her stepmother was attempting to entrap her in. For four years she has been free to pursue other activities along with her schooling. But now her father insists she return home and enlists Lord Cortland to track her down. An amusing game of cat and mouse ensues. The Home Office’s central investigation gets a lead, when suddenly their top suspect becomes the victim of a shooting. There are bigger issues threatening England than any of the lords realize. Which only leaves one question: Who is Thorne?

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662482280

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Prescribed Norms

Women and Health in Canada and the United States Since 1800

By: Cheryl Lynn Krasnick Warsh

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Prescribed Norms

Women and Health in Canada and the United States Since 1800

By: Cheryl Lynn Krasnick Warsh

Challenging readers to rethink the norms of women's health and treatment, Prescribed Norms concludes with a gesture to chaos theory as a way of critiquing and breaking out of prescribed physiological and social understandings of women's health.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442600616

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9781442600614

The Descendant

By: Lynn Terrell

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The Descendant

By: Lynn Terrell

As World War II draws to a close in Europe, a lone German submarine slips past Allied forces and makes its way to the southeastern coast of the United States. There, under the cover of darkness, a coterie of fugitives from Germany's Third Reich slips ashore and proceeds to a safe haven in the southern U.S. The story jumps ahead 50 years, and the Senior Senator from Alabama is now poised to become the most powerful man in the world, the President of the United States. But, an anonymous e-mail to the Washington-based Public Service Institute (PSI), casts a shadow over the candidate's true identity. "He's not what he seems," the message warns. "The answer is in Elberta, Alabama." The Executive Director of PSI is Will Donovan, a lawyer and former Alabama State Senator. Donovan is puzzled, but he follows his instincts. The answer to what is in Elberta? he asks. Donovan and his colleagues-a former FBI agent, a retired Army general, a savvy political activist and the daughter of a political icon-lead the covert search. They uncover a tangled web of deception, international conspiracy and assassinations-all supporting this ruthless grab for power.

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iUniverse

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0595222315

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Lost in New Orleans

Friendship, Desire and Self-Destruction in Four Jazz Age Lives

By: Lynn Kear

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Lost in New Orleans

Friendship, Desire and Self-Destruction in Four Jazz Age Lives

By: Lynn Kear

Katty Stewart, Elizabeth (Moosie) White, Walker Ellis and Walter Stauffer were socialites born in New Orleans around the turn of the 20th century. Among their ancestors were Confederate soldiers, plantation owners, self-made millionaires and even a U.S. President. This book tells the story of four flawed, socially connected people who used newspaper society columns to craft highly curated images of themselves. But the newspapers of the time did not include the more salacious, messy, complicated and secretive details of their lives. This is also a social history of New Orleans during the Jazz Age, including descriptions of queer culture, the French Quarter, European travel, and life in the social circles of Kay Francis, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Waldo Peirce, Caresse and Harry Crosby, Gerald and Sara Murphy and many others. Full of humorous anecdotes, drama, romance and tragedy, this book is an insightful chronicle of a fascinating time in New Orleans' LGBTQ history.

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McFarland

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1476647526

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9781476647524

Indianapolis

The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

By: Lynn Vincent,Sara Vladic

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Indianapolis

The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

By: Lynn Vincent,Sara Vladic

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.” —USA TODAY * “A WONDERFUL BOOK.” —The Christian Science Monitor * “ENTHRALLING.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * “A MUST-READ.” —Booklist (starred review) A human drama unlike any other—the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history. Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land, nearly nine hundred men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive. For the first time Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the complete story of the ship, her crew, and their final mission to save one of their own in “a wonderful book…that features grievous mistakes, extraordinary courage, unimaginable horror, and a cover-up…as complete an account of this tragic tale as we are likely to have” (The Christian Science Monitor). It begins in 1932, when Indianapolis is christened and continues through World War II, when the ship embarks on her final world-changing mission: delivering the core of the atomic bomb to the Pacific for the strike on Hiroshima. “Simply outstanding…Indianapolis is a must-read…a tour de force of true human drama” (Booklist, starred review) that goes beyond the men’s rescue to chronicle the survivors’ fifty-year fight for justice on behalf of their skipper, Captain Charles McVay III, who is wrongly court-martialed for the sinking. “Enthralling…A gripping study of the greatest sea disaster in the history of the US Navy and its aftermath” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Indianapolis stands as both groundbreaking naval history and spellbinding narrative—and brings the ship and her heroic crew back to full, vivid, unforgettable life. “Vincent and Vladic have delivered an account that stands out through its crisp writing and superb research…Indianapolis is sure to hold its own for a long time” (USA TODAY).

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Simon & Schuster

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1501135953

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The Underground Railroad Brides Collection

9 Couples Navigate the Road to Freedom before the Civil War

By: Barbara Tifft Blakey,Ramona K. Cecil,Lynn A. Coleman,Cecelia Dowdy,Patty Smith Hall,Terri J. Haynes,Debby Lee,Darlene Panzera,Penny Zeller

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The Underground Railroad Brides Collection

9 Couples Navigate the Road to Freedom before the Civil War

By: Barbara Tifft Blakey,Ramona K. Cecil,Lynn A. Coleman,Cecelia Dowdy,Patty Smith Hall,Terri J. Haynes,Debby Lee,Darlene Panzera,Penny Zeller

Join the journey as nine couples employ daring resourcefulness that leads them along the Underground Railroad in search of freedom and justice for all.

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Barbour Publishing

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1683226348

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The Sword of Hachiman

A novel of early Japan

By: Lynn Guest

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The Sword of Hachiman

A novel of early Japan

By: Lynn Guest

At the dawn of the Shogun era two mighty warrior clans, the Minamoto and the Taira, struggle for power under the Cloistered Emperor. The Taira are in uneasy control, but the three Minamoto sons, separated and exiled at birth, are secretly reuniting to conquer them and avenge their father's bloody death. It is the youngest, Yoshitsune, who is deemed most worthy of possessing the family heirloom, the Sword of Hachiman, the War God. He is initiated into love and espionage in the bedchamber of a young Taira noblewoman and tested in the ferocious hand-to-hand combat that is his birthright before winning a faithful retainer, the fierce, hard-drinking monk Benkei. We follow Yoshitsune behind the scenes of the rarefied Cloister Court, where two extraordinary women enter his life

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Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks

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1861515650

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9781861515650

Elizabeth Stoddard & the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture

By: Lynn Mahoney

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Elizabeth Stoddard & the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture

By: Lynn Mahoney

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1135883424

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Shoshoni Pony

By: Carol Lynn MacGregor

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Shoshoni Pony

By: Carol Lynn MacGregor

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Horses are not indigenous to the West. Prehistoric horses existed before humans came to the region but the horse only appeared after the Spanish Conquistadores brought their Spanish stallions to America. The arrival of the horse in the West changed forever the lives of the Native peoples of the region and shaped the history of the West in many ways.

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0870044311

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Frontier Zone; Darkwar Prelude..

By: Stuart Lynn Sexton

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Frontier Zone; Darkwar Prelude..

By: Stuart Lynn Sexton

Now, you can read the first four Frontier Zone books in one collection! This book contains Beginnings, Ticonderoga, Free Will, and Midshipman Miki, all together!This is a compilation of my first four Frontier Zone books. Taken as a whole, these four books form a story arc leading up to the conflict known as the Darkwar.

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1257938088

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9781257938087

Frontier Zone; Darkwar Chronicles. Book One; Darkness Among the Stars.

By: Stuart Lynn Sexton

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Frontier Zone; Darkwar Chronicles. Book One; Darkness Among the Stars.

By: Stuart Lynn Sexton

An excerpt from Captain Amstutz's personal log, 17 November 2106: Both the Shardon and their kin, the Chuns, have similar expressions. In Shardonish, it's Chu'rosh ko'ingar ju'shingu, ishi kimush'ur ta'osh., while in Chunshar it's Cho'ros'ah ko'ingar ju'shingu, esh'i ki'mos'ah'ir ta'ah. Roughly translated, both mean the same thing; 'There is a Darkness among the stars, deeper than space itself'..

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1105375986

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The Storm from Hell

By: Enock Lynn Norrbom

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The Storm from Hell

By: Enock Lynn Norrbom

Jerry noticed that he was not in a mental fog any longer. In fact, it was like he had not taken a drink at all. The reality of all of this had sobered him up. There seemed to be a lot of noise coming from about two hundred yards away by some rocks. Jerry started to move in the direction of the rocks. There were a lot of lights and people around the edge of the rocks, and as Jerry got closer, he still could not see everything, but he could hear some whistling or high-pitched screaming. Jerry didn't understand until he got much closer and could see three or four dolphins caught in a small pool of water--too small, in fact, for them to survive, and the people around were talking and pointing their flashlights at them. Once Jerry reached them, he asked, "Does anyone know just what has caused the water to recede?" Just then an older man answered, "Well, I don't know for sure, but the news says that the entire west coast is just like this, and no one seems to know why.

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1462052576

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9781462052578

Invisible Founders

How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College

By: Lynn Rainville

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Invisible Founders

How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College

By: Lynn Rainville

Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. This volume tells the story of the invisible founders of a college founded by and for white women. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. In the process, Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution — one that serves as a microcosm of the American South.

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Berghahn Books

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1789202329

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The Beat Goes On

By: Lynn Regudon

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The Beat Goes On

By: Lynn Regudon

Lynn Regudon was twenty years old and newly married to a foreign student from India when she took a job as a clerk in the Medical Records Department at King County Hospital, soon transitioning to the admitting office in the Emergency Room. Now Harborview Medical Center, King County Hospital was, and still is, the trauma center and the place where anyone can receive care regardless of the ability to pay. A night in the ER saw victims from all over the city: drunks who needed a safe place to sober up; johns who had been rolled for their money; life-shattering casualties of car accidents and stabbings, and the occasional patient in need of a “foreign body” removal. In The Beat Goes On, Regudon captures a post-war charity hospital emergency room in a time when nurses wore starched white uniforms and white caps, and doctors always knew best; when residents often made the final decisions about patient care. She captures a unique time and place, portraying the humanity of those who work in the dramatic environment of a trauma hospital as well as those outside, like police and ambulance drivers, who make up part of the “ER family.” It details friendships and romances forged, as well as victories and devastations experienced by doctors, nurses, patients and staff alike. Woven throughout is Regudon’s own story, from her first marriage and divorce, when her husband left the country with their toddler daughter, to the intimate connections she made at the hospital as a newly single woman working by night and going to school by day. The Beat Goes On is a captivating and intensely-drawn portrait of one woman’s personal and professional coming of age set against the backdrop of a larger-than-life hospital in a time that feels both foreign and familiar.

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1524618640

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9781524618643

Correspondence

By: Herman Melville,Lynn Horth

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Correspondence

By: Herman Melville,Lynn Horth

Consequently, to fill the gaps within the correspondence, 542 editorial entries are chronologically interspersed for letters both by and to Melville for which no full text has been located but for which some evidence survives. These entries, like the editorial headnotes for the known letters, flesh out the specific historical and biographical contexts for the unlocated letters. Both supply Horth's full annotations, placing circumstances, persons, and allusions, from a wide range of documentary and scholarly sources, and drawing upon family archives of both Melville and his wife, including the recently recovered portion, now in the New York Public Library, of a trove preserved by his sister Augusta." "The aim of this edition, volume fourteen in the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, is to present a text as close to the author's intention at the time of inscription as his difficult handwriting or other surviving evidence permits. On this basis, the texts earlier presented in The Letters of Herman Melville (1960), edited by Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman, have been revised, with differences in almost every letter in spelling and punctuation, and some forty-five differences in wording. Fifty-two newly discovered letters by Melville, more than half of which are first published here, are added to those printed in the 1960 edition. This text of Correspondence is an Approved Text of the Committee on Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association of America)."--BOOK JACKET.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810109956

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9780810109957

To Sleep Perchance to Dream

By: Rex Lynn

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To Sleep Perchance to Dream

By: Rex Lynn

It is the 1960s. This teenage boy sails with the Merchant Marine, mines for gold in Colorado, and goes on a special mission in Vietnam. Every time he sleeps, he lives a different life.

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Ibis Books and Audio LLC

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0988927403

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9780988927407

If I Were You: A Novel

By: Lynn Austin

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If I Were You: A Novel

By: Lynn Austin

“A stunning historical saga of hardship and desire in wartime. . . . Readers won’t be able to turn the pages fast enough [in this] . . . unique take on the traditional World War 2 tale.” —Library Journal From bestselling and eight-time Christy Award–winning author Lynn Austin comes a remarkable novel of sisterhood, self-discovery, and romance set against the backdrop of WW2. 1950. In the wake of the war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a fresh start in America with her young son. As a widowed war bride, Audrey needs the support of her American in-laws, whom she has never met. But she arrives to find that her longtime friend Eve Dawson has been impersonating her for the past four years. Unraveling this deception will force Audrey and Eve’s secrets—and the complicated history of their friendship—to the surface. 1940. Eve and Audrey have been as different as two friends can be since the day they met at Wellingford Hall, where Eve’s mother served as a lady’s maid for Audrey’s mother. As young women, those differences become a polarizing force . . . until a greater threat—Nazi invasion—reunites them. With London facing relentless bombardment, Audrey and Eve join the fight as ambulance drivers, battling constant danger together. An American stationed in England brings dreams of a brighter future for Audrey, and the collapse of the class system gives Eve hope for a future with Audrey’s brother. But in the wake of devastating loss, both women must make life-altering decisions that will set in motion a web of lies and push them both to the breaking point long after the last bomb has fallen. This sweeping story transports readers to one of the most challenging eras of history to explore the deep, abiding power of faith and friendship to overcome more than we ever thought possible.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1496437322

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9781496437327

In Praise of Labs

Celebrating the World's Greatest Dog

By: Gary Paulsen, James Herriot, Bill Tarrant, Gene Hill, Ted Kerasote, Lynn Stone

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In Praise of Labs

Celebrating the World's Greatest Dog

By: Gary Paulsen, James Herriot, Bill Tarrant, Gene Hill, Ted Kerasote, Lynn Stone

As great writers of dog lore and life tell stories of Labs loveable and heroic, up to mischief or on the hunt, images celebrate the Lab in all its colors and seasons.

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1616731583

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The Day the Magic Stopped

By: Christopher Stasheff,S. M. Stirling,Jody Lynn Nye,Morgan Llywelyn,Mike Resnick,Bill Fawcett

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The Day the Magic Stopped

By: Christopher Stasheff,S. M. Stirling,Jody Lynn Nye,Morgan Llywelyn,Mike Resnick,Bill Fawcett

What do you do when the foundation of your universe suddenly vanishes? In a world where magic works--and then suddenly stops working, all bets are off. Those who have magically enhanced their attractiveness must now live by their true appearance. Buildings created by sorcery to hover high in the air suddenly collapse. And Wizards must find more physical means of defense. Original stories by S. M. Stirling, Jody Lynn Nye, Morgan Llywelyn, and more. The adventures of people whose previously magic-dependent worlds are suddenly stripped of all magic. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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1625791585

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Three Cuts of Courage

By: Lynn M. Turner

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Three Cuts of Courage

By: Lynn M. Turner

After Nell Fraser breaks her rogue of a brother from a Scottish prison, she leads him to a settlers ship bound for the New World. There among the hardships and triumphs, she builds a life for herself, and even falls in love with a wealthy Englishman. Then tragedy strikes. Nell's hotheaded brother has joined with rebel spies and is on the run again - headed for a British trap. Nell races across the wilderness to warn him and smacks headlong into heartbreak. Clayton, the man she loves, commands the detachment sent to hunt down her brother.

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Hard Shell Word Factory

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0759903212

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9780759903210

Living at the Edge : a Biography of D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Von Richthofen

By: Michael Squires,Lynn K. Talbot,Lynn Kiefer Talbot

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Living at the Edge : a Biography of D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Von Richthofen

By: Michael Squires,Lynn K. Talbot,Lynn Kiefer Talbot

Squires (English, Virginia Tech) and Talbot (Spanish, Roanoke College) collected Frieda Laurence's letters for years before realizing that they could add considerable insight to a biography of her famous writer husband. The result, though focusing on him, turned out to be a biography of them as a couple, pulling her out from his shadow. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299177505

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9780299177508

BLOODLINE: Our Father's House

By: Lynn Braxton

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BLOODLINE: Our Father's House

By: Lynn Braxton

BLOODLINE: OUR FATHER'S HOUSE, is set on the island of Barbados where the great manor house, Belle Terre, sits empty as it has for almost a century, on a cliff overlooking the sea. Soft sighing winds whisper through the palms that surround it in concert with the gentle waves that wash ashore in the sheltered cove below. Overhead, a flock of seagulls circle, dive, then rise upon the currents and venture further out to sea. A tour bus passes through a pair of ornate iron gates in the distance and travels up a shell-packed avenue to the main entrance. A dozen visitors emerge and enter the house. The faded grandeur of Belle Terre holds them spellbound until they are drawn to the arbor, and the graves of the legendary Edmond Ribaut and his daughter, Desiree Arnaud. Kidnapped by a band of Edmond's enemies in 1827, the nineteen year old girl was believed to have perished in a shipwreck as her captors attempted to take her from the island. The chance discovery of 1852 of a cemetery 2,000 miles away proved Desiree lived for nine years after her disappearance, taking to her grave a secret so shocking that those who found her vowed never to reveal what they had discovered. Her remains were returned to Belle Terre in 1933 by the last descendant bearing Edmond Ribaut's bloodline. Her strange benefactor would, ironically, die the day Desiree was laid to her final rest beside her father in the arbor, leaving the great estate in a preservation trust to the island of Barbados. (postscript) As the sun sets on the island, the ageing caretaker guides his cart up the avenue to lock the gates. They close with a harsh bang that echoes in the stillness. He retraces his path to the workers' compound behind the house. As he reaches for his latch, he turns and looks toward the arbor one last time. She will come soon, emerging from the shadows to enter the house, her blue silk gown whispering across the parquet floors as her soft laughter floats through the rooms where she once played as a child. The old man nods, and closes his door for the night, leaving young Desiree to her benign haunting until the sun rises upon the land once more.

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Gatekeeper Press

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1619846780

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9781619846784

Florence Nightingale

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

By: Florence Nightingale,Lynn McDonald

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Florence Nightingale

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

By: Florence Nightingale,Lynn McDonald

Annotation Reports correspondence (selected from the thousands of surviving letters) with her mother, father and sister and a wide extended family. There is material on Nightingale's "domestic arrangements" from recipes, cat acre and relations with servants to her contributions to charities, church and social reform causes.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889203873

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9780889203877

The Lost Warrior

By: Neil Lynn Wise

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The Lost Warrior

By: Neil Lynn Wise

A veteran warrior, Morgan Caeda faces the deadliest challenge of his career. The Mhoul, an unholy mingling of human and alien, seek to unleash an ancient terror upon the world of Kalnaroag. After surviving a massacre that slaughtered his entire legion, Morgan leaves his mountain sanctuary to search for the truth about the Mhoul plot. During his journey he is reunited with old comrades in arms, Maximilian, reputed to serve Death herself, and Taurus, captain of the warship Windrider. He also meets the beautiful Princess Celestine, whom he could love if he just had the time. Hunted by the Mhoul agents, Morgan and his companions encounter the Ha'ashtari, fierce nomads of the high plains, and the reclusive Centaurs. Caught up in a titanic conflict that will determine the fate of their world, they discover that faith, honor, and courage are still the best weapons of all"--Page 4 of cover

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0982485514

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9780982485514

Around the World in a Dugout Canoe

The Untold Story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum

By: John M. MacFarlane,Lynn J. Salmon

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Around the World in a Dugout Canoe

The Untold Story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum

By: John M. MacFarlane,Lynn J. Salmon

Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage—and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment—is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy.

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1550178806

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Murder in the Queen's Wardrobe

By: Kathy Lynn Emerson

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Murder in the Queen's Wardrobe

By: Kathy Lynn Emerson

A female spymaster in Tudor England faces mortal danger in a mystery “recommended . . . for readers of Fiona Buckley, Karen Harper, and Amanda Carmack” (Library Journal). London, 1582: Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey, a talented and well-educated woman of independent means, is recruited by Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, to be lady-in-waiting to Lady Mary, a cousin of the queen. With her talent in languages and knowledge of ciphers and codes, she will be integral to the spymaster as an intelligence gatherer, being able to get close to Lady Mary just at the time when she is being courted by Russia’s Ivan the Terrible. But there are some nobles at court who will do anything they can to thwart such an alliance, and Rosamond soon realizes the extent of the danger, when a prominent official is murdered and then an attempt is made on both her and Lady Mary’s lives. In her quest to protect her ward—and her estranged husband—Rosamond must put herself in mortal peril . . . “First-rate storytelling, a fine choice for historical-mystery fans.” —Booklist “A diverting series, with lots of twists and turns and Tudor tidbits.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Severn House Publishers Ltd

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1780106084

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Sanctuary

An Epic Novel of Thieves' World

By: Lynn Abbey

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Sanctuary

An Epic Novel of Thieves' World

By: Lynn Abbey

The bestselling (and first) shared-world phenomenon returns with an epic novel of the hate and the history of the infamous city of Sanctuary. "Brilliantly conceived."--C.J. Cherryh.

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0812561759

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To Rouse Leviathan

Second Edition

By: Neil Lynn Wise

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To Rouse Leviathan

Second Edition

By: Neil Lynn Wise

In this sequel to The Lost Warrior, Morgan Caeda continues his quest to uncover the secrets of the Mhoul. Morgan and his companions enter the mysterious forests of Aijalon where some of them are captured by Mhoul soldiers and taken to the citadel Ragoulgard. After escaping from Ragoulgard and the cruel experiments of the Mhoul scientist Dragoslav, they journey to the subterranean city of Shieldaig. To penetrate the defenses of the Mhoul capital Morgan and Maximilian must survive the labyrinth of Cnoc Thor and its deadly guardian. In the end, Morgan faces his worst fear, the return of the Lucca.

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1469177846

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Southern Treasures

By: Lynn A. Coleman

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Southern Treasures

By: Lynn A. Coleman

Twenty years ago, a secret drove her from Savannah to Key West. Now it keeps her on her guard against men--while it also keeps her from accepting God's forgiveness and grace in her life. Instead, Peg works hard to find contentment in her many friendships, and at Southern Treasures, her little gift shop. After all, she asks herself, what more does she need in life? But when Matt Bower comes to Key West, everything changes for Peg. His presence stirs painful memories for Peg, who longs to trust him with her secret... with her heart. But while she fears what he will think of her if he know the truth, Matt nurses a secret of his own--one that's just as painful. Can Peg and Matt find the courage to share their secrets? Where might God be leading these two vulnerable hearts?

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1624162843

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