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  • A Rider's Survival from Tyranny A Rider's Survival from Tyranny
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    A Rider's Survival from Tyranny

    Charles de Kunffy retells the dramatic events of his privileged and turbulent young life. A European nobleman in the stormy years of World War II and the Hungarian Revolution persevered to become a prominent equestrian. During the Soviet occupation, de...
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  • The Crows of Deliverance The Crows of Deliverance
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    The Crows of Deliverance

    NIRMAL VERMA (1929-2005) was an acknowledged master of Hindi prose and one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (new story) movement in Hindi.Throughout his life he was known as a major voice among the Indian intelligentsia for consistently...
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  • Assorted Dreams Assorted Dreams
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    Assorted Dreams

    An anthology of short stories, memoir and poetry by writers from the Eastwood/Hills branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW. The collection aims to showcase an assortment of primarily unpublished writing by our members in 2022, including...
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  • The well dressed revolutionary The well dressed revolutionary
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    The well dressed revolutionary

    Born in Alexandria in 1911, Michel Pablo became a leading figure in the Fourth International from its foundation in 1938. Throughout the 20th century, he was active in revolutions around the globe. His political work ranged from agitation among German...
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  • Jesuit Meteorologists - Forgotten Men Jesuit Meteorologists - Forgotten Men
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    Jesuit Meteorologists - Forgotten Men

    The Jesuits made important contributions to the development of science, including meteorology, particularly by establishing observatories in various countries during the 19th century including Jersey. However, over the years the contribution of the...
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  • Jailbirds and Stool Pigeons Jailbirds and Stool Pigeons
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    Jailbirds and Stool Pigeons

    Jailbirds and Stool Pigeons is a story of human weakness. Featuring true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest from the 1880s to 1935, this book is full of flawed characters. Tom McCarty, mentor to Butch Cassidy and Matt Warner, led his clan into a life...
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  • Burnt Snow Burnt Snow
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    Burnt Snow

    In northern Canada, there is a way of life that has been vanishing before our very eyes--and is continuing to disappear at an alarming pace. Life in the North is undergoing incredible changes, and yet the people of the North, cling onto every vestige of...
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  • Release the Power of Prayer Release the Power of Prayer
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    Release the Power of Prayer

    As a boy, George M ller was a thief and a liar. But, after turning to Christ, he provided for over 10,000 orphans--without ever asking anyone but God to supply their needs. He testified that he knew of at least 50,000 prayers to which he had received a sp
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  • Ishi's Journey from the Center to the Edge of the World Ishi's Journey from the Center to the Edge of the World
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    Ishi's Journey from the Center to the Edge of the World

    This historical novel is the dramatic retelling of the true story of Ishi, the last "stone age man" in North America and the sole survivor of the Northern California tribe called the Yahi. Ishi's Journey from the Center to the Edge of the World is a...
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  • We Saw Lincoln Shot We Saw Lincoln Shot
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    We Saw Lincoln Shot

    On the evening of 14 April 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre, an entire audience was witness to the tragedy. From diaries, letters, depositions, affidavits, and periodicals, here is a collection of accounts from a...
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  • Following the Equator V1 Following the Equator V1
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    Following the Equator V1

    Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator. The first of two volumes, this vivid record of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain's instinctive eye for the...
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  • An Officer in the First Afghan War An Officer in the First Afghan War
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    An Officer in the First Afghan War

    The sharp end of the First Afghan WarThe author of this book, Colonel Stacy was a highly regarded and capable British soldier destined to acquire much experience of campaigning and battle upon the Indian Sub-Continent. After the events described here he...
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  • A Seed in Your Heart - The Life of Louise Mathew Gregory A Seed in Your Heart - The Life of Louise Mathew Gregory
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    A Seed in Your Heart - The Life of Louise Mathew Gregory

    The life of Louise Gregory has been overshadowed by that of her brilliant husband, Hand of the Cause Louis Gregory. This book redresses the balance, showing that during her long life Louise achieved much in her own right.'I saw a seed in your heart... I...
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  • Memories of Nine Years in 'Akká Memories of Nine Years in 'Akká
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    Memories of Nine Years in 'Akká

    Here is the translation of Khátirát-i-Nuh-Sáliy-i-'Akká, the memoirs of Dr Youness Afroukhteh who served 'Abdu'l-Bahá as His trusted secretary and interpreter from 1900-1909. These were difficult years when the Master was imprisoned in the city of 'Akká,...
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  • Word on Words Word on Words
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    Word on Words

    For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show's four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most impor­tant writers of our time. These...
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  • A Circular Journey A Circular Journey
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    A Circular Journey

    A Circular Journey collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of America's most distinctive voices.These fifteen pieces, tracking some thirty years of a writer's life, come together to...
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  • The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola
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    The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola

    From the Introduction: "The autobiography...does not cover the complete life of Ignatius. It begins abruptly in 1521 at the great turning point in the saint's life - his injury in the battle of Pamplona when the French occupied that town and...
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  • Biomechanics of Sport Biomechanics of Sport
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    Biomechanics of Sport

    This informative text features current and thorough reviews of the biomechanics of sport for improved performance, etiology, and pre-vention of injuries.
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  • Ernest Tubb Ernest Tubb
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    Ernest Tubb

    In this definitive biography of Ernest Tubb, Ronnie Pugh brings one of country music's greatest performers back to center stage. Tracing a career that began in the 1930s and continued until just a few years before Tubb's death in 1984, Pugh presents not...
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  • Phillis Wheatley Peters Phillis Wheatley Peters
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    Phillis Wheatley Peters

    This new edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters is the first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international celebrity by the time she was in her early twenties,...
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  • Theodore Hesburgh, CSC Theodore Hesburgh, CSC
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    Theodore Hesburgh, CSC

    When asked what he wanted written on his tombstone, Fr. Theodore Hesburgh responded with one word: Priest. This giant of a man--a man who advised presidents and counseled popes, who championed civil rights and world peace, who accepted 16 presidential...
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  • "No Equal Justice" "No Equal Justice"
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    "No Equal Justice"

    "There is no equal justice for Black people today; there never has been. To our everlasting shame, the quality of justice in America has always been and is now directly related to the color of one's skin as well as to the size of one's pocketbook." This...
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  • Birding While Indian Birding While Indian
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    Birding While Indian

    Winner, 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize"A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity." -KirkusThomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to...
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  • Henry Adams in Washington Henry Adams in Washington
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    Henry Adams in Washington

    A descendent of two U.S. presidents and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Henry Adams enjoyed a very particular place in American life, not least due to his ancestry. Yet despite his prolific writing in the years between 1877 and 1891, when he lived in...
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    Fuggers of Augsburg

    As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other famous merchant family of the period, the Medici of Florence, however, no English-language work on them has...
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  • Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
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    Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

    Elizabeth Patterson BonaparteAn American Aristocrat in the Early RepublicCharlene M. Boyer Lewis"In this expertly researched and carefully documented biography, Boyer Lewis tells the personal saga of a woman scorned, in the process revealing much about...
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  • When Bad Men Combine When Bad Men Combine
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    When Bad Men Combine

    The Star Route scandal captured the nation's attention for more than a decade, with newspapers throughout the United States characterizing it as an unprecedented case of Gilded Age graft. Shawn Francis Peters's When Bad Men Combine provides a glimpse...
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  • Gentle Art Gentle Art
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    Gentle Art

    The poems in The Gentle Art, a compelling new collection from William Wenthe, move between the life of the painter James McNeill Whistler and a poetic version of the author, who is at once inspired and disturbed by Whistler. The present-day author sheds...
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  • World Is a Book, Indeed World Is a Book, Indeed
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    World Is a Book, Indeed

    The World Is a Book, Indeed chronicles in eleven rich personal essays the ongoing quest of award-winning writer Peter LaSalle to embark on offbeat, often startlingly revelatory literary travel.A summer spent roaming the lesser-known quarters of Paris...
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  • Fair Labor Lawyer Fair Labor Lawyer
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    Fair Labor Lawyer

    Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin (1909‒1996) molded modern American labor policy while creating a space for female lawyers in the nation's high courts. In this comprehensive biography, Marlene Trestman reveals the forces that shaped...
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  • The Story of Yorktown The Story of Yorktown
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    The Story of Yorktown

    In 1781, the colonies, Great Britain, and France had grown tired of the Revolution. It was clear that one side needed to score a knockout blow and seize victory. Both Cornwallis and Washington saw that this victory might come in Virginia in 1781. In...
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  • Best of Prairie Schooner Best of Prairie Schooner
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    Best of Prairie Schooner

    Called one of the best magazines in America by Nan Talese and "the roots" in Esquire's garden of contemporary literature, and named one of Writer's Digest's "Nineteen Magazines That Matter," Prairie Schooner--one of the oldest and most prestigious...
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  • Warriors of the Steppes Warriors of the Steppes
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    Warriors of the Steppes

    Master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howard's favorite writers. Here at last is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lamb's greatest hero, the wolf of the steppes, Khlit the Cossack...
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  • The Melon Capital of the World The Melon Capital of the World
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    The Melon Capital of the World

    In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado, formerly known as the Melon Capital of the World, forces the...
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  • Kokomo Joe Kokomo Joe
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    Kokomo Joe

    The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer of 1941. As war with Japan loomed, Yoshio "Kokomo Joe" Kobuki won race after race, stirring passions far beyond merely the envy and...
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    Yellowstone Autumn

    Although Yellowstone is our oldest, most iconic, and most popular national park, it is perhaps, in W. D. Wetherell's words, "America's least-known best-known place." Wetherell, arriving at the park on the eve of his fifty-fifth...
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  • Wolf of the Steppes Wolf of the Steppes
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    Wolf of the Steppes

    Master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howard's favorite writers. Here at last is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lamb's greatest hero, the wolf of the steppes, Khlit the Cossack...
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  • Siqondephi Manje? Indatshana Zasezimbabwe Siqondephi Manje? Indatshana Zasezimbabwe
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    Siqondephi Manje? Indatshana Zasezimbabwe

    This book, the translation of the collection, Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe, features sixteen Zimbabwean writers - Raisedon Baya, NoViolet Bulawayo, Diana Charsley, Mapfumo Clement Chihota, Murenga Joseph Chikowero, John Eppel, Fungai Rufaro...
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  • A.B. Simpson and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism A.B. Simpson and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism
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    A.B. Simpson and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism

    A shrewd synthesizer, gifted popularizer, and inspiring founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance movement, A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) was enmeshed in the most crucial threads of evangelical Christianity at the turn of the twentieth century. Daryn...
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  • Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law
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    Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law

    Gerald Le Dain (1924-2007) was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1984. This collectively written biography traces fifty years of his steady, creative, and conciliatory involvement with military service, the legal academy, legislative reform,...
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  • Opium and Empire Opium and Empire
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    Opium and Empire

    In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson &...
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  • SHERLOCK HOLMES MY LIFE SHERLOCK HOLMES MY LIFE
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    SHERLOCK HOLMES MY LIFE

    A memoir in which Sherlock Holmes discloses a conspiracy, between Dr. Watson and Dr. Arthur Doyle, to publish his real life adventures as works of fiction. Mycroft Holmes, his brother, aided by the British Secret Information Services, is solicited by Mr...
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  • "Through God, She Made It!" "Through God, She Made It!"
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    "Through God, She Made It!"

    This book is about my youngest daughter who the doctors didn't think would make it. With prayer, mercy and grace from God she overcame the obstacles and is doing well.
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