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Etta
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Little is known about the woman that loved the Sundance Kid and rode with the Kid and Butch Cassidy. Who was Etta Place? Gerald Kolpan has created a life for Etta Place. Kolpan's image of Place is one of a young girl raised by a single father…
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Fragile Dreams
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As the civil war battles on, near the plantation home of Caroline a bitter battle unleashes.
With her mother and father both dead, her brother off fighting in the war, Caroline has the responsibility of taking care of her grandmother…
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Gods of Canaan, The
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Betty Coven takes readers back in time to the era of King David. I had to keep reminding myself that was meant to be a work of fiction. In Coven's tale, the one true God, worshiped by the Israelites had a consort, Asherah. Asherah chooses Rebe'kah…
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In All His Glory
 | How a Hebrew found favor with a Pharaoh. In the Book of Kings, we read about Jeroboam. Jeroboam was a Hebrew, who found favor with Pharaoh Shishak. He had been exiled from his homeland by King Solomon. As the chief counselor to... |
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In The Shadow of The Sun King
A Darkness to Light Novel – Book 1
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When King Louis XIV threatens the Clavell family, Madeleine tries to persuade the King to have mercy on her family. Golden Keyes Parsons illustrates French history in In The Shadow of The Sun King. The Protestants were persecuted in Catholic France…
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Inglourious Basterds
 | The setting is the country side of France. This book opens with Nazi brutality. The reader watches as a Jewish family is murdered. Only the teenage daughter, Shosanna, escapes. Lt. Aldo Raine is a Jewish American Soldier for Tennessee... |
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Last Queen, The
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The Last Queen is the fictionalization of the life of Juana, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, the “last Queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country's throne.” Many myths have spread throughout the sands of time. Who was the woman behind the myths…
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Leviathan's Master: The Wreck of the World's Largest Sailing Ship
 | David Quinn has developed an historical accounting that grabs the reader and relates history while also conveying the human emotional elements that surely accompanied the actual event.The story details the doomed voyage of the seven-masted sailing ship The Thomas W. Lawson on its maiden Atlantic... |
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Light Of The Desert
 | The setting is 1972 in the Middle East. Noora Fendil is engaged to be married. Her sister Zaffeera is jealous and deviously plots to take Michel for herself. Zaffeera convinces their father that Noora has dishonored their name. Her father beats her and... |
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Lost Diary of Don Juan, The
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The Lost Diary of Don Juan is the story of the title character. Douglas Carlton Abrams paints a picture of a daring man that comes from humble beginnings and achieves nobility. Abrams incorporates ancient Tantric teachings in his book…
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