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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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Fortress In The Desert: Tale Of A Female Oedipus
 | The setting was Rome at its height of power. The people were ill-treated. Death sentences came swiftly. Our story begins with the birth of a child. The mother suffers great distress. She knew her child would be taken from her and given to a... |
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Frontier Wife
 | After the death of their father, Thomasina(Tommy) Lindsay and her two brothers, David and Jamie, sold everything and moved to Australia. Their uncle died before they arrived. They inherited his farm. Surviving was a struggle. Their neighbor, Adam Munro, was determined to own their farm.... |
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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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Hannah's Prayers
 | Hannah’s Prayer by J. William Caswell is based on historical fact. The setting is the City of Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, August, 1775. Johnny Dyre was a blacksmith at the time of great unrest in... |
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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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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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Lady Farquhar's Butterfly
 | When Lady Olivia Farquhar lost her husband due to “the fever” it released her from years of a marriage of terror and abuse. The only way he could hurt and abuse her now was through their son Julian. He granted full custody to his cousin... |
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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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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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