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The Jewish Gauchos of the PampasJewish Latin American literature in Spanish begins with The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, a series of vignettes about shtetl life in Argentina first published in 1910 and now available for the first time in an English-language paperback edition as the inaugural volume in...
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The Adventure of Silver Blaze - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Re-ImaginedSherlock Holmes, the world's 'only unofficial consulting detective', was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously...
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The Glovemaker**Finalist for the Western Writers of America's 2020 Spur Awards for Historical Novel** **Finalist for the 2019 Association for Mormon Letters Awards for Novel** "Compelling historical fiction.... Part love story, part religious explication, part mystery....A journey you won't forget."--Houston Chronicle In the inhospitable lands...
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Substance of Things Hoped ForFor a brief time in mid-nineteenth-century Oneida, New York, two of the most eccentric and fascinating figures in American history crossed paths when troubled soul and soon-to-be presidential assassin Charles Guiteau threw in his lot with John Humphrey Noyes's utopian community of "free love"...
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The Boat of FateAuthor: Keith RobertsPublisher: Borgo PressPublished: 03/01/2001Pages: 356Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.02w x 0.88dISBN: 9781587153563This title is not returnable
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The Last HoursWhen the Black Death enters England through the port in Dorsetshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is--or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and fear grips the people as they...
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The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil WarAfter returning from the Civil War, Cass Wakefield means to live out the rest of his days in his hometown in Mississippi. But when a childhood friend asks him to accompany her to Franklin, Tennessee, to recover the bodies of her father and brother...
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The Domino WarThey said that communism had to be stopped. They said the communists were hell-bent on world domination, and that The Free World had to stop them. If we didn't stop them in Việt Nam, the countries of Southeast Asia would topple like an upended...
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The Contract SurgeonThis beautifully written historical novel from one of the West's most popular writers tells the true story of the friendship between Valentine McGillicuddy, a young doctor plucked from his prestigious medical career and newly married wife to serve in the army during the Great...
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Preußenschlag: Kriminalroman aus der Weimarer RepublikBerlin, 1932. Hitler bekommt die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft zugeschanzt, auf den Stra en tobt der SA-Terror, Franz von Papen und das "Kabinett der Barone" gelangen an die Macht. In Berlin wird auf brutale Weise ein Mann erschlagen, der Täter lässt eine Mütze und einen Uniformknopf...
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Stealth1944. American bomber pilot, Jack Swaggart, has led his squadron countless times into hostile German territory, hit the assigned target, and returned to base none the worse for wear.Eventually, Jack's luck runs out. With his B-26 Marauder heavily damaged by flak, Jack is forced...
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The 5K Zone: Cold War Border IntriguePeter Ackerman and Trudi Kehle were youngsters in 1945 when the Russians occupied the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland. Peter escaped as a boy and structured his life to enable a return to find his parents and evidence of horrific ethnic German expulsions. In 1958 Peter returned...
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Ride to Oblivion: The Sterling Price Raid into Missouri, 1864The lands along the Kansas-Missouri border saw hostilities and violence years before the Civil War officially erupted in April of 1861. People had to choose a side as neutrality was not tolerated by either belligerent. Those who tried to stay out of the fight...
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Silent Warriors: Submarine Warfare in the PacificThe year is 1941. Shortly after the United States declares war on Japan in response to Pearl Harbor, Japan's Tripartite Treaty allies, Germany and Italy, declare war on America. The United States finds itself in a two-theater war. President Franklin Roosevelt sets as America's...
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Silas CrockettSilas Crockett traces life on the Maine coast through four generations of a seafaring family. This is a one-hundred-year epic filled with vibrant descriptions of the sweeping cultural, economic, and philosophical changes that washed over Maine. Mary Ellen Chase weaves wonderful historical detail with...
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The Concrete VineyardWhy would anyone want to murder the most respected senior citizen, Niagara-on-the-Lake has ever had?Retired history professor Edward Mitchell was surely not long for the grave, so why would someone risk life in prison to kill him? Picking up the clues is the reluctant...
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Sherlock Holmes and The Nine-Dragon SigilIt's the year 1906. Rumours abound that a deadly plot is hatching - not in the fog-ridden back-alleys of London's Limehouse district or the sinister Devon moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles but in faraway Peking. Holmes's task - discover whether such a...
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Sierra HotelA Question of Honor and Duty.First Lieutenant Rob Amity is an Air Force instructor pilot based Stateside during Vietnam. Most of his fellow instructors have flown combat missions, but he hasn't... nor does he particularly want to. This makes him the odd man out...
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The Empty CanvasThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Faithful RiverOriginally published in 1912, this lyrical novel is set in a manor house in central Poland during the January Uprising of 1863 to 1864, when a volunteer Polish army futilely fought the Russian occupation. A wounded soldier appears outside the house and is cared...
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