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To Love and to Cherish - Cactus Cre...

Leigh Greenwood

To Love and to Cherish - Cactus Creek Cowboys 2 (Unabridged)

When Laurie Spencer said 'I do,' she never realized she'd be trading one pair of shackles for another – until her husband's unexpected death leaves her with an opportunity to escape her controlling family for good. Determined to be independent, Laurie approaches sexy rancher Jared Smith with an offer she hopes he can't refuse. When unconsciously sensual Laurie offers a partnership, and she throws herself in as part of the deal, Jared's not sure he'll be able to...

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Leigh Greenwood

Teil 1 von 2 - Der lange Krieg: Soh...

Christian Cameron

Teil 1 von 2 - Der lange Krieg: Sohn des Achill (Ungekürzt)

Platäa, 500 v. Chr: Arimnestos ist noch ein Kind, als sein Vater ermordet und er ins ferne Ephesos verschleppt wird. Nach Jahren der Sklaverei erlangt er, zum Mann gereift, die Freiheit. Von Rache beseelt macht er sich auf, den Mörder seines Vaters zu finden. Dabei gerät er in den aufbrechenden Konflikt zwischen Athenern und Persern und geht den Weg des Kriegers. Und wie sein Vorbild Achilles kennt er keine Gnade. Bald nennt man ihn erfurchtsvoll den >>Menschenschlächter

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Christian Cameron

Die Malerin des Nordlichts (Ungekür...

Ксюша Ангел

Die Malerin des Nordlichts (Ungekürzt)

Norwegen, Anfang des des 20. Jahrhunderts: Signe ist jung und ambitioniert, an der Seite ihres Onkels Edvard Munch lernt sie das schillernde Leben der Osloer Bohème kennen. Edvard fördert sie, erkennt er doch in ihr sein Talent wieder. Signes Vater hat jedoch ganz andere Pläne für seine Tochter, um seine Erwartungen zu erfüllen, stimmt sie einer Ehe zu. Doch schon bald weiß Signe, dass sie mit ihrem Mann nicht glücklich werden wird, denn er verbietet ihr zu malen. Als sie den Widerstandskämpfer...

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Ксюша Ангел

The Outlaw Takes a Bride (Unabridge...

Ксюша Ангел

The Outlaw Takes a Bride (Unabridged)

Johnny Paynter flees Denver to escape being hanged for a murder he didn't commit. At his brother's ranch in Texas, where he thought he could take refuge, he finds his brother, Mark – dead. Taking advantage of his strong resemblance to his brother, Johnny assumes Mark's identity. Soon Johnny discovers that Mark had been corresponding with a widow named Sally in St. Louis, and she's en route to be a mail-order bride to Mark. Seeing no other option, Johnny makes a fateful...

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Ксюша Ангел

The Innocent

Lynne Golding

The Innocent

"Lynne Golding knows how to tell a story. With yarns she gathered at her great aunt’s knee, she has woven a compelling story that harkens back to a time of pre-war innocence in a town I’ve always been proud to call my own." – Former Premier the Honorable William G. Davis In the year 1907, all of Brampton is present at the sod-turning ceremony for the Carnegie Library. At the end of the event, the crowd rises as one to walk to the Presbyterian Church for a consecration service… Everyone...

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Lynne Golding

Home

Leila S. Chudori

Home

"A wonderful exercise in humanism . . . [by] a prodigious and impressive storyteller".—[i]Jakarta GlobeAn epic saga of «families and friends entangled in the cruel snare of history» ([i]Time magazine), [i]Home combines political repression and exile with a spicy mixture of love, family, and food, alternating between Paris and Jakarta in the time between Suharto's 1965 rise to power and downfall in 1998, further illuminating Indonesia's tragic twentieth-century history...

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Leila S. Chudori

Tram 83

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Tram 83

Two friends, one a budding writer home from Europe, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the only nightclub, the Tram 83, in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities. [i]Tram 83 plunges the reader into the modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village. [b]Fiston Mwanza Mujila (b. 1981, Lubumbashi,...

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Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Moonbath

Yanick Lahens

Moonbath

Awarded the Prix Femina in 2014, a prestigious annual French literary prize chosen by an all-female jury of 22 writers from the magazine Femina (they don't just pick women authors to win).A rare example of a work of Haitian literature published in the US, this is a PERFECT starting point for anyone curious about where to start in reading not just Haitian literature, but all Caribbean literature (from Junot Diaz to Gabriel Garcia Marquez).An important glimpse into the lives of the voiceless...

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Yanick Lahens

Blue Ravens

Gerald Vizenor

Blue Ravens

<P>Gerald Vizenor weaves an engrossing historical portrayal of Native American soldiers in World War I. Blue Ravens is set at the start of the twentieth century in the days leading up to the Great War in France, and continues in combat scenes at Ch&#226;teau-Thierry, Montbr&#233;hain, and Bois de Fays. The novel contains many of Vizenor's recurrent cultural themes—the power and irony of trickster stories, the privilege of survivance over victimry, natural...

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Gerald Vizenor

Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years...

Brian J. Horowitz

Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925

In the early 20th century, with Russia full of intense social strife and political struggle, Vladimir Yevgenyevich (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky (1880–1940) was a Revisionist Zionist leader and Jewish Public intellectual. Although previously glossed over, these years are crucial to Jabotinsky's development as a thinker, politician, and Zionist. Brian Horowitz focuses on Jabotinsky's commitments Zionism and Palestine as he embraced radicalism and fought against antisemitism and the suffering...

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Brian J. Horowitz

Border Jumping and Migration Contro...

Francis Musoni

Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa

With the end of apartheid rule in South Africa and the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the border between these Southern African countries has become one of the busiest inland ports of entry in the world. As border crossers wait for clearance, crime, violence, and illegal entries have become rampant. Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including...

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Francis Musoni

German Song Onstage

Laura Tunbridge

German Song Onstage

A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these days. While it might seem that this style of performance is a long-standing tradition, German Song Onstage demonstrates that it is not. For much of the 19th century, the songs of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms were heard in the home,...

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Laura Tunbridge

Falken, Teil 2 von 2 - Thomas Cromw...

Hilary Mantel

Falken, Teil 2 von 2 - Thomas Cromwell, Band 2 (Ungekürzt)

England zur Tudor-Zeit: Als Sekretär und erster Minister von König Henry VIII. hat Thomas Cromwell 1535 den Zenit seiner Macht erreicht. Er ist zusammen mit der neuen Königin Anne Boleyn aufgestiegen. Nun wartet ganz England ungeduldig auf die Geburt eines männlichen Erben. Doch Anne Boleyn vermag dem König keinen Thronfolger zu schenken und henry verliebt sich in die schüchterne Jane Seymour. Erneut liegen die Geschicke Englands in Thomas Cromwells Händen.

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Hilary Mantel

Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russia...

José Manuel prieto

Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire

Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as «a thrilling discovery … a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog … [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts.» J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no...

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José Manuel prieto

Das Tor zur Macht - Vespasian 2 (Un...

Robert Fabbri

Das Tor zur Macht - Vespasian 2 (Ungekürzt)

Rom, im Jahr 30 n. Chr.: Vespasian hat einen schier unlösbaren Auftrag. Er soll heimlich den thrakischen Priester Rotheces in seine Gewalt bringen, aus einer Festung unter Belagerung der römischen Legion. Denn der Mann könnte Sejanus zerstören, den Kommandeur der Prätorianergarde, der alle Macht in Rom an sich gerissen hat. Vespasian überwindet Hinterhalte: verschneite Berge, Piraten auf hoher See und Sejanus' Spione. Doch die schlimmste Gefahr lauert im Herzen des römischen Reiches selbst,...

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Robert Fabbri

Das Schwert des Tribuns - Vespasian...

Robert Fabbri

Das Schwert des Tribuns - Vespasian 1 (Ungekürzt)

Das Jahr 26 n. Chr.: Der 16-jährige Vespasian verlässt Familie und Hof in Richtung Rom. Er will einen Schutzherrn suchen und sich der Armee anschließen. Doch Rom ist in der eisernen Gewalt von Sejanus, Kommandeur der Prätorianergarde. Seine Spione sind überall. Jedes falsch gesprochene Wort kommt einem Todesurteil gleich. Vespasian flieht aus der Stadt: Blutjung und unerfahren nimmt er einen Posten als Tribun an der Grenze zum Balkan an. Rebellion liegt in der Luft – und Vespasian begreift, dass...

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Robert Fabbri

Winged Shoes and a Shield

Don Bajema

Winged Shoes and a Shield

Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California's post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, Eddie's transformation from a boy's innocence to a man's hardened wariness is captured in lyrical, emotionally raw episodes. He navigates the minefields of American masculinity in a series of disturbing, yet strangely...

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Don Bajema

Paper Conspiracies

Susan Daitch

Paper Conspiracies

One of the most sensational incidents in the history of France, the Dreyfus Affair was a landmark federal case involving treason and antisemitism. A controversial documentary about the trial by pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès caused riots when it was shown in 1899, and was banned from any screening in France for the next three quarters of a century. Who engineered Dreyfus's conviction? Was the man who played him in the film actually murdered by a mob of enraged...

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Susan Daitch

Der Weltensammler (Lesung mit Musik...

Ilija Trojanow

Der Weltensammler (Lesung mit Musik)

Das Fremde so nah. Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890), britischer Offizier, bricht aus den englischen Kolonien auf, um fremde Länder zu erkunden. Wie besessen lernt er die Sprachen, beschäftigt sich mit Religionen und betritt mittlerweile zum Islam übergetreten als erster Europäer inkognito die heiligen Stätten von Mekka und Medina. Dieser zu Recht hochgelobte Roman fasziniert durch die sprachliche Eleganz, in der die Biographie Burtons mit der Kulturgeschichte dreier Kontinente verbunden wird.

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Ilija Trojanow

A Room Made of Leaves

Kate Grenville

A Room Made of Leaves

It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her the earth one midsummer’s night, she believes him. But Elizabeth soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by some dark rage at the world. He tells her he is to take up a position as Lieutenant in a New South Wales penal colony and she has no choice but to go....

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Kate Grenville

Essex Farm

Andrew Summers

Essex Farm

‘Essex Farm, Never Forgotten’ tells the story of Essex Farm and Calvaire (Essex) two First World War cemeteries in Belgium that will forever bear the Essex name. ‘Essex Farm’ is not a comprehensive history of the First World War or a detailed account of the Essex Regiment. However we do try and give concise background to the momentous events of the time and to the best of our ability hope our facts and summaries are accurate. World War One, or the Great War, was the war described as the war...

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Andrew Summers

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon

Black Skin, White Masks

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks  represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a...

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Frantz Fanon

The Colorado Mountain Companion

John Fayhee

The Colorado Mountain Companion

A treasure trove of useful (and just plain fun) information about Colorado’s mountain country. A handy-dandy, comprehensive, wide-ranging reference guide to settling (good-naturedly) any arguments about Colorado’s high country. We’re not just talking about population figures, elevation stats, or lists of Fourteeners and rivers, although these are included. You will learn far more including mountain lexicons (so that you’ll know what a gutter bunny, potato chip, and prune really mean), Colorado...

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John Fayhee

Zong!

M. NourbeSe Philip

Zong!

<P>In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert—the only extant public document related to the massacre of these African slaves—Zong! tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song, moan, shout, oath, ululation, curse, and chant, Zong! excavates the legal text....

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M. NourbeSe Philip

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