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The thrilling sequel to Blood of the Eagle, for all lovers of Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time and The Lord of the Rings.
THE SPEAR OF DURANDAIL HAS BEEN RECOVERED.
BIRDS HAVE FLOWN FROM ROVIRA AND THE CALL HAS BEEN ANSWERED.
THE ARMIES OF FAITH MARCH NORTH.
Lukas Raynor returns to his homeland to face the wrath of Dorian. The world changes when he meets his brother atop the ruins of a sundered village, a place that will change the fortunes of both.
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Series: James Cartwright PI Mysteries (Book 2 of 3)Best Mystery & Crime Fiction / 2023 MAXY International Book AwardsJames Cartwright, a Detroit ex-cop, turned private eye, is cynical, resourceful, and tough. He lives by a moral code, one which he believes helps him distinguish right from wrong, fact from fiction, and truth from lies.But as Cartwright discovers during each of his cases, it's one thing to believe in the code, and quite another to live...
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Summary of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale is a historical novel by writer Kristin Hannah. It tells the story of two French sisters, Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Fifty years after the end of the war, a recently widowed woman in a coastal town in Oregon is preparing to move to a nursing home because her cancer has returned. Her son, a surgeon, comes to help her and finds her in the...
11) Free the Nightingale: From Civil War Gettysburg and Abraham Lincoln to the Wild West California, New
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Gail Nightingale is a ghost. She has lived since the days before the battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. Gail was a nurse. She was caring for the wounded soldiers. Gail was just like Florence Nightingale. There was a coughing sickness that was spreading across the land. Gail Nightingale joins a group of healing women to cure the plague. Gail Nightingale was there to hear Abraham Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation...
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Gail Richmond has a fight on her hands to live and love as she chooses. It's the summer of 1939. War is engulfing Europe. As Gail steps down from the train, she knows her future is in jeopardy. Her father, a powerful lawyer, plans to marry her into money. Her feisty heart is set on a challenging career, and a lifestyle of her own choosing. Can she outwit him, as he wields the law and considerable wealth against her? Only by keeping a cool head and...
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Into the Badlands volume 9
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In the penultimate episode, Sunny relies on an unlikely person to help him defeat a common foe, while Bajie discovers a shocking secret from his past.
15) The women
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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"During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this historical novel with a speculative twist"--
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, she receives word of Freddie's death in combat, along with his personal...
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The "Ode to a Nightingale" is one of the beautiful poems of John Keats. One day in a forest area the poet hears a beautiful song of the nightingale bird. This provokes him to ponder over the matters relating to human mortality, the nature of the world, human sufferings etc. The poem explores the relationship between two different types of life. On the one hand, there is the human life. It is filled with sorrow. On the other hand, there is nature represented...
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Sandy beaches, tiny arrows, and knee-high trees. What has the Library turned into this time? The Nightingale Library pages are up against armies of tiny people on the island of Lilliput from Gulliver's Travels. Meanwhile their giant arch enemies have lost track of their giant pet monkey, who's loose in the Library!
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It's the assistant librarian's birthday! When the Nightingale Library pages surprise him, the shock is theirs-a Minotaur has turned the Library into a deadly labyrinth! Apollo, Perseus, Theseus, and Ariadne have entered the Library to help out. Can these Greek gods and goddesses help the kids find their way out of this maze?
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A moon shines indoors, bats fly through the stacks, and a wolf howls in the distance. That's unexpected-even for the Nightingale Library. A parade of zombie monks is marching through, and they're eating books. The only hope? Mary Shelley and Ben Franklin. Between Mary's monster of books and Ben's electricity, will the zombies be defeated?
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