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81) Signs on a Page
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Molly McMurphy, a recent college grad whose endless curiosity fuels her consulting researcher business, has been tasked by seemingly unrelated clients to explore a series of interlocking clues within historical and literary documents and artifacts. She soon finds herself on a path to uncovering an ancient, secret group of individuals that aims to guide humanity through the ages.
As she delves into disparate details and topics ranging from MacArthur's...
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Captain W.E. Johns worked tirelessly to establish James Bigglesworth DSO, MC, as the eminent British airman of the twentieth century instead of which he should have focussed on the one man who truly represented everything that was best about British aviation and the RAF - Oliver Marsden. During the Second World War, Marsden was shot down, captured by the Germans, and took part in planning a coup to kill Hitler. Post-war he established his reputation...
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A secret society…A relic that can change human history…A mystery that spans the centuries…A young priest must solve it, but will his faith survive Author R.A. Johnson brings you The Templar Lance, the first entry in the Enclave Series of historical thrillers that will make you question centuries of dogma and doctrine. Father Dan Koprowicz is assigned to an isolated parish with a long, dark history and secrets that date back to the Crusades and...
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Horizon of Our Hopes is the fourth and final part in the Drake's Drum series of alternate histories and brings the story up to the 21st Century.Having survived the Hitlerian Wars, the United Kingdom must find a new path in a world shattered by conflict. How would it sail the unknown waters of a turbulent future? How would it live? How would it flourish? The nation had to re–invent itself, to resolve the questions of the past and become something...
85) Archangel
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Nebula-award winning author Mike Conner presents a novel about a world that all of us can recognize, a world of what might have been. In Minneapolis in the 1930's, the deadly plague that ended the First World War is decimating the population. The only people who seem to be immune to its effects are black people. What does this mean for the future of the city-and of the nation? Young newsman Danny Constantine finds that not everyone is dying from the...
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The book goes into the details on the mysteries surrounding Mount Kailash, Bermuda Triangle, and the Lost City of Atlantis. It is also a good book to read for people who like to travel to unknown and mysterious places in the mountains and jungles. 'Secrets of Mount Kailash, Bermuda Triangle, and the Lost City of Atlantis' invites you to explore the world's most intriguing mysteries. Embark on an exhilarating journey as explore the mystique of Mount...
87) A Game of Senet
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In a place where loyalty can become a double-edge sword, Kassaya learns that the art of forming alliances is the true currency of survival. As she uncovers the secrets the Palace guards behind its magnificent facade, she thrusts both herself and her allies into even more danger. With a growing attraction to a man who is strictly forbidden to her, Kassaya finds herself at a crossroads of power and passion. There's only one way out and that will take...
88) Apocalypse How
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What will the end of the world be like?Plague or nuclear fire? Asteroids or floods?Divine wrath or people meddling with what should have been left alone?The apocalypse may come in the future, but what apocalypses might have occurred if history had played out differently? What if nukes had flown during the Cuban Missile Crisis? What if an asteroid had been on a collision course with Earth before the first person could set foot on the Moon? What if...
89) Fresco
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This fresco has set itself a challenge: that of popularizing universal history by placing, one next to the other, the representations of the world of those who have been the most representative actors, who are, or who may be one day. These characters all address the reader in the first person, as if they wanted to make him the privileged witness of their assessment, their reflections or their recommendations. You will thus be able to dialogue with...
90) The Black Wizard
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In a world dominated by a collection of magic users there are those who would fight back against their tyranny. The question remains however at how to do so? The mages have a distinct advantage in the form of magic. I would take someone with their own magic, a level of magic above the average member of the Coven. It would take a wizard, but the five wizard lead the mages, save for the sixth.
Grady is a thief who is waiting to be hanged for murder....
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Septembre 1297. David, sa famille et ses amis sont réunis au château de Carew pour un tournoi organisé dans l'esprit de l'époque du roi Arthur. Deux années se sont écoulées depuis les événements décrits dans le livre précédent, Sous le Voile du Temps, mais bien des questions demeurent. Qu'est-il advenu du traître Bogo de Clare, qui semble avoir disparu de la face de la Terre ? Et comment évolue la relation entre la famille de David et...
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"Arabella embarks on another entertaining quest in an imaginative setting that combines 19th-century seafaring with pulp-style space adventure." -Publishers Weekly
Though happy to be back on her home planet of Mars, Arabella's peace is shattered when she receives distressing news. Her long-absent fiancé Capt. Prakash Singh, commander of the Honorable Mars Company airship Diana, has been taken as a prisoner of war on Venus, the very planet...
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The year is 1483 AD, ten years before Christopher Columbus's famous voyage to America. In Aztlan, the Aztecs have suffered significant changes in their social and religious climates. Under the weyitlatoani Moсtezuma, Aztecs ceased sacrificing those that share their faith and began a renewed focus on education, prosperity, and the discovery and conquering of new lands. With this new focus came new ventures, and a floating city was built to sail across...
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In the year 1453, the massive army of the Ottoman Empire was camped outside the protective walls of Constantinople; the inevitable and predestined was about to begin - WAR. The invading empire had gone through rapid expansion all around the grand capital city, on both continents of Europe and Asia. However, the majestic capital city remained a constant source of irritation and frustration, since it was impenetrable. Although the Byzantine Empire lost...
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In a medieval world, song and music are suppressed by the almighty church. A group of strolling friars brings melody to those in need. But a fearsome brotherhood known as The Black Hounds hope to eradicate music. They regularly observe the operations of the Music Bearers and aim to hunt them to extinction. The secret musical order embraces a teenager named Elis and raises him to be one of their last carriers of song. He must fulfil his mission, while...
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A powerful cleric plots the ultimate treason against a medieval realm's young king in Katherine Kurtz's breathtaking return to the fantasy world of the Deryni For centuries, a powerful faction of the Holy Church in Gwynedd has been at war with the Deryni, the mysterious race whose magic is despised and feared by those who lack their remarkable arcane abilities. The bloodshed ended with the coronation of the popular young King Kelson Haldane, himself...
97) Camber of Culdi
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A Deryni nobleman seeking justice faces a tyrannical king in the magnificent first book of this acclaimed classic fantasy series Long before Camber was revered as a saint, he was a Deryni noble, one of the most respected of the magical race whose arcane skills set them apart from ordinary humans in the medieval kingdom of Gwynedd. For nearly a century, Camber's family has had little choice but to loyally serve the ruling Festils, Deryni usurpers who...
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Much like the present day, the fourteenth century was an age of pandemics, economic crises, climate change, religious wars and political uprisings. And just as some might say the World Wide Web has broadened our horizons, so the translation of the Bible into English bought enlightenment in an age of ignorance and superstition. The great scholar, John Tyndale, is generally acknowledged as the driving force behind this monumental work, but of equal...
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One of the great arguments of World War II took place among Allied military leaders over when and where to launch a second front against Germany in Europe. Stalin, holding on by his teeth in Russia, urged a major invasion from the west as soon as possible. The Americans, led by Marshall and Wedemeyer, argued likewise. It was Churchill who got his way, however, with his Mediterranean strategy, including a campaign on the Italian peninsula, which he...
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