Marnye Young
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Rahab is an adventurous girl who enjoys playing with her siblings in the city of Jericho. Growing up, she makes a lot of bad choices, then desperately wants to change her life. When two Israelite spies come to Rahab's door, she bravely offers them a place to hide. Then God gives her a great idea to help them escape, and the spies agree to protect her and her family once Israel takes over Jericho. And when that day finally comes, God keeps His promise...
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Rahab is an adventurous girl who enjoys playing with her siblings in the city of Jericho. Growing up, she makes a lot of bad choices, then desperately wants to change her life. When two Israelite spies come to Rahab's door, she bravely offers them a place to hide. Then God gives her a great idea to help them escape, and the spies agree to protect her and her family once Israel takes over Jericho. And when that day finally comes, God keeps His promise...
3) Lysistrata
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Along with Sophocles and Euripides, Aristophanes is considered one of the three great Greek playwrights. Only eleven of his nearly forty plays survive in their entirety to this day. Of his extant works Aristophanes's "Lysistrata" is considered one of his finest and one of the truly great comedies from classical antiquity. Central to the work is the vow by the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until they end the brutal war between...
4) The Warrior
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Time is running out for the world of Genoa and its magical peoples. A wizard's past mistake must now be set right if Genoa is to survive the battle that is to come.
Dragon-warrior, Té has spent her life hiding from the power-hungry king. Raised by her wizard in the native ways of warrior combat and dragon riding, Té must now put her skills to the test, joining forces with Kriston to protect Anna as they travel to the safety of Valorna where the...
5) The Scholar
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Time is running out for the world of Genoa and its magical peoples. A wizard's past mistake must now be set right if Genoa is to survive the battle that is to come.
Anna is clearly different from others. With obvious physical differences and powerful abilities, she's never quite fit in...anywhere. Having no knowledge of her parents, she sets out to discover her true origin. On the run for most of her life, she's become a master at eluding capture,...
6) The Queen
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With the brutal murder of her parents, Tress assumes the immense responsibility of unifying Genoa. Ruling a vast kingdom of wizards, sorcerers, and mystical creatures, she fights to rid Genoa of the tyrant, Gillard. Surrounded by spies and the threat of war, Genoa's only hope of survival lies in Tress' long-awaited reunion with the fearless dragon-warrior and the prized scholar in her protection.
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Raleigh Bishop's perfect life in rural St. Mary's County, Maryland, has just come to a shattering end. Her naval test pilot husband, Grant, has been killed in a flight accident, and Raleigh is left to pick up the brittle shards of that life. She prefers to stay hidden away in her grief but is unwillingly dragged out of it by the contents of her husband's will, which contain a shocking bequest. Grant has left her St. Clements Bluff, an old Bishop family...
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'I. Am. Pregnant.'
Three little words are all it takes to threaten Prince Raphael DeSantis's secret life of pleasurable hedonism, ruin the state of a nation, and find him bound to a waitress.
To prevent yet another international incident following on the heels of his of his convenient, and very broken, engagement to a suitable princess, Raphael must now make his mistress his bride!
But, heart-sore Bailey Harper won't come willingly. This arrogant...
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Strong-willed Annabelle Stirling is more than capable of running the family draper shop after the untimely death of her parents. Under her father's tutelage, she became a talented cloth merchant, while her brother Wesley, the true heir, was busy philandering about Yorkshire. Knowing she must change with the times to survive, Belle installs new machinery that finishes twice the fabric in half the time it takes by hand. But not everyone is so enthusiastic....
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Dollmaker Claudette Laurent fled Paris for London after tragedy destroyed the life she once had. But life is not easy in a new country that despises the French. Nevertheless, she establishes her doll shop again and soon has English society wild for her fanciful creations. Moreover, Claudette finds a surprising new customer in Queen Marie Antoinette, an avid doll collector herself. That royal favor, though, will prove to be dangerous for Claudette...
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I was twelve years old when the world ended. For eight years I've survived this hellhole of a planet, fighting the parasites that mutated most of earth's population into blood-thirsty freaks, while the rest of us became the lunch special on their human-filled menu. And that's only one of our problems as we try to survive everyday life in this new reality. Enough food and water? If we're lucky. Leaving the safety of our high walls? Only if we want...
12) Try As I Smite
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Alasdair Blakesley is the head of the Covens Syndicate. He shouldn't need to look beyond the witches and warlocks he governs, or his own abilities, to solve any problem. But a demon infestation means he can't trust anyone who may be possessed. The last person he wants to ask for help is also the only person who can fix this, so he sucks up his pride and storms into her office.
And she turns him down cold.
As the owner of Brimstone Inc., Delilah's...
13) Down on Her Luck
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Thirty-nine-year-old struggling actress Alaina Ackerman isn't just down on her luck today; lady luck has packed up and left town for heaven only knows where. Instead of ending up homeless on the streets of New York City in November, Alaina accepts her mother's holiday invitation and heads home to Pittsburgh for a much-needed break. Maybe even to give up on acting altogether.
The last thing Alaina expects is to be happy returning home, especially...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and NOT the original book.
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Twilight (2005) by Stephanie Meyer is a bestselling vampire novel, the first in a hit series that has been adapted to the screen.
When 17-year-old Bella Swan moves from Phoenix to the small town of Forks, Washington, to live with her dad, little does she know that she's about to have the most thrilling and terrifying experience of her life...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ed Yong's I Contain Multitudes and NOT the original book.
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Ed Yong's I Contain Multitudes (2016) is an expansive treatise on microbes, the microscopic organisms that shape the known world. Yong celebrates the fascinating complexity of the microbes contained within all living organisms and the environments they inhabit...
Inside this companion to the book:
· Overview of the Book
· Insights from the...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Christina Baker Kline's A Piece of the World and NOT the original book.
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A Piece of the World, a novel by Christina Baker Kline, is the partially true story of Christina Olson, the subject of Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth's most famous painting. Christina and Andy, as she called him, were kindred spirits who formed a special friendship before he became known in the art world...
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Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four is the second novel in the Sherlock Holmes series, following the enormously successful novel A Study In Scarlet. With the mysterious disappearance of a British Indian army officer, a one-legged hooligan, a stolen treasure, and a nefarious pact between four con-men, this novel of revenge and love is an exquisite classic of crime fiction.
In the infamous opening of the novel, Dr. Watson finds Sherlock Holmes in...
18) A Raven's Heart
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When a bookish codebreaker and a dashing spy are reunited in this steamy historical romance from the author of To Steal a Heart, their lives depend on their ability to resist temptation. But fate is a mistress who cannot be denied. . . England, 1815. In the war against France, Heloise Hampden is a high-value asset to the Crown. When she cracks the enemy's most recent communication, French agents are sent to silence her. But it's the agent assigned...
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When Two Worlds Collide is a modern-day love story about Jill and Tony. Tony was from New Jersey, and Jill was from California. The story is set in a Midwestern college town. It took Tony some time to approach Jill. They finally met under the strangest of circumstances in their junior year. From that moment on, their love would have to transcend time, distance, and space. They would have to overcome the obstacles of culture and upbringing. In this...
20) Fir Lodge
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If time shattered, taking away everything you loved, how far would you go to get it all back?
Arriving at a lodge in Norfolk for a long weekend retreat, a group of friends meet for a thirtieth birthday celebration. Before the weekend is over, five of them will die.
Trapped in a thirty-three-hour time loop, only Hal and Kara have the ability to alter fate and prevent the deaths of their friends. But in order to unravel the secrets hidden within their...