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Les Misérables: Volume One by Victor Hugo
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLes Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest achievement--the ultimate tale of redemption. Former prisoner Jean Valjean struggles to live virtuously after an unexpected act of forgiveness by a kindly bishop changes his life... -
![Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian, Simon Vance]()
Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian, Simon Vance
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAll Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised...Categorized as:
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![The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian, Simon Vance]()
The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian, Simon Vance
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsJack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But a sudden turn of events takes them off on a hazardous mission to the Greek isles, where they are soon involved in fierce and thrilling action...Categorized as:
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![A Maiden's Voyage by Rosie Goodwin]()
A Maiden's Voyage by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThursday's child has far to go . . . 1912, London.Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the world. She has the prized position of lady's maid to young Constance Ogilvie, and is able to provide for her beloved parents and four younger siblings. She has even fallen in love, and though she does not feel quite ready to marry the charming Jamie Branning, her future seems clear... -
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![Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian]()
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsNapoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy...Categorized as:
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![Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese]()
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFranklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man. The rare moments they've shared haunt and trouble Frank, but he answers the call, a son's duty to a father. He finds Eldon decimated after years of drinking, dying of liver failure in a small town flophouse...Categorized as:
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![The Ring of Sky by Chris Bradford]()
The Ring of Sky by Chris Bradford
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAS JACK EMBARKS ON HIS FINAL ADVENTURE, WILL HE MAKE IT BACK TO ENGLAND AND HOME?The Shogun has deemed that any Christian or foreigner now discovered outside the bounds of an official trading port will be instantly put to death. For Jack, Nagasaki is within reach, but the Shogun's samurai are closing in with the help of Jack's old school rival, Kazuki, who has a score to settle... -
![North and South by John Jakes]()
North and South by John Jakes
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsPart history, part novel, this book chronicles two great American dynasties over three generations. Though brought together in a friendship that neither jealousy nor violence could shatter, the Hazards and the Mains are torn apart by the storm of events that has divided the nation...Categorized as:
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![The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian]()
The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsNapoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering...Categorized as:
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![Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati]()
Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWith epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donati’s bestselling saga of an Early American family’s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war.The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family’s mountain cabin in Paradise... -
![The Loving Cup by Winston Graham]()
The Loving Cup by Winston Graham
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSet in the closing years of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel is part of the Poldark saga. At the heart of the novel stand Demelza and Ross Poldark, their son, Jeremy, their daughter, Clowance, and the rival family, the Warleggans...Categorized as:
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![Brogan: Cowboy Pride by Kathleen Ball]()
Brogan: Cowboy Pride by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChristian Historical Western Romance Special Price until 1/31/20 Cowboy Brogan Kavanagh wants nothing better than to be left alone. Unfortunately, he’s left with no option and helps two women travelers. The Oldest spitfire, Ciara doesn’t trust him one bit and is constantly on her guard. Brogan is both amused and insulted by her attempts to keep him at arm’s length...Categorized as:
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![Yankee Stranger by Elswyth Thane]()
Yankee Stranger by Elswyth Thane
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the eve of the Civil War, Eden Day encounters Cabot Murray on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. As they shelter together from a passing thunderstorm, they fall in love. The obstacles to their future are instantly obvious. Hers is a prominent Virginia family, and he is a Yankee newspaperman. Their country is about to split apart, and they will be on opposite sides...Categorized as:
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![Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour]()
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsHere is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness... -
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![Follow the River by James Alexander Thom]()
Follow the River by James Alexander Thom
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary story of a pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her people... -
![Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake]()
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOrdered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, Dances with Wolves...Categorized as:
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![Burning Sky: A Novel of the American Frontier by Lori Benton]()
Burning Sky: A Novel of the American Frontier by Lori Benton
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“I remember the borders of our land, though I have been gone from them nearly half the moons of my life. But who there will remember me? What I have seen, what I have done, it has changed me.I am the place where two rivers meet, silted with upheaval and loss.Yet memory of our land is a clear stream. I shall know it as a mother knows the faces of her children. It may be I will find me there...Categorized as:
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![From Sea to Shining Sea by James Alexander Thom]()
From Sea to Shining Sea by James Alexander Thom
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn one generation, the Clark family of Virginia fought for our nation's independence, and explored, conquered, and settled the continent from sea to shining sea. This powerfully written book recreates the warm life of the family, the dangers of the battlefield, the grueling journeys across an untamed wilderness, and the soul-stirring Lewis and Clark Expedition...Categorized as:
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![Panther in the Sky: A Novel Based on the Life of Tecumseh by James Alexander Thom]()
Panther in the Sky: A Novel Based on the Life of Tecumseh by James Alexander Thom
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsRich, colorful and bursting with excitement, this remarkable story turns James Alexander Thom's power and passion for American history to the epic story of Tecumseh's life and give us a heart-thumping novel of one man's magnificent destiny--to unite his people in the struggle to save their land and their way of life from the relentless press of the white settlers...Categorized as:
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![Flashman & the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser]()
Flashman & the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHarry Flashman is back in the saddle, so to speak, making history that you won't find in textbooks. Mingling among heroes in the American West, the ace of knaves flees a murder charge, travels with a mobile brothel to California's goldfields, betrays the scarlet woman who loves him and tricks the noble Indians while seducing their women...Categorized as:
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![Little Big Man by Thomas Berger]()
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of ten."So starts the story of Jack Crabb, the 111-year old narrator of Thomas Berger's masterpiece of American fiction. As a "human being", as the Cheyenne called their own, he won the name Little Big Man...Categorized as:
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![A Very Lusty Christmas by Cara Covington]()
A Very Lusty Christmas by Cara Covington
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings[Siren Ménage Everlasting: Erotic Western Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, HEA] Lieutenant Kate Wesley couldn’t believe the audacity of the two pursuit pilots! Bad enough Gerald Benedict grabbed her into a steamy, delicious kiss, but his brother Patrick did the same thing! They let her go, promising to see her soon. Kate knows that will never happen... -
![Hot Colorado Nights by Paige Yancey]()
Hot Colorado Nights by Paige Yancey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsColorado Detective teams with the Brotherhood Protectors to help find his high school sweetheart’s missing sister Maddie Finley and her sister live a quiet life in a Colorado town where they own a gift shop and go to school. Dating is the last thing on Maddie’s mind since she walked away from her first and only love. Her life is just the way she thinks she likes it until her sister is kidnapped... -
![Fire the Sky by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear]()
Fire the Sky by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew York Times bestselling novelists W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear have long been considered the foremost chroniclers of early Native American life. Now, in a critically acclaimed, sweeping new series, they recreate the conflict-filled years following one of the first European invasions...Categorized as:
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![Sharpe's Company by Bernard Cornwell]()
Sharpe's Company by Bernard Cornwell
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsTo stem the Napoleonic tide, Sharpe must capture a fortress—where his wife and infant daughter are trapped—while protecting himself from a fellow officer determined to destroy him... -
![Last Stand by Duane Boehm]()
Last Stand by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGideon Johann had been gone from Last Stand, Colorado for eighteen years, seeming to have vanished after the Civil War. He is a man running from his conscience and keeping on the move seems to be the only thing preventing it from destroying him...Categorized as:
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![Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts]()
Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis classic novel follows the career of Major Rogers, whose incredible exploits during the French and Indian Wars are told through Langdon Towne, an artist and Harvard student who flees trouble to join the army... -
![Power of the Sword by Wilbur Smith]()
Power of the Sword by Wilbur Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShasa Courtney was groomed by his French-born mother to take control of the Courtney Mining and Finance Company, whose font of wealth was sown deep beneath African soil. But Shasa's brother, Manfred, had been trained by his renegade father to be a hunter--of lions, and of men... -
![The Warriors by John Jakes]()
The Warriors by John Jakes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Kent Family Chronicles continue as Confederate Corporal Jeremiah Kent carries out his commander's dying request-while the Union Army ravages Georgia...Categorized as:
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![The Miller's Dance by Winston Graham]()
The Miller's Dance by Winston Graham
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCornwall 1812. At Nampara, the Poldark family finds the new year brings involvement in more than one unexpected venture. For Ross and Demelza there is some surprising - and worrying - news. And Clowance, newly returned from her London triumphs, finds that her entanglement with Stephen Carrington brings not only happiness but heartache...Categorized as:
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![News of the World by Paulette Jiles]()
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsIn the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust... -
![Love and War by John Jakes]()
Love and War by John Jakes
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe Hazards and the Mains -- the first fatal shot fired at Fort Sumter divided them irrevocably with loyalties more powerful than family ties. The young would clash on the bloody battlefields of Bull Run and Fredericksburg, while in intrigue-ridden Washington and Richmond strong-willed men and beautiful women would defend their principles with their lives..Categorized as:
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![The Bastard by John Jakes]()
The Bastard by John Jakes
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOne man’s quest for his destiny leads him to the New World and into the heart of the American Revolution. Meet Phillipe Charboneau: the illegitimate son and unrecognized heir of the Duke of Kentland. Upon the Duke’s death, Phillipe is denied his birthright and left to build a life of his own...Categorized as:
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![Blood on the Verde River by Dusty Richards]()
Blood on the Verde River by Dusty Richards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Dusty Richards writes. . .with the flavor of the real West." --Elmer Kelton"Dusty Richards is the embodiment of the old west. He brings it to life so realistically, you can almost feel the bullets whizzing past your face." --Storyteller Magazine Never Fight A Man. . . 600 miles from a railroad head in Texas, Chet Byrnes and a handful of cowboys set out to build a new life on the Arizona frontier...Categorized as:
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![The Flood-Tide: The Morland Dynasty, Book 9 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]()
The Flood-Tide: The Morland Dynasty, Book 9 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1772: Although George III reigns over a peaceful England, his colonies in the Americas are claiming independence and a tide of revolutionary fervour is gripping France. Allen Morland and his beloved wife Jemima work unstintingly to bring Morland Plce back to its former glory. Their seven children often bring them heartache, but they are sustained by their love of each other...Categorized as:
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![Those In Peril: A dramatic, feel-good and moving WW2 saga, perfect for curling up with by Margaret Mayhew]()
Those In Peril: A dramatic, feel-good and moving WW2 saga, perfect for curling up with by Margaret Mayhew
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1940, as the shadows are lengthening over Europe, painter Louis Duval decides to leave his studio in Brittany and, in his small motor boat, make the short but perilous journey to England. His aim is not to flee from the enemy, but to join the Resistance to fight for his beloved France... -
![Upon a Winter's Night by Pamela Clare]()
Upon a Winter's Night by Pamela Clare
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReunite with the MacKinnon brothers and their wives for Christmas—and a tale of love, new life, and redemption. The war between Britain and the French is finally at an end, and the MacKinnons are looking forward to celebrating their first peacetime Christmas in five long years... -
![Sharpe's Revenge by Bernard Cornwell]()
Sharpe's Revenge by Bernard Cornwell
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIt is 1814. After a long and exhausting series of battles the British and Spanish armies are pushing into south-western France from Spain. Rumours abound that Napoleon has surrendered, been murdered, or fled. But before the French are finally defeated, and Sharpe can lay down his sword, one of the bloodiest confl icts of the war must be fought: the battle for the city of Toulouse... -
![The President's Gardens by Muohsin Ramlai, Luke Leafgren]()
The President's Gardens by Muohsin Ramlai, Luke Leafgren
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this extraordinary novel by heralded Iraqi author Muhsin Al-Ramli, One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner against the backdrop of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. "A profoundly moving investigation of love, death, and injustice." --The Guardian"A standard in contemporary Middle Eastern literature." --Booklist "A stunning achievement... -
![Zemindar by Valerie Fitzgerald]()
Zemindar by Valerie Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn epic love story, in the tradition of THE FAR PAVILIONS, set during the Indian Mutiny. From M M Kaye's THE FAR PAVILIONS to Julia Gregson's EAST OF THE SUN, the Indian Raj has been a rich source of bestsellers. ZEMINDAR is one of the greatest ever written... -
![Hard Country by Michael McGarrity]()
Hard Country by Michael McGarrity
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier. Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family’s struggle to settle and endure in the vast, untamed territory of New Mexico...Categorized as:
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![We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama]()
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIn the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not... -
![The Furies by John Jakes]()
The Furies by John Jakes
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe eight-volume epic of the Kent family continues as a new generation struggles to survive within a nation rife with conflict. Amanda Kent was a woman of great courage, but nothing prepared her for the massacre she witnessed at the Alamo. Now she's returned to Boston to rebuild the Kent legacy...Categorized as:
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![Land of My Heart by Tracie Peterson]()
Land of My Heart by Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBook 1 of Heirs of Montana from bestselling author Tracie Peterson. Adventurers, families, outlaws...all driven west in the 1860s by a longing for endless blue sky along with wild and wide-open spaces. Tracie Peterson, from her own Montana home, paints an unforgettable portrait of this rich, rugged landscape, populated by strong and spirited characters...Categorized as:
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![Lonely on the Mountain by Louis L'Amour]()
Lonely on the Mountain by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Lonely on the Mountain , Louis L'Amour's solitary wandering Sackett brothers make a stand together?to save one of their own. The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can't drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter...Categorized as:
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![Shaman by Noah Gordon]()
Shaman by Noah Gordon
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsRobert Jeremy Cole, the legendary doctor and hero of The Physician, left an enduring legacy. From the 11th century on, the eldest son in each generation of the Cole family has borne the same first name and middle initial and many of these men have followed the medical profession...Categorized as:
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![Texas by James A. Michener]()
Texas by James A. Michener
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSpanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states...Categorized as:
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![Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry]()
Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comanche Moon takes us once again into the world of the American West. Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow Call, now in their middle years, continue to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life -- Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe, and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him...Categorized as:
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![The Officer and the Traveler by Rose Gordon]()
The Officer and the Traveler by Rose Gordon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrayson Montgomery has just let his mouth get him into trouble again-quite literally. Being promptly informed that he must either marry the young lady he was caught with in a scandalous embrace or face a possible seven years of hard labor, Gray makes the obvious choice to marry her. It'll just be a marriage of circumstance with no chance of either getting hurt... -
![The Renegade by Donald Clayton Porter]()
The Renegade by Donald Clayton Porter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPublication Date: April 1, 1984 | Series: Colonization of America : White Indian, Book I Mass market paperback...Categorized as:
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