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The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThe Book of Negroes (based on the novel Someone Knows My Name) will be BET's first miniseries. The star-studded production includes lead actress Aunjanue Ellis (Ray, The Help), Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men), Oscar and Emmy winner Louis Gossett Jr... -
![The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels (5 Volumes) by Patrick O'Brian]()
The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels (5 Volumes) by Patrick O'Brian
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPatrick O’Brian’s twenty-one-volume Aubrey/Maturin series has delighted generations of devoted fans, inspired a blockbuster film, and sold millions of copies in twenty-four languages. These five omnibus volumes, beautifully produced and boxed, contain 7,000 pages of what has often been described as a single, continuous narrative...Categorized as:
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![The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov]()
The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOstap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities...Categorized as:
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![Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm]()
Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBestselling Western author Duane Boehm has written another western novel with enough humor, heartbreak, love, and outlaws to keep you turning the page.While the ranchers around Trinidad are circling like buzzards in wait for Flannery Vogel to fail, the downtrodden widow with a young daughter refuses to surrender as she struggles to run the ranch that cost her husband his life... -
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![Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm]()
Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBestselling Western author Duane Boehm has written another western novel with enough humor, heartbreak, love, and outlaws to keep you turning the page.While the ranchers around Trinidad are circling like buzzards in wait for Flannery Vogel to fail, the downtrodden widow with a young daughter refuses to surrender as she struggles to run the ranch that cost her husband his life... -
![Goin' Someplace Special by Jerry Pinkney, Patricia C. McKissack]()
Goin' Someplace Special by Jerry Pinkney, Patricia C. McKissack
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings1950s Nashville, Tennessee is segregated, and black people are persecuted, but young Tricia Ann is determined to venture on her own across town to someplace special. A must read book about persecution of minorities, but also about hope and light...Categorized as:
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![The Mark Twain Collection by Mark Twain]()
The Mark Twain Collection by Mark Twain
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis exceptional collection of "Junior Classics" lets listeners enjoy the exploits and antics of Tom, Huck, Tom Canty, Hank Morgan, and other characters, in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, " and "The Prince and the Pauper...Categorized as:
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![La pierre et le sabre by Eiji Yoshikawa]()
La pierre et le sabre by Eiji Yoshikawa
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDans le Japon du XVIIe siècle, le jeune Takezó devient le samouraï Miyamoto Musashi et n'a plus qu'un seul but : tendre à la perfection. Dépasser ses sentiments et persévérer pour s'améliorer, se perfectionner et parvenir à comprendre le sens profond de la vie en développant son art, l'art du combat. Duel après duel, il crée son propre style... -
![Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter]()
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIllus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by following the song's directions...Categorized as:
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![The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain]()
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“We said there was no home like a raft. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery…but you feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.” Sail down the Mississippi with Huck Finn and the runaway slave, Jim...Categorized as:
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![Fletcher and the Blue Star by John Drake]()
Fletcher and the Blue Star by John Drake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is 1800 and Jacob Fletcher’s plans for a career in trade are once again dashed by the allure of ocean adventures.Sent to America as a roving ambassador, Fletcher finds himself caught up in one of his most demanding challenges yet, fighting against the robust French Navy. It is during this epic battle that Fletcher first sees the Blue Star, a diamond to surpass all others... -
![Somewhere in the South Pacific by John J. Gobbell]()
Somewhere in the South Pacific by John J. Gobbell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInspired by the true story of John F. Kennedy's daring naval mission at the height of World War II, this historical thriller brings the unanswered question of the past to life with fast-paced action and vivid detail...Categorized as:
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![A World Apart by Gretta Curran Browne]()
A World Apart by Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Michael Dwyer story continues ... powerful in its drama and truth ... and his fame in the history of Ireland begins.Now a close friend of Robert Emmet, Michael does everything in his power to help the young aristocrat succeed in his revolutionary aims, but traitors abound everywhere, attempting to bring down both young men...Categorized as:
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![Haunted Falls by Ken Farmer, Buck Stienke]()
Haunted Falls by Ken Farmer, Buck Stienke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you are a fan of L'Amour, Kelton, Burroughs and Grey, you'll love Haunted Falls - the much awaited sequel to the best selling The Nations as it brings to life the American frontier! US Deputy Marshals, under Judge Issac Parker, The Hanging Judge, patrol the Indian Nations—the most dangerous place in the world in the late 19th century...Categorized as:
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![Selected Stories by O. Henry]()
Selected Stories by O. Henry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"Selected Stories of O. Henry," by O. Henry, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras...Categorized as:
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![The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton]()
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsVirginia Hamilton (1936-2002), a giant in the world of children's literature, was the first African-American woman to win a Newbery Medal and the first children's book author to be awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant...Categorized as:
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![Дневникът на капитан Блъд by Rafael Sabatini, Рафаел Сабатини]()
Дневникът на капитан Блъд by Rafael Sabatini, Рафаел Сабатини
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFurther adventures from the much-loved Captain Blood, the 'Robin Hood' of the Spanish Seas. In his latest exploits, The Chronicles of Captain Blood takes him to new adventures with as much excitement and swashbuckling adventure as ever before...Categorized as:
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![African Town by Irene Latham, Charles Waters]()
African Town by Irene Latham, Charles Waters
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse. In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda...Categorized as:
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![Bendigo Shafter by Louis L'Amour]()
Bendigo Shafter by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAt what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold... -
![Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson]()
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom.Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there’s no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail...Categorized as:
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![My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad, Azar Nafisi]()
My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad, Azar Nafisi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA teenage boy makes the mistake of falling in love with the much-protected daughter of his uncle, mischievously nicknamed after his hero Napoleon Bonaparte, the curmudgeonly self-appointed patriarch of a large and extended Iranian family in 1940s Tehran...Categorized as:
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![Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle, James R. Kincaid]()
Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle, James R. Kincaid
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlternate Cover Edition can be found here and here.T.C. Boyle's riotous first novel, now in a new edition for its 25th anniversary Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Music, a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle's tremendous gifts as a storyteller...Categorized as:
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![The Tide Between Us by Olive Collins]()
The Tide Between Us by Olive Collins
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings1821: After the landlord of Lugdale Estate in Kerry is assassinated, young Art O'Neill's innocent father is hanged and Art is deported to the cane fields of Jamaica as an indentured servant. On Mangrove Plantation he gradually acclimatises to the exotic country and unfamiliar customs of the African slaves, and achieves a kind of contentment.Then the new heirs to the plantation arrive...Categorized as:
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![Raj Kahini by Abanindranath Tagore]()
Raj Kahini by Abanindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings<span><span>An unforgettable historical novella that leads you to the flowing sand dunes of Rajasthan, the clash of swords, to the courtyard of kings and queens. The book captures the spirit of a heroic past that never fails to move readers even today...Categorized as:
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![Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah]()
Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrans Atlantic and African slave trades are the subject of Armah's Two Thousand Seasons (1973) in which a pluralized communal voice speaks through the history of Africa, its wet and dry seasons, from a period of one thousand years. Arab and European oppressors are portrayed as "predators," "destroyers," and "zombies"...Categorized as:
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![Selected Stories by O. Henry]()
Selected Stories by O. Henry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsO. Henry originated the humorous, energetic tale that ends with an ironic, even shocking twist. In "After Twenty Years," for example, two boys agree to meet at a particular spot exactly twenty years later. Both are faithful, but in the intervening years one boy has turned into a criminal, the other into a policeman...Categorized as:
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![Wildwood by Elinor Florence]()
Wildwood by Elinor Florence
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA single mother. An abandoned farmhouse. An epic battle with the northern wilderness.Broke and desperate, Molly Bannister accepts the ironclad condition laid down in her great-aunt’s will: to receive her inheritance, Molly must spend one year in an abandoned, off-the-grid farmhouse in the remote backwoods of northern Alberta...Categorized as:
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![Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson]()
Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLindy and her doll Sally are best friends - wherever Lindy goes, Sally stays right by her side. They eat together, sleep together, and even pick cotton together. So, on the night Lindy and her mama run away in search of freedom, Sally goes too. This young girl's rag doll vividly narrates her enslaved family's courageous escape through the Underground Railroad...Categorized as:
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![Long Road to Freedom by Kate Messner]()
Long Road to Freedom by Kate Messner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRanger is a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training. In this adventure, he goes to a Maryland plantation during the days of American slavery, where he meets a young girl named Sarah. When she learns that the owner has plans to sell her little brother, Jesse, to a plantation in the Deep South, it means they could be separated forever...Categorized as:
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![Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan, Alexander McCall Smith]()
Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan, Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsR. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism...Categorized as:
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![Great Maria by Cecelia Holland]()
Great Maria by Cecelia Holland
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHer father is a robber baron... Her husband has grand ambitions and a quick temper... She will become... The Great Maria...Categorized as:
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![Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance by Adam Bertocci, Bernard Setaro Clark]()
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance by Adam Bertocci, Bernard Setaro Clark
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat if William Shakespeare had written The Big Lebowski?The Dude has met the Bard, and he doth abide.Join the "Knave" and Sir Walter on a wild tale of mistaken identity, kidnapping, bowling, and a rug that, in faith, really tied the room together--in a sidesplitting Shakespearean comedy of errors and ninepins, told in five glorious acts of iambic pentameter and impeccable period prose...Categorized as:
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![An Instant in the Wind by André P. Brink]()
An Instant in the Wind by André P. Brink
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe year is 1749, when the Boers ruled South Africa. And so it has come to his Baas's final command to his Hottentot slave Adam, to flog his mother, because she refuses to prune the master's vineyard in order to attend her own beloved mother's funeral. And when he refuses to do so, and his Baas smashes his face with a piece of wood, Adam turns on him, and beats him almost to death...Categorized as:
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![Always & Forever: A Saga of Slavery and Deliverance by Gretchen Craig]()
Always & Forever: A Saga of Slavery and Deliverance by Gretchen Craig
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSince they were children running barefoot about Toulouse Plantation, Josie and Cleo have been as close as sisters, forging an unbreakable bond that defies their roles as mistress and slave. Together, the two have shared secrets and protected each other through happiness and heartbreak... -
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![Pirate by Steven Becker]()
Pirate by Steven Becker
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter decades at sea, pirate legend Jose' Gasparilla is prepared to retire. As he and his crew split their treasure, the promise of one final prize lures the ship back into action. Little do they know that the purported riches are nothing but a trap set by the fledgling U.S. Navy! With the crew decimated and the treasure scattered, a new leader must rise from the defeat...Categorized as:
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![El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha II by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]()
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha II by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork...Categorized as:
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![Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold]()
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIllus. in full color. Cassie, who flew above New York in Tar Beach, soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train full of people, and Be Be joins them. But the train departs before Cassie can climb aboard...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Jerome Hopkins]()
The Complete Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Jerome Hopkins
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBefore he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius...Categorized as:
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![Day of Tears by Julius Lester]()
Day of Tears by Julius Lester
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOn March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, Georgia. More than 400 slaves were sold. On the first day of the auction, the skies darkened and torrential rain began falling. The rain continued throughout the two days, stopping only when the auction had ended...Categorized as:
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![The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth]()
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsConsidered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New World to look after his father's tobacco business and to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem...Categorized as:
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![The Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 2 by Wu Cheng'en]()
The Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 2 by Wu Cheng'en
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAnthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time...Categorized as:
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![Cabin on Trouble Creek by Jean Van Leeuwen]()
Cabin on Trouble Creek by Jean Van Leeuwen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWolves, bears, and a heavy snowstorm are just some of the dangers that Daniel and Will must face&150alone. It's 1803, and the boys and their father have recently arrived in Ohio, following the promise of rich farmland... -
![Angelique triumphiert by Anne Golon]()
Angelique triumphiert by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Sheriffs Don’t Surrender (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler]()
Sheriffs Don’t Surrender (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStepping into battle is never easy. Especially when you’re outgunned and walking into unknown territory. Sheriff Conrad Scott has returned home after a long absence to discover his town in disarray and his young sisters running wild. Even worse, Rudy Galloway and his gang think they can get away with murder... -
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![Dry Cross Honor (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler]()
Dry Cross Honor (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSheriff Merrill Vinson is looking forward to a new life in Dry Cross, Texas. But from the moment he arrives, he knows something isn’t right. The townspeople are nervous. Edgy. And no one will look him in the eye. Except for Cherry Jones.Cherry is the sassy saloon owner who keeps the town laughing. And Merrill is smitten. But Cherry’s got secrets she’ll go to her grave protecting... -
![Until the Sun Falls by Cecelia Holland]()
Until the Sun Falls by Cecelia Holland
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn the thirteenth century the Mongol hordes swept out of Mongolia to over-run half the world. This novel follows Psin, a Mongol general, through the military campaigns in Russia and Europe, among his own family and in his own heart...Categorized as:
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![The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini]()
The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Priscilla Harradine travels back to England accompanied by the rather dull Major Sands, she has no cause to expect her journey will be anything other than uneventful. But also on board the Centaur is Charles de Bernis - a mysterious and intriguing buccaneer...Categorized as:
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![Röde Orm 1: Sjöfarare i västerled by Frans G. Bengtsson]()
Röde Orm 1: Sjöfarare i västerled by Frans G. Bengtsson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRödhårig och mjäll i hyn, bred mellan ögonen, stubbnäst och stormynt- detta är porträttet av Röde Orm, hjälten i Frans G. Bengtssons underhållande roman där fornnordisk och österländsk saga ingått en sällsynt lyckad förening. I mustiga färger och kärnfull stil skildras de skiftande öden Röde Orm går till mötes på sina äventyrliga vikingafärder...Categorized as:
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![Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher]()
Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDistributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressA classic in American West literature and the inspiration for Robert Redford's portrayal in the classic film Jeremiah Johnson. Vardis Fisher has captured both the romantic idealism and harsh realism of the wilderness experience with this classic tale of the West...Categorized as:
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![Fled by Meg Keneally]()
Fled by Meg Keneally
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBased on the life of an incredible historical heroine, a harrowing journey in search of love, justice, and freedom, told by the daughter of best-selling author Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List) Tall and lanky, more suited to sailing and fishing than to keeping a house, Jenny Gwyn has proven herself a survivor...Categorized as:
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