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Scenic sites and a proud community make Raymond the bucolic New Hampshire town it is today. The local cast of characters has its own unique story set in the heart of the Granite State. Local author Paul Brown has mined 250 years of town history, from the early settlement to the post-World War II boom. Search for the truth behind the conflicting stories of how the original Freetown became known as Raymond. Meet legendary locals like Dudley Tucker and...
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This abridged commentary highlights the essence of the Old Testament and condenses approximate 1200 pages to fewer than 120. Included are interfaith references from the Hebrew Tanakh, Greek Septuagint, Latin Vulgate, Arabic Quran, and English King James.
The Old Testament is full of blessings and victories, as well as wrath and bloodshed. Yet it typifies a consistent theme: God blesses all with the opportunity of justice and mercy; whereas evil is...
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When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that within a generation these men would have seized control of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily. How did they make such extraordinary gains and then consolidate their power? Paul Brown, in this thoroughly researched and absorbing study, seeks to answer these questions and throw light...
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This abridged commentary takes a highlighter to the whole book of Revelation-like preparing for a school examination. These highlighted words provide practical means for understanding the main points of God's words in improving daily life.
From complexity comes simplicity and elegance of the seven visions of Revelation. Discover that the vision of Moses' Tabernacle parallels the Lord's Prayer; the vision of the Holy City parallels the Seven Days of...
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Birdy the Backyard Blue Jay: Wing Adventures takes the reader sailing through the blue sky with Birdy and his friends, on all sorts of high flying winged adventures and trips. The reader will meet all of Birdys friends that live in Birdys White Oak Bayou Basin backyard. Birdy encounters kittens and dogs and castles and countries, as Birdy high flies all around the world with his bird bride Birdella. Come along and join Birdy on one of his Birdy encounters!...
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Hanorah Martley was like any other poor girl in Ireland in the 1880s. Her dream was to one day see America, raise a family, and have the basic necessities of lifefood, shelter, and clothes. In that environment, she would provide love in abundance. She went on to survive, having six children and living on a prosperous farm in the United States. In Orphan among the Irish: Hanorahs Story, Hanorahs great-grandson, author Paul Brown, describes her physical...
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A quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937. When hostilities began, 'Q Central' attracted a dozen other clandestine operations set up to defend the country or designed to confuse and undermine enemy morale. The headquarters of radar, RAF Group 60, also came to Leighton Buzzard to be hidden from German attack and to be close to the telephone...
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Not everyone has the means and resources to become a successful entrepreneur. So does that mean everyone else must hinge their success on the hopes that they survive the next set of layoffs and that their chosen field doesn't become the next dying industry? Not at all! The successful methods that the leading entrepreneurs used to find their niche in today's marketplace can be applied by all in their pursuit of a long-lasting, rewarding career.
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9) Skulduggery
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The bleak Pennine moors of Yorkshire, a beautiful, harsh place, close to the sky, rugged and rough, no boundaries 'cept the horizon which in some places went on forever. Green pastures and wayward hills, the colors of ochre, brown and pink in the Spring. Green squares divided the land on one side of the lane and on the other. Sheep with thick wool and dark snout dotted the hills and dales. One room, cruck house cottages, scattered, smoke billowing...
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AN HISTORIC JOURNEY OF TWISTS AND ADVENTURE WITH A DASH OF SPIRITED PASSION.
A tale of a peasant family caught in the ravages of the English Civil War in 1642. A young man, Tommy Rushworth, tries to stay alive after being absconded into the Parliamentary Army and taken off to war. Thomas Rushworth Snr is racing against time to save his son from imminent death in a war he wanted no part of.
Back in Haworth, Tommy's mother despairs, waiting news...
11) Dream of Courage
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IN THE HEART OF 18TH-CENTURY ENGLAND, ON THE MOORS AND AMIDST THE GRIMY ALLEYS OF LEEDS, THE LIVES OF JOHN AND ROBERT RUSHWORTH UNFOLD IN A GRIPPING SAGA OF AMBITION, DANGER AND REDEMPTION.
Leaving the desolate moors behind, the brothers venture to Leeds with dreams of escaping poverty's clutches and carving their names into the annals of history.
In a world teeming with beggars, cutpurses and outlaws, the Rushworth brothers navigate treacherous...
12) Shayna's Shadows
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"Shayna's Shadows" introduces a grade 8 youngster from an ethnic group who arrives at a new school and encounters bullying, prejudice and bigotry, difficulties many young people face today. Shayna overcomes her problems through reliance on her own inner resources, as well as on the help of her friend, Jessica, and a number of significant others in her school, religious and community environments.Suitable for young adult or adult readers.
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This is the personal story of a very public project. In 1984, a respected Boston environmental engineering firm took on the industry's biggest engineer-constructors to win the first municipal water treatment plant privatization project in the country. The City of Scottsdale, Arizona had embarked on the "untested" financing approach to take advantage of tax incentives that arrived with the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Because it was the first of its...
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Today when the competition, technology, and the economy are evolving faster than ever before, organizations and the people like us who work in them need a proven approach to help us adapt-and succeed. The key, according to Paul B. Brown, is to think like an entrepreneur, no matter what your position or industry. What works for the most successful entrepreneurs will work for us, Brown argues, whether we want to stay employed working for someone else...
16) Church of Lies
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From the Preface: "My name is Flora Jessop. I’ve been called apostate, vigilante, and crazy bitch, and maybe I am. But some people call me a hero, and I’d like to think they’re right too. If I am a hero, maybe it’s because every time I can play a part in saving a child or a woman from a life of servitude and degradation, I’m saving a little piece of me, too. I was one of twenty-eight children born to my dad and his three wives. Indoctrinated...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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teenager Velvet seems like any other girl who's horse-crazy. but who else would dare chop off her hair, don jockey's clothes, and enter the world's toughest steeplechase? Here's the story that made Elizabeth Tayor a teenage screen star...a story you'll laugh over, cry over, and never forget.
18) Going platinum
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Mitchie wonders whether she will lose Shane amidst all the adulation and celebration of the Connect Three record going platinum.
19) Hidden tracks
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Mitchie and Caitlyn team up hoping to win Camp Rock's annual musical mystery hunt so they can do a hidden track on one of Connect Three's upcoming albums.
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Mitchie, is a stage-shy fourteen year old, loves to sing. So when her mom takes a job as a cook at a summer camp for aspiring rock stars, Mitchie is ecstatic. It is shaping up to be the best summer ever! The only problem. To impress others, she pretends her mother is a music executive with big-time connections. Will her act put her singing and her budding relationship with others in jeopardy? Or, will she find her voice and rock the camp?