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"Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil...
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Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer.
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In a small Ozark community the Matthews family live in the shadow of tragedy. Their only daughter had died in childbirth, after the man she loved had betrayed and deserted her. Young Matt had lived his life under the shadow of a curse ; the promise to kill the man who abandoned his mother. A stranger arrives in the mountains and becomes known as "the Shepherd" because of his kindness to the people of the mountains.
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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 1
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Sixteen-year-old Leinad, a farmer, learns that his calling is to help thwart the Dark Knight and his Shadow Warriers, who are trying to stop the King from restoring the kingdom of Arrethtrae to glory.
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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 2
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Leinad's skill with a sword helps free his people from Lord Fairos's slavery, but he must again take up the fight against the evil of the Dark Knight when the rest of the country turns away from the King and the Code.
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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 3
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Cedric, a poor boy who takes care of the infirm and aged Leinad, is trained by the Prince to become a Noble Knight after the Prince becomes certain that his father's creed is going unheeded and the Dark Knight is trying to take over the kingdom.
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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 5
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Sir Gavinaugh, having escaped death at the hands of the Shadow Warriors, embarks on an epic journey. He travels the kingdom, winning hearts and minds with the power of his words and his skill with a sword. His purpose is to convince the Outdwellers to join the Prince in his battle to save the kingdom.
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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 6
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The final book in the Kingdom series wraps you up in the ultimate clash between good and evil. It's the final battle between the Dark Knight and the King himself.
10) Kingdom's call
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The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 4
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A young knight has devoted his life to eradicating the followers of the stranger claiming to be the King's son from Chessington. But when he's saved by none other than the Prince himself, he accepts a new name and mission.
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A traveler encounters a man known only as "the teacher." They begin an odyssey through desert mountains, valleys, and plains; encounter nomads, ancient ruins, and chambers of scrolls. Over the year the traveler writes down each of the mysteries given to him by the teacher, one for each day of the year. The result is a daily devotional unlike any other, full of revelations from heaven, secrets of the ages, and the hidden keys that can transform your...
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In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tom�as discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that?if he can find it?would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe?s earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences...
13) The calling
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Struggling with her faith during a summer shared with five older Amish sisters, Bethany volunteers at a local soup kitchen while railing at the handsome but annoying Jimmy before uncovering a heartbreaking secret.
15) Watership Down
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Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
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With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
17) The letters
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At Eagle Hill, an Amish bed and breakfast created in the converted basement of Rose Schrock's farmhouse, guests arrive with their worries and leave with their problems solved in surprising ways.
18) Flying in place
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Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness -with bravery and compassion -for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones.
Emma is twelve, a perfectly normal girl, in a perfectly normal home. With a perfectly normal father...who...
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Lord of the rings volume 2
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The way of the Ringbearer The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some were contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam were left to take the accursed Ring of Power to be destroyed in Mordor--the dark Kingdom where Sauron was supreme. Their guide was Gollum, deceitful and lust-filled, slave to the corruption of the Ring.
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Lose yourself in this captivating tale of love and betrayal, lies and forgiveness, from New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain.
Dr. Olivia Simon is on duty in the emergency room of North Carolina's Outer Banks Hospital when a gunshot victim is brought in. Midway through the desperate effort to save the young woman's life, Olivia realizes who she is-Annie O'Neill. The woman Olivia's husband, Paul, is in love with.
When Annie dies...