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AabiLynn's Dragon Rite Collection #2 is book two of two. AabiLynn's Dragon Rite is the story of Cara, a girl her family doesn't want. She is seen as worthless because she was born crippled. Unwanted by her father, Cara is sold off as a slave to pay for his debt. Alone emotionally and familyless,...

AabiLynn's Dragon Rite Collection #1 is book one of two. AabiLynn's Dragon Rite is the story of Cara, a girl her family doesn't want. She is seen as worthless because she was born crippled. Unwanted by her father, Cara is sold off as a slave to pay for his debt. Alone emotionally and familyless,...

DeKalb was originally known as Huntley's Grove, named after Russell Huntley, an early settler who was one of its founders. The area had also been known as Buena Vista and DeKalb Center, before settling on the name DeKalb in 1881. The name was derived from Baron Johann DeKalb (1721-1780), a German soldier...

TOP THREE REASONS TO VISIT EUROPE: Explore foreign cultures Sample outstanding food Desperately flee impending personal crisis Lenny left his wife, Monique, a bucket list of things they'd dreamed of doing together before cancer took his life. For four years, she ignored it, too busy raising...

Will King Arthur ever return to England? He already has.In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature.Although...

This book reassesses the cultural and political dimensions of the Irish Revival's heroic ideal and explores its implications for the construction of Irish modernity. By foregrounding the heroic ideal, it shows how the cultural landscape carved out by these writers is far from homogenous.

Wendy Dawson was an ambitious young lady living in New York. Her lifestyle was very driven with grueling days working from sunup to sundown at a fashion magazine. During her college years she had waitress for a pub to help pay her way through college. With that experience, she decided to change her...

Una fiesta. Un asesinato. Sin testigos. El cadáver de Kerry Dowling, de dieciocho años, aparece en el fondo de la piscina. Ninguno de los invitados a la fiesta que dio, aprovechando la ausencia de sus padres, ha visto absolutamente nada. Sin embargo, la ausencia de testigos no significa...

A Northern Irish writer explores his adopted homeland through film in this irreverent yet moving journey through each of the 50 states. Set among a personal backdrop of immigration memoir, he takes on American myths in their most powerful form—the motion picture—by setting out to determine if...

"Between 1880 and 1940, English responses to French poetry evolved from marginalised expressions of admiration associated with rebellion against the ""establishment"" to mainstream mutual exchange and appreciation. The translation of poetry underwent a simultaneous evolution,...

The City is divided. The bridges gated. In Southside, the hostiles live in squalor and desperation, waiting for a chance to overrun the residents of Cityside.   Nik is still in high school but is destined for a great career with the Internal Security and Intelligence Services, the brains behind the...

'My boyfriend could get into trouble if he gets caught. He could go to jail.' I moan softly. 'So could I.' 'Anything you tell me is completely confidential.' I sigh deeply. What have I got to lose? 'I wouldn't know where to begin.' 'At the beginning?' she says. 'In your own words.' So that's what...

Enter the fantasy world of an unexpected encounter between a Dragon Prince and a 13-year-old farm boy!Dragon heir Dracor survives a series of dangers, thanks to the bravery of 13-year-old Jacen Finley. To repay Jacen, Dracor agrees to take Jacen to the dragon kingdom. Thrilled, Jacen defies his...

Mattie is nine years old and she worries about everything. Which isn't surprising. Because when you have a family as big and crazy as hers, there's always something to worry about. Will the seeds she's planted in the garden with her brothers and sisters grow into fruit and veg like everyone promised?...