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It is 1870. French armies are annihilated. Paris is encircled, bombarded, starved and humiliated. A Prussian Emperor is crowned in the Palace of Versailles. French Governments fail their citizens. Paris turns on itself in shame. The Commune is born.
1870 -1871 saw a catastrophic failure of French political and military leadership. 'Paris Falls' examines the war through the eyes of those who were there.
62) Enchantment
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
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The moment Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed: atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay still as death. But beneath the foliage a malevolent presence stirred, sending the 10-year-old scrambling for safety. Years later, Ivan is an American graduate student engaged to be married, yet he cannot forget that day long ago. Compelled to return to his native land,...
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Norse Mythology volume 1
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Where did a hammer-wielding guardian of the gods, a murderer and comic sidekick, a mysterious one-eyed leader, a world-encircling serpent, a doomed final battle, and other Norse myths come from? Learn what we owe to the Poetic Edda and its adaptation in the Prose Edda for the fascinating stories you'll encounter throughout this series.
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American military bases encircle the globe with nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These bases are usually taken for granted or overlooked entirely, but in an eye-opening account, Base Nation shows that the worldwide network of bases brings with it a panoply of ills-and actually makes the nation less safe in the long run.As David Vine demonstrates, the overseas bases raise geopolitical tensions and provoke widespread antipathy towards the...
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Paul Worthington just confessed to a murder that never happened. Magdalene Lynton died forty years ago: a vivacious teenager who fell victim to a grotesque, accidental drowning. The coroner's office issued a verdict of death by misadventure and filed her case. The farming commune she'd lived within, splintered apart. Her body was left behind in a small, private cemetery encircled by acres of fallow ground. Until Paul Worthington confessed to her murder....
66) The seamstress
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Growing up, Sara (Seren) Tuvel was the smartest, most ambitious girl in her Romanian mountain village. When she won and accepted a scholarship to a Gentiles-only Gymnasium, she was forced to make a decision that would change her path forever. At thirteen, faced with a teacher's anti-Semitism, Seren walked out of her classroom and into a new existence. She became the apprentice to a seamstress, and her skill with needle and thread enabled her again...
67) Analogous Twist
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Most of the world's megalopolises have their own unique stories about their suburbs. The stunning Sydney area is a glorious place for living. Encircled by fantastic climate madded life very relaxing. The author, who has the nickname, Merle, is a Sydney inhabitant as well.
His portrayal of Sydney suburbs has a comic approach that targets absurdities that could supposedly belong to challenging situations. It has been transferring to unique funny scenes...
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Discovering the World volume 9
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In Ibiza almost everything is an excuse to celebrate, including sunsets. Ibizan's celebrate on the beach, on boats, and in villas. The local people also celebrate traditional feasts in their villages. Witness an island rich in ancient history, one encircled by creeks, cliffs, and yellow sandy beaches. For those who still harbor a sense of peace and quiet, you will relish a visit to Formentera.
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Hannibal's battle plan at Cannae became the mother of all great battle strategies-the first battle of encirclement that has been imitated (often to disastrous effect) endlessly over the past two thousand years. In this brilliant, long-overdue, and beautifully written account, Robert L. O'Connell gives listeners an epic account of one of the most dramatic battles of antiquity. The Ghosts of Cannae is at once a book about a specific battle (the massive...
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The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front, as it controlled the route to Minsk. A salient in the German lines, Vitebsk had been declared a Festerplatz-a fortress town-meaning that it must be held at all costs. A task handed to 3rd Panzer Army in 1943.
Otto Heidkämper was chief of staff of Georg-Hans Reinhardt's 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Center, which was stationed around Vitebsk and Smolensk...
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The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front, as it controlled the route to Minsk. A salient in the German lines, Vitebsk had been declared a Festerplatz-a fortress town-meaning that it must be held at all costs. A task handed to 3rd Panzer Army in 1943.
Otto Heidkämper was chief of staff of Georg-Hans Reinhardt's 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Center, which was stationed around Vitebsk and Smolensk...
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Sergeant Dickinson is the radioman of a Special Forces A-team in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. The camp is encircled and attacked for nine days by the North Vietnamese Army which wants to lure larger American units into combat for the first time. The war grows larger and darker, and Dickinson continues to be drawn back to it, tour after tour, even when he has the opportunity to leave, even though his post-traumatic stress threatens to overwhelm...
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"Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear―they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the...
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Williamsburg series volume 1
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Elswyth Thane is best-known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 1943 and 1957 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II. Dawn's Early Light is the first novel in the series. In it, colonial Williamsburg comes alive. Thane centers her novel around four major characters: the aristocratic St. John Sprague, who becomes George Washington's aide; Regina Greensleeves, a Virginia...
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Door of no return volume 1
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
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"A novel in verse about an Asante boy who is captured and taken from his village during the nineteenth century"--
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Robert (Lefty) Wayne, is the main character in this fictional accounting of the authors actual dealings with hookers, slot cheats, mobsters, drug dealers, biker gangs and white-collar criminals during his career as a licensed bail bond agent.
Names were changed, characterizations merged, and situations altered in an effort to protect the privacy of everyone involved while still providing the reader with insights into the actual corruption that encircled...
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Revolt, rebirth and retribution - a nameless, laid-off hermit ventures through the highways encircling the Mojave Desert. Why? To retrieve Nathan López, of course, a charismatic leader preaching a religion of fervent discipline. There is little time to pause and take a breath. The wheels keep on turning, the clock on the wall of the sauna keeps ticking, and the world, at last, keeps spinning. Can hope and trust still be found in a multi-faceted world?
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79) Soul Bound
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1805-This book continues following Annie Belle's life as she attempts to find her love, Baden. She now has the help of her new family but she finds herself gaining the unwanted attention of many. Jory joins the search for Baden and brings more complications to her life already filled with snatchers and trackers. Everyone's lives become more intertwined than they all first anticipated and as lies encircle them all no one knows where it will lead them....
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The turning point of the war in Burma was the Imphal/Kohima campaign of 1944. For four months there was intense and savage fighting. The Japanese plan was to encircle and destroy the British and Indian positions before bursting into the plain and seizing Imphal. They failed in their first aim but the Japanese 15th Army prepared a final all-out thrust for Imphal. However, the British 4th Corps struck first and, after three weeks, the Japanese were...