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"Evil always seeks a foothold. We must not give it one. The electrifying conclusion to the ... Serpent & Dove series ... Lou has spent her whole life running. Now, after a crushing blow from Morgane, the time has come to go home--and claim what is rightfully hers"--
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Acts of faith volume 2
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Abigail loses everything and is left with little promise of a normal life. When she discovers the Messiah and joins his followers, she also discovers new meaning and purpose. Maybe she does have a future after all. But increasing persecution is scattering the burgeoning group "to the ends of the earth." And Abigail may have given her heart to the wrong man. Two suitors desire the lovely Abigail's hand in marriage. One is a successful Hebrew merchant...
9) Broken song
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In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered.
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This new interpretation of the New England Witch Trials offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused, Laurie Winn Carlson focuses on the afflicted. Systematically comparing the symptoms recorded in colonial diaries and court records to those of the encephalitis epidemic in the early twentieth century, she argues convincingly that the victims suffered...
12) Serpent & dove
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"Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned. Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. His path was never meant to cross with Lou's, but a wicked stunt forces them into an impossible union--holy...
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[2020]
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In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland. Includes notes about the author's grandmother, on whom the story is based.
15) Driftwood Bay
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Hope Harbor volume 5
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After tragedy upends her world, Jeannette Mason retreats to the tiny Oregon seaside town of Hope Harbor to create a new life. Vowing to avoid emotional attachments, she focuses on running her lavender farm and tearoom--until a new neighbor with a destructive dog and a forlorn little girl invades her turf. But she needn't worry. Dr. Logan West is too busy coping with an unexpected family, a radical lifestyle change, and an unruly pup to have any interest...
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2021
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After the fall of the Republic of Vietnam to North Communists, hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese officers were detained in the so-called re-education camps of which about 80 to 100 thousand men and women died of starvation, illness, executions, exhausted by hard labor...The author had endured nearly ten years in the camp. This book is to describe how the author and his comrades-in arms had gone through the torture, starvation while their families...
19) Silence
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"Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs"--
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"The Polish boy: "Ender's father, as a child, has a chance to end the persecution that his parents have suffered because they defied the law and had more than two children."--Publisher description. Investment counselor: "Takes place after "Ender's game," when Ender first meets Jane, the extremely useful - though temperamental - personal digital assistant who will transform his life."--Publisher description. Enger's game: "With humanity under threat...
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