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  Concho Diamonds

  Pam S Backlund

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  Concho Diamonds is a rich tapestry of 44 captivating short stories set in the late 1800s, each offering a unique glimpse into the lives of those navigating the rugged terrain of West Texas. From the resilience of Black soldiers at Camp Charlotte to the whimsical adventures of a child scheming to avoid chores, this collection shines a light on the diverse characters who forged their paths in the face of adversity, prejudice, and the forces of nature. 
  Follow Bram, a Buffalo Soldier with a sharp wit, as he builds roads under the unforgiving Texas sun. Join Juanita and Olga as they mend their friendship through secrets shared over tortillas by the fire. And witness the courage of yet another character, Angela, as she embarks on her marriage, grounded in love, family, and the enduring traditions of adobe-making. 
  Concho Diamonds invites readers to experience the hardships, joys, and triumphs of people whose stories echo across the Texas plains. Each tale illuminates the humanity, determination, and hope of those often left out of the history books—God's precious people, shining like diamonds in the rough.

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  Compassion

  Julie Janson

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  LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD 
   
   
  From the acclaimed author of the Miles Franklin longlisted Madukka: The River Serpent (UWA) and the Barbara Jefferis Award shortlisted Benevolence, Compassion continues Julie Janson’s emotional and intense literary exploration of the complex and dangerous lives of Aboriginal women during the 1800s in colonial New South Wales, which she began in Benevolence as a counter narrative to colonial history in Australian literature. 
   
  Compassion is the dramatised life story of one of Julie Janson’s ancestors who went on trial for stealing livestock in New South Wales, and it is an exciting and violent story of anti-colonial revenge and roaming adventure. A gripping fictive account of Aboriginal life in the 1800s, Compassion follows the life of Duringah, AKA Nell James, the outlaw daughter of the Darug hero of Benevolence, Muraging.

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  heart of inspector O'Brian The...

  Dama Beltrán

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  He never left a battle without a fight, but she made it quite clear she hadn't been born to be with him. 
  Depressed, humiliated, and with a broken heart, O'Brian is determined to destroy the feeling he has for his great love. 
  However, when Brian convinces himself he's not thinking about her, life gives him a second chance. This time, he won't allow April Campbell, widow of the Viscount of Gremont, reject him once again. 
  Will April overcome the deceit and treason of her dead husband? And will she be able to give the man she never forgot another chance? 
  It's time to find out... 
   

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  Crooked House

  Agatha Christie

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  “Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.” --Agatha Christie 
  Described by the queen of mystery herself as one of her favorites of her published work, Crooked House is a classic Agatha Christie thriller revolving around a devastating family mystery. 
  The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. 
  Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter.

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  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  Mark Twain

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  Published in 1876, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is an American classic written by Mark Twain. The novel focuses on the youthful escapades of Tom Sawyer, a mischievous and imaginative boy who lives in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Along with his friends, particularly Huckleberry Finn, Tom embarks on a series of adventures ranging from treasure hunting to fighting crime. The book explores themes of childhood, friendship, and moral development and offers a nostalgic look at life along the Mississippi River during the 19th century.

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  The Spirit of American Literature

  John Albert Macy

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  THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century and assessing the uniquely American characteristics of their growing body of work. Excerpted from the author’s preface: “In this book something is said about most, if not quite all, of the emergent figures in American literature; an attempt is made to survey the four corners of the national library and to give an impression of its shape and size. If its purpose is approximately realized, this volume will be found to be a little nearer to a collection of appreciative essays than to a formal history or bibliographic manual. …To be sure, the historian avowedly and properly puts emphasis on writers who are dead in the flesh, and finishes off his contemporaries briefly because they are not yet established and are too numerous to mention. But it seems well, in books about literature, not to discuss writers admittedly dead in the spirit, whose names persist by the inertia of reputation...All that I wish to plead is that a living lion is better than a dead mouse...If, as I believe, accepted handbooks and histories of American literature pay too much attention to doubly dead worthies, whose books are not interesting, and miss or but timidly acknowledge contemporary excellence, there is a way of accounting for it.” (Summary by lubee930)

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