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  Tropical Dragon's Destiny

  Elva Birch, Zoe Chant

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  All the questions are answered. 
  All the secrets are revealed. 
  And all hell breaks loose. 
  Scarlet Stanson, the owner of Shifting Sands Resort, has spent decades guarding her secrets… and her heart. Now both are at stake when she discovers that her resort isn't the safe place she intended it to be...and that the arrogant lawyer she’s been battling over the resort lease isn’t the enemy she thought he was. 
  Dragon shifter Mal Moore has trained all his life for the fight he knows is coming. But no training could prepare him for meeting the enigmatic woman who has been obstructing his plans... and no magic can save his heart when he recognizes her as his destiny. 
  TROPICAL DRAGON’S DESTINY is the hotly anticipated conclusion of the off-beat and addictive Shifting Sands Resort series. An ancient creature is waking and a storm is coming. Loyalty will be tested and perceptions will be challenged in this epic story of suspense, betrayal, sacrifice... and love.

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  Challenges of Tawa

  R.J. Young

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  Young Tawa is the impetuous son of the tribal chieftain. While out hunting, he encounters a flying monster, but no one believes him when he shares what he has witnessed. The Itiwana tribe soon learn they have more than just a monster to worry about. Ancient powerful Sky Elders have returned after three hundred years, and they’re still angry. 
  The Summer Sky Elders are pursuing their perpetual war with the Winter Sky Elders, and the mortal realm is once more caught in the middle of their titanic struggle. 
  After his father sacrifices himself, Tawa must assume his role as chieftain. Mentored by the shape-shifting Manabazo, Tawa trains to become a leader and a warrior. He must find the sacred Tree of Life and protect his people from the never-ending waves of monsters, witches, and Vikings sent by the Winter Elders to destroy them. If he fails, an endless winter will cover the Earth and all life will cease. 
  Will he be able to find what has been hidden even from the gods themselves?

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  Trenches Of Despair - The Story...

  Christopher Allen

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  "Trenches of Despair" tells the devastating story of the Thompson quadruplets—Billy, John, George, and Thomas—four identical brothers from London's East End who lie about their age to enlist in World War I, transforming from eager volunteers into casualties of the war's brutal machinery. 
  In the summer of 1914, the seventeen-year-old brothers live in a cramped terraced house on Whitmore Street, each with distinct personalities despite their identical appearance. Billy is the natural leader, John the artistic dreamer, George the cheerful entertainer, and Thomas the man of quiet faith. Each has found love—Billy with neighbor Edith Hartwell, John with intellectual Mary Whitfield, George with baker's daughter Florence Meadows, and Thomas with gentle Annie Clarke. 
  When war breaks out, social pressure mounts through the white feather campaign, where women distribute symbols of cowardice to men not in uniform. The brothers face impossible choices between family duty and national service, ultimately enlisting together after being publicly shamed. Their working-class background contrasts sharply with their upper-class officers, highlighting the war's class divisions. 
  After training at Aldershot, they deploy to France in early 1915, experiencing their first taste of trench warfare's horror. The Christmas Truce of 1914 becomes a pivotal moment when they meet German soldiers in No Man's Land, sharing songs, photographs, and discovering their enemies' humanity—making the resumption of killing infinitely more tragic. 
  The brothers survive the early battles, but the war's grinding attrition begins taking its toll. John, the sensitive artist, dies first at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, cut down by a sniper while trying to help wounded comrades. His death devastates the family and his sweetheart Mary, who never recovers from the loss. 
  Thomas, the man of faith, sacrifices himself at Passchendaele in 1917, charging a German machine gun position to save his section.

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  Warden of Magic

  Anna J. Stewart

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  Librarian Clara MacQueen came to Scotland with her two sisters to reunite with the mother who abandoned them years ago. But a visit to what looks like an innocent bookstore catapults Clara into a world of magic, mystery and adventure…and right into the arms of Bowen, an imprisoned warrior fighting an evil who will soon set its eyes on the MacQueen sisters. 

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  Cattle Drive 1882

  Larry D. Kendrick

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  This book is about the life of cowboys on cattle drives and other experiences they endured. It is about hard times and good times and making lifelong friends including Black, White, Mexican, American Indian, and a woman trail boss. It is about facing hostile Indian attacks and rustlers and the battles that ensued, and about sheer bravery and fear when facing down another man in a gunfight. It is also about a quiet, shy young cowboy falling in love and marrying the girl of his dreams and working on a ranch. It includes flashbacks interrupting the chronological order of the main narrative to take the reader back in time to the past events in a character's life. It explores notable historical figures and time periods in these settings. Considering the cowboy code #4 "Do what has to be done," most of the men and women in this novel served their country in times of conflict and distress. It discusses the family's lineage, patriotism and war service including the Mexican War, Civil War, Indian wars of 1876, Spanish American War, WW1, WW2, the Korean Conflict, and Vietnam.

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  The Slave's Little Friends -...

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  The texts included in this anthology illustrate the wide range of possibilities that abolitionist writings offered to American children during the first half of the nineteenth century. Composing their works under the wings of the antislavery movement, authors responded to the unequal and controversial development of abolitionist politics during the decades that led up to the outbreak of the Civil War. These writers struggled to teach children "to feel right," and attempted to instruct them to actively respond to the injustice of the slavery system as rendered visible by a harrowing visual archive of suffering bodies compiled by both English and American antislavery promoters.
  Reading was equated with knowledge and knowledge was equated with moral responsibility, and therefore reading about "the abominations of slavery" became an act of emotional personal transformation. Children were thus turned into powerful agents of political change and potential activists to spread the abolitionist message. Invited to comply with a higher law that entailed the breaking of their nation's edicts, they were morally rewarded by the Christian God and approvingly applauded by their elders for their violation of these same American regulations. These texts enclosed immeasurable value for young nineteenth-century Americans to fulfill a more democratic and egalitarian role in their future. Undoubtedly, abolitionist writings for children took away American children's innocence and transformed them into juvenile abolitionists and empowered compassionate citizens.

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