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  101 Amazing Facts About Italy

  Jack Goldstein

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  In this amazing Audiobook you can find more than one hundred facts about the country of Italy. Separated into sections such as its geography, its landmarks, famous Italian figures from history and many more you will find some fascinating information inside! Whether you are planning on visiting Italy, working on a geography project or just want to know more about this beautiful country, this is an excellent addition to your audio catalogue. Find the information you need, fast!

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  Success in Dependency Court

  Nancee E. Tomlinson

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  This edition of Success offers advice focused on parents rather than specific laws. Parents need encouragement and support when facing the legal system which has removed their children. Success provides the steps and advice for parents to follow the unwritten rules the system uses to trip them up and create obstacles.

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  The Vampire Painter

  Angela Flatt

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  The Countess Luchia de Sarracenia comes from a long line of powerful vampires.  She is accustomed to getting her way.  Her greatest wish, however, has always eluded her - the ability to see her own face. 
  She hires artist after artist to paint her portrait.  But when they fail to capture her perceived ethreal beauty, the consequences are dire. 
  Enter Venus Faucher.  Coming from humble beginnings, she has spent her life trying to make a name for herself as a woman painter in a world which underestimates her. 
  She believes that she may have found her security with the countess as a patron.  However, the more time she spend with Sarracenia, the more Venus realizes the cost which comes from pleasing a vampire.

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  Ten Years On - The Untold Story...

  Matthew Elliott

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  "The key missing piece in the Brexit story." Tim Shipman, The Spectator | "A wonderful read from one of the most quietly influential people in politics in recent decades … Highly recommended." Chris Mason, BBC
  The 2016 Brexit referendum caused a political earthquake, with aftershocks that are still being felt a decade later. For many, including some who voted to leave, the result came as a surprise. But for one man, it was not. The outcome that stunned so many was something he had been working to achieve for twenty years.
  You may not have heard of Matthew Elliott, but you should have. He is one of Britain's most successful campaigners, a reserved and thoughtful strategist who has single-handedly shaped our political landscape. In 2011, he staved off an attempt to change our voting system through the successful NOtoAV campaign. Then, five years later, he steered Vote Leave to victory as its chief executive.
  This extraordinary memoir spans the period from the build-up to Brexit during the 1990s to the present day, providing a fresh perspective on what really went on during the campaign, how the result was won and its bitter aftermath. With his customary candour and wit, Matthew reveals what it's like working side-by-side with Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings, their dealings with Nigel Farage and the tricks of the trade that campaigners use to shape the news.
  Here, ten years on from the EU referendum, is the definitive story of Brexit, as told by the man who had a front-row seat to the most extraordinary political campaign of the modern era.

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  The World Beyond England - A...

  Heather Teysko

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  You know the Tudors. Henry VIII, the six wives, the break with Rome, Elizabeth and her Armada. But here's the thing nobody tells you: while all of that was happening, England was a small, cold, financially exhausted island that most of the world had never heard of. 
  In 1485, the year Henry VII scraped together his shaky new throne at Bosworth Field, the Ottoman Empire was the dominant superpower on earth. Ming China controlled a quarter of the global economy. The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was three to four times the size of London. England was not the center of anything. It was watching from the edges, trying to figure out its next move. 
  So what happens when you put the Tudors back where they actually belong, inside a massive, complicated, wildly connected world that had no idea England was going to be important someday? 
  In four chapters we cover Elizabeth I's real alliance with the Ottoman Sultan (and the mechanical organ she sent him), the South American silver secretly driving Tudor inflation, Thomas More writing Utopia as a New World story, and England's own late, underfunded, morally complicated entrance onto the world stage. 
  Once you see how small England really was, you will never look at your favorite Tudors the same way again.

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  Rose O’Neal Greenhow: The Life...

  Charles River Editors

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  Given the necessity of spies to hide in plain sight, on some level it is perfectly sensible that women played a larger and more decisive role in espionage operations, because during the Civil War, women were not taken seriously as threats. They openly moved through areas that men in uniform could not easily penetrate, and they were able to publicly receive callers, visit prisoners, manage households, carry on the ordinary commerce of social life, and cross lines that military authorities maintained without bringing any attention upon themselves. A woman bringing food and medicine to prisoners seemed to be a humanitarian, not a security concern, and a woman maintaining the social routines of an established household was a hostess, not an intelligence coordinator. Ironically, both sides used several women as spies precisely because they drew less suspicion, yet neither the Union nor Confederates took potential women spies seriously enough.  
  	At the start of the war, the most formidable of these women on either side of the conflict was a Washington widow named Rose O'Neal Greenhow. She was perfectly situated for espionage as a politically connected woman of extraordinary intelligence who had social reach and the desire to use every connection she had on behalf of a cause she believed in absolutely. In the first year of the war alone, she helped win a battle, ran a spy ring from inside her own house while under house arrest, and charmed her jailers in ways that allowed her to continue to pass intelligence from prison. She was exiled to the Confederacy rather than tried, because the government that arrested her recognized, rightly, that trying her in open court would be an embarrassment. She lobbied Jefferson Davis directly, and then she crossed the Atlantic and met Napoleon III and Queen Victoria as an unofficial Confederate envoy. She published a memoir in London that sold thousands of copies and made her case to the European audience her government desperately needed.

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