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  Bluenose Magic

  Helen Creighton

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  A collection of traditional Nova Scotian folktales, superstitions and home remedies compiled by the Canadian folklorist and author of Bluenose Ghosts.   Beginning in 1928, Dr. Helen Creighton traveled across her native Nova Scotia seeking out and recording its rich heritage in the form of ghost stories, folktales, and folksongs. She first shared her findings in 1957 with the collection Bluenose Ghosts, and followed its success eleven years later with Bluenose Magic, both of which are considered classics of Maritime literature.   This fascinating volume welcomes readers into a supernatural world of witchcraft, enchantment, and buried treasure. It shares stories of the region’s indigenous Mi’kmaq people as well as variations of tales brought over from Europe. Here too are folk remedies, dream interpretation, divination, superstitions, and more that has been passed on from generation to generation of Nova Scotia’s families

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  I Love Being Old - The Last...

  Armiger Jay Jagoe

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  "For the 46 million Americans over age 65, I Love Being Old, will be a breath of fresh air. Rather than a “how to” book, it is an account of how, at age 98, I have made best, the last stage of a very blessed life. When old timers finish reading this book, I want them to think, “If that old codger can do it, so can I!”...Armiger Jay Jagoe

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  Silent Cry - The True Story of...

  Dorothy J. Newton

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  In this moving memoir, a former NFL wife shares her story of domestic abuse, survival, hope, recovery, victory, and faith. 
   
  Raised near New Orleans as one of six children, Dorothy Newton was surrounded by abuse and poverty as she grew up. But she became the first in her family to graduate from college and moved out of poverty. She then began to live out her dreams in Dallas of a better home and life when she married celebrity superstar football player Nate Newton. She had gone from poverty to the pinnacle of success. She was married to a handsome, successful, famous professional athlete, who was a three-time Super Bowl Champion and six time Pro-Bowler for the Dallas Cowboys. 
   
  But all that glittered was not gold. 
   
  Before long the relationship turned abusive. She found herself living in the world she thought she had escaped in her years growing up. The world did not see her suffering behind closed doors—she was betrayed, treated abusively, threatened continually. Dorothy was trapped with no one to talk to and nowhere to run. In this book Dorothy shares her experiences of pain, loss, survival, hope, recovery, and victory. A gripping story throughout, A Silent Cry is a testament to Dorothy’s will to live and the peace that comes with hope in the God who sees and hears your tears—even when no one else does.

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  Gabacho - Drugs Landed Me In...

  Brian Whitney, Richard Jewkes

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  A young man’s rebellion lands him in a Mexican prison, where theater becomes a lifeline in this memoir of angst, crime, friendship and redemption.   Richard Jewkes was in his senior year as a University of Utah theater student when he became disenchanted with his strict Mormon upbringing. Over Christmas break, he and a college friend took off for Mexico seeking adventure. If the adventure hadn’t included smuggling drugs, it might have just been another college road trip. But after a disastrous encounter with a drug cartel, the two young men ended up arrested by Mexican Federales while trying to make it to the US border.   When Jewkes and his friend are tossed into a Mexican prison, they anticipate torture, assault, and even death. After a fight with a notorious killer and struggles with tormenting guards, they make a disastrous escape attempt. But ultimately, Jewkes finds his path to survival when he starts a theatre group with a rag-tag bunch of fellow convicts.

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  Great Sea Stories

  Morgan Robertson, Wilkie...

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  A gripping collection of dramatic sea stories from famous classic authors.    'Absolute Zero' by Morgan Robertson    'The Former Passengers' by B. M. Croker    'The Ghost in the Cupboard Room' by Wilkie Collins    'The Passing of a God' by Henry S. Whitehead    'Haunted' by G. Ranger Wormser    'Sea Curse' by Robert E. Howard    'Seashore Macabre' by Hugh Walpole    'Dagon' by H. P. Lovecraft    'The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand' by J. S. Fletcher    'The Trade Wind' by Morgan Robertson    'The Ghost Ship' by Richard Middleton    'A Tropical Horror' by William Hope Hodgson    'The Gull' by F. Anstey    'Malachi's Cove' by Anthony Trollope    'The Grinding of the Mills' by Morgan Robertson    'Over the Border' by Morgan Robertson    'The Slapping Sal' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle    'Submarine' by Stella Benson    'The Black Ferry' by John Gaunt    'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole    'The Sailor Uncle' by Mary Lamb    'The Club of One-Eyed Men' by Arthur Somers Roche

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  The Life of Robert Burns

  Catherine Carswell

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  This classic and controversial biography of Scotland’s National Bard offers an unvarnished chronicle of the 18th century poet’s life. First published in 1930 to an unprecedented storm of protest, Catherine Carswell’s The Life of Robert Burns remains the standard work on its subject. Widely revered as Scotland’s greatest poet, Burns’s devotees were so upset by its contents that Carswell famously received a bullet in the mail, with instructions for its use. Carswell deliberately shakes the image of Burns as a romantic hero, exposing the sexual transgressions, drinking bouts and waywardness that other biographies chose to overlook. But Carswell’s real achievement is to bring alive the personality of a great man: passionate, hard-living, generous, melancholic, morbid and, above all, a brilliant and inspired artist.“Catherine Carswell’s The Life of Robert Burns is still, apart from Burns’ own account, the best.”—Alasdair Gray, The Observer, UK“It is not only an outlandishly good book, but one which raises questions about the nature of Scottish culture and cultural change.”—Sunday Times, UK“This is a book which makes you feel better for having read it. I only wish a few contemporary biographers wrote as well as Catherine Carswell did.”—Allan Massie, Literary Review, UK

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