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  The Voiceless Stories of Miss Ada

  Nicole A Jones

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  A foreseeing matriarch stirs her family's emotions by disclosing generations of dark family secrets in the form of a captivating slave tale.  
  The family is aware that the horrific accounts in her story are indeed factual moments throughout their family’s history. However, Miss Lucille shuffled the timeline of her genealogy to protect the identities and generations of those involved. 
  When Miss Lucille falls ill, the family gathers at the hospital to visit her. The discreet tale is reshared. The family begins attentively relistening to the mysterious narrative as it is retold. While awaiting Miss Lucille's miraculous recovery, the family discovers one other person in the room knows the family's generations of muzzled secrets. They become engrossed in trying to unveil the truth. But unveiling the truth could alter their past, present, future... and identity. 
  "The Voiceless Stories of Miss Ada" narrates the untold occurrences hidden in the generations of Miss Ada, desperately begging for a voice to be heard. It introduces the truth of Miss Ada's African American history to future generations without replanting seeds of hatred. 
  Through Miss Lucille's descendants, "The Voiceless Stories of Miss Ada" beautifully narrates the profound wisdom and judicious conversations of her African American ancestors in a manner they desperately desired to communicate themselves.

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  War and Peace

  Leo Tolstoy

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  "War and Peace" is a monumental novel written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published between 1865 and 1869. The book is set in the period of the Napoleonic Wars and offers a panoramic view of Russian society at that time. It follows the lives of five aristocratic families through the historical events of the early 19th century, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. The novel explores themes of fate, free will, history, and the complexities of family and human relationships.

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  The Medici Killer - A Thrilling...

  Ariel Sanders

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  In the shadows of Renaissance Florence, a killer stalks the powerful with vengeance forty years in the making... 
  When a nobleman is found dead with a crimson feather and strange markings on his body, Isabella de' Medici is drawn into a deadly mystery that threatens to unravel her family's carefully constructed legacy. 
  As more bodies appear—each with a haunting mask left at the scene—Isabella discovers shocking truths about her bloodline that have been buried for generations. 
  With each murder forming a ritual pentagon across Florence, Isabella must confront: 
  Family secrets that could destroy the Medici name 
  A masked avenger with intimate knowledge of forgotten crimes 
  The horrifying truth behind five masks crafted from human skin 
  Racing against time before the final mask claims its victim, Isabella navigates a labyrinth of political intrigue, forbidden knowledge, and Renaissance occultism. But in a city built on secrets and power, the most dangerous revelation may be the truth about herself... 
  "The Medici Killer" weaves historical drama with psychological horror in a gripping tale of family, revenge, and the darkness that lurks behind the splendor of the Renaissance.

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  Dry Road to Nowhere

  J. A. Johnstone, William W....

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  Some call it the most dangerous stagecoach in the West. But the hard-driving owners of the Frontier Overland Company will get you where you want to go—if you don't mind a detour through hell . . .  
   
   
   
  The Civil War is over. But Wyoming Territory is still a battleground for the native tribes who live there. Most folks avoid the area like the plague. But not former Texas Ranger Butch Keeler and his saloon fight buddy Tucker Cobb. They figured Wyoming would be the perfect place to launch the Frontier Overland Company—a rough-and-ready stagecoach operation that dares to go where others fear to tread. Butch and Cobb aren't afraid of much—but their next stagecoach trip could change all that. And it just might be their last . . .  
   
   
   
  The passengers are good people: Colonel McBride, who's delivering much-needed supplies to Fort Washington, and his lovely niece, who wants to visit her dying father. Even though the road to get there is overrun with armed Lakota, Cheyenne, and other deadly threats, Butch and Cobb are determined to help an old friend. Problem is, their worst enemy—a power-hungry business rival and self-described "King"—is out there. Waiting for them. Laying a trap to destroy their operation. And plotting to burn everything to the ground. Over Butch and Cobb's dead bodies . . .

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  Bittersweet Short Stories - It...

  Ivan Turgenev, O Henry, Fyodor...

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  In the English language ‘bittersweet’ is that most pivotal of words.  The mixture of sadness and happiness that suggest both but often bringing us smartly to earth, smack dab in-between them both, with little of either.

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  Hot Time - A Mystery

  W. H. Flint

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  New York, August 1896. A "hot wave" has settled on the city with no end in sight, leaving tempers short and the streets littered with dead horses felled by the heat. In this presidential election year, the gulf between rich and poor has political passions flaring, while anti-immigrant sentiment has turned virulent. At police headquarters, the gruff, politically ambitious commissioner Theodore Roosevelt has been struggling to reform his notoriously corrupt department. Meanwhile, the yellow press is ready to pounce on the peccadilloes of the Four Hundred, the city's social elite—the better to sell papers with lurid stories and gossip or perhaps profit from a little blackmail on the side. When the body of Town Topics publisher William d'Alton Mann is found at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, any number of his ink-spattered victims may have a motive. 
   
   
   
  Hot Time is an immensely entertaining, deeply researched, and richly textured historical novel set in a period that reflects our own, with cameos by figures ranging from financier J. P. Morgan to journalist Jacob Riis. Our guides through New York are Otto "Rafe" Raphael, one of the first Jewish officers in the heavily Irish force; Minnie Kelly, the department's first female stenographer; Theodore Roosevelt himself; and the plucky orphan Dutch, one of the city's thousands of newsboys, who may have seen too much.

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