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  The Bootlegger's Mistress

  Marc Curtis Little

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  A streetwise African American teenager hastily departs bigoted Anderson, South Carolina in the 1940s. During her travels over a span of nearly eighty years, she assumes the identity of her alter ego while living a good life as a nationally respected media mogul. But it is marked with deep-rooted secrets: one involving the murder of a White man and the other dealing with the disappearance of a prominent Black man, both from her past life in the Deep South. 
  The Bootlegger's Mistress embodies the essence of the Great Migration, the decades-long movement of six million African Americans from the racially oppressive South to the purportedly economic opportunity-laden North during much of the twentieth century.

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  The Students Who Fought Marcos

  Jonathan Foe

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  Students revolted worldwide in the 1960s and 70s. Filipinos were no different. This is a story about a group of students, who defied the dictatorship of President Marcos. This is a novel, narrated by Alex, a gay boy, describing the group's adventures, fun and setbacks in the early days of the martial law. This is historical fiction, the characters themselves are fictious, but the events are real. Through entertaining stories, the book pays tribute to those who sacficed much for freedom.

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  The Relic

  Evelyn Anthony

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  When Yuri Varienski, a Ukranian emigré, dies in Jersey, he leaves his daughter Lucy an object—and a great responsibility. Lucy must take the gold filigree cross she is bequeathed to Geneva, and deliver it into the hands of exiled former dissident leader, Volkov. Lucy innocently accepts her father’s charge. But Volkov, broken by imprisonment, is not the man he used to be. And there are other people who wish to possess the cross too. For the object Lucy carries is the legendary relic, St. Vladimir’s Cross, and it has the power to unite or divide the volatile Soviet Union.   Lucy soon realizes that she will have to make sacrifices—of her home, her heart, and maybe even her life—if she is going to fulfill her father’s last wish.

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  The War of the Worlds

  H. G. Wells

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  Shooting stars tear across the night sky and from the planet of war they’ve come to conquer Earth. 
    
  When a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common, inquisitive locals are fascinated and excited. They approach with caution and a white flag only to be struck down by alien creatures with heat-rays that destroy everything in their path. It soon becomes very clear that the only options are to flee…or die. 
    
  As the creatures march towards the capital, can the forces of Earth survive the onslaught?

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  A Lost Lady of Old Years

  John Buchan

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  A young man’s yearning for adventure draws him into jeopardy during the Jacobite Rebellion in this historical novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps. Once described as “a tale of adventure and betrayal on the long bloody road to Culloden Moor,” A Lost Lady of Old Years is set in Scotland during the Rebellion of 1745. Young Edinburgh-born Francis Birkenshaw cares nothing for the Jacobite cause until an encounter with the beautiful Mrs. Margaret Murray leads to a dangerous involvement with her husband, John Murray of Broughton, Bonnie Prince Charlie’s secretary and an infamous turncoat . . .

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  Blue Billy’s Rogue Lexicon

  David Lawrence

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  Oliver Twist meets The Crimson Petal and the White in this devilishly funny, emotionally charged tale of finding a new path in life after a great fall.William Dempsey rose from a life of thieving and prostitution to be the personal plaything of the Marquess of Argyll. Then a betrayal sees him returned to the rough streets of London without patronage, his West End apartment, or a place among the ton.So on a stormy night, he arrives at a house in Southwark—Marathon Moll's in the Mint—the bawdyhouse he worked in during his ascent and where he earned the name Blue Billy. Here, amidst the parties and antics at Moll's, he meets Tom, a quiet, conflicted man, who senses in Billy a kindred soul. The attraction is immediate, and they take the first, tentative steps towards each other.Then an ambitious young rogue arrives at the house. A man who asks Billy to fulfil the promise of his failed youth—he asks him to reclaim the language of his past, even if it costs him his future.Contains mature themes.

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