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  The Last Lion - A tale of change...

  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

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  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia, Spain on 29th January 1867.  
   
  At university, he studied law and graduated in 1888 but never felt the urgency to practice - he was more interested in politics, journalism, literature and women.   
   
  Politically he was a militant Republican partisan and, in his youth, founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (The People). The newspaper was taken to court many times and he made many enemies. In one incident he was shot and almost killed. In 1896, Ibáñez was arrested and sentenced to a few months in prison. 
   
  Despite this colourful background he found time to write novels. His first published work was ‘La Araña Negra’ (The Black Spider) in 1892, a work that he later repudiated although at the time it was a useful vehicle for him to express his anti-clerical views. 
   
  In 1894, he published ‘Arroz y Tartana’ (Airs and Graces), about a late 19th Century widow in Valencia trying to keep up appearances in order to marry her daughters well.   
   
  Ibáñez’s next sequence of books studied rural life in the farmlands of Valencia and failed to gain much of an audience.   
   
  His writing now took on a new direction with its now familiar sensational and melodramatic themes in 1908 with ‘Sangre y Arena’ (Blood and Sand), which follows the career of Juan Gallardo from his poor beginnings as a child in Seville, to his rise to becoming a famous matador in Madrid 
   
  However, his greatest success was ‘Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) in 1916, which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.  It was a literary and commercial sensation and became the best-selling book of 1919.  It also propelled Rudolph Valentino to stardom in the 1921 film. 
   
  Ironically his fame in the English-speaking world has come not as a novelist but as the stories behind some of Hollywood’s greatest silent movies. 
   
  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez died in Menton, France on January 28th, 1928, the day before his 61st birthday.

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  Megan And The Radio One Road...

  Owen Jones

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  In `Megan and The Radio One Road Show, Megan and her friend, Jane, go to the biggest youth social event of the year in Feyton, in fact the biggest for several years. Megan sees one of her heroes in a new light, and introduces Jane to aspects of making friends. 
  During meditation, Wacinhinsha, Megan`s Spirit Guide, shows her how to extract every last ounce of `goodness` out of an experience, whether it be a good or bad one. 
  Megan is a thirteen-year-old girl with Supernatural powers. Some of them are still only partially developed and others are working, but she doesn`t know how to use them yet. 
  Her biggest problems for the moment is finding a Teacher who can show her how to handle them properly. Another is that she doesn`t know anyone who knows anything about Supernatural powers. 
  In fact, her mother is violently against the Supernatural, as was her mother before her. 
  The only people who seem willing to help her are dead, not that that makes any difference to Megan. 
  She embraces their help with open arms 
  In `Megan and The Radio One Road Show, Megan and her friend, Jane, go to the biggest youth social event of the year in Feyton, in fact the biggest for several years. Megan sees one of her heroes in a new light, and introduces Jane to aspects of making friends. 
  During meditation, Wacinhinsha, Megan`s Spirit Guide, shows her how to extract every last ounce of `goodness` out of an experience, whether it be a good or bad one.

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  Nurse in Spain

  Vivian Stuart

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  INTRIGUE. TENSION. LOVE AFFAIRS:
  In The Historical Romance series, a set of stand-alone novels, Vivian Stuart builds her compelling narratives around the dramatic lives of sea captains, nurses, surgeons, and members of the aristocracy.
  Stuart takes us back to the societies of the 20th century, drawing on her own experience of places across Australia, India, East Asia, and the Middle East. 
   
  Though she disliked the surgeon in charge, Margaret Hay reluctantly agreed to nurse a private patient in Spain instead of holidaying there as she'd planned. She'd have been even more reluctant had she guessed the intrigue that lay ahead!

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  Intimate Exam Before Her...

  JC Cummings

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  Warning: Explicit Content. "Nonstop Embarrassment at the Phony Free Clinic" Series. “The clinic is free…but the price is too high!” 
    
  So says every woman unfortunate enough to be treated at the “Care One Free Clinic.” In exchange for “free” medical care, these poor women, young and old, pay dearly by enduring spartan conditions, low-end everything, and a lack of privacy that is downright appalling. 
    
  Worse, although there is an experienced M.D. running the joint, a certain Dr. Jesse Langford, nearly all of the “free care” offered out here is conducted by three young, horny college men, including his lonely, touch-starved son, Byron. All are nothing but first-year pre-med students—woefully unqualified to be ordering shivering women out of their clothes and into a plethora of humiliating procedures. 
    
  What these poor women must endure in order to save money is appalling—all so that four young men who have no interest in becoming doctors can have the thrill of their lives. It’s disgraceful, disturbing, and disgusting…which, according to these guys, is a very good thing! 
    
  In this tale of shivers and shame, biology instructor Danielle Martin thought she was doing a good thing by taking her class on a field trip to the local free clinic. But right from the start, she is appalled to find a room full of men and women being examined in the open. 
    
  But if she thinks that’s appalling…just wait until one of her dirty-minded students, Jake Dawley, volunteers her to act as a patient so that a young medical student, Byron Langford, can demonstrate various procedures for the class—every one of which is so revealing, humiliating, and borderline traumatizing that there’s just no way Danielle would agree to it.

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  Piercing the Elastic Limit - An...

  Howard Loring

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  PIERCING the ELASTIC LIMIT, an EPIC FABLE from master storyteller HOWARD LORING, traces the determined actions of the mysterious but compelling ‘Old Man beyond the Portal,’ as he and his redheaded assistant pursue their secretive Mandate to rescue the imperiled planet’s future. A page turning quest spanning the ages, once more this elusive author employs the simple FABLE to reveal a vast and gripping EPIC adventure through time and space, portraying with penetrating insight authentic lives of genuine historic figures including Aristocrat Julius Caesar, Writer Christopher Marlowe and Master Musician Robert Schumann, to name but a few. Filled with high intrigue and escalating excitement, this engaging EPIC FABLE surpasses the reader’s imagination yet again, transporting them into a formerly hidden and baffling realm of reality, all by PIERCING the ELASTIC LIMIT.

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  Sawyer

  Katy Regnery

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  New York Times bestselling author Katy Regnery is back with an addictive six-book series featuring the Stewarts of Skagway! 
   
   
   
  Rich, beautiful Ivy Caswell—from one of Fairbanks's most esteemed families and recently engaged to the Lt. Governor's son—finds herself in Skagway during the off-season to help her aunt and uncle with a sensitive family matter. Seeking a way to pass the time during the dreary winter, she auditions for a local production of Wuthering Heights, pleased when she gets the part of Cathy, but stunned when local boy, Sawyer Stewart, gets the part of Heathcliff. Ivy has a checkered past with gorgeous Sawyer, who's been her summer hook-up more than once, but her feelings for him have never grown beyond casual. During the weeks of rehearsals, playing a rich girl and poor boy falling madly in love on stage, will life start to imitate art? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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